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2 unusual facts about biennial


Biennial

Biennale, a term used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art, stemming from the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale.

Biennial plant, a plant which blooms in its second year and then dies


AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts

In addition to grants from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and other entities, AAC diversifies its funding through fundraising events including the annual AIDS Walk, Boston's second largest walk, and ARTcetera, a biennial art auction that features art from acclaimed artists such as Mr. Brainwash, Ryan McGinley, Mitch Weiss, Harold Eugene Edgerton.

Art zuid

ARTZUID is an open air sculpture biennial in Amsterdam's Southern district in The Netherlands.

Atlantic Estuarine Research Society

It is affiliated with the national Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation which sponsors biennial conferences and produces a journal, Estuaries and Coasts.

Big Dance

Big Dance UK, a nine day biennial festival of dance in the United Kingdom

Bora Yoon

As a performer, Yoon has toured her experimental soundwork internationally, presenting her works at Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the KBS/Nam June Paik Museum in Seoul, Patravadi Theatre in Bangkok, the Melbourne International Arts Festival, the Guggenheim Museum, Tonic, Roselee Goldberg’s PERFORMA Arts Biennial, John Zorn’s Stone, the annual Pop!

Christine Morrow

Her art work has been exhibited in the Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art in 1998 and the Moët & Chandon touring exhibition in 1999.

Community of Democracies

The CD was inaugurated at its first biennial ministerial conference hosted by the government of Poland in Warsaw on June 25–June 27, 2000.

Dolores Dembus Bittleman

Bittleman's work includes fiber and silk tapestries that have featured in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Lausanne International Tapestry Biennial and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York.

Eligio Pichardo

He participated in important biennial art exhibitions held throughout the world, including São Paulo, Madrid and Paris.

European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences

The EuCheMS Chemistry Congress is a biennial event, beginning in 2006 with the 1st conference in Budapest.

Farshid Mesghali

The biennial Hans Christian Andersen Award conferred by the International Board on Books for Young People is the highest recognition available to a writer or illustrator of children's books.

Fred Worden

His work has been screened at The Museum of Modern Art, in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, The Centre Pompidou, in Paris, The Pacific Film Archive, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, The Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Toronto Film Festival, and The Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Golf Canada

Other International events the RCGA has been much involved in are the World Amateur Team Matches for the Eisenhower Trophy, since 1958: winning in 1986, placing second in 1962, 1964, 1978, and 2006, and hosting these “Olympics” of golf in 1992; the Commonwealth Matches, won by Canada in 1971 and 1975, discontinued in 1975; and the Simon Bolivar Biennial Tournament, won in 1981 by Doug Roxburgh and Gary Cowan representing Canada.

Görgün Taner

Gorgun Taner (born 1959) is the General Director of the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), a non-profit, non-governmental organisation founded in 1973 that organises four international festivals (Film, Theatre, Classical Music and Jazz), the Istanbul Biennial, and the Istanbul Design Biennial.

Herzliya Biennial

Some of the notable artists to present their works at the Herzliya Biennial are: Guy Ben-Ner, Mika Rottenberg, Roee Rosen, Yair Garbuz, Ariella Azoulay, Elisheva Levy, Gil Shani, Ari Libsker, Zoya Cherkassky, Roy Arad, Keren Cytter, Sigalit Landau and Noa Tsaushu.

Horacio Lavandera

Lavandera has been winning competitions since his youth, including the 10th Competition 'Meeting of Children and Young Musicians' (Córdoba, Argentina), and the Vº Biennial Youth Competition 99/00, the latter including a jury composed of maestros Martin Lovett, Malcolm Binns, and Elizabeth Robson.

Humberto Castro

In 1983 15th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Galerija), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

India at the 2011 BWF World Championships

The tournament was first held in 1977 in Malmö, Sweden and celebrated every three years until 1983, after which, it became a biennial event, and played once every two years until 2005.

International Roaming Biennial of Tehran

The curators had the idea of a low cost itinerant biennial as critic to the present art situation in Tehran and also to the "biennalization" process which is happening at international level.

Istanbul Biennial

The Biennial was organised under the curatorship of René Block in 1995, Rosa Martínez in 1997, Paolo Colombo in 1999, Yuko Hasegawa in 2001, Dan Cameron in 2003, Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun in 2005 and Hou Hanru in 2007 and will be realised by the Zagreb-based curators collective What, How & for Whom / WHW in 2009.

After the first two biennials realised under the general coordination of Beral Madra in 1987 and 1989, İKSV decided to adapt a single curator system following the İstanbul Biennial directed by Vasif Kortun in 1992.

Jan Sawka

His awards have included the 1975 Oscar de la Peinture in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France for painting and the Gold Medal at the 1978 Warsaw Poster Biennial.

