PRAGUE.- Prague Biennale Foundation is proud to present the second edition of the Prague Biennale, curated by Giancarlo Politi and Helena Kontova, following the enormous success of the first Biennale. Prague Biennale 2 will take place in a vast post-industrial space that has been specifically adapted for what will be the largest exhibition in Europe dedicated to today’s painting, demonstrating the crossing of styles, techniques, cultures and traditions in contemporary art. PRAGUE BIENNALE 2 will focus on two main themes: Expanded Painting - Painting and Around, and Acción Directa, art as political action.
EXPANDED PAINTING (curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi, along with the collaboration of a distinguished team of critics and artists) includes more than 100 artists representative of the most recent developments and latest trends in painting. The exhibition addresses to the relationships between painting and other media.
Patrizia Alemanno, Janis Avotins, Diann Bauer, Franz Baumgartner, Blue Noses, Michaël Borremans, Nina Bovasso, Varda Caivano, Juan Francisco Casas, Maurizio Cattelan, Jiri Cernicky, Rabiya Choudry, Jan Christensen, Valentina D'Amaro, Jacob Dahlgren, Jiri David, Nuno de Campos, Juan Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Anna Galtarossa, Sandra Gamarra, Torben Giehler, Xenia Gnilitskaya, Bendix Harms, Alona Harpaz, Hans Hemmert, Damien Hirst, hobbypopMUSEUM, Jakub Hošek, Markus Huemer, Kika Karadi, Žiga Kariž, John Kørner, David Krippendorff, Graham Little, Liisa Lounila, Rory Macbeth, DeAnna Maganias, Victor Man, Miltos Manetas, Alisa Margolis, Janice McNab, Jim Medway, Birgit Megerle, Dawn Mellor, Angelo Mosca, Audrey Nervi, Jacco Olivier, Alexandra Paperno, Seb Patane, Polys Peslikas, Gabriele Picco, Luca Rento, Anselm Reyle, Zbigniew Rogalski, Ugo Rondinone, Wilhelm Sasnal, Maaike Schoorel, Shirana Shahbazi, Raqib Shaw, Isabel Simões, Susanne Simonson, Martina Steckholzer, Ágnes Szépfalvi, Alexis Marguerite Teplin, David Ter-Oganyan, Rui Toscano, Anna Tuori, Koen van den Broek, Iris Van Dongen, Pieter Vermeersch, Fabien Verschaere, Francesco Vezzoli, Stella Vine, Maja Vukoje, Andro Wekua.
NEW GERMAN PAINTING - The Leipzig and Dresden ‘schools’ (curated by Johannes Schmidt)- Thorugh the latest generation of German painters, this exhibition aims to investigate two of the most significant schools in current painting, which were started by masters such as Neo Rauch and Eberhard Havekost.
Tilo Baumgärtel, Martin Borowski, Markus Draper, Isabelle Dutoit, Martin Eder, Tim Eitel, Tom Fabritius, Eckehard Fuchs, Ralf Hellmann, Olaf Holzapfel, Matthias Kistmacher, Thoralf Knobloch, Martin Kobe, Jörg Lozek, Martin Mannig, Frank Nitsche, Ulf Puder, Christoph Ruckhäberle, Sophia Schama, Julia Schmidt, David Schnell, Matthias Weischer.
NORMAL GROUP (curated by Luca Beatrice) A presentation of the artist group Normal, which was founded by two Czech painters, Milan Kunc and Jan Knap, with their German colleague Peter Angermann in the 1980s.
