Next to art fairs, today "biennials" are the most important international format for art exhibitions. Especially for cities like Taipei, Singapore, Yokohama or Gwangju, they also provide an opportunity to present themselves to a "western" international audience and to strengthen ties to the geographically remote European art scene. The OK "Biennale Cuvée" presents a selection from the most interesting biennials of 2008 with an emphasis on the Asian biennials in the selection. In addition to an exhibition in the OK itself, various locations and sites in the city of Linz will also be opened to present the most interesting projects.

Both public and private institutions operate as partners here, making their facilities available and taking part in developing the contents of the project. Specifically, these are the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor, the Knowledge Tower, the Energie AG Upper Austria, which welcome artists from all over the world together with the OK. The public areas essentially marking the new train station quarter become locations of art.

About 40 selected artists from over 25 countries are guests in Linz with their projects.

Nevin Aladag
Familie Tezcan, 2001
Video
DVD PAL/ MiniDV, 4:3, 6'40'', colour, sound
Courtesy: Nevin Aladag & Gitte Weise Gallery, Berlin

Christopher Thomas Allen
Dialogue, 2006
Installation
2 channel video, miscellaneous office furniture, desktop detritus
exhibition view: 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, 2008

Shaarbek Amankul
Duba, 2007
Video
DVD PAL, 6'56'', colour, sound

Alfredo Juan Aquilizan & Maria Isabel Gaudinez-Aquilizan
Address (Project: Another Country), 2007-2008
Installation
personal effects in balikbayan (homecoming) boxes, sampaguita scent, 4,2 x 3,10 x 3 m
Courtesy: Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, Sydney
exhibition view: 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art

Lene Berg
Stalin by Picasso or Portrait of Woman with Moustache, 2008
Installation
documentary, photograph
Video DVD PAL, 30', colour, sound
If they had been here I would have looked down on both of them - even without heals
How do you expect me to do a portrait of Stalin?
If this is art, then I am a Hottentot! (Harry S. Truman)
Filmstills, collage

Ursula Biemann
multiple channel video installation, colour, sound
exhibition view: The 7th Gwangju Biennale, 2008


Ursula Biemann
X-Mission

Beth Campbell
Following Room, 2007
Installation
Mixed Media
Courtesy: Beth Campbell, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York & Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie AG, Zürich
exhibition view Manifesta 7, 2008

Nina Fischer/Maroan El Sani
Spelling Dystopia, 2008
2 channel video installation
HD, 16:9, 17'16'', colour, sound: stereo
Courtesy: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig & Berlin
VG BILD-KUNST
production stills
exhibition view: Galerie EIGEN + ART, Leipzig & Berlin, 2008

Shilpa Gupta
In Our Times, 2008
Installation
2 singing mobile microphones, 193 x 144,8 x 61 cm, 2 A4 Prints
Courtesy: Shilpa Gupta & Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
exhibition view: Yokohama Triennale 2008

Shilpta Gupta
There is No Border Here, 2005-2006
Installation
self adhesive tapes, dimensions variable
Courtesy: Shilpa Gupta & Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris
exhibition view: Bose Pacia Gallery, New York, 2006

Hans Haacke
Wide Wide Flow, 1967/2009
white silk fabric, fans, dimensions variable
Owned by Hans Haacke
exhibition view: The 7th Gwangju Biennale, 2008

Hans Haacke
Photographic Notes, Documenta 2, 1959/1967
Installation
Arnold Bode
Putzfrauen
26 b/w photographs, framed, each 7 x 15,4 cm
Owned by Hans Haacke

Kuswidananto a.k.a Jompet
Java's Machine: Phantasmagoria, 2008
Installation
soldiers' costumes, lights, various eerie automata, Video DVD PAL, colour, sound
Courtesy: Jompet
exhibition view: 3rd Yokohama Triennale, 2008

Dinh Q. Le with Hai Quoc Tran & Danh Van Le
(in collaboration with Phu-Nam Thuc Ha &Tuan Andrew Nguyen)
The Farmers and the Helicopters, 2006
Installation
3 channel video projection, colour, sound, home made full sized helicopter
exhibition view: 2nd Singapore Biennale, 2008
Photo Helicopter
Tran Quoc Hai's farm equipment repair shop, Tay Ninh Province, Vietnam

Charles Lim Yi Yong
It's not that I forgot but rather I CHOSE NOT TO MENTION, 2008
3-channel video installation,
5', colour, 3 screens each 36, 43 x 20,62 x 3,06 cm
Courtesy: Charles Lim Li Yong, Mr. Oberrauch & Manifesta 7
exhibition view: Alumix in Bolzano, Manifesta 7, 2008

Wilfredo Prieto
Untitled (White Library), 2004
Installation
white books in different sizes
shelfs, tables, chairs
Courtesy: Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, Collection of Museum of Old and New, Tasmania
exhibition view: 1st Singapore Biennale, 2006

Taryn Simon
An American Index of the Hidden und Unfamiliar, 2204 - 2007
12 photographs from a series of 60

José Angel Toirac
Opus, 2005
Opus, 2005
Video
DVD PAL, 4'49'', Edition 5
Courtesy: Geukens & De Vil Gallery, Antwerpen
exhibition view: Royal Ontaria Mudeum, Toronto 2006