Japan Academy

In 1987, HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh suggested that the Academy take assume the responsibility for conferring the biennial Duke of Edinburgh Prize to a Japanese scientist with outstanding achievements in the area of wildlife protection and species preservation.

Jonathan Kearney

During this period Kearney held exhibitions in the famous 798 Art Zone of Beijing and in Shanghai, including the 6th Shanghai Biennale where he was part of the first ever Liverpool Biennial exhibition at the Shanghai Biennale.

Kevin Downard

He convened and chaired the Sir Mark Oliphant Conference on Proteomics in 2003 and the biennial mass spectrometry conference (ANZSMS22, 2009), and led and co-ordinated the first proteomics course at Sydney.

Kutluğ Ataman

Ataman entered the art world first in 1997 when he took part in the 5th International Istanbul Biennial where he presented "kutluğ ataman's semiha b. unplugged" a long-form documentary of the opera diva Semiha Berksoy.

Ligonier Meeting

Five months before, Metropolitan Spyridon Papageorge of Italy gave a speech at the 32nd Biennial Clergy-Laity Conference of the Greek Archdiocese, in which he plainly stated that both he and the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, wanted an end to "ethnic ghettoes" which divided Orthodoxy in America.

Lilla Bodor

International Biennial of Young Artists, ArtMill, Szentendre

Ludwig Christoph Heinrich Hölty

Several streets and schools in Germany are named after him, including the Hölty-Gymnasium in Wunstorf near Hanover; in 2008, the biennial poetry prize Hölty-Preis was created in his name.

Luigi Russolo

As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, invited Luciano Chessa (author of the book Luigi Russolo, Futurist. Noise, Visual Arts, and the Occult) to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas of Russolo’s legendary Intonarumori instruments.

Manfred Mohr

1973 Received awards at the World Print Competition-73, San Francisco, and the 10th Biennial in Ljubljana

Mel Chin

Mel Chin has also exhibited in numerous group shows including the Fifth Biennial of Havana, Cuba; Seventh Architectural Biennial in Venice, Italy; Kwangju Biennale, Korea; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Whitney Museum of American Art; P.S.1

Methodist Girls' School

Joscelin Yeo: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

Christel Bouvron: Former national swimmer and Olympian; Multiple gold medalist at the biennial Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games)

Michael O'Neal

In 1986, O'Neal received the Outstanding Young Men of America award and in 1987 was an American Council of Young Political Leaders delegate to the Biennial Assembly in Strasbourg, France.

National New Media Art Award

The Premier of Queensland's National New Media Art Award is a biennial, invitational Australian art award for works of new media art, instituted in 2008 under the auspices of the Queensland Government and the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art at the Queensland Art Gallery.

Nautor's Swan

The highlight of the racing calendar for Swan owners is the biennial "Rolex Swan Cup", held in Porto Cervo, Sardinia in association with the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, which traditionally embodies "The Spirit of Swan" in its glamour and quality of sailing.

Ömer Ali Kazma

His work was shown in the 7th and 10th Istanbul Biennial (2001, 2010), Tokyo Opera City (2001), Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (İstanbul, 2003), Cetinje Biennial (2004), İstanbul Modern (2004), 2nd Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions (2005), 9th Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2006) and San Francisco Art Institute (2006).

Ooh

Occupational Outlook Handbook, a biennial publication of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Paterna International Piano Prize

The Paterna International Piano Prize (Catalan: Premi Internacional Pianístic de Paterna, Spanish: Premio Internacional Pianístico de Paterna) is a biennial piano competition in Paterna, Valencia, Spain.

Pitch Black

Exercise Pitch Black, a biennial international military exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force

Pyongyang International Film Festival

The Pyongyang International Film Festival is a biennial cultural exhibition held in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Rohan Sabharwal

He became widely recognized as a filmmaker after the Celebrate Bandra Committee picked his 25-minute short Romson and Juliana to show at their biennial festival Celebrate Bandra in 2007.

Saint Clair Cemin

He received the Biennial Award from the Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open-Air Museum in Japan in 1995.

Tyler Turkle

Turkle was selected for the 41st and 44th Biennial Exhibitions of Contemporary American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, as well as exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; and the New Orleans Museum of Art.

V. nigrum

Verbascum nigrum, the dark mullein, a biennial or short-lived perennial herbaceous plant species

Vojin Bakić

From 1940 he participated at many national and international exhibitions: the Venice Biennial (1950, 1956, 1964), the Mediterranean Biennial in Alexandria (1956, 1969), the Milan Triennale (1957), Documenta in Kassel (1959), the Rijeka Salon (1959, 1961).

Welsh Singers Competition

The Welsh Singers Competition is a biennial singing competition that is held in Cardiff, Wales.


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