Bibliographie théorique sur les biennales comme objet d’étude

La liste ci-dessous comprend quelques références générales sur le sujet :

Altshuler, Bruce, Exhibitions That Made Art History, vol. 1 : 1863-1959, Salon to Biennial, Londres/New York, Phaidon, 2008

Altshuler, Bruce, Exhibitions That Made Art History, vol. 2, 1962-2002, Biennials and Beyond, Londres/New York, Phaidon, 2013.

Bydler, Charlotte, The Global Artworld, Inc.: On the Globalization of Contemporary Art, Uppsala, Uppsala Universitet, 2004.

Eilat, Galit, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Charles Esche, Pablo Lafuente, Luiza Proença, Oren Sagiv, Benjamin Seroussi (dir.), Making Biennials in Contemporary Times: essays from the World: Biennial Forum nº2, Amsterdam/São Paulo, Biennial Foundation/Fundação Bienal de SãoPaulo/ICCo – Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea, 2015.
==> textes de Peter Osborne, Antony Gardner et Charles Green, Lucy Steeds, Fernando Oliva, David Teh, Manuele Moscoso, Anne Szefer Karlsen, Moacir dos Anjos, Marina Fokidis, Fabio Cypriano, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Övül Durmusoglu, Ana Gonçalves Magalhães, Cayo Honorato, Ana Paula Cohen ; version disponible en ligne

Gielen, Pascal (dir.), The Art Biennial as a Global Phenomenon. Strategies in Neo-Political Times, numéro spécial d’Open. Cahier on Art and the Public Domain, no. 16/2009, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, NAi/SKOR, 2009.
==> textes d’Irit Rogoff, Charles Esche, Brian Holmes, Simon Sheikh, Boris Groys, Thierry de Duve, Chantal Mouffe, Michael Hardt, Pascal Gielen, avant-propos de Jorinde Seijdel ; disponible également en ligne https://www.onlineopen.org/the-art-biennial-as-a-global-phenomenon

Green, Charles, Anthony Gardner (dir.), Biennials, Triennials and Documenta, the exhibitions that created contemporary art, Chichester, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.

Greenberg, Reesa, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Nairne (dir.), Thinking about Exhibitions, Routledge, 1996.

Filipovic, Elena, Marieke van Hal, Solveig Øvstebø (dir.), The Biennial Reader. An anthology of large-scale perennial exhibitions of contemporary art, Bergen, Kunsthall/Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2010.
==> textes de Milena M. Hoegsberg, Jakouba Konaté, Lawrence Alloway, Caroline A. Jones, Daniel Buren, Carlos Basualdo, Okwui Enwezor, Ranjit Hoskote, Gerardo Mosquera, Rafal Niemojewski u.a., John Clark, Bruce Ferguson.

Filipovic, Elena, Marieke Van Hal, Solveig Øbstebø (dir.), The Biennial Reader. The Bergen Biennial Conference, Bergen, Kunsthall/Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2010, 56 p.
==> textes relatifs aux discussions lors de la conférence éponyme ; complément au volume ci-dessus.

Jones, Caroline A., The Global Work of Art. World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience, Chicago and London, The University of Chicago Press, 2017.

Kompatsiaris, Panos, The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials: Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art, Londres, Routledge, 2017.

Vanderlinen, Barbara, et Elena Filipovic (dir.), The Manifesta Decade. Debates on Contemporary Art Exhibitions and Biennials in Post-War Europe, Roomade/MIT Press, 2005.

Une bibliographie récente figure à la fin de cet article :  Julia Bethwaite et Anni Kangas, « The Scales, Politics, and Political Economies of Contemporary Art Biennials », in Arts & International Affairs, vol. 2, no. 3, 2018, p. 73-90 [En ligne : https://theartsjournal.net/2018/02/07/the-scales-politics/ ]  

Voir aussi : Kompatsiaris, Panos « Curating Resistancies : Ambivalences and Potentials of Contemporary Art Biennials », Communication Culture & Critique, no. 7, 2014, p. 76-91.

 Version mise à jour le 13/11/2022.