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The Climate Biennial officially opened today in Avilés with an institutional ceremony marking the beginning of a programme that, under the motto Rehearsing the Unexpected, will transform the city and its surroundings into a cultural landmark until 20 September. The official opening took place this morning at Ferrera Park in Avilés and was attended by Ernest Urtasun, Minister of Culture; Miguel González Suela, Undersecretary of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge; Maite Verdú Martínez, Director-General for Urban Agenda and Architecture at the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda; Jordi Martí Grau, Secretary of State for Culture; Vanessa Gutiérrez, Regional Minister for Culture, Language Policy and Sport of the Principality of Asturias; and Mariví Monteserín, Mayor of Avilés. Also in attendance were Miguel Soberón, Director of Atelier itd, Miguel Soberón and Amanda Masha Caminals, Artistic Director of the Climate Biennial.

Under the title Rehearsing the Unexpected, more than 40 local, national and international artists will be presented.

The full programme is now available. Under the title Rehearsing the Unexpected, the Biennial will bring together more than 40 artists across 13 exhibition venues from 12 June to 20 September, alongside over 60 activities organised around three thematic strands.

Asturias will host the 1 st edition of the Climate Biennial: art, industry and territory, from June 12 to September 20

The document includes, among other contents, the critical cartography developed by the Asturian artist Elisa Cuesta, a tool for reading the territory that has served as the basis for the development of the exhibition and public programme. Altogether, the publication works as a conceptual and practical framework from which to imagine, through culture, art, and landscape, fairer and more inhabitable ways of life.