Lodz Biennale    Lodz Biennale October 2nd – 31st, 2004 http://www.lodzbiennale.pl 1st International Biennale Lodz, Poland October 2nd – 31st, 2004 The international Biennale will take place at the UNIONTEX buildings (previously a textile factory), which will also house administrative offices and an educational center sponsored by the Whitney Museum. participating artists: Polly Apfelbaum (USA), Yuri Avvakumov (Russia), Maja Bajevic (Bosnia Harzegovina), Gerda Meyer Bernstein (USA), Xu Bing (China/USA), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (Canada), Michelle Charles (UK), Angiola Churchill (USA), Shane Cullen & John Buckley (Ireland), Tara Donovan (USA), Maria Eichhorn (Germany), Ming Fay (China/USA), Charles Ginnever (USA), Malcolm Green (Germany), Pearl Hirshfield (USA), Fred Holland (USA), IRWIN group (Slovenia), Bethany Izard (USA), Elzbieta Jablonska (Poland), Victor Kegli (Germany), Laura Kikauka (Canada/Germany), Samm Kunce (USA), Tadaaki Kuwayama (Japan/USA), Richard Long (UK), Slawomir Marzec (Poland), Alain Arias Misson (France), Kazuko Miyamoto (Japan/USA), Ann Noel (UK), Debra Pearlman (USA), Karina Peisajovich (Argentina), Marjetica Potrc (Slovenia), Joanna Rajkowska (Poland), Egle Rakauskaite (Lithuania), Jungwook Grace Rim (Korea/USA), Mimmo Roselli (Italy), Ursula von Rydingsvard (USA), Karin Sander (Germany), Markus Schinwald (Austria/Germany), Claudia Schmacke (Germany), Kim Schoenstadt (USA), Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria), Sook Jin Jo (USA/Korea), Kim Sooja (Korea/USA), Nancy Spero (USA)/ Helene Aylon (USA), Kunie Sugiura (Japan/USA), Nanae Suzuki (Germany/Japan), Todosijevic Dragoljub Rasa (Serbia and Montenegro), Micha Ullman (Israel), Anton Vidokle & Cristian Manzutto (Russia/USA + Italy/Colombia), Jan Voss (Holland), Kirsten V. T. Weiner (USA), Hong-wen Lin (Taiwan), Christopher Williams (USA) Curated by an international selections committee: Zdenka Badovinac, Leon Golub, Robert C. Morgan, Anda Rottenberg, Won Il-Rhee, Gregory Volk, Lilly Wei, Lawrence Weiner, Emmett Williams Biennale of Polish Art in Lodz: The Palimpsest Museum Aneta Szylak, Artistic Director The Palimpsest Museum is an exhibition ‘written over’ the existing ‘text’ of the Museum of the History of Lodz as palimpsest writes over the first texts on parchment. Though the layers of text and time hinder easy understanding, it happens that unexpected relations between the older and the chronologically newer appear. Participating artists: AZORRO group, Rafal Bujnowski, Roman Dziadkiewicz, Marek Glinkowski, Aneta Grzeszykowska & Jan Smaga, Izabella Gustowska , Elzbieta Jablonska, Katarzyna Jozefowicz, Agnieszka Kalinowska, Grzegorz Klaman, Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz, Kamil Kuskowski, Robert Kusmirowski, Leszek Lewandowski, Hanna Nowicka-Grochal, Leszek Przyjemski, Jan Simon, Christian Tomaszewski, Andrzej K. Urbanski & Mira Boczniowicz, Anna Witkowska, Ryszard Wasko, Julita Wojcik, Karolina Wysocka, Wojciech Zasadni Lodz city Biennale – Within Four Walls Curated by: Grzegorz Musial Within Four Walls show will be located in a XIX century apartment house, where the tenants run their every-day lives. The empty apartments left by the people once living in them could be said to be a “found space”, not sterile and indifferent like that of a Gallery space. This “found space” could determine or provoke one in a positive sense. It bears a potential of emotions connected with our private lives and with the lives of the anonymous former inhabitants. Participating artists: Malgorzata Borek, Krzysztof Cichosz, Agnieszka Chojnacka, Katarzyna Cholewa, Artur Chrzanowski, Teodor Durski, Aleksandra Kucinska, Adam Klimczak, Kamil Kuskowski, Konrad Kuzyszyn, Wojciech Leder, Tomasz Matuszak, Magda Moskwa, lukasz Ogorek, Anna Orlikowska, Mariusz Soltysik For further information, please contact: press contact: klimczak@lodzbiennale.pl travel information: chmielewska@lodzbiennale.pl hotel reservations: chmielewska@lodzbiennale.pl The Lodz Biennale is organized by IAM – International Artists’ Museum in Lodz contact: rwasko@muzart.infocentrum.com ——————- The Biennale is sponsored by the Minister of Culture, Waldemar Dabrowski and the President of lodz, Jerzy Kropiwnicki, and the Marshall of lodz, Stanislaw Witaszczyk, Voivodship.