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Sydney Biennale 2016

July 2016

  • Mami Kataoka

    'It's an important moment': Sydney Biennale's first Asian curator on the role of Asian art in Australia

    Art community hails appointment of Japanese curator Mami Kataoka as a recognition of Australia’s changing demographics and ‘a clear signal that we are now looking north rather than to our colonial past’

March 2016

  • The Turbine Hall at Cockatoo Island or ‘the Embassy of the Real’, one of the venues of the 20th Biennale of Sydney

    Sydney Biennale review – contemporary art meets sci-fi in wide-reaching show

    Dystopic and utopian; beautiful and ugly – the 20th iteration of the biennale offers an intriguing, if uneven, reflection of the here and now
  • Mella Jaarsma's The Pecking Order, 2015: two costumes of chicken leather, stuffed chickens, and stainless steel

    The 20th Biennale of Sydney – in pictures

    Under the artistic direction of Stephanie Rosenthal, the 20th Biennale of Sydney’s venues will be a series of embassies, each speaking in a different way to the festival’s loose theme: ‘The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed’
  • Stephanie Rosenthal, artistic director of 2016 Biennale of Sydney, at Mortuary station.

    Sydney through fresh eyes: artistic director Stephanie Rosenthal on the city's Biennale

    Two years after public outrage led the biennale to sever its ties with Transfield, Rosenthal reflects on her first biennale, and the intersection of politics and art
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