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A plus A gallery in Venice presents the show Exercises in Style. Curated by NOVEL, it includes works by Helen Cammock, Keren Cytter, Anthony D Green, Loretta Fahrenholz, RB. Kitay, Ghislaine Leung, Bob van der Wal. On until 5th August.
The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale – open through to late November – has been greeted by critical consensus: France, Lithuania and Ghana are the national pavilions of choice
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.
For the fourth exhibition in its space in Venice, Alberta Pane gallery presented the collective show Extended Architecture. For the… Read More
La Biennale di Venezia has today announced the appointment of Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff as the Curator the 58th International Art Exhibition.
I sat down with the pavilion curator Manuel Segade, one of the leading curatorial voices of Spain to ask a few questions…
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
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?
Venice Agendas is inviting visitors to participate in the recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of… Read More
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.
The only thing certain about the artist’s secret exhibition is that he has a lot riding on it
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 is going Large for his first major exhibition since 2004. Ten years in the making it needs two venues to house it.
Susak Expo 2006 began as an idea to extend platforms by exchanges of contexts and languages through dialogues between people and locations.
The Biennale was brilliant, but what could be better?
Where to find national pavilions further afield.
The top 5 includes whale hunting, dissolved nations, hanging keys, magical flowers and a convenience store
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, 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.
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..
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
Let’s take a moment to congratulate Sarah Lucas on being one of the best artists alive.
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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