Martin Walde
21st Biennale of Sydney, Australia
16 March – 11 June 2018
The Biennale of Sydney was the first to be established in the Asia-Pacific region and is, alongside La Biennale di Venezia, the Bienal de São Paulo and documenta, one of the longest running exhibitions of its kind. The inaugural edition in 1973 heralded a new generation of biennials, with a primary focus on providing individual artists with a platform to express their ideas, rather than exhibiting their work as a representation of nationhood.
In 2018, the Biennale of Sydney’s 21st edition was curated by Mami Kataoka, director of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo. In collaboration with Phileas, Kataoka, the first Asian curator to be appointed Artistic Director of the Biennale, commissioned Austrian artist Martin Walde to produce one new work for the exhibition to be exhibited on Cockatoo Island.
Martin Walde (born 1957 in Innsbruck, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. Past solo exhibitions were held at the Museum Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Germany; Kunsthalle Rot, Burgrieden; Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna and Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel: His work was exhibited in the 3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale and in institutions such as the Belvedere Winterpalais, Vienna; Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice; Leopold Museum, Vienna; ZKM – Medienmuseum; Karlsruhe and SF MoMA, San Francisco.
