Manifesta 13 was an

art exhibition An art exhibition is traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience. The exhibit is universally understood to be for some temporary period unless, as is occasionally true, it is stated to be a "permanen ...

within the

Manifesta Manifesta, also known as the European Nomadic Biennial, is a European pan-regional contemporary cultural biennale. History Manifesta was founded in 1994 by Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen. The first edition took place in Rotterdam. One of t ...

European

art biennial In the art world, a biennale ( , ; ), is a large-scale international contemporary art exhibition. The term was popularised by the Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895, but the concept of such a large scale, and intentionally internationa ...

, hosted in

Marseille, France Marseille (; ; see below) is a city in southern France, the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the Provence region, it is located on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, ...

, between August and November 2020.

Overview

is a European

that rotates between host cities. It will be the first French Manifesta, hosted in

Marseille Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...

. Originally scheduled to run June 7 to November 1, 2020, the exhibition was postponed due to the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, and rescheduled for later in the year, August 28 to November 29, 2020, with a phased rollout of programming.

Planning

Manifesta 13's artistic team includes Alya Sebti, Katerina Chuchalina, and

Stefan Kalmár Stefan Kalmár is a German curator who was the director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London from 2016 until 2021. Kalmár was executive director and chief curator of Artists Space, New York from 2009 to 2016, director of Kunstvere ...

. Manifesta chose Marseille for 2020 based on its status as an "outsider city" in which residents put their association with the multicultural city before their affiliation with the country. Architects

Winy Maas Wilhelmus "Winy" Maas (born 1959 in Schijndel) is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1993 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV. Education He completed his studies at the RHSTL Bos ...

and

MVRDV MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1993, with additional offices in Berlin, New York, Paris, and Shanghai. It is currently regarded as one of the world's finest architecture firms. MVRDV is ...

provided cultural research on the city to best integrate Manifesta into it. According to Manifesta director Hedwig Fijen, their firms were in part chosen for their background in urban planning and potential to create an "

Eiffel Tower The Eiffel Tower ( ; ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower from 1887 to 1889. Locally nicknamed "''La dame de fe ...

legacy" for the city from the exhibition. The festival would also maintain an office in the city open to locals. At a contentious press event, French journalists questioned the city's outlay towards the festival and the extent to which the event would include local curators. Marseille allocated 627,000 (US$715,000) for Manifesta 13 hosting rights and committed 2.4 million (US$2.7 million) to developing the 2020 event. The city saw the festival as expanding on the legacy of its 2013

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year of cultural events and funding to build the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations. While the city has grown as an arts hub, by 2018 some of Marseille came to distrust outside cultural interventions, such as Manifesta, based on lingering issues of poverty and a small commercial art sector following the 2013 events.

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