Biennal 2014 (Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, USA)

Whitney Biennal is an exhibition happening every 2 years, a lot of artists (103 to be precise) work together to settle the "mood" of each floor and then they all create work that will be part of the exhibition. Usually it is a lot of not very known artists and it helps them to get know.

Also the main purpose of Biennal is to set the trend in the Contemporary Art World, all the artists, every 2 years, have to answer a question :"What is contemporary art?", of course we speak as today, what is contemporary art.

The exhibition was simply amazing! So many great artists and a range so broad on used materials to express contemporary art. It was just really really great.

The exhibition was organised a bit differently than other year, Holland Cotter, working for The New York Times explains :"It picked three curators from outside the museum and outside New York. (One just recently arrived.) It gave each of them free rein on a floor in the museum’s Breuer building to work solo, with no cross talk required, though, of course, there was some, and some space sharing, too."

 On Fourth floor you find a lot of Abstract Expressionism and mainly female too, Cotter sums it up : "In general, Modernism — recycled, retooled, whatever — hangs like a mist over the fourth floor, particularly over ceramics that might as easily date from 70 years ago as from today. So it’s tonic to encounter an inky storm cloud of a vinyl-and-neon wall piece called “People in Pain,” made in 1988 by Gretchen Bender (1951-2004) and restored (“remade” is the term on the wall label) by Philip Vanderhyden this year."

Second Floor is more political and also filled with very young atists! In my point of view, the first floor was the most innovative and the third too because they were showing something really different.

I can't say if I liked one piece more than another because it was all working together, as a unity and it would never have had the same feeling if all of these artwork weren't in the same exhibition.

I remember a couple of artists that I really liked like Miljohn Ruperto and Ulrik Heltoft's botanical specimens.

Bjarne Melgaard's installation was really mind-blowing. I can't explain but this video will help visualise better. I love the voice recording and all the videos were playing at the same time and there was also a side where you could sit, put on glasses you can't see throught and put headphones on and you were transported somewhere else in the Universe. It was just crazy and the sound/voice choice were really great and they putted you in the mood directly.

A.L. Steiner's installation "More Real Than Reality" was really beautiful too. 3 wall almost fully covered of photographs and 2 screen and 1 projection. It was very aesthetic and beautiful.

There was just so much art in this exhibition Holland Cotter, working for The New York Times, sums it up pretty good :" Despite some good work assembled for this Biennial by three bright curators, I left feeling pretty much the way I do when I leave an art fair, full but empty, tired of dessert, hungry for a sustained and sustaining meal.".