The Busan Biennale is a biannual international contemporary art show that integrated three different art events held in the city in 1998: the Busan Youth Biennale, the first biennale of Korea that was voluntarily organized by local artists in 1981; the Sea Art Festival, an environmental art festival launched in 1987 with the sea serving as a backdrop; and the Busan International Outdoor Sculpture Symposium that was first held in 1991. The biennale was previously called the Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival (PICAF) before it launched.
The biennale has its own unique attribute in that it was formed not out of any political logic or need but rather the pure force of local Busan artists’ will and their voluntary participation. Even to this day their interest in Busan's culture and its experimental nature has been the key foundation for shaping the biennale’s identity.
This biennale is the only one like it in the world that was established through an integration of three types of art events such as a Contemporary Art Exhibition, Sculpture Symposium, and Sea Art Festival. The Sculpture Symposium in particular was deemed to be a successful public art event, the results of which were installed throughout the city and dedicated to revitalizing cultural communication with citizens.The networks formed through the event have assumed a crucial role in introducing and expanding domestic art overseas and leading the development of local culture for globalized cultural communication. Founded 38 years ago, the biennale aims to popularize contemporary art and achieve art in everyday life by providing a platform for interchanging experimental contemporary art.
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b. 1973, Arnhem, Netherlands
Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Spanning genres such as tapestry, collage, sculpture, installation, and performance, Jennifer Tee’s work shows her interest in cultural interchange and hybrid identity. Close to a decade, she has been producing work in her Tampan Tulip series, in which pressed and dried tulip petals are used to make collage images based on motifs found in Indonesia’s traditional tampan and palepai cloths. Bearing connections with her family’s diasporic narrative, this work encompasses Tee’s explorations of cultural background, migration, cultural identity, lineage, and heritage. Her works has been shown at the performance commission Drift (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 2020) and the solo exhibition, Let It Come Down (Camden Arts Centre, London & Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, 2017—2018). She also has taken part in such international events as the 16th Istanbul Biennial (2019) and the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo (2018). Attracting popular notice in 2018 when she was commissioned to produce an 18-meter tulip palepai that covered the wall of Amsterdam’s Centraal Station, she was awarded the Amsterdam Prize in 2020. Her solo show at Secession (Vienna) opens in September 2022.