Su-Mei Tse
Swing, 2007
sculpture
white neon sculpture, motorized system, transformer, 235 x 42 x 21 cm
Courtesy: Peter Blum Chelsea, New York


Exhibition view: Singapore Biennale, 2008

Klaus Weber
Large Dark Wind Chime (Tritone Westy), 2008
Installation
powder-coated aluminium, stainless steel, high polymer plastic, fan
Courtesy: Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York & Herald St Gallery, London
exhibition view: *Klaus Weber*, Secession Wien, 2008

Julita Wójcik
Making things more beautiful, 2007
Video
DVD PAL, colour, sound
exhibition view: uqbar project space, 4th Ars Baltica Trienniale 2007
Videostill

Julita Wójcik
Czyjs Heimat, Gdansk, ul. Sobótki 16 / Someone's Heimat. Gdansk, Sobótki Street 16, 2006
croched object,
50 x 70 x 50 cm

Cheng-Ta YU
Ventriloquists- Introduction, 2008
Videoinstallation
NTSC, 9 TFT screens, colour, sound
exhibition view: 2008 Taipei Biennial
pic1
Kel Kelleher (63, Canada), visitor in the lane, 1'32''
pic2
Kumiko Takahashi (33, Japan), visitor MRT station, 2'
pic3
Tanner Brecheen (28, U.S.A), English teacher on the sidewalk, 2'07''


Kijong Zin
CNN, 2007
Installation
Mixed Media, NTSC, video, colour, sound, plasma screen, CCTV cameras attached to tables, various paraphernalia
Courtesy: Kijong Zin & Arario Gallery, Seoul
exhibition view: Arario Gallery, Seoul, 2007

  Biennale Cuvée at AK Arbeiterkammer

(Volksgartenstraße 40, 4020 Linz)
March 13 - May 15, 2009

Mon to Fri, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sat, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., closed on Sundays and holidays; Art discussion every Mon 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.; free admission;

Chieh-Jen Chen
The Route, 2006
Videoprojection
DVD PAL, 16'45'' no sound, colour and b/w
exhibition view: Liverpool Biennal, 2006

Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson
Caregivers, 2008
Video
DVD PAL, colour, sound
Courtesy: Castro & Ólafsson, Manifesta 7
exhibition view: Manifesta 7, 2008

Petra Gerschner
history is a work in process, 2009
Installation
12 lightboxes, each 100 x 200 cm, scaffolding construction, 450 x 420 x 450 cm

John Jordan
The Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army, 2003-2008
Installation
2 Videos DVD Pal, Mixed Media, 320 x 320 cm
Courtesy: The laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
exhibition view: 2008 Taipei Biennial

Andreas Siekmann
Trickle Down. Der öffentliche Raum im Zeitalter seiner Privatisierung, 2007
21 Inkjet Prints on paper, mounted on AluDibond
each 84 x 119 cm
Courtesy: Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin
exhibition view

THE Yes Men
"Dow does the right thing", 2008
Video
DVD PAL, sound, colour, English original and German subtitles

   Biennale Cuvée in the headquarter of ENERGIE AG OÖ

(Böhmerwaldstraße 3, 4021 Linz)
March 13 - May 15, 2009

Mon to Fri, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sat, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., closed on Sundays and holidays; Art discussion every Mon 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.; free admission;

Renata Lucas
in collaboration with Daniel Steegmann
Barulho de Fundo (Background Noise), 2005-09
Installation
5 black and white monitors, CCTV cameras and DVD players

Luigi Ontani
ANAMORpose, 2008
Installation
10 lenticular pictures, kinegrams
Courtesy: Luigi Ontani & Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Roma
exhibition view: Manifesta 7

Ben-David Zadok
Blackfield, 2008
Installation
stainless steel, paint, dimensions variable
2. Blackfield.jpg & 3. Blackfield.jpg
exhibition view: 2nd Singapore Biennale, 2008
1Blackfield.jpg –
exhibition view: Annandale Galleries, Sydney Australia, 2008

Ben-David Zadok
Doubletake, 2000
hologram series, Mixed Media, each 23 x 25,5 x 25,5 cm
exhibition view: *Fatamorgana*, Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa, Israel, 2006
exhibition view: *Science Fiction*, Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore, 2003
exhibition view: Refusalon, San Francisco, USA, 2000

Ben-David Zadok
Blackfield

Wang Zhan
Stone to fill the Sky, 2001-2008
Installation
stainless steel, motor, magnetic technology, glass, fluorescent light
Courtesy: Zhan Wang & Long March Space, Beijing
exhibition view: 6th Shanghai Biennale, 2006


Wang Zhan
Stone to fill the Sky

   Biennale Cuvée at WISSENSTURM

(Kärntnerstraße 26, 4020 Linz)
March 13 - April 26, 2009

Mon to Fri, 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sat, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., closed on Sundays and holidays; free admission;

Ki Bong Rhee
End of End, 2008
Installation
perspex steel, water, acrylic box, 2 handmade books, water pump, light
Courtesy: Ki-Bong Rhee & Kukje Gallery, Seoul
exhibition view: *The Wet Psyche*, Kukje Gallery in Seoul, Korea, 2008


Rhee Ki Bong
Bachelor - The Dual Body