May 26 / September 15, Opening days: May 26/27/28, With kind support of Mr. Vaclav Havel, the writer, playwriter and politician, The President of Prague Biennale, Gabriele Guzzo and the Director, Giancarlo Politi Invite you to the opening of PragueBiennale 2, Expanded Painting / Acción Directa, Thursday 26 May 2005, 4 p.m. and Friday 27 and Saturday 28, from 11 a.m to 7 p.m.Karlin Hall, Thamova 14, Karlin, Prague 8 (metro Krizikova), Open 7 days a week from 12 a.m. to 7 p.m., www.praguebiennale.org – info@praguebiennale.org

EXPANDED PAINTING (Curated by Helena Kontova and Giancarlo Politi) :
Patrizia Alemanno, Janis Avotins, Diann Bauer, Franz
Baumgartner, Blue Noses, Michael Borremans, Nina Bovasso, Varda Caivano,
Juan Francisco Casas, Maurizio Cattelan, Jiri Cernicky, Rabiya Choudry,
Jan Christensen, Valentina DÖAmaro, Jacob Dahlgren, Jiri David, Nuno de
Campos, Juan Pedro Fabra Guemberena, Anna Galtarossa, Sandra Gamarra, Torben
Giehler, Xenia Gnilitskaya, Bendix Harms, Alona harpaz, Hans Hemmert, Damien
Hirst, hobbypopMUSEUM, Jakub Hosek, Markus Huemer, Kika Karadi, Ziga
Kariæ, John Kørner, David Krippendorff, Graham Little, Liisa Lounila, Rory
Macbeth, DeAnna Maganias, Victor Man, Miltos Manetas, Alisa Margolis, Janice
McNab, Jim Medway, Birgit Megerle, Dawn Mellor, Angelo Mosca, Audrey Nervi,
Jacco Olivier, Alexandra Paperno, Seb Patane, Polys Peslikas, Gabriele
Picco, Luca Rento, Anselm Reyle, Zbigniew Rogalski, Ugo Rondinone, Wilhelm
Sasnal, Maaike Schoorel, Shirana Shahbazi, Raqib Shaw, Isabel Simões,
Susanne Simonson, Martina Steckholzer, Agnes Szepfalvi, Alexis Marguerite
Teplin, David Ter-Oganyan, Rui Toscano, Anna Tuori, Koen van den Broek, Iris
Van Dongen, Pieter Vermeersch, Fabien Verschaere, Francesco Vezzoli, Stella
Vine, Maja Vukoje, and Andro Wekua

NEW GERMAN PAINTING, The Leipzig and Dresden ‘schools’
(curated by Johannes Schmidt):
TIlo Baumgartel, Martin Borowski, Markus Draper, Isaelle Dutoit, Martin Eder, Tim Eitel, Tom Fabritius, Eckehard Fuchs, Ralf Hellmann, Olaf Holzapfel, Matthias Kistmacher, Thoralf Knobloch, Martin Kobe, Jorg Lozek, Martin Mannig, Frank Nitsche, Ulf Puder, Christoph Ruckhaberle, Sophia Schama, Julia Schmidt, David Schnell, and Matthias Weischer

NORMAL GROUP (curated by Luca Beatrice):
Peter Angermann, Jan Knap, Milan Kunc

A TRIBUTE TO (curated by Giancarlo Politi):
Gian Marco Montesano CHINA, New Perspectives in Chinese Painting (curated by Primo Marella and Francesca Jordan): Feng Zhengjie, Fu Hong, He Sen, Li Dafang, Ma Liuming, Yang Qian, Zeng Hao, Zhang Xiaotao, and Zhou Tiehai

KINETIC ART (curated by Getulio Alviani):
Yaacov Agam, Josef Albers, Getulio Alviani, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Marina Apollonio, Henryk Berlewi, Enrico Castellani, Andreas Christen, Gianni Colombo, Toni Costa, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gabriele De Vecchi, Milan Dobes, Gerard Von Graevenitz, Julije Knifer, Edoardo Landi, Julio Le Parc, Peter Lowe, Manfredo Massironi, Almir Mavignier, Francois Morellet, Ivan Picelj, Jesus Raphael Soto, Bridget Riley, Jeffrey Steele, Joel Stein, Paul Talman, Victor Vasarely, Ludwig Wilding, and Ryszard Winiarski

