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Expressing his vision for the 13th Shanghai Biennale,
Jaque said: “It will be my priority that the city of
Shanghai is not only a venue but also a fundamental
actor in the discourse, content, and experience of
the Shanghai Biennale. I very much look forward to
working with agile artists to develop new productions
in response to specific sites. New commissions will
also be conceived with Shanghai-based groups,
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collectives, associations, or professionals, as a way to
assemble different kinds of sensitivity and knowledge
through art-making, and moreover, as a way to
empower the legacy the Biennale leaves for the social
ANDRÉS JAQUE -APPOINTED CHIEF CURATOR OF
tissues the city is constituted on.”
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After careful consideration and with the broad support
His work is part of the collection of MoMA in New
from the Academic Committee of the Power Station
York and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many
of Art, as well as receiving confirmation from the
others major museums around the world, and has
Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and
been exhibited in international biennales, highlights
Tourism, Spanish curator, architect, and writer Andrés
including Venice, Sao Paulo and Gwanju; he has also
Jaque has been appointed the Chief Curator of the
developed projects with many of the most important
13th Shanghai Biennale. The exhibition will be held at
cultural organizations around the world, including
the Power Station of Art from November 13, 2020 to
Victoria & Albert Museum, Het Nieuwe Instituut,
March 28, 2021.
London Design Museum, MoMA PS1, Columbia
University, Princeton University. His publications
Born in Spain in 1971, Andrés Jaque currently lives in
include: ‘Superpowers of Scale’ (2019), ‘Transmaterial
New York and works as the Director of the Advanced
Politics’ (2017), ‘Transmaterial /Calculable’ (2017),
Architectural Design Program at Columbia University.
‘PHANTOM. Mies as Rendered Society’ (2013).
In 2013, Jaque founded the Office for Political
Innovation, based in New York and Madrid, which
ABOUT THE SHANGHAI BIENNALE
operates at the intersection between architecture
Launched in 1996, the Shanghai Biennale is not
and art, focusing on the exploration of how different
only the first international biennial of contemporary
bodies, technologies, and environments converge to
art in mainland China but also one of the most
form interspecies alliances.
influential art events in Asia. In 2012, the Power
Station of Art became the organizer and permanent
Cooking Sections (Collective), Traces of Escapees, 2021, Removal of salmon venue of the Shanghai Biennale. From ‘Open Space’
from food establishment, introduction of CLIMAVORE dish, 4-channel film in 1996, to ‘Inheritance and Exploration’ in 1998,
installation, originally commissioned by SALT Beyo″lu, Istanbul, in 2021,
installation view at the 13th Shanghai Biennale PHASE 03: AN EXHIBITION, ‘Spirit of Shanghai’ in 2000, ‘Urban Creation’ in
2021. Courtesy Power Station of Art, photo by Chen Ha 2002, ‘Techniques of the Visible’ in 2004, ‘Hyper
Design’ in 2006, ‘Translocalmotion’ in 2008,
‘Rehearsal’ in 2010, ‘Reactivation’ in 2012, ‘Social
Factory’ in 2014, ‘Why Not Ask Again’ in 2016,
and ‘Proregress’ in 2018, the Biennale has always
maintained Shanghai as its primary locus, upholding
the mission of supporting academic and cultural
innovation, while continuously tracking social
evolution and trends in knowledge production in
a global context with an open view. Gathering in
Shanghai every two years, the Biennale has also
become a large-scale platform for the international
presence and exchange of contemporary art.

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