24th Biennale of Sydney Announces Lineup
By Alex Yiu
DARRELL SIBOSADO, Ngarrgidj Morr (the proper path to follow), 2022. Powder-coated steel, LED tubes, fittings, electrical component, 300 × 245 × 8cm (each panel). Courtesy the artist and The National Gallery of Australia.
On October 31, the Biennale of Sydney announced its lineup of artists, venues, and first wave of programs ahead of its 24th edition. Citywide venues, including Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia—alongside Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney and the recently reinstated White Bay Power Station—will join forces under the artistic direction of curators Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero. Titled “Ten Thousand Suns,” the 2024 Biennale, which coincides with its Golden Anniversary, will explore "the atomic era, a concentrated time of climate alteration through human exploitation, within the context of today's moment of climate emergency and a refusal to concede to an apocalyptic vision of the future."
The festival has selected 88 artists and collectives from 47 countries, including filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang, Pacific and Maori collective Pacific Sisters, the late painter Martin Wong, queer Japanese artist Maru Yacco, and Malaysian textile-based artist Anne Samat. A host of Australian artists, including painter Gordon Hookey, indigenous photographer and filmmaker Tracey Moffatt, multidisciplinary artist Serwah Attafuah, and photographer and writer William Yang, will also be represented.
Meanwhile, as a Visionary Partner the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain has commissioned 14 First Nations artists to create new works. Mangala Bai Maravi of India’s Baiga tribe, Manyjilyjarra painter Doreen Chapman, Quandamooka artist Megan Cope, among others, will work with First Nations Curatorial Fellow Tony Albert to realize their projects. In a statement, Costinaș and Guerrero said that the Biennale “conveys the joy of cultural multiplicities affirmed, of First Nations understandings of the cosmos brought to the fore.” The Biennale of Sydney runs from March 9 to June 10, 2024.
The list of artists as part of the 24th Biennale of Sydney (2024) are:
Adebunmi Gbadebo (USA)
Agnieszka Kurant (Poland / USA)
Agnieszka Polska (Poland / Germany)
Alberto Pitta (Brazil)
Andrew Thomas Huang (USA)
Anne Samat (Malaysia / USA)
Barrileteros Almas del Viento (Guatemala)
Bonita Ely (Australia)
Breda Lynch (Ireland)
Candice Lin (USA)
Chitra Ganesh (USA)
Choy Ka Fai (Singapore / Germany)
Christopher Myers (USA)
Christopher Pease (Minang/Wardandi/Bibbulmun, Australia)
Citra Sasmita (Indonesia)
Cristina Flores Pescorán (Perú / Netherlands / USA)
Darrell Sibosado (Bard/Noongar, Australia)
Destiny Deacon (KuKu (Cape York) & Erub/Mer (Torres Strait), Australia)
Dhopiya Yunupiŋu (Gumatj/Yolŋu nation, Australia)
Diane Burns (Anishinaabe/Chemehuevi, USA)
Doreen Chapman (Manyjilyjarra, Australia)
Dumb Type (Japan)
Dylan Mooney (Yuwi/Meriam Mir/South Sea Islander, Australia)
Eisa Jocson (Philippines)
El Gran Mono (Colombia / Australia)
Elyas Alavi (Hazara, Afghanistan / Australia) with Hussein Shirzad
(Afghanistan / Australia); Jimmy Hintons (Australia); John Hintons
(Australia) and Alibaba Awrang (Afghanistan / USA)
Eric-Paul Riege (Diné/Navajo, USA)
Felix de Rooy (Curaçao / Netherlands)
Francisco Toledo (Mexico)
Frank Bowling (UK / Guyana)
Frank Moore (USA)
Freddy Mamani (The Plurinational State of Bolivia)
Gordon Hookey (Waanyi, Australia)
Hayv Kahraman (Iraq / Sweden / USA)
I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (Murni) (Indonesia)
Idas Losin (Truku/Atayal, Taiwan)
Irene Chou (Hong Kong / Australia)
James Eseli (Kala Lagaw Ya/Badhulaig, Torres Strait Islands, Australia)
Li Jiun-Yang (Taiwan)
Joel Sherwood Spring (Wiradjuri, Australia)
John Pule (Niue / Aotearoa New Zealand)
Josh Kline (USA)
Juan Davila (Chile / Australia)
Júlia Côta (Portugal)
Kaylene Whiskey (Yankunytjatjara, Australia)
Kirtika Kain (India / Australia)
Köken Ergun (Turkey / Germany)
Kubra Khademi (Afghanistan / France)
Lawrence Lek (Malaysia / UK)
Leila el Rayes (Australia)
Mangala Bai Maravi (India)
Mariana Castillo Deball (Mexico / Germany)
Marie-Claire Messouma Manlanbien (France)
Martin Wong (USA)
Maru Yacco (Japan)
Mauroof Jameel & Hamsha Hussain (Maldives)
Megan Cope (Ngugi/Noonuccal, Quandamooka, Australia)
Ming Wong (Singapore / Germany)
Monira Al Qadiri (Kuwait / Germany)
Nádia Taquary (Brazil)
Nikau Hindin (Te Rarawa/Ngāpuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand)
Ebonie
Fifita-Laufilitoga-Maka (Fungamapitoa, Tonga, Aotearoa New Zealand),
Hina Puamohala Kneubuhl (Kihalaupoe, Maui, Hawai‘i)
Hinatea Colombani
(Arioi, Tahiti)
Kesaia Biuvanua (Moce, Lau, Fiji)
Rongomai
Gbric-Hoskins (Te Rarawa/Ngāpuhi, Aotearoa New Zealand)
Niño de Elche & Pedro G. Romero (Spain)
Orquideas Barrileteras (Guatemala)
Özgür Kar (Turkey / Netherlands)
Pacific Sisters (Aotearoa New Zealand)
Pauletta Kerinauia (Miyartuwi (Pandanus), Tiwi Islands, Australia)
Petrit Halilaj (Kosovo / Germany) & Alvaro Urbano (Spain / Germany)
Robert Campbell Jnr (Ngaku/Dunghutti, Australia)
Rover Joolama Thomas (Kukatja/Wangkajunga, Australia)
Sachiko Kazama (Japan)
Sana Shahmuradova Tanska (Ukraine) Satch Hoyt (UK / Jamaica)
Saule Dyussenbina (Kazakhstan)
Segar Passi (Meriam Mir/Dauareb, Torres Strait Islands, Australia)
Sergey Parajanov (Armenia / Georgia)
Serwah Attafuah (Ashanti, Australia) Simon Soon (Malaysia)
Tarryn Gill (Australia)
Te Whā a Huna (Tūwharetoa, Aotearoa New Zealand)
Tracey Moffatt (Australia)
Trevor Yeung (China / Hong Kong)
Udeido Collective (West Papua)
VNS Matrix (Australia)
Weaver Hawkins (England / Australia)
Wendy Hubert (Guruma/Yindjibarndi, Australia)
William Strutt (UK)
William Yang (Australia)
Yangamini (Tiwi; Gulumirrgin; Warlpiri; Kunwinjku; Yolŋu; Wardaman; Karajarri; Gurindji; Burarra, Australia)
Alex Yiu is ArtAsiaPacific's associate editor.
