5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art held from June 23 until September 30, 2015, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Biennale features a number of exhibitions and a performance festival. Among the conteporary art exhibitions is a ‘queer\/gendered’ one: \u201cIdent-alter-ity\u201d and in conjunction with this exhibitions there was a symposium on June 18, 2015: Ident-alter-ity, Gender trouble in Contemporary Art. This symposium was drawing its central keys of reference from ‘the politics of gender representation in art, contemporary theory and activist experience’.<\/p>\n
The concept of otherness, of the strange or the different is inherent within our identity. In an age that has seen a rise in neo-conservatism, racist, homophobic, lesbophobic and transphobic behaviours, attacks against women and discrimination based on race, nationality, sexual orientation and gender identity, Ident-alter-ity is a group exhibition addressing the issues of gender and self-determination. <\/p>\n
Participating artists: Lynda Benglis (US), Ursula Biemann (CH), Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz<\/a> (CH-DE \/ DE), Marianne Darlen Solhaugstrand (NO), Yevgeniy Fiks (RU\/US), Kostis Fokas (GR\/UK), Hector de Gregorio (UK), Igor Grubic (HR), David Hockney (UK), Deborah Kelly & Tina Fiveash<\/a> (AU), Majida Khattari (MA\/FR), Carlos Motta (CO\/US), Slava Mogutin (RU\/US), Natasha Papadopoulou (GR), Antonis Protopatsis (GR), Wolfgang Tillmans (DE\/UK), Boryana Rossa \u2013 Oleg Mavromatti (BG \/ US-RU), Milica Tomic (RS).<\/p>\n Duration: June 17 \u2013 July 31, 2015 Read more: Jeremiah Day and Boudry\/ Lorenz at Thessaloniki Biennale<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art held from June 23 until September 30, 2015, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The Biennale features a number of exhibitions and a performance festival. Among the conteporary art exhibitions is a ‘queer\/gendered’ one: \u201cIdent-alter-ity\u201d and in conjunction with this exhibitions there was a symposium on June…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[923,497,498,381],"class_list":["post-13526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queer-art","tag-deborah-kelly","tag-pauline-boudry","tag-renate-lorenz","tag-tina-fiveash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\nVenue: Thessaloniki City Hall
\nCurators of \u201cIdent-alter-ity\u201d: Theodore Markoglou, Art Historian \u2013 Curator at the State Museum of Contemporary Art and Syrago Tsiara, Art Historian \u2013 Director of the Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki.<\/p>\nRelated Link<\/h2>\n