Venice Biennale: Tabish’s Top 5 at Arsenale
24 June 2015 • Tabish Khan
The best bits of the Arsenale at the Venice Biennale.
Tag: Arsenale
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..
55th Venice Biennale Day 1 By Crystal Bennes & Tom Jeffreys
3 June 2013 • Mark Westall
I really hated this – Deller’s pseudo-inclusive schtick really riles me because it’s the same old self-serving art cliques who benefit from his success and ‘the people’ who he seems so keen to represent don’t really stand to gain a thing.