Exploring Foreignness and Identity in the 60th Venice Biennale

The 60th Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, delves into themes of migration, decolonization, and identity, featuring 332 artists from diverse backgrounds. The exhibition aims to challenge notions of foreignness and highlight the experiences of marginalized and historically persecuted artists.

February 1, 2024

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Timor-Leste Artist Maria Madeira to Showcase Resilience and Cultural Identity at Venice Biennale

Timor-Leste artist Maria Madeira’s site-specific installation at the Venice Biennale explores themes of displacement, trauma, and resilience through local materials and performative elements.

January 29, 2024

Carlijn Kingma. Image © Ivo van der Bent

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Building Ecosystems: The Dutch Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale is Curated by Jan Jongert/Superuse Studios

Nieuwe Instituut has appointed Jan Jongert / Superuse Studios from Rotterdam as curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

March 11, 2023

Simone Leigh: Façade, 2022. Thatch, steel, and wood, dimensions variable. Satellite, 2022. Bronze, 24 feet x 10 feet x 7 feet 7 inches (overall). Courtesy of the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Timothy Schenck. © Simone Leigh.

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US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents Loophole of Retreat: Venice

October 7–9, 2022 Loophole of Retreat: Venice, a gathering of Black women and femme intellectuals—performers, writers, filmmakers, artists, and activists—will take place October 7-9 at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, expanding the U.S. Pavilion's presentation of artist Simone Leigh's work at the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The project builds on the…

October 7, 2022

View of Shubigi Rao, Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book, Singapore Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale, 2022. Commissioned by National Arts Council, Singapore, curated by Ute Meta Bauer. Exhibition design: Laura Miotto.

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Singapore Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale presents Pulp III online

April 23–November 27, 2022 Every character in every tale is displaced, a mis-shelved book, a mistranslated text. We are, like the characters we read, restless bodies obsessed with our misapprehensions and mistaken identities, elliptical and misaligned, spinning on axes of our own grinding. We lurk in our murk, we are miasma. —Shubigi Rao, Pulp: A Short Biography…

July 17, 2022

Dixit Algorizmi: The Garden of Knowledge, Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2022. Photo: Giorgio de Vecchi—Giulia di Lenarda/gerdastudo.

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Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale presents The Panoptic Garden

July 5–9, 2022 Guest program curated by Sara Raza (curator, writer, US) and Andris Brinkmanis (art critic and curator, Italy, Latvia). Public program "The Panoptic Garden," a one-week intensive public program focused on transcultural issues connecting to the garden as a discursive place via the perspective of utopia, heterotopia, and dystopia, is coordinated by Sara Raza, NYU ITP,…

July 5, 2022