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BIENNALE

RIP Oloffson Hotel - host of the Ghetto Biennale since 2009

Ghetto Biennale

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

Ghetto Biennale

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

RISING PROGRAMME

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

Ghetto Biennale

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.

Ghetto Biennale

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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