June 15, Japan
Have you heard of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan? Of course, you have, as it is one of the largest art festivals in the world! The rural region is home to over a hundred fascinating art installations exhibited throughout the area’s 760 square km landscape. The artworks are designed to incorporate the local environment and culture. The festival will be held from July 29 to September 17, 2018 – and Antarctic Biennale will be right there! Stay tuned to learn more!
May 5, Venice
The Antarctic Pavillion returns! The Antarctic Pavillion returns in 2017 with an exhibition featuring documentation of works created and installed in the world’s southernmost continent during the 1st Antarctic Biennale (March 2017), along with additional works by 15 international artists. Join us at the vernissage on May 11th!
June 15, Japan
Have you heard of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan? Of course, you have, as it is one of the largest art festivals in the world! The rural region is home to over a hundred fascinating art installations exhibited throughout the area’s 760 square km landscape. The artworks are designed to incorporate the local environment and culture. The festival will be held from July 29 to September 17, 2018 – and Antarctic Biennale will be right there! Stay tuned to learn more!
May 5, Venice
The Antarctic Pavillion returns! The Antarctic Pavillion returns in 2017 with an exhibition featuring documentation of works created and installed in the world’s southernmost continent during the 1st Antarctic Biennale (March 2017), along with additional works by 15 international artists. Join us at the vernissage on May 11th!
Join us, board our ship
And set out on an adventure
To the new shores of art!
I am organizing
A topsy-turvy biennale,
An upside down biennale,
A mobile biennale,
In Antarctica
At the South Pole.
Mobilis in mobile!
We are building a unique community of people who are interested in rethinking the future of unclaimed lands. As the largest unclaimed territory on Earth, Antarctica stands every chance of becoming a role model for global development. Regarding art as a cornerstone, we are creating a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue.
Technological innovators and visionary business leaders who are ready to face serious challenges of the 21st century. Being open-minded and flexible, they are absolutely sure that technology and innovation are a force for good.
Artists, architects, writers, musicians, art curators, journalists - all cultural leaders who take an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach in order to strengthen the global community and build long-lasting relationships based on common values.
Scientists who believe that advanced technologies can benefit humanity and help us to build an eco-friendly and sustainable civilization. Those who place natural environment in the forefront of human wellness.
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
January 20, 2018
Antarctic Biennale Vision Club at the State Tretyakov Gallery
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
January 19, 2018
Round Table at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
NEWPORT, USA
July 1, 2017
Antarctic Biennale conference
VENICE, ITALY
May, 2017
Art projects of the Open Call finalists and the highlights of the expedition
VENICE, ITALY
May 11, 2017
Press conference and opening of the exhibition at the Antarctic Pavilion
VENICE, ITALY
April 20, 2017
Official announcement of the exhibition at the Antarctic Pavilion
USHUAIA, ARGENTINA
April 1, 2017
Press conference on the results of the expedition
USHUAIA, ARGENTINA
March, 2017
Start of the 1st Antarctic Biennale art expedition
MIAMI, USA
December 1, 2016
Announcement of the Open Call winners at Art Basel in Miami Beach supported by BMW
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
November 21-24, 2016
Team building session of Antarctic Biennale Vision Club
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
October 13, 2016
Exhibition of the works created by the finalists of the Open Call
JAPAN
October, 2016
Opening of Alexander Ponomarev’s exhibition at the Setouchi Triennale and presentation of the Antarctic Biennale project
LONDON, UK
October, 2016
Announcement of the Open Call finalists at Frieze Art Fair
NEW YORK, USA
October, 2016
Presentation of the Antarctic Biennale project at the National Arts Club where the representatives of the United Nations and the Donner Canadian Foundation reaffirm support to the expedition
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
September 11, 2016
Panel discussion of Antarctic Biennale Vision Club at Contemporary Art Fair
MOSCOW
August 22, 2016
Antarctic Biennale Open Call announcement
NEWPORT, USA
August 18-21, 2016
Weekend with the Antarctic Biennale
BARCELONA, SPAIN
June 21, 2016
Presentation of the Antarctic Biennale project to Spanish scientific and business circles, accompanied by video screening of the exhibition “ANTARCTICA: RE-CYCLICAL” with comments by Hani Rashid
VENICE, ITALY
May 28, 2016
Opening of the exhibition “ANTARCTICA: RE-CYCLICAL. A frontier in flux” at the Antarctic Pavilion
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
May 12, 2016
The Antarctic Biennale Vision Club in ASI
NEW HARMONY, USA
May 7, 2016
Working Man Institute – the Antarctic Biennale presentation
NEW YORK, USA
April 28, 2016
Opening of the exhibition “Stored in Ice” at Richard Taittinger Gallery
NEW YORK, USA
April 18, 2016
The 1st Antarctic Biennale at the Explorers Club
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
February 26, 2016
Presentation of the Antarctic Biennale project in ARTIBUS
ECHIGO-TSUMARI ART FIELD, JAPAN
July 29, 2018
Antarctic Biennale at the Triennale 2018 in Japan
The Antarctic Biennale Expedition has brought together approximately 100 participants — artists, researchers, and visionaries from all over the world — to explore and to think about a universal cultural future for Antarctica as a model of other ‘shared spaces’ as Ocean and Outer Space.
The art expedition has started in Ushuaia, the southernmost city of our planet, where approximately 100 participants have boarded the Akademik Sergey Vavilov research ship.
Alexander Ponomarev says that for this hundred the journey is ‘a revolution that changes the vector.
‘Instead of the usual national pavilions — the icy inaccessibility of the Antarctic continent. Instead of pompous apartments — ascetic cabins. Instead of the chaotic creative wanderings —a conjunction with the Great Nature and explosion of consciousness through the dialogues with scientists, futurists, and technological visionaries.’
Each passenger had a chance to take part in discussions, poetry, and philosophy workshops as well as to start designing the future in the Antarctic Biennale Vision club.
But the most important thing is that each expedition member have been an eyewitness and contributor to the art-making process.
The Antarctic Pavilion is the first ever supranational pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Established by artist, sailor and philosopher Alexander Ponomarev in 2014 as an international interface of the Antarctica Biennale (with the support by the AVC Charity Foundation), it incorporates artistic, scientific and philosophical methodologies to explore shared spaces such as Antarctica, the Ocean and the Outer Space.
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World-famous architects (Zaha Hadid, Hugh Broughton, Alexey Kozyr, and others) presented both speculative and realistic architectural projects for Antarctica.
Catalogue
The basis for this project was the idea of Salvation, as developed by the artist for many years, and of Concordia between people and nations.
Download the complete project overview of the Antarctic Biennale. This document details our mission, structure, program outline, team profiles, and partnership opportunities. For those interested in becoming a partner institution, a patron, or corporate sponsor, this is the best place to start.
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