Art exhibition about the man with the art world together, no matter where you are, there is always a show near you, so you look. Art lovers in the show visual and psychological satisfaction, collectors at the show good harvest heart, galleries in the show business is booming, critics grasp the trend at the show, the artist through the exhibition fame and fortune.

For art, this is the best of times, not one.

        15 countries renowned art fair

Kassel Documenta

Art Carnival 100 days

It has a distinguished history, 1955 debut, to bring Fauvism, Futurism master paintings ushered in 134,000 spectators. It is a complete modern Western art history visual form, expressionism, neo-realism, surrealism all appeared, Picasso also personally sat in front.

It is the world of the artist's most important exhibition not to be missed, cultural shaman Joseph Beuys from 1964 played in 1986 died, Hui not absent. It is an experimental avant-garde art scene, which enlist the world's most avant-garde art of the most bizarre. 1982 Seventh Documenta, Boyce transported to 7000 stones, planting roadside still Kassel 7000 "Boyce oak", attracting many public participation, for four years. It breaks the boundaries between art and the public, to bring art to the street from a closed room, to the community.

It is the "Hundred Days event", an exhibition of 100 days, which is a city of carnival. It is the most important foreign Kassel cultural card, which allows only 25 people of the town to wake up every five years. It is "Moving Archives", it to the world tour, in 2006 he moved to the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, in 2007 the army moved to Shanghai.

Basel Art Fair

The most important and most successful top on Earth Art Fair

It is the mother of the world's art fair. Local gallerist founded in 1970 Shihai only for Switzerland local galleries, but it is now the most international art fair is the most important on the planet's most successful top art fair. Professional judges lasting mechanism collectors and can not be copied system to make it invincible. It is the world's most important annual gathering of the art world, the art world is the annual June figure brought together big beautiful Rhine carnival, recruited more than 300 important galleries nearly 2,000 artists.

It is the most stringent Art Fair, strictly adhere to the gallery qualification examination system, every year thousands of gallery application, select only about 300 exhibitors. While the art world continues to expand, but for decades it has always maintained the same number of participating galleries. It is the price of business in a ring, it's a huge volume of transactions, to become a big global art market benchmark and barometer. It shows the best of international modern and contemporary art galleries, as well as the late superstar and star of the art treasures today. It is increasing emphasis on the integration of the arts community resources, in addition to characteristics of VIP Art transactions, but also for the development of young artists, emerging galleries, experimental art project, will build its own aircraft carrier has become the art world.

Venice Biennale

Olympic arts

It is the "mother of the Biennale", initiated in 1893 by the mayor of Venice proposals, 1895 officially landed in Watertown. It is Europe's most important art events. After the Venice Biennale in 1968 banning the sale of the art museum at home, this is not the independence of blending art market, but also established its position of authority and credibility.

It is the "arts Olympics", collectors, gallery owners, investors and art dealers flocked to the art of looking for the most promising stocks. It is the world of art vane, is the most effective star-making factory. 1999 It is more than 20 Chinese artists after the 48th Venice Biennale limelight, quickly became popular West.

It is the world's climax artists, curators and critics of a collision, for the artist, go to Venice than gilded crowned "Art Power List" is more to the force. Green Park castle, arsenal of the main exhibition hall, with scattered in Venice waterways and alleys size hall, everywhere is art. As a novel description: "You come to Venice, you see countless art, you go to the party, as you flurry to drink, you say a lot of nonsense, when you go back where you came from, they still in Venice hangover I want to wake up. "

Sao Paulo Biennale

Miracle of the Third World countries

It is the world's second oldest Biennale, Venice Biennale after qualifications. It will display the first 729 artists from 23 countries 1,800 works of art, and then the Venice Biennale comparable.

It's Biennale building, is the world's most beautiful Biennale pavilion, is parked in a downtown park "aircraft carrier." It is Brazil's art scene since 1951, founded by entrepreneur Matarazzo has been Brazil's most important art festival, deeply influenced the creation and development of contemporary art in Brazil. It is the "Brazilian miracle", 2002 will usher in 670,000 viewers 25, climbed the world highest peak audience of contemporary art exhibitions.

