PARTICIPANTS

Kutlug Ataman www.saatleriayarlamaenstitusu.com
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with Twelve(2003), shown at GöteborgKonsthall.
Born in 1961 in Turkey, lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey and London, United Kingdom. Ataman studied at UCLA in Los Angeles and has pursued successful careers in both feature film-making and contemporary art. His works primarily document the lives of the marginalized individual, examining the way in which people create and recreate their identities. In 2003, the London Observer named him ‘artist of the year’ and in 2004 he was short-listed for the prestigious Turner prize. Ataman’s movies include The Serpent’s Tale (Karanlik Sular) (1994); Lola+Bilidikid (1999); and 2 Girls (2005). Solo exhibitions 2009: Ottoman Redux, Dresden, Germany; Women Who Wear Wigs, Little Theatre of Women Who Wear Wigs, Little Theatre of Gestures, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; L’Eau, Grand Palais, Paris, France; 1+1=1, Le Mois de la Photo à Montreal, Canada; What a Wonderful World, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Göteborg, Sweden; 1+1 = 1. New Works, New Horizons, Istanbul Modern, Turkey; Gestures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland; Mesopotamian Dramaturgies; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria. 2008: Paradise and Küba, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. 2007: Paradise, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA. 2006: De-Regulation with the Work of Kutlug Ataman, MuHKA, Belgium. 2005: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.

Rosa Barba www.rosabarba.com
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with TheEmpiricalEffect(2009), at Röda Sten.
Born in Italy 1972, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Solo exhibitions 2010: Outwardly, Carlier | Gebauer, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming); Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Foundation Galleria Civica-Center of Research on Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy (forthcoming). 2009: Prospectif Cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Solaris, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy. 2008: Vertiginous Mapping, a web project, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA; Villa Romana, Florence, Italy; Outwardly from Earth’s Center, Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden. Group exhibitions 2009: Italics. Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution, Chicago, USA; Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennial, Italy; Solaris, Gió Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy; Fantasies of the Tropics, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum, New York, USA. 2008: Rooms look back, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; 50 Moons of Saturn. Torino Triennale, Italy; Degrees of Remove: Landscape/Affect. Sculpture Center, Long Island, USA; Italics, Italian Art, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy.

Cecilia Edefalk
Born 1954 in Smedby, Norrköping, Sweden, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Studies at Konstfack and Royal Art Academy, Stockholm. Solo exhibitions: 2009 Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Nationalmuseum Stockholm, Double White Venus… Minne, brandstrom stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden. 2008 Änglarna, S:t Jacobs kyrka, Kungsträdgården, Stockholm, Sweden, CECI, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden. 2007 Being within the Being, Ersta Konsthall c/o Nationalmuseum, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. 2006 Cecilia Edefalk, Eine Ausstellung der Kunsthalle zu Kiel in der Antikensammlung, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Baby, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland, Focus: Cecilia Edefalk, Art Institute, Chicago, USA. 2005 Messenger / Budbärare, Lunds Domkyrka, Lund, Sweden, Nya verk, Norrköping Museum of Art, Norrköping, Sweden, Sketch for a Painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Ich Bin Tot, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden. 2004 Sketch for a Painting, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000 To view the painting from within - Untitled, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden. 1999 Cecilia Edefalk, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, The Be-girl / Bi-flickan, IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden.

Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk
Artistic Director Acting, University of Östfold, Norway. Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University. She has been active as an artist, curator, writer and teacher within both the performing arts and visual arts. She trained as a performer at École Jacques Lecoq in Paris between 1990-92, and worked as performer and director in the independent theatre scene in Norway until 1997, when she followed up an academic career. Between 1996-99 Eeg-Tverbakk was the artistic and administrative director of Forum for Exchange Between Performing Artists (f.u.s.k.). In 2002, Eeg-Tverbakk was the director of Oslo Kunsthall, an independent project gallery. In 2003 she held a position as Consultant of Information at the National Touring Exhibitions Norway, and between 2004-05 she was head of Interpretation and Information at the site-specific project Artistic Interruptions - Art in Nordland. As a scholar and performance theorist Eeg-Tverbakk has taught in national art schools, written articles for the magazines Morgenbladet, Billedkunst and KUNST. Eeg-Tverbakk is the editor of the book Dans i samtiden (Spartacus 2006), and is working on a book about the Norwegian performance group Baktruppen.

