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Retrospective: 2009

2010   2009   2008

20 December 2008 -
20 February 2009

Cairo Biennale
Egypt

Commissioner: Ehab Ellaban
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5 March -
3 May

2nd Canary Biennial for Art, Architecture and Landscape
Canary Islands, Spain

Director: Juan Manuel Palerm Salazar
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19 March -
16 May

9th Sharjah Biennial
United Arab Emirates

Director: Hoor Al-Qasimi
Curator: Jack Persekian
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27 March -
30 April

10th Havana Biennial
Cuba

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18 April -
28 June

2nd Triennial Poli/Gráfica
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Artistic director: Adriano Pedrosa. Curators: Julieta González, Jens Hoffmann, Beatriz Santiago.
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24 April -
25 May

2nd Biennial of the End of the World
Usuhaia / Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
and other places

Curator: Alfons Hug
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1 - 31 May

Biennale Montréal
Canada

Director: Claude Gosselin; curator: Scott Burnham
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2 May -
21 June

CAPE 09
Cape Town, South Africa

Diverse projects, different curators.
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9 May -
11 July

Open Source Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Curator: Helga Lasschuijt
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24 May -
27 September

2nd Thessaloniki Biennale
Greece

Curators: Olabisi Silva, Gabriela Salgado, Syrago Tsiara
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7 June -
22 November

53rd Venice Biennale
International art exhibition
Italy

Curator: Daniel Birnbaum
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15 June -
4 October

2nd Athens Biennial
Greece
Press preview: 13 - 14 June

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26 July -
13 September

4th Echigo-Tsumari Triennale
Japan

General Director: Fram Kitagawa
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8 August -
11 October

5th VentoSul Biennial
Curitiba, Brazil

General curators: Ticio Escobar & Leonor Amarante
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5 September -
23 November

4th Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale
Japan

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
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12 September -
8 November

11th Istanbul Biennial
Turkey

Curators: What, How & for Whom / WHW
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16 September 2009
- 3 January 2010

10th Lyon Biennial
France

Artistic director: Thierry Raspail. Curator: Hou Hanru
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17 September -
20 September

Bergen Biennial Conference
Norway, Bergen Kunsthall

Organizers: Solveig Øvstebø (Director Bergen Kunsthall), Elena Filipovic, Marieke Van Hal
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18 September -
22 October

Tirana International Contemporary Art Biannual
Albania

Curators: Joa Ljungberg, Edi Muka, STEALTH.unlimited, Corinne Diserens
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5 October -
5 December

1st Chile Triennial
Santiago de Chile

General curator: Ticio Escobar
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16 October -
29 November

7th Mercosur Biennial
Porto Alegre, Brazil

Artistic direction: Victoria Noorthoorn, Camilo Yáñez
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22 October -
4 December

10th Cuenca Biennial
Ecuador

General curator: José Manuel Noceda
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7 November -
7 December

Bamako Encounters, 8th African Photography Biennial
Bamako, Mali

Artistic direction: Michket Krifa, Laura Serani
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5 December 2009 -
5 April 2010

APT 6 - Asia-Pacific Triennial
Brisbane, Australia

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art
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December 2009 -
January 2010

2nd Animamix Biennial
In Taipei (Taiwan), Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou (China)

Curators: Victoria Lu, Maple Yujie Lin, Pan Qing, Liu Chunfeng, Huang Yun, Zhang Jiaping
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17 December 2009 -
31 January 2010

25th Alexandria Biennial
Egypt

Curator: Mohamed Abouelnaga
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