Empowering Artists

Ryan Hughes, artistic director for the Coventry Biennial talks about starting the Biennial in 2017 and what he learned from that event to build on, and create a bigger international biennial for 2019.He talks about the theme of The Twin for this years event, which explores duality, and encouraged collaborations and peer to peer artist relationships. The Biennial has over 100 artists showing this year with three quarters of them being UK based and the rest international. He discusses the established names that you can expect to see alongside some of the early and mid career artists showing their work.We go behind the scenes and he talks about working with stakeholders in the West Midlands to access new exhibiting spaces that open out the city, and how artists were responding to place.Follow me on Instagram @thegitajoshiSee the website https://thecuratorssalon.com/Visit the Coventry Biennial websiteCoventry Biennial takes places 4th October - 24th November 2019