1st WASBiennale – BE MY GUEST. Autumn 2016

During the 1st WASBiennale, more than 70 art shows and various art events took place in artist studios, apartment galleries and even private spaces all over the world over the world at the same time.

Geography of the 1st WASBiennale includes most European countries, the UK, Russia, USA, Australia and South Korea.

The headline of the first edition of WASBiennale: BE MY GUEST is bringing the idea of transforming boundaries, showing a decreasing approach of white-cube-based art space and inviting viewers to take a step into the intimate artist’s zone.

Letting anyone in the artist’s studio, as well as inviting someone in your private space is a gesture of high confidence. Showing art in such format, involving the audience in direct dialogue, helping to reduce a gap and provide a new scale of artist/viewer communication.

The overall Biennale topic BE MY GUEST is beyond artistic representation, based on the contemporary socio-political situation in Europe and the World. Regardless individual artist statements, this issue is affecting almost everybody, by being part of a global informational field.

The programme is showing artistic and curatorial practice with somewhat different backgrounds, approaches and goals. But what unites all those projects is the search for distinct forms of representation.

AMSTERDAM
(NETHERLANDS)

21 October
The new cemetery
21 – 28 Oct. 2016

4 November
Untitled
4 – 11 Nov. 2016

ANN ARBOR
MI (USA)

23 October
Adjust Maadi
23 Oct. – 18 Nov. 2016

ATHENS
(GREECE)

30 September
Group Exhibition Of My Selves
28 Sep. – 5 Oct. 2016

 
BERLIN
(GERMANY)

17 November
Layover Dreams
17 – 20 Nov. 2016

BIELEFELD
(GERMANY)          

18 November
Call me Tomorrow            
18 – 21 Nov. 2016

BRATISLAVA
(SLOVAKIA)

22 November
Moments
22 – 30 Nov. 2016

BRISTOL
(UK)

25 November     
Dangerous Childhoods
25 – 27 Nov. 2016

BUCHAREST
(ROMANIA)

30 September
Plastic… art object
30 Sep. – 30 Nov. 2016

4 October
Another Word For Desire
4 Oct. – 5 Nov. 2016

CAMBRIDGE
(UK)

11 November
Bartlet’s People – Part I
11 – 25 Nov. 2016

CLUJ-NAPOCA
(ROMANIA)

12 October
Things Are Temporary, But The Evidence Of Their Exist
12– 21 Oct. 2016

27 October
Traces of Identity
27 Oct. – 3. Nov. 2016

СRAB MEADOW
NORTHPORT, NY (USA)

22 October         
Eighty Miles a Day                             
One-day event

DALLAS, TX
(USA)

3 October
Legatum
3 – 31 Oct. 2016

KIEV
(UKRAINE)

22 October
Crystal Dream
22 – 29 Oct. 2016

12 November
Paid color
12 – 19 Nov. 2016

26 November
Active Countermeasures Station
26 Nov. – 3 Dec. 2016

 

KREMS
(AUSTRIA)

10 October 2016
Warscapes aka Warrior’s Portrait
10 – 22 Oct. 2016

LONDON
(UK)

3 October            
Marco Lusini: The Colours of the Human Soul          
3 – 10 Oct. 2016

LOS ANGELES
CA (USA)

5 October
An Intimate Affair. Be Our Guest if you Dare
One-day event

MADRID
(SPAIN)

22 October         
GO, GO, GO!         
22 Oct., 12 & 19 Nov. 2016

MOSCOW
(RUSSIA)

1 October
Lives And Works In This House
One-day event

2 October            
How to become a good and even holy person, or Antennas and semicircles
2, 7, 9 Oct. 2016

28 October         
My Stupid Childhood         
One-day event

22 November     
Art for Neighbors
22 – 25 Nov. 2016

FABRIKA.CCI – Special Participant of WASBiennale

14 September
Reconstruction 4.0
14 Sep. – 5 Oct. 2016

14 September
I dreamed sheet lightning other night

14 Sep. – 21 Oct. 2016

5 October
A Studio Is A Studio Is A Studio
5 Oct  – 31 Dec. 2016

27 September
Dashboard
27 Sep. – 21 Oct. 2016

16 November
Hide And Seek
16 Nov. – 4 Dec. 2016

21 December
Vladimirka – 2, Or Emergency Exit 2016
21 Dec. 2016 – 20 Jan. 2017

NEW YORK, NY
(USA)

28 October
Breach: Cloud Conversations 4
21 Oct. – 20 Nov. 2016

2 November
I Am New Here
2 Nov. 2016 – 2 Feb. 2017

PERM
(RUSSIA)

