Dresden (dpa / sn) – The Dresden art exhibition Ostrale is now met with worldwide resonance. For next year’s edition of the Biennale – the O23 – 601 artists from 51 countries submitted a total of 2960 works of art, the organizers announced on Friday. Applications have been received from Australia, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Chile, India, Iran and Mauritius, among others. The exhibits will be selected from August 8th. They are to be combined with new works by artists who have already taken part in one of the previous Ostrale exhibitions since 2007.
The O23 is planned from June 10th to October 1st, 2023 – again in a centrally located and recently empty pavilion of East Modernism in the center of Dresden: the former Robotron canteen. The Ostrale Biennale is considered one of the major temporary exhibitions for contemporary art in Germany. It is not a sales show per se and aims to discuss socially relevant topics apart from what is happening on the market.
According to their own statements, the Ostrale team has repeatedly designed large parts of the contemporary arts program in European Capitals of Culture, for example in Pécs (Hungary) in 2010, in Wroc?aw (Breslau) in 2016, in Valletta (Malta) in 2018 and in Rijeka (Croatia) in 2020. The presentation of a selection of Ostrale works in one of this year’s Capitals of Culture – Kaunas in Lithuania – can be seen until mid-November.
