The Gwangju Biennale, the most high-profile recurring art festival in Asia, has revealed the artists that will take part in the 2024 show, due to open in the South Korean city on September 7.




The exhibition is this time being curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, a French curator best known for theorizing the relational aesthetics style of the 1990s. As is typical for Bourriaud’s exhibitions, his Gwangju Biennale comes with an ambitious framework that envisions sound as a means of structuring life as we know it.




Its title is “Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century,” a reference to a 17th-century Korean musical genre. “In Korean,” the biennial’s announcement notes, “ pansori  literally means ‘the noise from the public place’, which could also now be translated as ‘the voice of the subalterns,'” a possible reference to the field of subaltern studies, which has been crucial to scholars in understanding postcolonial South Asia.




Bourriaud’s description for the show promises a focus on multiverses, “a sonic image for a saturated space,” climate change, and nature more broadly. In addition to the artworks on view, there will also be an opera staged to mark the show’s opening.




The full artist list follows below.




Saâdane Afif Haseeb Ahmed Deniz Aktaş Noel W. Anderson Andrius Arutiunian Kevin Beasley Wendimagegn Belete Bianca Bondi Dora Budor Peter Buggenhout Angela Bulloch Alex Cerveny Cheng Xinhao Choi Haneyl Gaëlle Choisne Anna Conway Binta Diaw John Dowell Hayden Dunham Liam Gillick Loris Gréaud Matthias Groebel Matthew Angelo Harrison Marguerite Humeau Agata Ingarden Hye Joo Jun Jun Hyoung San Kim Hyeong Suk Kim Jayi YoungEun Kim Dominique Knowles Agnieszka Kurant Hyewon Kwon Netta Laufer Brianna Leatherbury Yein Lee Oswaldo Maciá Mira Mann Cinthia Marcelle Vladislav Markov Beaux Mendes Myriam Mihindou Na Mira Saadia Mirza David Noonan Katja Novitskova Josèfa Ntjam Emeka Ogboh Frida Orupabo Lydia Ourahmane Mimi Park Philippe Parreno Amol K. Patil Harrison Pearce Lucy Raven Tabita Rezaire Marina Rheingantz Marina Rosenfeld Max Hooper Schneider Franck Scurti Soomin Shon Jura Shust Marianna Simnett Sofya Skidan Anastasia Sosunova Jakob Kudsk Steensen Sung Tieu Julian Abraham “Togar” Unmake Lab Yuyan Wang Ambera Wellmann Kandis Williams Phillip Zach