Installation view of works by Badger Bates, Senior Craftsman Rex Greeno and son Dean Greeno, and John Kelly and Rena Shein, rīvus, 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales © the artists – Photo Christopher Snee
The Biennale of Sydney’s 23rd edition, titled rīvus, presents participant artworks and projects at: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Barangaroo including The Cutaway, Circular Quay, Information + Cultural Exchange, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, National Art School in partnership with Artspace, The Rocks and Walsh Bay Arts Precinct including Pier 2/3.
The 3-month long exhibition, which reflects on rivers and other bodies of water and the ecologies they sustain, echoes this free-flowing movement of people and exchange of ideas.
Situated along the waterways of the Gadigal and Burramattagal people, rīvus is articulated through a series of conceptual wetlands and imagined ecosystems populated by artworks, public programs, experiments, research and activisms, following the currents of meandering tributaries that expand into a delta of interrelated ideas.
rīvus presents over 330 artworks by 89 participants and 400 events as part of the 2022 edition, open to the public from 12 March to 13 June 2022.
Participating Indigenous Australian artists and collectives include:
Robert Andrew, Badger Bates, Casino Wake Up Time, Nicole Foreshew, Julie Gough, Rex Greeno and Dean Greeno, D Harding, Iltja Ntjarra, John Kelly and Rena Shein, Gail Mabo, Nuwandjali Marawili, Moogahlin Performing Arts with Aanmitaagzi Big Medicine Studio, National Committee of the Friends of Myall Creek Memorial and local First Nations Communities, Marjetica Potrč with Ray Woods, Teho Ropeyarn, Leanne Tobin, Torres Strait 8.
The Curatorium developing and realising the 23rd Biennale of Sydney (2022) includes:
- José Roca, Artistic Director, 23rd Biennale of Sydney
- Paschal Daantos Berry, Head of Learning and Participation, Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Anna Davis, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
- Hannah Donnelly, Producer, First Nations Programs, Information + Cultural Exchange (I.C.E.)
- Talia Linz, Curator, Artspace
SOURCE: Biennale of Sydney.