The third edition of the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Manifesta, will take
place in the summer of 2000 (23 June to 24 September) in Ljubljana.
Manifesta is a growing network for young professionals and an exhibition held every
two years in a different city in Europe. Both the network and an exhibition are equally
important components of this nomadic event.
Manifesta offers a platform for emerging artists, on the basis of a networking
organisation which is able to respond flexibly to the artistic and cultural developments.
The most obvious aspect of Manifesta's inbuilt flexibility is the fact that a fresh
concept is developed on each occasion, by the team of outside curators, working in
close consultation with representatives of the host city. In other words, each new
edition aims to establish a close dialogue between a specific cultural and artistic
situation and the broader context of international contemporary art. At the same time,
however, Manifesta provides continuity through its ever-expanding network of
contacts.
The curators of Manifesta 3 are Francesco Bonami (Chicago - New York), Ole Bouman
(Rotterdam) Mária Hlavajová (Bratislava / Amsterdam) and Kathrin Rhomberg (Vienna).
Manifesta 3 is a project of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the
City of Ljubljana and takes place under the International Foundation Manifesta,
registered in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It will be produced by Cankarjev dom,
Ljubljana's major Cultural and Congress Centre. The project will be co-ordinated by
Igor Zabel, Senior Curator at the Moderna galerija - Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana,
and managed by Teja Aliè, Project Manager at Cankarjev dom.
Curators:
FRANCESCO BONAMI, Manilow Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago and the curator of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte, Turin,
lives in Chicago and New York;
OLE BOUMAN, curator and writer on architecture and art and editor in chief of the
magazine Archis, published in Rotterdam;
http://www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl/engels/agenda/archief/tegotec.htm
http://www.nai.nl/www_riq/colophon_ole.html
http://www.archis.org
MÃRIA HLAVAJOVÃ, curator based in Amsterdam and Bratislava, former Director of the
Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Bratislava and Faculty member at the Center for
Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York;
KATHRIN RHOMBERG, curator based in Vienna, Curator of Exhibitions at the Vienna
Secession.
address:
Manifesta 3
Cankarjev Dom
Pre-ernova 10
SI - 1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
phone: (+386 61) 1767143, 210956
fax: (+386 61) 217431