Participating artists  Alterazioni Video (Paololuca Barbieri) & Nina Canell Participating Artist/Curator:  Krist Gruijthuijsen MANIFESTA 7 THE EUROPEAN BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART TRENTINO – SOUTH TYROL, ITALY 19 JULY – 2 NOVEMBER 2008 All exhibition venues open from 10.00 am to 7.00 pm. Official Opening: 19 July, 2008. http://www.manifesta7.it MANIFESTA 7 IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE PARTICIPATION OF 188 ARTISTS IN 4 EXHIBITIONS Manifesta 7, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, is hosted by the Trentino – South Tyrol Region from July 19 to November 2. It takes place in Italy for the first time, stretching across an entire regional territory, encompassing venues in four cities along a course of 150 kilometers joining the north and south of Europe along the Brenner axis: Fortezza (Bressanone), ex Alumix in Bolzano, the Palazzo delle Poste in Trento, and Manifattura Tabacchi and ex Peterlini in Rovereto. “PRINCIPLE HOPE” Curated by Adam Budak Rovereto, Manifattura Tabacchi and ex Peterlini Artists: Alterazioni Video, Michelangelo Antonioni, Knut Åsdam, Bernadette Corporation, Margrét H. Blöndal, Michal Budny, BURGHARD, Nina Canell, Libia Castro & Ólafur Ólafsson, Claire Fontaine, Oskar Dawicki, Evelina Deicmane, Rä di Martino, Miklós Erhardt and Little Warsaw, Igor Eskinja, Tim Etchells, fabrics interseason, Famed, Didier Fiuza Faustino, João Maria Gusmão + Pedro Paiva, Heide Hinrichs, Heidrun Holzfeind, Runa Islam, Ricardo Jacinto, Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbora Klímová, Daniel Knorr, Adam Leech, Deborah Ligorio, Miks Mitrevics, Christian Philipp Müller, Ewa Partum, Gianni Pettena, Riccardo Previdi, Philippe Rahm, Pamela Rosenkranz, Janek Simon, Luca Trevisani, Tatiana Trouvé, Uqbar Foundation, Guido van der Werve, Nico Vascellari, Danh Vo, Johannes Vogl, Stephen Willats, ZimmerFrei. featuring: “AUDITORY EPODE” curated by Tobi Maier Florian Hecker, Anna Ostoya, the next ENTERprise, Chris Watson, Zafos Xagoraris. “manifeSTATION” curated by the Office for Cognitive Urbanism (Andreas Spiegl, Christian Teckert) Azra Aksamija, Andreas Duscha, Sonia Leimer, Christian Mayer, Kamen Stoyanov, Adrien Tirtiaux, Anna Witt. “MATTER OF FACT” curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen Jeremiah Day, Renzo Martens, Olaf Nicolai, Adam Pendleton, Falke Pisano/ Will Holder, Ricardo Valentim. “SOCIAL ART PRAXIS” curated by Cornelia Lauf (IUAV, Venice) Airswap, Aspramente, Publink.