GIBCA 2023
forms of the surrounding futures marked the twelfth edition of Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, GIBCA. The biennial took place between September 16 to November 19, 2023.
This year’s edition of the Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, forms of the surrounding futures, has come to an end.
We would like to thank the artists, our partnering venues Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg City Library and Hammarkullen Konsthall, and João Laia, Curator for GIBCA 2023, who made the biennial possible.
forms of the surrounding futures We are inhabiting a period of abrupt change recently defined as permacrisis. In western thought, such moments have regularly correlated with a failure to imagine multiple configurations for tomorrow. However, this is not the only prospect available.
forms of the surrounding futures adopt queer as an expanded perspective to challenge dominant narratives, replacing them by a broad rethinking and remaking of bodies, spaces and times. By embracing different agencies in a nonconforming affinity, they question the constructed features of the present and promote the emergence of various futures.
forms of the surrounding futures propose cognitive, emotional and sensual forms of engagement, materialising communal moments of othering and estrangement. Projecting a polyphonic and multi-sensorial set of positions, they celebrate and empower our collective ability to imagine and rehearse worlds to come.
Sophia Al-Maria / Adam Christensen / Joana da Conceição / Niko Hallikainen / Rodrigo Hernández / Sky Hopinka / Maria Jerez / Agnė Jokšė / Kem / Tarik Kiswanson / Yong Xiang Li / Yarema Malashchuk & Roman Khimei / Guadalupe Maravilla / Esse McChesney / Sandra Mujinga / Rasmus Myrup / Ania Nowak / Outi Pieski / Luiz Roque / Prem Sahib / P. Staff / Iris Touliatou / Ana Vaz / Osías Yanov /
Curator for this years biennial is João Laia. He is the Chief Curator for exhibitions at Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, and has a background in social sciences, film theory and contemporary art.
Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg City Library, Hammarkullen Konsthall
forms of the surrounding futures: screening features film works selected from the exhibition of forms of the surrounding futures in Göteborg and reframes them online as entry points, questions and approaches to thinking differently about the futures you want to dwell in. If you are a pedagogue, you can have access to the educational resource featuring three individual films accompanied by lesson plans suited for students from the age of 15 years.
