Baltic Contemporary Art Biennial

The last edition of the Biennial organised under the auspices of the UBC Commission on Culture was organised at Szczecin National Museum, 3 October -16 November2003.

The program of the biennial which included the main show EXTRA STRONG SUPER LIGHT, and a set of accompanying art events was enriched by the organisation of the annual session of the UBC Commission on Culture. The session devoted to contemporary art as a tool of social communication was attended by artists, critics, curators and representatives of the art institutions and municipal culture administrations.

EXTRA STRONG SUPER LIGHT presented works of 15 internationally renowned artists from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Sweden and Ukraine. The show was based on such artistic messages that investigate the meaning of the most primary existential questions like life and death, and human position within the realm of nature and culture. The exhibition's name reflected the span of emotions expressed through raised issues, the amplitude of which ranges from corporal practices with intensified emotions to poetic gestures distilling the surrounding area from superficiality.

Art & Social Communication organised with the biennial program was devoted to the presentations of new methods of adopting to the changing social environment implemented by the art institutions around the Baltic Sea.

The presentations of the seminar participants as well as the set of critical essays can be found in the last MARE ARTICUM 13/2003.