ACCION DIRECTA, Latin American Social Sphere (curated by Marco Scotini in collaboration with Prometeo, Lucca): Brooke Alfaro, Erick Beltran, Beth Bird, Wilbert Carmona, Jota Castro, Raimond Chaves, Rolando Cladera, La Comunitaria TV, Alexandre da Cunha, Josè Davila, Regina Josè Galindo, Ronith Gitelman & Josè Ignacio Lezcano, Grupo de Arte Callejero (GAC), Guerrillavision, Patrick Hamilton, Federico Herrero, KanalB, Maria Rosa Jijon, Ivelisse Jimènez, Grupo 24/7, Anibal Lopez [A1-53167], Teresa Margolles, Xenia MejÌa, Ronald Mor·n, Gianni Motti, Ivan Navarro, Rodrigo Pacheles, Oliver Ressler, Herbert Reyes, Ernesto Salmeron, Juan Esteban Sandoval, Rosemberg Sandoval, Chemi Rosado Seijo, Santiago Sierra, Ezequiel Suarez, Javier Tellez, Tercerunquinto, Ultra-Red, Francisco Valdes, and Wayruro

CZECH & SLOVAK NEW SCENE (curated by Jiri David and Juraj Carny):
Veronika Bromov·, David Cerny, Stanislav Divis, Milena Dopitov·, Groupe Guma Guar, Tomas Hlavina, Pavel Humhal, Jan Kadlec, Kamera Scura, Kristof Kintera, Jan Kotik, Jan Merta,
Pode Bal, Jiri Prihoda, Rafani, Milan Salak, Vaclav Stratil, Katerina
Vincourov· (Czech New Scene); Erik Binder, Cyril Blazo, Marko Blazo, Anetta
Mona Chisa, Richard Fajnor, Victor Freso, Marek Kvetan, Otis Laubert, Ilona
Nemeth, Boris Ondreicka, Dorota Sadovska, Veronika Sramatyova, Lucia Tkacova, Dusan Zahoransky (Slovak New Scene)

DEFINITION of EVERYDAY (curated by Vit Havranek, Karel Cisar and Jan Mancuska): Jesper Alvaer, Zbynek Baladran, Jiri Kovanda, Lukas Jasansky/ Martin Polak, Roman Ondak, Boris Ondreicka, Marketa Othova, Petra Petileta, Katerina Seda, Jan
Serych, Jiri Skala and Tomas Vanek.

POLAND OVERVIEW (curated by Hanna Wroblewska and Anna Jagiello): Cezary Bodzianowski, Rafal Bujnowski, Oskar Dawicki, Katarzyna Gorna, Elzbieta Jablonska, Katarzyna Kozyra, Marcin Maciejowski, Robert Maciejuk, Jacek Malinowski,
Jadwiga Sawicka, Janek Simon, Aleksandra Went/Alicja Karska, Julita Wojcik, and Artur Zmijewski

OUTSIDER ART (curated by James Colman): Delaine Le Bas, Damian Le Bas, Wayne Lucas, and Barbara Symmons

SIDE EVENTS: Clip’It : A project by Luca Beatrice; Neen presents Wyne Veen a film by Luuk Bouwman and Miltos Manetas; Play station: Simone Tosca, Virginia Hackermann’s boycott
project, along with Eric Doeringer’s “bootlegs”, “Laboratorio Saccardi’s” small paintings, and a clothes project by D.G. on sale at Karlin Hall’s coffee bar; radek community presents Kniaz Vladimir’s concert/show; Street Art: A project created especially for Prague Biennale 2 by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen, sponsored and inspired by MATTONI Mineral Water; Truck Art presents The Trucker Prize 2005.