Artists

Marcel Duchamp, Otobong Nkanga, Carsten Höller, Beverly Buchanan, Uriel Orlow, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Nicholas Hlobo, Alvaro Barrington, Mohammed Z. Rahman, Dan Lie, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Kader Attia, Alfredo Jaar, Walid Raad, Rose Salane, Theo Eshetu, Edouard Duval-Carrié, Kambui Olujimi, Sabian Baumann, Seyni AWA CAMARA, Georgina MAXIM, Kennedy YANKO, Pauline Oliveros, Guadalupe Maravilla, Gala Porras-Kim, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Manuel Mathieu, Carolina Caycedo, Laurie Anderson, Torkwase Dyson, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Wangechi Mutu, Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Khaled Sabsabi, Sammy Baloji, Léonard Pongo, Pio Abad, Fabrice Aragno, arms ache avid aeon, Ranti Bam, Éric Baudelaire, blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons & Kamaal Malak, Nick Cave, Annalee Davis, BuBu de la Madeleine, Dawn DeDeaux, Denniston Hill, Bonnie Devine, Godfried Donkor, rana elnemr, Rachel Fallon & Alice Maher, G.A.S. Foundation, Sofía Gallisá Muriente, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Leonilda González, Linda Goode Bryant, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Ayrson Heráclito, Clarissa Herbst & Dominique Rust, Sohrab Hura, Mohammed Joha, Michael Joo, Nina Katchadourian, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Sandra Knecht, Marcia Kure, Natalia Lassalle-Morillo & Gloria Morillo, Florence Lazar, Werewere Liking, lugar a dudas, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Alice Maher, Senzeni Marasela, Big Chief Demond Melancon, Avi Mograbi, Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI), Eustaquio Neves, Tammy Nguyen, Kaloki Nyamai, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Hagar Ophir, Ebony G. Patterson, Rajni Perera & Marigold Santos, Thania Petersen, Alan Phelan, Johannes Phokela, RAW Material Company, Tabita Rezaire, Guadalupe Rosales, Yo-E Ryou, Issa Samb, Amina Saoudi Aït Khay, Carrie Schneider, Hala Schoukair, Berni Searle, Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi, Wardha Shabbir, Yoshiko Shimada, Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser, Buhlebezwe Siwani, Cauleen Smith, Vera Tamari, Tsai Ming-Liang, Victoria-Idongesit Udondian, Celia Vásquez Yui, Kemang Wa Lehulere, Raed Yassin, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe, Billie Zangewa

Press release

The 61st International Art Exhibition is titled In Minor Keys and is curated by Koyo Kouoh. In Minor Keys stands as a collective score composed together with artists who have built universes of imagination — artists who work at the boundaries of form, and whose practices can be thought of as intricate melodies to be heard both collectively and on their own terms. The exhibition posits that radical shifts are taking place in the minor keys, and the artists, poets, performers, and filmmakers whom the exhibition convenes are grounded in their commitments to realising them. Artists are channels to and between the minor keys, and listening to, rather than speaking for them, is at the core of the curatorial conceit. In the minor keys, sound and sensation are grounding; they hold the cadences, melodies, and silences of resonant worlds that gather and create together a polyphonous assembly of art, convening and communing in convivial collectivity, beaming across the void of alienation and the crackle of conflict. In Minor Keys proposes a radical reconnection with art's natural habitat and role in society: the emotional, the visual, the sensory, the affective, the subjective — sequences of exhilarating journeys that address the sensate and the affective, inviting visitors to marvel, meditate, dream, revel, reflect, and commune in realms where time is not corporate property nor at the mercy of relentlessly accelerated productivity.