It Kassel Documenta, the Venice Biennale and known as the world's three exhibitions, but it is an alternative of the Biennale, breaking the Biennale with the European Centre based prejudices. It created a third world country Biennale model, introduced a large number of artistic creation in Africa, Asia. Chinese participation in Sao Paulo Biennial Biweinisi so much earlier, back in the 1960s there Taiwanese artist exhibition, while in 2002 China has established a national museum.

UK Liverpool Biennial

A revitalization of a city exhibition

Britain is not the best city of Liverpool, Liverpool Biennial is the UK's best exhibitions. Founded in 1999, Liverpool Biennial is the UK's largest, most dynamic, the most widely spread surface, the most visited exhibition of contemporary art.

In 2008 it received 975,000 visitors. More importantly, it is the perfect combination of city, it has long been not just a simple ring of Art, or the economic structure of the city of Liverpool, it is part of a blueprint for the revitalization of the city of Liverpool. It Liverpool won the title of European Capital of Culture in 2008, played a key role.

It is not afraid to take risks, will be released from the mainstream of art galleries, into the streets, shopping centers, schools, community centers, churches and abandoned factory. 2004 Liverpool Biennial exhibition at the third point on more than 50. It is the thesis writing each exhibition, each piece has always stressed the city is closely related to and Liverpool, the artist must be tailored for new work or Liverpool Liverpool Biennial. Exhibits therefore always new, unique, and it is this uniqueness that it became famous. 2010 Biennale is to "touch" as the theme, the Chinese artist Song Dong brought a live performance piece "touch everyone."

Fei Lizi Art Fair

Young Affordable Art

"Filiz" was first arts magazine, in 2003, "Fei Lizi" magazine began to initiate 斐利兹 Art Fair. Just nine years, it has grown into London's largest international contemporary art fair, one of the four important art fairs in Europe. It is held each year in October at Regent's Park in London, have become Britain's "斐利兹 Week", has become the busiest season of contemporary art. It is a huge magnetic field, global art collectors are London supermarkets regulars. It has the freshest, most active, the most creative and imaginative contemporary art, its young artists, concerned about the new work of art, is it different from the other distinctive feature of the old art fairs.

Although the British to resist its "hegemony" also launched the "Free Art Fair", but does not affect its position in the UK. In 2010 it ushered in 29 countries, 173 top galleries, more than 1000 full of innovative spirit world of the artist, worth about $ 375 million of art. London Heathrow's second largest insurance company in Kos art expert Robert Reid called it easier to Amoy appreciation of space baby than any other art fair, "expect buyers purchased the works of young creators of one day becoming prime artists, and works prices of most emerging artists are below $ 100,000. "

American Whitney Biennial

Only for the American Academy of Arts and Health

It is the only exhibition only Native American Art Biennial. In 1973, American female collector Gertrude Whitney against European art conceit, to promote the American avant-garde art and the creation.

It is the United States of contemporary art viewers and the next two artistic trends prophet itself. It is the American contemporary art vane, also national artists to enter the world stage exercise field. It is the United States, but also the world. US citizenship or creative artists in the United States may be invited to participate. Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, etc. will be invited to participate in the Whitney Biennial.

It is with the art of the United States respond to the social status quo, the 2006 Whitney Biennial is the field of artistic statement against the war in Iraq. Despite its shock waves of applause eligible for display at the same time, also has trouble controversy, but does not affect it became trendy coordinate American contemporary art, contemporary American artists an important platform to present themselves. It represents the highest honor the United States of contemporary art, it has to create countless American art scene star.

Miami Art Fair

Art Fair in Winter

It began in 2002, its full name is Art Basel Miami Beach. It is Art Basel's sister edition in North America. December every year in the United States organized by the warm south Miami Beach, the Basel Art Fair, across the oceans, across season lasting eye. Its debut would attract a great sensation, attracting more than 200 world-class arts organizations to join. Although extends from Basel, but compared to "sister" of the range of children and serious academic strength, it comes with a clear imprint of American popular culture. It shows more contemporary art, which the United States, Latin America gallery Bibasaier much more. It has become the largest American Art Fair, which opens a channel for Latin American countries. It is in just four days each year to produce large amounts of wealth, spending billions of dollars to collectors of famous writers or young artists in the bag, guide the aesthetic and consumption towards art. It is not just a "art store", is the world's most important gathering of the arts in winter. It makes Miami became the winter capital of art. It is a collection of travel, leisure and entertainment arts complex, not only the artistic world of "big man", but also brought together a large number of art lovers and tourists.

