The Biennale of Sydney has announced further artists and artworks forTen Thousand Suns, its 24th edition, which will be presented in venues across the city from 9 March to 10 June 2024.
The programme extends across the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Opera House, UNSW Galleries and at the iconic and recently restored White Bay Power Station.
Led by co-artistic directors Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero, the 24th Biennale centres celebrative practices, practices inspired by legacies of collective resistance, and those that signal a coming together to thrive in the face of injustice. The programme draws from multiple histories, voices and perspectives, to explore connected thematic threads, from the celebration of the resurgence of First Nations technologies and knowledges, to Queer resilience, and carnival traditions across the world. It explores the atomic era in particular—a time both of concentrated climate alteration through human exploitation and creative resistance to the threatened apocalypse—as a lineage for today’s moment of climate emergency.
The 2024 edition will feature ninety-six artists and collectives from fifty countries and territories including Aotearoa New Zealand.
Audiences will experience dynamic artworks, large-scale installations and site-specific projects by international artists such as Frank Bowling, Andrew Thomas Huang, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Pacific Sisters, Trevor Yeung, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Maru Yacco and Anne Samat, alongside Australian artists including Gordon Hookey, Tracey Moffatt & Gary Hillberg, Serwah Attafuah, William Yang, VNS Matrix, Kirtika Kain, Joel Sherwood Spring and Juan Davila.
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