Pedrosa is the director of Programma Independente da Escola Sao Paulo (PIESP), while Hoffman is director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at California College of the Arts in San Francisco.Sao Paolo-based curator Pedrosa, who is also an editor and writer, has published articles in various internationally acclaimed contemporary art publications, including Artforum of New York, ArtNexus of Bogota and TATE ETC. of London. Among his works, the artist curated an exhibition at Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and co-curated the 27th Sao Paolo Biennial in 2006. Pedrosa took part in the previous İstanbul biennial in 2001 as a juror of the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts.
San Francisco-based curator Hoffmann, who is also a writer, has so far worked for a large number of art institutions, including the Solomon R. Gugenheim Museum in New York, Kiasma -- the Museum for Contemporary Art in Helsinki, the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, the Hugh Lane Gallery of Modern Art in Dublin, the Dia Center for the Arts in New York, the Kunstverein in Hamburg, the Kunst-Werke in Berlin and the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) in the States. Having worked as the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London between 2003 and 2007, the artist is currently the co-curator of The People’s Biennial, which is to be held at five art institutions in the US. Hoffmann is also the founding editor of the magazine The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making.
The curators were appointed by the 12th İstanbul Biennial Advisory Board, which is composed of Documenta 13 Art Director Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, artist Ayşe Erkmen, art consultant Melih Fereli, Paris and San Francisco-based critic and curator Hou Hanru and art director Jack Persekian.
The program of the biennial, which is scheduled to take place between Sept. 17, 2011 and Nov. 13, 2011, will be announced by the newly selected curators this fall. For detailed information, visit www.iksv.org/bienal
