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.
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Alberta Pane gallery breaching the limits of architecture
For the fourth exhibition in its space in Venice, Alberta Pane gallery presented the collective show Extended Architecture. For the exhibition, running until 29th September, Luciana Lamothe, Marie Lelouche and Esther Stocker created a series of works challenging the strict conventional limits of architectural definitions. Lamothe, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, envisages works suspended in between sculpture […]
Continue Reading...Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff announced as the Curator of the 58th Venice Biennale
La Biennale di Venezia has today announced the appointment of Hayward Gallery Director Ralph Rugoff as the Curator the 58th International Art Exhibition.
Continue Reading...Manuel Segade curator of the Spanish Pavilion at the 57th Venice biennale
I sat down with the pavilion curator Manuel Segade, one of the leading curatorial voices of Spain to ask a few questions…
Continue Reading...Venice Biennale: slaps, drenchings and Dobermans on the prowl
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
Continue Reading...REVIEW: Phyllida Barlow – Venice invaded by loo rolls and brilliant buffoonery
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
Venice Agendas is inviting visitors to participate in the recitation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as part of Monica Ross’ work Act of Memory. The performance will take place at 13:00h on Thursday 11 May at Scuola dei Calegheri, Campo San Toma, Venice this week at the opening of the 57th International Art Exhibition, […]
Continue Reading...FAD’s Art World VIP’s Guide to Venice with Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth Neil Wenman
Dr Neil Wenman is Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth, an international gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad.
Continue Reading...Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia.
Empire II is an artist led satellite project devised and curated by Vanya Balogh for the 57th Biennale di Venezia.
Continue Reading...Damien Hirst stakes all on his Venice treasure comeback show
The only thing certain about the artist’s secret exhibition is that he has a lot riding on it
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