IKSV has announced the title and conceptual framework of its 16th Istanbul Biennial. The Biennial will be taking place between September 14th and November 10th, 2019 under the vision of French curator and writer Nicolas Bourriaud. This year’s title is The Seventh Continent, depicting the massive 7 million tons of floating plastic in the Pacific Ocean. The biennial will appropriately explore “a world where humans and non-humans our mass-production systems and natural elements, drift together, reduced to particles of time.” The biennial accurately describes “the seventh continent” as “an archeology” of our times. Artwork featured will be an “archipelago of diverse inquiries into global life, tracking the prints of human activity on the earth and or impact on its non-human inhabitants.”
The 16th Biennial was announced befittingly at the Lycée Français Privé Saint-Joseph d’Istanbul, which hosts the impressive Natural Sciences Center. It is among the most extensive collections of the natural sciences in Turkey, displaying over thirty-thousand animals, forty-thousand plant species, as well as five-thousand minerals and fossils from Turkey, the majority of which are currently endangered or extinct.
The Biennial can be followed through the official event page, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram accounts with hashtags #istanbulbiennial and #theseventhcontinent.
