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Busan Biennale 2014

Outline Theme Exhibition Information Team Artists & Artworks
Contemporary Art Exhibition
Artistic Director
 Manu D. Park(Born in 1971, Korea)
Art Critic and Independent Curator
1987. Dctorate course work in theory of art criticism at Universite Paris 1(Pantheon Sorbonne)
1984. Graduated Seoul National Univ., Seoul (M.A. & B.A.)
2004. Busan Biennale 2004 - Contemporary Art Exhibition
2003. The Director of Exhibition for the Gwangju Biennale 2002
2000. (Art Sonje Center, Seoul)
2005. Board member of the Arts Council at Gwangju
2005. Chairperson of Cultural Policy Committee for Gwangju Cultural Action
2002. Lecture at various schools and institutions including the Curatorial Training Program at De Appel, Amsterdam
2002. Juror as the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
2002. Juror as Hermes Korea Art Prize
Author of numerous articles and books including Media Aesthetics, Cinematic Worldvision and Praxis of Film Language

Curator
Kim In Seon (Born in 1971, Korea)
Independent Curator
2005. Curator, Anyang Public Art Project 2005, Anyang
2003~2004. Assistant Director, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2001~2002. Exhibition Coordinator, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
2000. Exhibition Coordinator, Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival(PICA), Busan


Jiyoon Lee (Born in 1969, Korea)
Independent Curator
2006. Curator, Asia House, London
2005. Curator, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Curator, International media exhibition, British Museum, London
2003. Co-Curator, Victoria Miro Gallery project space, London
2002. Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei


Lorenzo Benedetti (Born in 1972, Italy)
Independent Curator
2005. International art magazine exhibition, ISA, Rome
2004. SoundArt Museum, Rome
2003. Venice Biennale, Venice
2002. De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam


Tobias Berger (Born in 1969, Germany)
Executive Curator, para/Site Artspace, Hong Kong
2005. Curator, Gunagzhou Trienniale, Guangzhou
2004. Curator, Auckland Triennale, Auckland Curator, Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo
2002. Curator, 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius
2000. Co-curator, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju


Henriette Bretton-Meyer (Born in 1972, Denmark)
Director Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art Copenhagen
2002. ‘My Head Is on Fire But My Heart Is Full of Love', Copenhagen
2002. ‘Concrete Garden', Modern Art Oxford, England
2001. 2th Berlin Biennale exhibition organizer
‘Inside Out', Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

Natasha Conland (Born in 1974, Algeria)
Curator of Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
2005. Co-Curator, city Gallery Wellington
2005. Curator, 51st Venice Biennale Curator for New Zealand Pavillion
2004. Curator, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
2002. Curator, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Alexandre Pollazzon (Born in 1972, France)
Curator of Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London
2003. Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
2002. Buenos Aires Biennale, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
Buenos Aires Site de Creation Contemporaine, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Claire Staebler (Born in 1978, France)
Curator, PALAIS DE TOKYO, Paris
2002. Villa Medicis, Rome
2000. Coordinator, Taipei Biennale, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Taipei, Taipei
1999. Assistant Curator, Venice Biennale, Venice

Sea Art Festival
Artistic Director
 Byoung-Hak Ryu(Born in 1960, Seoul)
Art Critic and independent curator
1991. Graduated Kunst Akademie Stuttgart Univ.(M.F.A)
2002. (Supplement Space STONE & WATER, Anyang)
2000. , Seoul
1998. (Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul)
1997. (Stiftung fur konkrete Kunst. Reutlingen, Germany)
1996. (Ars Polona Gallery, Poland)
1994. (International Arts CenterㆍArt & Business Club Gallery·Galerii Akme Bookshop·Ksiegarmi Naukowj Bookshop, Poland)
1993 (Galerie Weises HausleㆍHochenberg BuchhandlungㆍStadtbucherei Hechingen) 1992. (vhs Gallery·Rieger & Kranzfelder Bookshop, Augsburg)
Commissioner
 Victoria Lu(Born in 1951, Taiwan)
Creative Director Shanghi
2010 Creative A Perspective on Asian art Biennial 2009
2010 Top 17 Asian artists 2009: Art Radar’s most searched artists
2009 Top 5 sites for Japanese contemporary art news by Matthew Larking
2009. New York’s first major show of Anime, Manga and Video Games KRAZY! Japan Society
2008 Takashi Murakami’s one of a kind art fair Gesai grows in size - September 2008

Chihiro Minato(born in 1960, Japan)
professor in the Department of Information Design, Tama Art University
School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
2006 INA NOBUO Prize for Photography
1998 Multimedia Grandprix Award of MMCA
1996 Suntory Prize for Social Sciences and Humanities
2007 Japanese Pavilion, Venezia Biennale (Venice, Italy)
2002. “Photonesia,” Naha Shimin Hall (Okinawa)
“Yocho Visual Art from Korea and Japan,” The Japan Cultural Institute in Cologne(Cologne, Germany)
2000 “Anthropology and Museology,” Maison Franco-Japonaise (Tokyo)
1999 “Serendipity,” The Japan Foundation (Tokyo)
1998 “Spomin,” Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
1993 “Voyage,” FOC Galerie (Paris, France)
1987 “Eye of Atlantic,” Assisto Gallery (Tokyo)

Busan Sculpture Project
Artistic Director
 Tae-Ho Lee(Born in 1951, Seoul)
Professor of Kyung-Hee University
Graduated Montclair State Univ., New Jersey, USA
Graduated Hong-ik Univ., Seoul (B.F.A. & M.F.A.)
2004. Busan Biennale 2004-Busan Sculpture Project, Sea Art Festival
2003. (Marronnier Art Center, Seoul)
1992. (The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant, New York)
1990. (The Center for Art and Culture of Bedford Stuyvesant, New York)
1990. (The clocktower Gallery, New York)
1998. (Alphine Gallery, New York)
「Impressionism- The First step of Modern Art」, Bookfolio, Seoul, 2004
「Postmodernism 」(Translate), Eleanor Heartney, Yeulwhadang, Seoul, 2003