16 November
The house where
16 – 30 Nov. 2016

SDEI TRUMOT
VALLEY OF SPRINGS (ISRAEL)

17 October
Penetrating The Space
17, 18, 19 Oct. 2016

STOCKHOLM
(SWEDEN)             

1 October
Cenáculo FA+
1 Oct. – 26 Nov. 2016

 
St. PETERSBURG
(RUSSIA)

1 October
NowI
1 – 30 Oct. 2016

TAMPERE
(FINLAND)

25 October
Competition
25 Oct. – 30 Oct. 2016

TEL-AVIV
(ISRAEL)

24 November
The Sensitive Plant TLV
One-day event

TOGLIATTI
(RUSSIA)

22 October
19 November
26 November
vNORE

VIENNA
(AUSTRIA)

1 October
Before You Start
2 – 31 Oct. 2016

16 November
Squaring The Circle
17 – 20 Nov. 2016

17 November
Sonnenbrand
17 – 19 Nov. 2016

VILNIUS
(LITHUANIA)

24 November
Apartment Disorders
One-day event

VORONEZH
(RUSSIA)

2 November
The secret under the floor
28 Oct. – 4 Nov. 2016

VORONEZH REGION
KHOKHOLSKY DISTRICT (RUSSIA)      

30 October
Into the fields      
One-day event

WARSAW
(POLAND)

10 November
Musée de l’Oubli
10 – 25 Nov. 2016

WOODFORD
NEW SOUTH WALES (AUSTRALIA)

6 November
Colour Run
One-day event

YEKATERINBURG
(RUSSIA)

22 October
Friends
One-day event

YESAN
SOUTH CHUNGCHEONG (SOUTH KOREA)

8 October
Breaking the spell
8 Oct. – 30 Nov. 2016

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Bonus Block 2016

As 1st Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale attained great interest and received an astonishing amount of applications, which were ending no matter of the start of the programme, it was decided to form an extra course: WASB–BB.

WASBIennale Bonus Block was created to include late proposals, who were fitting into the frameworks. Those projects were taking part in Biennale as well but have not been presented in the Zin Catalogue or obtained info pages on WASBiennale web site.
Extensive information about this shows is available through external links.

 

Kostya Grebnev_denis_maksimov_was_bb
14 October / Moscow (Russia)
Be a Guest in My Possible Future
Duration: 15 – 17 Oct. 2016
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15 October / Ghent (Belgium)
Femme Fatale
Duration: 15 - 25 Oct. 2016
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21 October / Moscow (Russia)
Ongon: Journey to Buryatia
Duration: 21 Oct. - 10 Nov. 2016
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22 October / Hazelbrook (Blue Mountains, Australia)
THE CLUB EDITION
One day event
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Nina_stoupina_was_bb_web
28 October / Ghent (Belgium) 
Displaced people
Duration: 29 – 30 Oct. 2016
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Elena_Dombrovska_lines_wasb_web
30 October / Kiev (Ukraine) 
Hellen Dombrovska: Object formation
One day event 
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11 November / Amsterdam (Netherlands) 
Monthly Payment project: GEZELLIGHEID 
One night event 
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12 November / Moscow (Russia) 
AGAPE 
One night event 
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12 November / Amsterdam (Netherlands) 
Identity
Duration: 13 Nov. – 16 Dec. 2016 
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17 November / Perm (Russia) 
Housewarming
Duration: 17 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2016 
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18 November / Amsterdam (Netherlands) 
Be My Guest Before I Leave You
Duration: 18 – 27 Nov. 2016 
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18 November / Amsterdam (Netherlands) 
Souvenir Hideaway
Duration: 18 Nov. – 4 Dec. 2016 
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18 November / Moscow (Russia) 
Rental Agreement
Duration: 18 – 25 Nov. 2016 
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18 November / Vienna (Austria) 
Battuta LA DIE DA DI – Skepta 1. Curated by Ursula Maria Probstnt
One night event 
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22 November / Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) 
Apartman project for popularisation of contemporary art
Duration: One day event 
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25 November / Bucharest (Romania) 
My Pleasure
Duration: 25 – 26 Nov. 2016 
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25 November / Bucharest (Romania) 
Nothing to Communicate
One night event 
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27 November / Berlin (Germany) 
BERLINER ZIMMER  
One day event 
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27 November / Kiev (Ukraine) 
Eyes open, mind closed.  
One day event 
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© All the photos, visualisations and reproductions of works, all texts for the events: provided by respective participants.