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7th Biennale Gherdëina

– a breath? a name? –
the ways of worldmaking

08.08. –
20.10.2020

curated by Adam Budak

Concept

Worldmaking - Worlds like words multiply in the narrative of lives we conduct. One after another, and the one next to it, they proliferate in an organic process of symbiosis and growth. American philosopher, Nelson Goodman underlines the world’s collective self-referentiality, its interdependency and plurality: “If I ask about the world, you can offer to tell me how it is under one or more frames of reference; but if I insist that you tell me how it is apart from all frames, what can you say?” Nelson sees the world as a fabric of interwoven narratives; our role is to retell those narratives. To find the strategy - the way to do it - is what constitutes and determines our task: “We are confined to ways of describing whatever is described. Our universe, so to speak, consists of these ways rather than of a world or of worlds. (…) The many stuffs - matter, energy, waves, phenomena - that worlds are made of are made along with the worlds. But made from what? Not from nothing, after all, but from other worlds. Worldmaking as we know it always starts from worlds already on hand; the making is remaking.”¹

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Curator

Adam Budak was born in Poland in 1966. He studied Theatre Studies and Philosophy in Krakow (Poland) as well as Art History in Prague (Czech Republic) and Colchester (England). In addition to his work as a guest lecturer at the Art Academy in Ghent (Belgium) and at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Budak worked as a curator at various international art houses: from 1998 to 2003 at the exhibition house Bunkier Sztuki in Krakow, from 2003 to 2011 at the Kunsthaus Graz, from 2012 to 2013 at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (USA), from 2014 to 2020 as Artistic dirctor of the National Gallery in Prague and since 2020 as Artistic Director of the Kestner Gesellschfaft in Hannover, Germany.

Video

Venues

Public Space in
I-39046 Ortisei

Group Exhibition
Sala Trenker
Via Rezia 3
I-39046 Ortisei

Hotel Ladinia
Via Rezia 164
I-39046 Ortisei

Henrik Håkansson, A Tree Mirrored (Pinus Cembra), 2020. Installation. Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino. Ph. Martin Demetz (2).jpg

Vallunga
I-39048 Selva

Pilat
I-39046 Ortisei

Events

Cinema

Encounters

Doris Ghetta – Director•Igor Comploi – Deputy director / Production manager•Sabine Gamper – Curatorial Department•Karin Pernegger – Curatorial Department•Michal Štochl – Projectmanager•Willi Crepaz – Productions•Maddalena Aliprandi – Assistant to the Director•Martin Demetz – Production assistant•Michael Riffeser – Production assistant•Irene Guandalini – Communication and marketing•Walter Runggaldier – Administration•Alex Holzknecht – Technical support•Mahlknecht & Comploi – Architecture studio•Lupo Burtscher – Graphic design studio•Tiberio Sorvilllo – Photographer•Daniel Hanspeter – Webdesigner•Lorenz Klopfer – Video