[NEWS] Istanbul Biennial Pushed to 2022

May 7, 2021

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The Istanbul Biennial has announced the postponement of the physical edition of its seventeenth iteration, slated to open this fall, to 2022, owing to a spike in Covid-19 cases in Turkey. The new dates for the biennial are September 17–November 20, 2022. The decision was taken by the event’s organizer, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (ISKV), in consultation with its participants and partners, and with the show’s curators, Ute Meta Bauer, Amar Kanwar, and David Teh.

The lockdown will cover the entire holy Muslim month of Ramadan, as well as three days of the Eid festival.

AP: Emrah Gurel

“The 17th Istanbul Biennial, its curators and participants continue to be affected by the pandemic and its life-altering consequences,” the ISKV acknowledged in a statement. To date, Turkey has reported more than 4.9 million Covid cases and over 41,000 virus-related deaths, ArtAsiaPacific notes. The country at the end of April was reporting more than 60,000 Covid cases per day, the highest number in Europe. The surge spurred the government there to order a three-week lockdown from April 29. At present only 12 percent of the Turkish population is vaccinated.
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Residents will be required to stay home except for when they are grocery shopping or carrying out other essential tasks.

Reuters: Dilara Senkaya

The Biennial stated that it will continue to “act as a seedbed” for a selection of other projects which will run through the rest of 2021 as planned, despite the postponement of the physical events. The details of these projects are yet to be announced. The theme of the now-delayed biennial, revealed in March, is ecological in nature. “Let this biennial be compost,” the curators had earlier declared, perhaps presciently asserting, “There may be no great gathering, no orchestrated coming together in one time and place; instead it might be a dispersal, an invisible fermentation.”

Soft Baroque, ‘Point Cloud’, 2020 COURTESY: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)

Photo: Kayhan Kaygusuz

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[NEWS] Istanbul Biennial Pushed to 2022