The 17th Biennale of Sydney , which takes place from May 12th to August 1, 2010 closed with a record visitation from over half a million people. With more than 517,000 visiting the Biennale venues, an estimated 408,000 additional visitors enjoyed the Biennale’s outdoor works located in the Royal Botanic Gardens and an uncountable amount of people experienced Roxy Paine’s large-scale artwork ‘Neuron’, which was located on the front lawn of the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sydney hotels were bursting at the seams with this hugely successful event. It’s estimated that the record-breaking attendance was fuelled by a phenomenal rise in the number of people who visited the Cockatoo Island venue of 82% more, which outshone its inaugural 2008 use. At the former convict prison and shipyard, where 56 artists displayed 120 pieces of artwork, there was more than 157,000 visitors who took advantage of the free ferries provided by two support groups.
The Museum of Contemporary Art also had record-breaking attendance for the Biennale of Sydney with over 173,000 visits. MCA had 4 floors of the gallery dedicated to the exhibition featuring 285 works by 94 artists. The exhibition showed contemporary art highlighting and at the same time criticizing how our present ideas were all molded from the past.
The next Biennale of Sydney won’t happen till May of 2012, but if this year’s attendance is any indicator, then in 2012 the attendance should hit around 1 million people.
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