2006 Singapore Biennale/6th Gwangju Biennale

From: Artforum | Date: November 1, 2006| Author: Lee, Pamela M | Copyright information

2006 Singapore Biennale

VARIOUS VENUES

6th Gwangju Biennale

BIENNALE HALL, GWANGJU, SOUTH KOREA

PAMELA M. LEE

IF THERE IS ONE THING more predictable than the inexorable expansion of the global biennial circuit, it's the litany of complaints that trails in its wake. Whether in Berlin or São Paulo, so the refrain goes, these exhibitions routinely suffer from a fatal bout of sameness: same high-profile curators, same artists, same blather about the "world-clas...

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