- 8th Ghetto Biennale 2024
- 2022 Ghetto Biennale Symposium
- documenta fifteen 2022
- 7th Ghetto Biennale 2022
- 6th Ghetto Biennale 2019
- 5th Ghetto Biennale 2017
- 4th Ghetto Biennale 2015
- Archive
RIP Henrike Naumann
O Henrike, your contribution to the Ghetto Biennale was beloved by all. The Museum of Trance will always be remembered. Henrike, Bastian and Clemens deeply involved themselves with Atis Rezistans and left a precious legacy of great memories and the joys of German Trance in a Haitian setting!
RIP L (aka Lazaros aka Jason Metcalf)
You brought so much to the Ghetto Biennale and all of it utterly generous and collaborative…a Kreyol translation of a Nicolas Bourriaud text, your work with Okipasyon, your Multiversal Services, your beautiful ritual sculptures located in the neighbourhood, and your tour of the Telluric Currents of Port-au-Prince.
Your contribution to the Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale installation at documenta was luminous and profoundly sympathetic with the space and other works. As ‘Multiversal Services’ you documented the works in the Ghetto Biennale to produce a beautiful archive of the art that has been created over the years. You are kind and gentle, trusting and sweet, hardworking and generous, and both aesthetically and conceptually, a deeply talented artist. You are already missed so much.
Atis Rezistans | Ghetto Biennale opened at the Kochi Muziris Biennale on 13th Feb
PDF of ATIS REZISTANS | GHETTO BIENNALE at Kochi Muziris Biennale INSTALL CATALOGUE
RIP Oloffson Hotel - host of the Ghetto Biennale since 2009
RIP Jean-Claude Saintilus 12th March 1960 | 8th November 2024
Claude Saintilus, member of Atis Rezistans, deeply spiritual with an incredible visionary imaginary has joined his ancestors. RIP
Words for Claude
"Gran mystique of Grand Ru and the Ghetto Biennale ! Rest in Power my dear friend. Thank you for magical moments and replenishing my strength during busy ghetto biennale days. Your lakou was always an oasis of calm and focus. You created most wonderful artworks and your spirituality and kindness to humans and animals alike will never be forgotten. I’m honored to have met you and I will cherish our memories from Ayiti and the Documenta forever in my heart." Cat Barich
"I’m meant to refer to you in the past tense now, but suddenly you exist more sharply, more burningly than ever—in these tears, this zooming out. Your smile is in my lungs, your voice in my heart.
when I grow up, I hope I’ll be as soft and tender as you,
as youthful,
as reassuringly warm—so that people feel as safe and welcome in my presence as they do around you.
Bonswa zanmi’m… Toutsi krab pral fe legume! (don’t worry, I know you’re laughing, I can hear you)." Joe Winter
SHORT FILM INTRODUCING THE GHETTO BIENNALE
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Please check 'research resources' on our website for a list of books and films to help you to research Haiti, Atis Rezistans and the Ghetto Biennale.
Check out our project archives of the previous Ghetto Biennales
Enquiries, applications & questions contact: Leah Gordon at Leahgordon@aol.com
GHETTO BIENNALE at RISING PROGRAMME
ATIS REZISTANS | GHETTO BIENNALE @ documenta fifteen
PDF of ATIS REZISTANS | GHETTO BIENNALE @docuemnta fifteen INSTALL CATALOGUE
St Kunigundis Church, Leipziger Str., 34123 Kassel June 18–September 25, 2022 10am-8pm
PÒTOPRENS: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince
CATALOGUE PUBLISHED NOV 2021 BY PIONEER WORKS PRESS
Edited by Leah Gordon & Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, with essays by Edouard Duval-Carrié & Gina Athena Ulysse
The Ghetto Biennale is a cross-cultural arts festival held in two adjacent informal neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, called Lakou Cheri and Ghetto Leanne. It is hosted by the artists’ collective, Atis Rezistans, and has taken place every two years starting in December 2009. The Ghetto Biennale is attempting to momentarily transform spaces, dialogues and relationships considered un-navigable and unworkable into transcultural, creative platforms. The Ghetto Biennale has realised a 'chaotic, amorphous, de-institutionalised space' for artistic production that attempts to offer a vibrant creative platform to artists from wide socioeconomic classes.
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Andre Eugene talks about Swen Moun and Geto Klinik in
KOWONA KWONIK FILM
‘The Sculptors of Grand Rue' can be viewed at SCULPTORS OF GRAND RUE FILM
Find more information about Atis-Rezistans visit atis-rezistans.com
Check out the project archives of the previous Ghetto Biennales ghettobiennale.org
Enquiries, applications & questions contact: Leah Gordon at Leahgordon@aol.com