Crazycurators Biennale focuses on young, innovative and experimental forms of art. By its format it tries to serve as an alternative to the megalomaniac biennials such as the Venice Biennale or Praguebiennale where an individual approach of an artist and curator is often missing. The organisation of the Crazycurators Biennale is based on a close and systematic cooperation of an artist and curator by contrast.


Crazycurators Biennale /the first year took place in 2006 on the premises of SPACE gallery at Lazaretska/ is one of the smallest biennials in the world. It is a form of a constructive critique of megalomaniac biennials which have been constantly arising all around the world. Thus the conception is based on a narrow selection of renowned curators actively working in the framework of gallery practice. For the biennial each of them chooses one artist. Paradoxically they lose a chance to be curators in the right meaning of the word and curate their own exhibition in the framework of the biennial. Likewise the biennial has no ambition to adjust a selection of an artist to a given theme, extremely abstract, that is usually a part of simmilar events. Intentional “insubstantiality” of Crazycurators Biennale is on the other hand balanced by a misleading name of the event as well as minimal spatial and budget possibilities. Nevertheless the Crazycurators Biennale is a highly professional platform for a confrontation of the latest strategies and forms in contemporary art. Simultaneously it provides a space for a critical reflection of contemporary art that is, especially on our scene, often absent.


The main purpose of the project is to create in Slovakia a periodically repeating international presentation of contemporary art in order to address not only the professional but also the wider lay public. The biennial focuses on the highly actual, experimental and progressive forms of art and unconventional curatorial strategies. The most important moment in the project is a close cooperation of the participants – artists and curators coming from the various European but also remote world cities with different cultural and artistic traditions – their active participation and involvement in the biennial from the primary phase of compiling the conception of the biennial to its final implementation. The one and only criterion for a selection process of artists is their active and actual involvement in the latest currents of contemporary art. The mutual communication of curators and artists as well as a chamber-like atmosphere is a typical feature of the project in all its steps thus distinguishing it from the similar international gigantic biennials.


At its inception in 2006 the Crazycurators Biennale organizers decided to organize regularly in 2 years intervals a “display of international contemporary art” and thus familiarize the Slovak public with the latest “trends” in contemporary art as well as present Slovak art as a fully-fledged partner on the international art scene.

Compared to the first year of the biennial in 2006, the second one in 2008 involved apart from curators and artists from Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia also those from Armenia, Indonesia, Germany and Great Britain. The high visit rate proves its popularity with the wide audience. The second Crazycurators Biennale took place in projectSPACE in Františkánske námestie in the city centre and in the alternative exhibition spaces – exhibition pavilions located on Tyršovo nábrežie. The forthcoming 3rd year of the biennial plans to involve Italy and more remote artistic centres such as Serbia, the USA, Lithuania, Russia.