Lyon Biennale

Most original, most maverick

It was born in 1991 in Lyon, France's second largest city. Paris Biennale in France, in Europe, the Venice Biennale, but initially it is the European Biennial of junior, but it withstood the pressure, influence is increasing. It's not the most famous Biennale, but it is not with the flow of the Biennale, the organizers hope the exhibition concern deep social problems. It is not all over the artist's works have been collected, a simple piece together a theme exhibition, but rather a "creator" of the exhibition, artists create works specifically with the subject matter. It is not every year are looking for a curator, in fact, in 2009 the Tenth Lyon Biennale curators invite Chinese curator Hou Hanru before, the number of sessions. Please no foreign nationality curator Hou Hanru and also live up to expectations, successful planning "the landscape of everyday life." Today, it has become the most famous Biennale, France, Europe attracts tourists because it came to France's second largest city, UNESCO also awarded the 2008 Lyon "Media Art City" title, Lyon The first city to receive this award.

Europe European Art Biennale

Mainstream exhibition leak filled

It's "nomadic" is unique in that it is away from the center, each have deliberately avoided the big cities, partial election or lack of artistic border artistic discourse held a small country.

1996 The first in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, the second in Luxembourg in 1998, third in 2000 that the former Yugoslav Lubuliya, 2002 Fourth Frankfurt in Germany.

It is the most youthful of the most dynamic Biennial, founded the original intention was committed to promote young European artists. It is not the world's major biennial repeat old faces everywhere, every time brings freshness. It is a biennial European young artists carpet scanning is still not qualified young first important international arena. Settled in Paris in front of Chinese artists Huang Yongping had acquired French nationality invited for the inaugural exhibition.

It is the Venice Biennale and other major exhibitions of leak filled, it is dedicated to correct international exhibition of young artists of slow response. It developed a pan-European network of artistic collaboration, we will continue to emerge throughout Europe more than 20 countries of the new generation of artists, public space and private art institutions, curators and critics large series.

Sydney Biennale

Words do not startle

It was founded in 1973, but it is the predecessor of Bei Qiaonuo · created within Tethys "Contemporary Australian Art Award", as early as the 1960s, very active. It is Australia's largest contemporary art exhibition that opens up many firsts: the first in Australia to celebrate the diversity of cultural and ethnic celebrations, is the first to show indigenous art in an international contemporary art exhibition background, it is the first a focus on Asian art and contemporary art biennale in the region.

Its declaration was fresh curatorial perspective and unique artistic perspective. In 1979 the third "European dialogue" topic to discuss and influence the relationship between Australia and Europe, and New York questioned the hegemony in contemporary art. 1982 It unprecedented scale, more than 200 artists and groups from 17 countries participated, the artist painted the large and controversial Vera police also banned, a sensation at home and abroad, and even affects the heads of government to show respect for freedom of speech and artistic expression.

Chinese artists is its regulars, 2010 17th Biennial "Beauty of Distance: Songs precarious era to survive", the 36 countries 166 artists 440 works exhibition, including Shaomin, Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Yang Fudong, Cai Guo-Qiang and many other Chinese artists.

Gwangju Biennale

Asia, not bad money

It is the first in Asia, the world's third Biennale. First Kwangju Biennale in 1995 had 23 million yuan budget, the "father of video art" Nam June Paik curatorial, it has become one of the world influence of the Biennale.

1997 nearly a million people visit the Gwangju Biennale, the limelight only 60,000 passengers than the Venice Biennale. It is the least bad money Biennale exhibition budget from 1995 to 2006 has been ranked first in the world. It walked rigorous international routes, Harald Szeemann, Aokui · En Weizuo, Charles Archer, Hou Hanru, and other famous international curators have checks, no fan of the biggest names, not to engage in show.

