OBOE Journal On Biennials and Other Exhibitions launches its first issue with a focus on the Venice Biennale. Born in 1895, the Venice exhibition, although the criticism for its limitations, is still one of the most significant and defining events of the contemporary art calendar. Many are the studies devoted to the Venice Biennale, but many are the gaps and fallacies that remain around the analysis of this exhibition. Attending to some of these oversights in Why Venice? remains critically important, and not just because this is our first issue, but primarily because it intends to answer something we felt was fundamental

OBOE’s first Issue is on online at http://www.oboejournal.com/index.php/oboe/issue/view/1

WHY VENICE?

Editorial
Angela Vettese, Clarissa Ricci, Camilla Salvaneschi

Why OBOE? The Gerundive Nature of Artworks
Angela Vettese

Event Structures and Biennial Culture: Oreste at the Biennale
Caroline A. Jones

International Exhibitions in Venice
Maria Mimita Lamberti

The Magazine la biennale: Articulating a Model for Periodicals Published by Recurring Exhibitions
Camilla Salvaneschi

Flipping the Exhibition Inside Out: Enrico Crispolti’s Show Ambiente come Sociale at the 1976 Venice Biennale
Martina Tanga

Towards a Contemporary Venice Biennale: Reassessing the Impact of the 1993 Exhibition
Clarissa Ricci

How La Biennale as a Brand was Born. Venice as the Archetype of a Biennial City
Vittoria Martini

ABOUT OBOE Journal
OBOE Journal On Biennials and Other Exhibitions is a bi-annual, open access and peer-reviewed journal devoted to international academic research around art and exhibitions. OBOE Journal intends to investigate the ever-changing relationships between works and spectators in periodic exhibitions as well as their cultural politics, expanding its scope towards the exhibitionary in a broader sense. This includes the moment of exposition, when the artwork, understood as an activator of multiple layers of perception composes our experience of the infinitely complex contemporary moment.

OBOE Journal reviews submissions on a rolling basis. Next submission deadlines: January 2021; March 2021. This journal does not have article submission charges. For submission write to infooboejournal.com
Further details on OBOE Journal’s Call for Papers can be found at http://www.oboejournal.com/index.php/oboe/announcement/index?type=1

Publisher: OBOE On Biennials and Other Exhibitions Associazione Culturale, Venice
Co-publisher: Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice
Partners: Biennial Foundation, New York / University of Aberdeen
Graphic Design: Zaven

OBOE TEAM
Director: Angela Vettese
Editors: Clarissa Ricci and Camilla Salvaneschi

Editorial Board: Marco Bertozzi, Renato Bocchi, Amy Bryzgel, Silvia Casini, Agostino De Rosa, Paolo Garbolino, Chiara Vecchiarelli.

International Advisory Board: Bruce Altshuler, Dora Garcia, Anthony Gardner, Charles Green, Marieke Van Hal, Manifesta, Joan Jonas, Caroline A. Jones, Antoni Muntadas, Mark Nash, Rafal Niemojewski, Terry Smith, Benjamin Weil
Trustees: William Cottingham, Emilia Miroglio, Tina Patterson, Janis Wetsman