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17 May 2019 • Lee Sharrock

There are some tough yet critical themes running through the 58th la Biennale di Venezia. The 2019 edition is curated by Ralph Rugoff and inspired by an ancient Chinese proverb which turned out to be a fallacy. Very appropriate for the unsettled times we are living through, where global economic disparity, alternative facts, migration and accelerated global warming are some of the most urgent topics concerning humanity and its future.

Alberta Pane gallery breaching the limits of architecture

1 July 2018 • Irene Machetti

For the fourth exhibition in its space in Venice, Alberta Pane gallery presented the collective show Extended Architecture. For the… Read More

Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff announced as the Curator of the 58th Venice Biennale

15 December 2017 • Mark Westall

La Biennale di Venezia has today announced the appointment of Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff as the Curator the 58th International Art Exhibition.

ART NEWS

Manuel Segade curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 57th Venice biennale

21 July 2017 • Staff

I sat down with the pavilion curator Manuel Segade, one of the leading curatorial voices of Spain to ask a few questions…

INTERVIEWS

Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl

16 May 2017 • Syndicate

The main show is a woolly walk through hand-wringing hippydom and flowerpot trainers. But elsewhere, the biennale bares its teeth in works of danger and daring

EXHIBITIONS

REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery

9 May 2017 • Syndicate

British Pavilion, Venice Biennale
The 73-year-old sculptor’s most significant show yet is a crowded game of associations, where skeletal megaphones spar with concrete clods. But is there space for us to play too?

Participate in Monica Ross’s Act of Memory at Venice Biennale

9 May 2017 • Ben Austin

Venice Agendas is inviting visitors to participate in the recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of… Read More

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FAD’s Art World VIP’s Guide to Venice with Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth Neil Wenman

9 May 2017 • Mark Westall

Dr Neil Wenman is Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth, an international gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad.

Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia.

7 May 2017 • Staff

Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia.

Damien Hirst stakes all on his Venice treasure comeback show

28 March 2017 • Syndicate

The only thing certain about the artist’s secret exhibition is that he has a lot riding on it

ART NEWS

Welcome to the world’s smallest art fair – on a disappearing speck of sand

26 January 2017 • Mark Westall

The art at the Biennale de la Biche off Guadeloupe is set to disappear into the sea, thereby mirroring the futility and emptiness of elite events like Venice Biennale

Damien Hirst to go LARGE for the Venice Biennale 2017

14 October 2016 • Mark Westall

Damien Hirst is going Large for his first major exhibition since 2004. Ten years in the making it needs two venues to house it.

ART NEWS

Susak Expo 2006-2016: the 10th Anniversary of the Biennale No One Attends

17 May 2016 • Staff

Susak Expo 2006 began as an idea to extend platforms by exchanges of contexts and languages through dialogues between people and locations.

Art Fair News

Venice Biennale: Tabish’s Top 5 Shortcomings

8 July 2015 • Tabish Khan

The Biennale was brilliant, but what could be better?

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Venice Biennale: Tabish’s Top 5 National Pavilions

29 June 2015 • Tabish Khan

Where to find national pavilions further afield.

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Venice Biennale: Tabish’s Top 5 at Giardini

17 June 2015 • Tabish Khan

The top 5 includes whale hunting, dissolved nations, hanging keys, magical flowers and a convenience store

SCREAM DADDIO is the new book documenting Sarah Lucas’s exhibition at the British Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015.

21 May 2015 • Mark Westall

I thought a bit about whether I’m a feminist, as it’s something that often comes up. It will certainly be… Read More

ART NEWS

REVIEW: 56th Venice Biennale – with Crystal Bennes and Tom Jeffreys

17 May 2015 • Tom and Crystal

Art, art, art, Aperol, ice cream, and extremely sore feet: yes, we’re back for the 56th instalment of the Venice Biennale. And this time, it’s political.

Politics & Nature: unnatural and natural states of the world at 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

13 May 2015 • Lee Sharrock

Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..

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REVIEW: 56th Venice Biennale – more of a glum trudge than an exhilarating adventure

10 May 2015 • Staff

There’s an awful lot of fretting about the state of the world in the Biennale’s 88 national pavilions, but little power, wit or bravado

Daniel’s Value and Ideas #68: She Screams for Britain Daddio!

8 May 2015 • daniel barnes

Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.

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FAD’s Art World VIP’s Guide to Venice with Collector Sylvain Levy

7 May 2015 • Staff

Yay it’s Venice Biennale time! Today FAD’s Art World VIP, Sylvain Levy shares his insider tips and info on his show of great Chinese art opening today.

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FAD’s Art World VIP’s Guide to Venice with Gallerist Cristian Contini

4 May 2015 • Mark Westall

Yay it’s Venice Biennale time! Today FAD’s Art World VIP, Cristian Contini, Venetian and head of ContiniArtUK, shares insider secrets about where to go and where to get away from it all

FAD’s Art World VIP’s Guide to Venice with artist Michael Petry

4 May 2015 • Mark Westall

We all love the Venice Biennale, but if we’re being honest, we’d probably all admit that we haven’t always done it right. We’ve probably all had the experience of neglecting to make dinner reservations and ending up somewhere disappointing, or of choosing a random hotel off the internet and it being a bit grubby

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