Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The Gwangju Biennale Foundation has named Nicolas Bourriaud as artistic director for the 15th edition, opening September 2024. Bourriaud plans a discourse-driven exhibition exploring human spaces, experiences, and borders, aiming to reconsider art's role in post-pandemic recovery. He previously curated the Tate Triennial 2009, Taipei Biennale 2014, and Istanbul Biennale 2019. Bourriaud co-founded the Palais de Tokyo (1999–2006) and served as Gulbenkian Curator at Tate Britain until 2010. In 2022, he launched the cooperative Radicants and curated its debut show, Planet B: Climate Change and the New Sublime, in Venice. His books include Relational Aesthetics (1998), Postproduction (2002), The Radicant (2009), and Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene (2020).