Melbourne International Biennial 1999

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 and 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 Pavilions 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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