Taru Elfving
An independent curator and writer based in London (UK) and Turku (FIN). She has written extensively on the figure of the girl as well as the encounter between art works and their viewers, and recently completed a PhD with a focus on Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s video installations at Goldsmiths College. Her curatorial practice focuses on artistic research and exchange (such as ongoing Centrifugal project between Belfast, Helsinki and Zagreb) as well as site-specific exhibitions internationally. She co-curated recently LIAF 2008 at Lofoten Norway, and is currently directing Contemporary Art Archipelago for Turku 2011 Capital of Culture. She also teaches in art academies in Scandinavia and the UK.

Tim Etchells www.timetchells.com
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with City Changes(2008), Göteborgs Konsthall
Born in 1962, lives and works in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Solo exhibitions 2009: The DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, UK. Group Exhibitions 2008: Speaking Out Loud, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Yes, No & Other Options, Art Sheffield Contemporary Art Forum, Sheffield, UK; ArtFutures, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK; Skipping the Page, The Centre for Book Arts, New York, USA; Nothing Good House, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Lendkai, Austria, Manifesta 7. The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy. 2007: 100 People and 3 People Video installation, The Gallery at Sketch, London, UK. 2006: Old Habits Die Hard, Sparwasser HQ c/o Trafo Galeria, Berlin, Germany.

Tone Hansen
Tone Hansen (b. 1970) is a curator working in Oslo, Norway. Hansen holds a position as curator at the Henie Onstad Art Centre since 2008, where she has curated several shows including Reality Effects: When reality is put to work in 2008, Modern Art (with Ane Hjort Guttu) and To be Heard is to be Seen. She held a research position at the Oslo National Academy of Art in Oslo from 2003-2008. Publications include the 2007 publication Megamonstermuseum; How to Imagine a Museum of Today? As well as the anthologies, The New Administration of Aesthetics and What Does Public Mean? Art as a Participant in the Public Arena in 2007. She was head of the Young Artists Society (UKS) in Oslo between 2002 and 2005.

Mats Hjelm www.matshjelm.info
Contributes to GöteborgBiennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with BlackNation(2008) 94 min shown as part of the Film Programme at Bio Capitol.
Born 1959, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Solo exhibitions: 2007 Brändström & Stene gallery, Stockholm, Sweden 2005 Röda Sten, Göteborg, Sweden, Vox/Historiska Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, Curator: Celia Prado, Kulturhuset K1, Stockholm, Sweden, Curators: CuratorLab Konstfack 2003 Galerie im Taxispalais, Insbruck, Austria, BildMuseet, Umeå, Sweden, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden, Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden 2002 Index -The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden 2001 Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden 2000 Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Gallery 21, Malmö, Sweden, Gallery Index, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999 Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden, 1998 Gallery Kari Kenetti, Helsinki, Finland 1997 Gallery Index, Stockholm, Sweden: White Flight 1996 Gallery Enkehuset, Stockholm, Sweden: Karma 2000 with Mikael Lindgren 1993 Statens Konstråd, Sweden: Swedish Weapons public commission.

Teddy Hultberg
Teddy Hultberg lives in Stockhom, where he is active as author, critic and free researcher. His longstanding interest in sound art is reflected in regular contributions to books, newspapers and magazines in the field. He has earned critical praise for his lectures and radioprogrammes on sound poetry, text-sound composition, radio art and contemporary art music. His published books includes: Literally Speaking, Sound poetry & Text-sound Composition, 1993; Fylkingen: Ny musik & Intermediakonst,1994; Öyvind Fahlström on the Air, 1999; Sound Art - The Swedish Scene, 2001; Elis Eriksson - 100 år av åtlydnader, 2006.