It is from no lack of political issues, not on the "democracy" turn a blind eye. It is also founded in 1980 the "Kwangju Massacre" memorial, regardless from which country curators, always "History and Memory" setting special exhibition. 2006 Latin America and the United States to intervene in the event of civil war as the focus; Chinese artist Zhang Dali collection of various Maoist propaganda at home and abroad; Taiwanese artist Chen Chieh-jen's "Lingchi" re-research the history of China in the process of slicing through torture photos .

Yokohama Triennale

Art is not entertainment

It is Japan's biggest international exhibition of contemporary art, but in the Asian territory, born in 2001, it is an Chicks Triennial On older than but Chinese Taipei Biennial and the Shanghai Biennale, on the fame ratio But Gwangju Biennale.

Gwangju Biennale reputation in the international arena, but also to Japan with the emergency. Perhaps it is because too anxious, more than the previous two exhibitions nationality, inadequate international. Under the 2001 inaugural hastily penned by four not very full impact of the Japanese mainland international curator. 2005 second session scheduled architect Arata Isozaki's new chief curator, but funding problems, eventually being replaced by Japanese artist Kawamata. That session on the theme "Art Circus - out of the daily" really come to a collaboration with the artist circus, the entire exhibition like enough circus. 2008 Third, Japan's final decision to the West will be willing or internationally recognized experts. They invited Daniel Birnbaum Germany, Britain in particular, while Richie Hans Obrist and a Swiss curator 比阿特瑞克斯 Ruff et together to curatorial. That session of the "Time of the cracks" theme, the Japanese "cute culture" artists no one selected. Because the chief curator Tsutomu Mizusawa that "art is not mere entertainment industry, we want to prevent the art bubble."

Beijing China Biennale

International strong, weak Asia

It was founded in 2003, held only fourth. Beijing International Biennale curator Vincenzo Sanford will have a hundred years of history of the Venice Biennale, compared to the old lady, the Beijing Biennale compared to 4-year-old little girl. But it called the world's largest Biennale.

2003 First Beijing Biennale 45 countries, 677 works of 329 artists; in 2005 the second expansion to 69 countries, 778 works of 632 artists; in 2008 increased to 81 third countries 701 747 Artists works; 2010 Fourth, there are 85 countries 535 works of 562 artists, larger than the Venice Biennale and the Sao Paulo Biennale.

It concerns the balance from the beginning of the founder of the global art scene, though traditional, but there is appeal. 2010 "Ecology and Homeland" theme attracted 4,000 artists in 93 countries deliver 12,000 works. It is an international strong, but weak in Asia. Worth seeing is often exhibits abroad, the first three prize of excellent works of Chinese artists annihilated, while the fourth nine winners also only one Chinese person. As Sanford says: "Venice Biennale is mainly directed against Western art, Africa mainly for African Art Biennale, Beijing Asian Art Biennale in fact, should be at the core."

Shanghai Biennale

Most brand value exhibition

It is the oldest of the Biennale began in 1996 with "open space" as the theme of the first exhibition. It is the first Chinese-conscious Biennale curator. Third Biennale from 2000 onwards, was first introduced and foreign curators team from Hou Hanru and Toshio Shimizu joined forces to Zheng Shengtian, Lin Shumin, John Rick 斯劳格 and Julian Johnny in the sessions of participation, create a good academic range of children. It is the highest value of Chinese brand Biennale.

In 2002, the "sea Shanghai" In addition to painting, painting, printmaking, sculpture, but also with devices, and other video art, media art and architecture to think Shanghai modernity; "Urban Creation" is for urbanization and urban construction started to explore. 2004 "Visible" Rethinking urban media culture, explore the world of the visual system of image technology. 2008 "fast city fast passenger" focus on the subject of the city: people think about immigration status Urbanization. These powerful theme for the Shanghai Biennale has won a good reputation. So, it became a city of Shanghai's business card, and have been supported by foreign private bank funds.

Guangzhou Triennial

China's best Triennial

It is a rising star, it was born in 2002 in Guangdong Museum of Art, so far only held three sessions. But it's curators, team, always adhere to the theme of internationalization and academic. The first curated by Wu Hung "Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990-2000)", identified a Xu Bing, Sui Jianguo, Zhang Xiaogang, Cai Guo-Qiang and other artists at home and abroad 137 179 works. Not only is the show, more importantly, re-interpretation of "experimental art" is the name.

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