Revealed today by Artistic Director Juliana Engberg, Ulla von Brandenburg is included in the first preview artist list for the 19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire, to be held from 21 March – 9 June 2014. Engberg says: ‘You Imagine What You Desire is an evocation celebrating the artistic imagination as a spirited describing and exploration of the world through metaphor and poesis. It makes enquiries into contemporary aesthetic experience, and relates this to historical precedents and future opportunities to imagine possible worlds. It seeks to understand the need artists have today to create immersive and expanded environments, and locates this activity as part of an art historical trajectory, and as a pursuit into the issues of human consciousness, and their psychological, cognitive and corporeal imperatives.’

The other artists on the preview list are: Yael Bartana, Mircea Cantor, David Claerbout, Yingmei Duan, Krisztina Erdei, Douglas Gordon, Henna-Riikka Halonen, Roni Horn, Mikhail Karikis, Laurent Montaron, Agnieszka Polska, Augustin Rebetez, Maxime Rossi, Wael Shawky, John Stezaker, Corin Sworn and Tori Wrånes.

19th Biennale of Sydney: You Imagine What You Desire
21 March – 9 June 2014
Sydney, Australia
http://www.biennaleofsydney.com.au/