Home > Archive > Biennale Review Theme . ìÑ+Êà Period . Mar. 29 - Jun. 7, 2000 Venue . Biennale Exhibition Hall Host . Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju City Artists . 84 Persons Contents . Main Exhibition, Special Exhibition, Satellite Exhibition, Satellite and   Sponsored Exhibitions -:: Festivities: . Pre opening, Opening & Closing Ceremony, Gala Festivities,   Foreign Folk Performance, World Art Wear Show There were three major exhibitions in Gwangju Biennale 2000 : the main exhibition, a special exhibition, and a satellite exhibition. The theme of the main exhibition was "Man and Space." The exhibition space was divided into 5 rooms in order to display effectively the leading artists' works of different continents. The subdivided rooms were Asia, North America, Korea and Oceania, Europe and Africa, and Central and South America. In addition, a special section was prepared in each room. Including the special exhibit and satellite exhibit, there were a total of 12 exhibitions in the Gwangju Biennale 2000. Visitors found the way we display the works very harmonious, even though the works in 5 different rooms had clear regional distinctions. The works of Asian artists were exhibited in Japan after the Biennale. Europe¡¤Africa | Rene Block North America | Thomas Finkelpearl South America | Kim Yu-yeon Asia | Arata Tani Korea¡¤Oceania | Kim Hong-hee Special section | Oh Kwang-su The special exhibit focuses on 4 minor themes. These include: 1. Human rights and its associations with Gwangju's political history, 2. Divided Korea, 3. Interests at the turn of the millenium, and 4. Together and community among Korean artists. The exhibit aims at presenting unique and future- oriented images within the context of current art trends in Korea and East Asia. The satellite exhibit was the exhibition of works from many galleries in Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennele usually selects certain groups or institutes to display their works; but this year, it gives an opportunity to any participant to promote local activity. Forest of Human Being & Forest of Painting Curator : Oh Se-kwon , Kim Sung-hee Contents : : ¡°Forest of Human Beings & Forest of Painting¡± reviewed the issues regarding human beings and nature in order to bring back its natural harmony and balance. Thus, this exhibition dealt with existential issue between human beings and nature or individual and group in order to talk about moral values and preserving environment. Venue : Joongoe Park Artists : 2,000 Persons Human Being & Gender Curator : Seo Jeong-geol / Marie-Laure Bernadac Contents : Human Beings & Gender focused on the image of human gender which revealed our primary notion and awareness of gender. This exhibition studied how our human gender had been treated and how they had changed in our social values. Furthermore, it portrayed the modern aspect of human gender by comparing past and present consciousness. Venue : Education & PR Center Artists : 45 Persons Art & Human Rights Curator : Ichiro Hariu Contents : Arts & Human Rights introduced the Korean mass arts, and deal with racism, war, pollution and suppression from Western societies. In addition to those issues, from the global standpoint, the matter of women, seniors, children and homo-sexualism was discussed in the show. Another key point of this show was the focus on artistic freedom by stressing freedom of expression in order to help audiences to understand how art has been manipulated by authority so that viewers can stop this abuse of art in society. Venue : Biennale Exhibition Hall Artists : 35 Persons The Past & Present of Fine Arts in North Korea Curator : Yoo Jae-gil / Kim Chan-dong Venue : Gwangju City Art Museum Artists : 40 Persons Aspect of Korean & Japanese Contemporary Art Curator : Yoon Jin-sup Contents : This exhibition compared Korean Monochromatic painting and Japanese Monoha, so as to seek out dependent beauty and particularity and to see how they influenced each other. The method of process and the esthetical uniqueness of both Korean and Japanese monochromatic paintings was compared with American Minimalism, Objective Art and Italian Arte Povera in the show. Venue : Gwangju City Art Museum Artists : 55 Persons Curator : Lee Sup Theme : A Scar Venue : Joongoe Park, Web S New media art could be a very good means of expression because it was relatively easy to express something through film. Also, new media art was the most democratic medium of communication. It was also true that new media art is being abused and misused in our society. Some voices criticize the ways new media art was used as propaganda. As an alternative, people were making new media art that defined the very terms of new media art making. But still, so many new media art was made for solely materialistic reasons. As a result, the conflict among social groups was becoming more severe. The 3rd Gwangju Biennale suggested an experimental way of self-expression using new media art and the ways of utilizing new media arts' apparatus for democratic communication. The theme of new media art, "A Scar," tried to portray the everyday life of an individual, scar from history, and the existing, but not shared scar of contemporary society.