Cyprien Galliard Artist.
Artist Seth Price inspects Philip Lorca DiCorcia’s Thousand, a collection of one thousand Polaroid photographs culled from the past 25 years of his career.
Artist Zhang Enli.
Installers placing a wig on the head of one of Morton Bartlett’s dolls.
An assemblage by the artist James Castle. Castle was an untrained artist who lived in rural Idaho from 1899 until 1977. Deaf and mute and unable to read or write, Castle channeled his limited understanding of the world into his art practice, and created a pantheon of what scholars refer to as his "friends”--small figures, roughly rendered, which provided him with a respite from his isolation.
Navigating the entrance to the galleries with an enormous crate containing Franz Gertsch’s Self Portrait (1980).
Preparing to hang Jakub Ziolkowski’s new series of works based on George Bataille’s pornographic novel Story of the Eye, which were commissioned for the biennale.
Warhol museum archivist Matt Wrbican condition checks the contents of the time capsule that Andy Warhol devoted to his mother. 
A Woolworth’s bag that belonged to Andy Warhol’s mother, Julia Warhola, which is included in the time capsule that Warhol devoted to her. This time capsule is the only one out of the more than six hundred capsules that Warhol compiled that is organized according to a theme.
Artist Byungsoo Choi’s memorial painting of student Lee Han-Yeol (1966-1987), who died after he was struck in the head by a police tear gas canister while attending a pro-democracy rally in Seoul. The portrait was mounted on a truck, and served as the centerpiece of Lee’s memorial service, which was attended by an estimated two million people.
A Sculpture by artist John De Andrea installed as part of the biennale’s unauthorized reconstruction of Mike Kelley’s exhibition The Uncanny.
A 16mm projector in gallery 4 awaiting Anna Artaker’s film 48
Heads from the Merkurov Museum, a film documenting the Merkurov Museum’s collection of death masks of Russian officials that were created by Soviet sculptor Sergey Merkurov.
One of the 109 life-sized sculptures that make up the Rent Collection Courtyard, a landmark work of Chinese socialist realism. Swiss curator Harald Szeemann twice tried unsuccessfully to exhibit the Rent Collection Courtyard in Europe, once for Documenta 5 in Kassel, Germany in 1972 and again for the 1999 Venice Biennale. The 8th Gwangju Biennale is the first time that the sculptures have been shown in an Asian country outside of China.
Detail of Jean-Frédéric Schnyder’s self-portrait Stigma, which recalls Albrecht Dürer’s iconic Self Portrait from 1500.
Artist Margaret Lee helping with the installation of a specially commissioned mural work by Cindy Sherman.
View of the completed installation of Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ Visible World.
Thomas Hirschhorn’s Embedded Fetish next to crates containing works from Jean Fautrier’s Otage (Hostage) series.
Detail of a drawing by the untrained artist/healer Guo Fengyi.