Truls Lie
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway, Editor of DOX, European Documentary Network. Film critic at Le Monde Diplomatique and dokumentar.no www.dokumentar.no. Founder and Editor and publisher of Le Monde diplomatique/Norway 2003-2008, Editor and publisher at Morgenbladet, Norway´s firts daily newspaper. Educated at New School University, Universitetet i Oslo, University of California, Berkeley.

Mikela Lundahl
Born 1965, lives and works in Göteborg, Sweden. Researcher and Lecturer, at Department of Literature, History of Ideas, and Religion, Göteborg university, Head of Museion, Göteborg university. On the Editorial board of Glänta. Ph.D. in History of Ideas, Vad är en neger? Negritude, essentialism, strategi, 2005. On the editorial board of Glänta magazine. Member of interdisciplinary network Tes Antites. Papers: Negritude: legacy and present relevance, Barbados, 2006. From orientalism to postcoloniality vid Södertörns högskola,2006. Lectures at Rethinking Nordic Colonialism, NIFCA, at Konstfack on Postcolonial theory. Multiculturalism, post-colonial theory, How can we better handle differences in our modern world? Nordic feminist philosophy symposium, Reyjkjavik, Kønsforskningskonference 2001 Vad är det vi gör när vi talar om den andre, Mångkulturellt centrum, Fittja gård Demokrati och rasism - att göra det osynliga synligt med titeln Vad är det vi gör när vi talar om den andre.

Eric M Nilsson
Born in Sweden 1935, lived in Belgium until 1951, lives and works in Roslagen, Sweden. Filmmaker, documentary. Studies to becoma a filmmaker at IDHEC, Paris, worked at SVT, Swedish Television. Rich production of more than 100 films, most of them produced for SVT. Film prizes: The Grant of Bo Widerberg 1998-07-30 Guldantennen 1996-05, Dubbla Verkligheter Guldbagge 1978. Documentary films directed (selection) : I Tunisien (1967), Ormgård (1967), Att vara eller inte få vara (1969), Röster från Stora Kopparberg % (1970), En svensk tiger (1970), XPZ-bibliotek (1972), XPZ (1974), Elektrostålugn nr. 2 (1976), Vad som helst - till synes… (1977), +-0 (1978), Brutal (1980), Kvällen före dagen efter (1980), Dubbla verkligheter (1995), Vad tänker du på? Ingenting (2000)

Cristiana Perrella
Born in 1965, based in Rome, Italy, curator of the Contemporary Arts Programme at the British School in Rome, where she has developed a series of events focused on the dialogue between the British and Italian art scenes. Perella has curated several one-man shows and published a number of monographs. Cristiana Perrella saw Kutlug Ataman’s first work Semiha Unplugged in 1997 and has followed his career ever since. In 2006 Ataman’s work was included in a Perrella-curated show and in 2007 Perella invited him for a residency program at the British School in Rome.

Sinziana Ravini
Born in 1976, a critic and curator based in Paris and Göteborg. Ravini is a regular contributor to Swedish daily newspapers Göteborgs Posten and Aftonbladet and to magazines like Artforum.com, Frog, SITE and Glänta.and contributed to catalogues and anthologies. She was as an associated editor of Paletten Art Magazine between 2004 and 2007. She was also guest researcher at Centre Pompidou in 2008. Curated shows: In Search of the Lost Self, Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm), Playground Revolutions, the Romainian Cultural Institute (Stockholm) and Microfictions, Oro Gallery (Göteborg). Currently working as a guest theacher at The School of Photography in Göteborg. She holds an M.A. in Art History at Göteborg University and a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Heidelberg, thesis Goethes Myths of Creation.

Georg  Schöllhammer
Author and curator, based in Vienna, Austria. Founding editor of Springerin. 2005-2007, Editor-in-Chief of Documenta 12, initiator and head of documenta 12 magazines. Schöllhammer will co-curate Manifesta 8 in 2010. In addition Schöllhammer is chair of The Július Koller Society (Bratislava) and of transit.at and he heads the research groups Local Modernities (Frankfurt/Berlin) and Sweet Sixties (Istanbul/Vienna). Schöllhammer, who studied architecture, art history and philosophy has published extensively on fine arts, architecture and art theory. He has curated shows and lectured at art institutions, universities and colleges around the world.

