Date: April 1 – May 9, 2021

About: The 13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, opens on 1 April 2021 with 69 participating artists and 40 new commissions, in Gwangju, South Korea. Founded in 1995 in memory of the civil uprising and the 1980 Gwangju Democratisation Movement, the Gwangju Biennale is Asia’s oldest and most prestigious biennale of contemporary art.  Directed by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala, the 13th edition, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning, sets out to examine the spectrum of the extended mind through artistic and theoretical means. The exhibition delves into a broad set of cosmologies, activating multitudinous forms of intelligence, planetary life-systems and modes of communal survival, as they contend with the future horizon of cognitive capitalism, algorithmic violence and planetary imperialisms. Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning encompasses an exhibition across four venues, with 69 artists; an online publishing platform and journal, Minds Rising; three publications, including a Feminism(s) reader, titled Stronger than Bone; and a series of online public programs bringing together artists, activists, scholars and systems thinkers: GB Talks|Rising to the Surface: Practicing Solidarity Futures, Augmented Minds and the Incomputable, and an adaptive procession with live commissions: Through the Gates.

Venue: 111 Biennale-ro, Buk-gu 61104 Gwangju, South Korea

Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall, Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju Theater, Yangnim mountain - Horanggasy Artpolygon; and online on social media channels and the Biennale website.

Opening Hours:

Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall: (Closed on Mondays) 10 am – 18:00 pm

Gwangju National Museum: (Open on Mon. – Fri., Sun.) 10:00 ~ 18:00, (Open on Sat.)10:00~20:00

Gwangju Theater: (Closed on Mondays) 11:00 ~ 19:00

Horanggasy Artpolygon: (Closed on Mondays) 10:00 ~ 18:00

* For more information, please follow the link: https://www.gwangjubiennale.org/en/index.do

Artists participating in Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning (* denotes new commissions)

∞OS (Dmitry Paranyushkin and Koo Des)*, Pacita Abad, Korakrit Arunanondchai*, Katarina Barruk*, Farid Belkahia, Cecilia Bengolea, Seyni Camara*, Quishile Charan & Esha Pillay (aka The Bad Fiji Gyals), Yin-Ju Chen & Li-Chun Lin (Marina)*, Ali Cherri, Hyun-taek Cho*, Vaginal Davis*, Cian Dayrit*, Emo de Medeiros, Patricia Domínguez, Theo Eshetu*, Gerard Fortuné, John Gerrard, Sonia Gomes, Trajal Harrell*, Femke Herregraven*, Lynn Hershman Leeson*, Tishan Hsu, Gözde Ilkin*, Jeong Kwan, Jumaadi, Karrabing Film Collective*, Sangdon Kim*, Sylbee Kim*, Timoteus Anggawan Kusno*, Duck-Jun Kwak, Gap-chul Lee, Kangseung Lee*, Sangho Lee, Liliane Lijn, Candice Lin*, Vivian Lynn, Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Angela Melitopoulos*, Ana María Millán*, Min Joung-Ki*, Ad Minoliti*, Kyungwon Moon*, MOON & JEON, Siyabonga Mthembu*, nasa4nasa*, Pedro Neves Marques, Kira Nova*, Fernando Palma Rodríguez*, People’s Archive of Rural India – PARI, Rajni Perera*, Outi Pieski*, Angelo Plessas*, Gala Porras-Kim*, Ana Prvački*, Judy Radul*, Sahej Rahal*, Zofia Rydet, Jacolby Satterwhite, Arpita Singh, Tcheu Siong, Chrysanne Stathacos*, Alexandra Sukhareva, Shannon Te Ao, Sissel Tolaas*, Cecilia Vicuña*, Ouattara Watts, Shen Xin*, Tuguldur Yondonjamts*

With augmented readings by Manduhai Buyandelger, Kate Crawford & Vladan Joler, Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan, Vladan Joler & Matteo Pasquinelli, Sun Yung Shin, Kawaguchi Shinnin & Aoki Shukuya, Rafael Yuste, and Zeitguised.