SITE Santa Fe Announces Theme and Artist List for 13th International Biennial

SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico has announced the theme and artist list for the upcoming 13th International Biennial, which will open next June.

The exhibition’s curator, Ekow Eshun, has chosen the title “There Are Other Worlds,” which posits that “other worlds already exist within the one we inhabit—whether they are hidden in plain sight, found in refusal of the status quo, or brought into being through acts of imagination,” according to a release.

Additionally, the exhibition will feature three sections: “Worlds Beyond,” which is partially informed by the Transcendental Painting Group; “World in Common,” which will look at how artists form community and kinship; and “Worlds Alive,” which looks at the interdependence between humans, animals, and plants.

More than 40 artists will exhibit in the International, which will be staged at SITE Santa Fe and at other venues around Santa Fe. Eshun has tapped Edgar Arceneaux, Firelei Báez, Raven Chacon, Lotus L. Kang, and Cauleen Smith to make new commissions for the exhibition.

Other artists who will feature in the exhibition include John Akomfrah, Frank Bowling, Olafur Elaisson, Jeffrey Gibson, Nan Goldin, Delcy Morelos, Eamon Ore-Giron, Rose Simpson, and Sandra Vásquez de la Horra.

In a statement, Eshun said, “Uniting these practices is a shared sense that the world is never singular or fixed, but continually reshaped by how we perceive, imagine, and relate to one another. There Are Other Worlds invites us to look beyond existing realities to consider how alternative ways of being might come into existence.”

The full artist list follows below.

John Akomfrah
Hurvin Anderson
Edgar Arceneaux
Firelei Báez
Sanford Biggers
Frank Bowling
Nikesha Breeze
Raven Chacon
Olafur Eliasson
Ellen Gallagher
Cy Gavin
Jeffrey Gibson
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
Louise Giovanelli
Nan Goldin
Rafik Greiss
Shilpa Gupta
Sky Hopinka
Klára Hosnedlová
Marguerite Humeau
Tomashi Jackson
Arthur Jafa
Julianknxx
Hayv Kahraman
Lotus L. Kang
Idris Khan
Bharti Kher
Christopher Kulendran Thomas
Cannupa Hanska Luger
Danielle Mckinney
Delcy Morelos
Michael Namingha
Eamon Ore-Giron
Mohammed Sami
Zineb Sedira
Rose Simpson
Emilija Škarnulytė
Cauleen Smith
Tavares Strachan
Emma Talbot
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
Carmen Winant