April 26, Petermann Island
This celebration is held each year on April 25 as the annual migration of these adorable flightless birds begins.
April 22, Antarctica
The artist-medium Eulalia Valldosera goes online with her audio messages that reached the Antarctica expedition!
I invite you to board my ship
And set out on an adventure
To the new shores of art!
I am organizing
A topsy-turvy biennale
An upside-down biennale,
A head-over-heels biennale,
A mobile biennale,
In the Antarctica
Close to the South Pole.
Mobilis in mobile!
We are building a unique community of people who are interested in reimagining the future of shared spaces, beginning with Antarctic culture as a model for global development. With the artistic core, we are creating the platform for the interdisciplinary dialogue.
Practitioners, including technological innovators and visionary business leaders, that seek to address 21 century challenges through new technologies and business models.
Leaders that firmly stand on the ground yet look into the future with clear and open mind.
Cultural leaders, including artists, architects, writers, curators and more, whose approach is interdisciplinary and intercultural.
Scientists that consider new models and technologies for changing the ultimate paradigm of human civilization to enable it for sustainable living on the Planet.
Researchers that advance human knowledge of frontier spaces.
VENICE, ITALY
April 20, 2017
International announcement of the exhibition in Antarctic Pavilion
USHUAIA, ARGENTINA
April 1, 2017
Press conference about the results of the expedition
USHUAIA, ARGENTINA
March, 2017
Start of the 1st Antarctic Biennale Expedition
MIAMI, USA
December 1, 2016
The open-call winner announcement during Art Basel Miami
MIAMI, USA
November 30, 2016
The launch party with Venu Magazine
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
November 21-24, 2016
The Antarctic Biennale Vision Building session
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
October 13, 2016
The exhibition of the open-call finalists
JAPAN
October, 2016
Alexander Ponomarev’s Exhibition at Setouchi Triennale, presentation of the project
LONDON, UK
October, 2016
The announcement of the open-call finalists during Frieze Art Fair
NEW YORK, USA
October, 2016
The National Arts Club – Antarctic Biennale supported by the United Nations and the Donner Canadian Foundation
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
September 11, 2016
Antarctic Biennale Vision Club Panel discussion at CosMoscow Fair
MOSCOW
August 22, 2016
Open-call AntarcticBiennale_Calls announcement
NEWPORT, USA
August 18-21, 2016
Weekend with the Antarctic Biennale
BARCELONA, SPAIN
June 21, 2016
The Antarctic Biennale presentation to the Spanish scientific and business societies, video screening of the ANTARCTICA: RE-CYCLICAL with comments by Hani Rashid
VENICE, ITALY
May 28, 2016
Opening of the exhibition ANTARCTICA: RE-CYCLICAL a frontier in flux at The Antarctic Pavilion
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
May 12, 2016
The Antarctic Biennale Vision Club in ASI
NEW HARMONY, USA
May 7, 2016
Working Man Institute – the Antarctic Biennale presentation
NEW YORK, USA
April 28, 2016
Opening of the exhibition Stored in Ice in Richard Taittinger Gallery
NEW YORK, USA
April 18, 2016
The 1st Antarctic Biennale Council in The Explorers Club
MOSCOW, RUSSIA
February 26, 2016
The Antarctic Biennale presentation in ARTIBUS
VENICE, ITALY
May 11, 2017
Press-conference and opening of the exhibition
VENICE, ITALY
May, 2017
Antarctic Biennale exhibition – finalists and first highlights from the expedition
NEWPORT, USA
July 1, 2017
Antarctic Biennale conference
The Antarctic Biennale Expedition has brought together approximately 100 participants — artists, researchers, and visionaries from all over the world — to explore and to think about a universal cultural future for Antarctica as a model of other ‘shared spaces’ as Ocean and Outer Space.
The art expedition has started in Ushuaia, the southernmost city of our planet, where approximately 100 participants have boarded the Akademik Sergey Vavilov research ship.
Alexander Ponomarev says that for this hundred the journey is ‘a revolution that changes the vector.
‘Instead of the usual national pavilions — the icy inaccessibility of the Antarctic continent. Instead of pompous apartments — ascetic cabins. Instead of the chaotic creative wanderings —a conjunction with the Great Nature and explosion of consciousness through the dialogues with scientists, futurists, and technological visionaries.’
Each passenger had a chance to take part in discussions, poetry, and philosophy workshops as well as to start designing the future in the Antarctic Biennale Vision club.
But the most important thing is that each expedition member have been an eyewitness and contributor to the art-making process.
The Antarctic Pavilion is the first ever supranational pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Established by artist, sailor and philosopher Alexander Ponomarev in 2014 as an international interface of the Antarctica Biennale (with the support by the AVC Charity Foundation), it incorporates artistic, scientific and philosophical methodologies to explore shared spaces such as Antarctica, the Ocean and the Outer Space.
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World-famous architects (Zaha Hadid, Hugh Broughton, Alexey Kozyr, and others) presented both speculative and realistic architectural projects for Antarctica.
Catalogue
The basis for this project was the idea of Salvation, as developed by the artist for many years, and of Concordia between people and nations.
Download the complete project overview of the Antarctic Biennale. This document details our mission, structure, program outline, team profiles, and partnership opportunities. For those interested in becoming a partner institution, a patron, or corporate sponsor, this is the best place to start.
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