Melbourne International Biennial 1999

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Melbourne International Biennial 1999 "Signs of Life" 14 May - 27 June 1999

The Melbourne International Biennial was a cultural initiative of the City of Melbourne in partnership with Arts Victoria, Department of Premier and Cabinet and the Ian Potter Museum of Art, the University of Melbourne.

Curator: Juliana Engberg / Organisation: Bala Starr

Artists:

Eija-Liisa Ahtila
Francis Alÿs
Art Orienté objet
Terri Bird
Monica Bonvicini
Louise Bourgeois
Stephen Bush
Maurizio Cattelan
Brenda L Croft
Yael Davids
Destiny Deacon
PlamenDejanov & Swetlana Heger
Amanda Dunsmore
Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset

Ângela Ferreira
John Frankland
Robert Gligorov
Robert Gober
Graham Gussin
Teresa Hubbart & Alexander Birchler
Meta Isaeus-Berlin
Lyndal Jones
Peter Kennedy
Martin Kersels
Job Koelewijn
Andrea Lange
Chad McCail
Aernout Mik

Tastuo Miyajima
Callum Morton
Deimantas Narkevicius
Fanni Niemi-Junkola
Mariele Neudecker
David Noonan
Susan Norrie
OLO
Anne Ooms
Catherine Opie
Miguel Palma
Cornelia Parker
João Penalva
Susan Philipsz

Patricia Piccinini
Hans Hamid Rasmussen
Nikolaj Recke
Torbjørn Rødland
Ugo Rondinone
Vivienne Shark LeWitt
Dan Shipsides
Smith/Steward
Ricky Swallow
Francisco Tropa
Gitte Villesen
Kenji Yanobe
Miwa Yanagi
Li Yongbin

& the "Collaborating Countries Projects" included works in National Pavillions by the following artists:

Austrian Pavilion: Anne Schneider, Elke Krystufek, Franz West (curator: Andraes Reiter Raabe)
Belgian Pavilion: Dirk Braeckman, Jan Van Imschoot, Sven 't Jolle (curator: Jan Hoet)
Canadian Pavilion: Geoffrey Farmer, Myfanwy Macleod, Ron Terada, (curator: Kitty Scott)
Chinese Pavilion: Wang Jianwei, Li Yongbin (curator: Huang Du)
Danish Pavilion: Henriette Heise, Jakob Jakobsen (curator: Dorthe Abildgaard & Marianne Krogh Jensen)
French Pavilion: Valérie Jouve (co-ordinator: by Jean-Pierre Dumont)
Italian Pavilion: Paola di Bello, Mauricio Lupini, Roberto Marossi, Marcello Maloberti, Gabriele di Matteo, Alessandra Spranzi, Bert Theis, Enzo Umbaca (curators: Jen Budney & Roberto Pinto)
Japanese Pavilion: Leiko Ikemura (curator: Itaru Hirano)
Norwegian Pavilion: Knut Åsdam, UKS (curators: Bo Krister Wallström & Jørn Mortensen)
Philippine Pavilion: Gerardo Tan (curator: Professor Patrick Flores)
Swiss Pavilion: Sidney Stucki (curator: Pierre-André Lienhard)

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"..., I believe the Melbourne International Biennial - Signs of Life - exhibits a very human set of projects, as should be the case as we leave the twentieth century and begin to engage with the next millennial frontier." Juliana Engberg