Borås Konstmuseum

Borås Art Biennial


Borås Art Biennial 2021

In 2021 Borås was marking the 400th anniversary of its founding with a jubilee celebration. In conjunction with the festivities, the Borås International Sculpture Biennale changed name to the Borås Art Biennial and launched new partnerships with the Textile Museum of Sweden and Borås TME to engage the entire city in a festival of art.

The Biennial was open between May 29 and September 26, 2021.

The 2021 Biennial was curated by Stockholm-based Ulrika Flink and London-based Amanprit Sandhu. The Biennial invited Swedish and international artists to consider what new forms of collective action might look like in today’s world and to explore what constitutes a city’s emotional relationships and social structures. The artworks will be exhibited in public spaces throughout the downtown area, along the Viskan River, and at the Borås Art Museum and the Textile Museum of Sweden.

 

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Artists:

Akinbode Akinbiyi (Germany/UK)

Filipa César (Portugal/Germany)

Åsa Cederqvist (Sweden)

Renée Green (US)

Shilpa Gupta (India)

Janet Echelman (US)

Salad Hilowle (Sweden)

Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn (Canada/Sweden)

Nina Mangalanayagam (Sweden)

Angelica Mesiti (Australia/France)

Santiago Mostyn (Sweden/US)

Jin Mustafa (Sweden)

Joe Namy (Lebanon/USA/UK)

Åsa Norberg & Jennie Sundén (Sweden)

Okidoki Arkitekter (Sweden)

Nolan Oswald Dennis (South Africa)

Hardeep Pandhal (UK)

Tobias Sjöberg (Sweden)

Anders Sunna (Sápmi/Sweden)

Qalam (Sweden)

Morgan Quaintance (UK)

James Webb (South Africa)

Samson Young (Hong Kong)

Rehana Zaman (UK)

Christine Ödlund (Sweden)

A regional collaboration was taking place in Vårgårda and Bollebygd during the biennial. The project was called Moving Out The Art Biennial moves out and was supported by Boråsregionen.

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About the curators:

Ulrika Flink has curated exhibitions throughout Sweden and abroad in recent years. Her latest exhibition in Borås, Somewhere in Between at the Borås Art Museum, which concluded in January 2020, explored the landscape’s memory, national identity, and the role of myth in the writing of history.

Flink is currently working in Hökarängen, outside Stockholm, as Artistic Director for Konsthall C, a leading force in a socially engaged art scene where innovation and curatorial and artistic experiments take center stage. Fink also works as Artistic Director for the arts advocacy organization Konstfrämjandet Stockholm. Internationally, she has curated for prestigious exhibitions such as Momentum 9 in 2017, an important arena for contemporary Nordic art.

Flink has long experience of working with art locally, nationally, and internationally, including institutions such as Tensta Konsthall, Autograph ABP (London), the Tate Modern, and Bonniers Konsthall. She has a master’s degree in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London.


Amanprit Sandhu is a curator and writer based in London. As a freelance curator, she focuses on art for public spaces, performance art, and methods of collaborating. She was one of the founders of the curatorial collective DAM Projects (2014–2020), whose work brought attention to underexposed artists, art scenes, discourses, and socio-political debates.

Her previous positions include: Interim Curator at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire; Public Programme and Residencies Curator at Camden Art Centre; Projects Curator for Art on the Underground; Performance Curator for Art13 and Art14 in London; Project Manager for the Folkestone Triennial in 2012 and 2014; Frieze Foundation Projects and Assistant Curator for the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art.

She is a guest lecturer in the undergraduate program at Chelsea College of Arts and a guest instructor in the graduate program in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art. From 2017 through 2020 she was on the Board of Directors for Arts Catalyst.


Portaits of Amanprit Sandhu and Ulrika Flink

Amanprit Sandhu and Ulrika Flink (photo by Josefin Cowie)

Opening hours

Monday closed
Tuesday 12–17
Wednesday 12–17
Thursday 12–19
Friday 12–16
Saturday 12–16
Sunday 12–16

Introductions
Thursdays 12.30 and 17.30

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Contact

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Kulturhuset
P. A. Halls Terrass, Borås

Telephone
0734 32 73 86 (during opening hours)

Eva Eriksdotter, Museum Director
033 35 76 81

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