The Museum of Wild and Newfangled Art (mowna) has announced that it will host its second Biennial, featuring 94 international artists from 29 countries.
The event, which runs from May 1 to September 22, 2023, will be entirely online and include painting, digital painting, GIFs, video art, music videos, glbs, AI, motion capture, photogrammetry, photography, ceramics, poetry, cinema, games, and dance films.
The art comes from a diverse group of artists ranging from emerging to established in their fields. A select number of Biennial NFT sets will be minted on Tezos and available for purchase on objkt.
The mowna Biennial was first launched in 2021 to offset the postponement of the Whitney Biennial and other exhibitions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s Biennial gathered work through an international free open call for submissions, and the exhibition reflects the tumultuous and tantalizing times we are living through.
“Over the last two years we have seen art, the internet, communication, technology, and financial systems radically change. We are very happy to have played a role in bringing forth a world in which artists can be paid for their fantastic work,” says joey zaza, mowna co-founder and curator.
One of the featured works in the Biennial is a candle by Lineadeluz, a Compton-raised transmaterial alchemist, that burns forever to protect its user from COVID. The work, called “VeladoraProtectoraCovid,” reflects the dark years we have passed through during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Another work in the Biennial is a music video parody cover by Benna Gaean Maris called “Marketing Keeled Free Web Like a Storm,” which is included in the Biennial mint set.
Some of the work from the Biennial is minted on the Tezos blockchain on NFT marketplace objkt.com and can be purchased individually for 10 tez or all together as a Biennial set.
Artists involved include: Aaron Oldenburg, Ana María Caballero, Ayaz Yıldız, BADOATS, Burka Bayram, Corina Lipavsky, Emel Çevikcan, Faisal Anwar, Georg Eckmayr, Kateryna Tkachenko, Kevin Dixon, Lineadeluz, Lori Pond, Maja Wrońska, Mitchell Rose, Rose Sutton, Sara Radomirovic, ToolBoxEarth, Valeria Del Vacchio
, Victoria Marks, Woman, Zephyr Taurel and many more.
Sales directly pay the artists 70% and fund the museum 30%.
