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Traditional Chinese | 深港城市\建築雙城雙年展 | ||||||||||
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The Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture,also known as the Urbanism\Architecture Bi-City Biennale (UABB) of Shenzhen and Hong Kong,was founded in 2005. It has been held every two years since. It is considered the world's only Biennale or Biennial exhibition to focus specifically on urbanism and urbanisation.
The Biennale is a cooperative cultural event that is shared by the two cities under a similar theme. The selection process of the Hong Kong and Shenzhen curatorial teams are independent processes governed by different procedures and organisations. [1] The exhibition also takes place in different venues in Hong Kong and Shenzhen,with different exhibitors,during similar but slightly differing time periods.
Originally organised by the Shenzhen Public Art Center,the inaugural Biennale took place in Shenzhen and attracted over a million visitors. [2] The Biennale started being organised in Hong Kong in January 2008,with the exhibition "Refabricating City" at the Central Police Station Compound. [3]
Each edition of UABB has had a different curatorial team,themes,and exhibitions: [4]
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