Jörgen Svensson www.jorgensvensson.se
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with AboutDocumentation(2009) and TheWorldNextDoor(2008), at the GöteborgCity Museum
Born in 1958 in Sweden, lives and works in Göteborg, Sweden. Solo exhibitions 2006: Three American Artists, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden (Film screening). Group Exhibitions 2008: Behind Every Great Fortune There is a Crime, Neighbourhood Secrets, Stavanger, Norway; The World Next Door, Manifesta 7 Bolzano, Italy. 2007: Trigg, Gävle Art Center, Gävle, Sweden. 2005: It Is What It Is - Is It That It Is, Alma Löv Museum, Ö.Ämtervik, Sweden; PRESSROOM, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden. 2000: Amateur/Eldsjäl, Göteborg Museum of Art, Sweden; Public safety; Skoghall, Sweden. 1999: Refusalon, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, USA. 1998: Projections, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Pusan, Korea. 1997: NORDICA (Nordic Contemporary Art), Helsinki, Finland. 1994: The Art and The Reality. Nordic Contemporary Art, Riksutställningar, Sweden.

Fiona Tan www.frithstreetgallery.com
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with Tomorrow(2005), shown at GöteborgCity Museum.
Born in 1966 in Indonesia, lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Solo exhibitions 2010 (Forthcoming): Rise and Fall, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC, USA. 2009: Disorient, Dutch Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Italy; Freer & Sackler Galleries, Washington DC, USA. 2008: Island; Birger Jarlsgatan 18A, Stockholm, Sweden. Le Carré, La Chapelle du Genêtell Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château-Gontier, France; Provenance, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2007: News from the Near Future, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan; 80 Days, Pinakothek der Moderne, Münich, Germany. A Lapse of Memory, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK. Time and Again, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden. 2006: Short Voyages, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada; Mirrormaker, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark. 2005 Countenance (and other works), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Alexander Vaindorf www.alexandervaindorf.com
Contributes to GöteborgInternational Biennial for Contemporary Art 2009 with PresentUnfinished/ EUR Chronicle(2009), shown at Röda Sten
Born in 1965 in CCCP, lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Solo exhibitions 2008: Useless/Open Letter to the Government #2 (Will You Be Profitable?), Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, Austria. 2007: Fallrise, UQBAR Gallery, Berlin, Germany; Falling Out of the Cold, 300m3 Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2006: Falling Out of the Cold, Konstlerhaus Buchsenhausen Innsbruck, Austria; Fallrise, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia. Group Exhibitions 2008: The Rest of Now. Manifesta 7, European Biennial, Bolzano, Italy; Transformations of History or Parallel Histories, Gyumri International Biennial, Armenia; Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded, Art Laboratory Berlin, Germany; Urban Concerns, The Johannesburg Art Gallery, South Africa; Don’t Worry - Be Curious!, 4th Ars Baltica Triennial, Andrejsala, Riga. NGBK - Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst Berlin, Germany. 2007: There is no border … no bor

Malene Vest Hansen
Born 1965, lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. Art Historian, Lecturer, critic and writer. Currently working on a PhD on Sophie Calle, 2006 education at Danmarks School of Journalism, 2002 Ph.d Institute of Art History at University of Copenhagen, 1997-1999 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York, 1995 Cand.phil in Art History at University of Copenhagen, 2005-2008 Lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, København, Researcher at the Institute of Art History, 2002-05 University of Copenhagen, financed by Statens Humanistiske Forskningsråd, 2001-2002 External lecturer, Institute of Art History, University of Copenhagen, 1990-1998 Art critic at Danish daily newspapers Dagbladet and Politiken.

Jan Verwoert
Verwoert is an art critic based in Berlin, Germany. He has been a tutor and leader of the Imagined Communities seminar at PZI since 2005. He is a contributing editor to Frieze magazine and also writes regularly about contemporary art for such art magazines as Afterall, Metropolis M, Springerin and artists’ catalogues. He is author of Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous (One Work), (MITPress/Afterall Books, 2006) Verwoert teaches at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and at the Royal College of Art in London.