Category Archives: Contemporary art

Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand, Japanese Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Japan’s contribution to the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia is an exhibition by artist Chiharu Shiota entitled The Key in the Hand. The Key in the Hand, an installation that forges a link between a space made up of keys, yarn, and two boats, and photographs…

Chiharu Shiota: The Key in the Hand, Japanese Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Camille Norment: Rapture, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Presented by the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA), “Rapture” is Norway”s contribution to the 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. In 2015 Norway is solely responsible for the Nordic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale for the first time in its history. For this unprecedented occasion, OCA commissioned…

Camille Norment: Rapture, Nordic Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Sean Lynch – Adventure: Capital, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Irish Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – presents a new artwork by Sean Lynch titled “Adventure: Capital”. Sean Lynch’s work “As a transcendental journey through history and myth, from the Gobán Saor to castaway minimalist sculpture. Lynch’s ethnographic methodology playfully challenges hegemonic…

Sean Lynch – Adventure: Capital, Irish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

ARMPIT, Latvian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Latvian pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition presents ARMPIT, a multimedia art installation by Katrīna Neiburga and Andris Eglītis. It is a sculpted system of building constructions interwoven with video-stories about a peculiar local phenomenon, “garage elves”, who tend to spend their leisure time tinkering with various mechanisms…

ARMPIT, Latvian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Heri Dono: Voyage trokomod, Indonesia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Indonesia pavilion is themed “Trokomod”. conveys the expectations of all historically dominated cultures to be granted equal room and recognition. Myths, legends and folk tales infuseDono’s imagination. Recently he joked:“I am Semar, considered a clown, but inmy former life I was a dinosaurus.” Heri Dono, artist Indonesia, discuss with…

Heri Dono: Voyage trokomod, Indonesia Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique, Mozambique Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

This is an exhibition of contemporary art production focusing on traditional and modern objects to explicate the relationships of art to spirituality, as an example of lived experience of Mozambique, a country of heterogeneous culture, crystallized by holding masterpieces of oral and intangible heritage of humanity, well-known as “Nyau” and…

Coexistence of Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Mozambique, Mozambique Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Vincenzo Trione: Italy Code, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Italian Pavilion present a exhibiont themed “Italy Code” in the 56th International Art Exhibition. Memory, identity values, historical heritage and openness to the future are some of the cornerstones identified by Trione to build a complex exhibition, featuring fifteen artists, between recent past and close contemporaneity. Curator Vincenzo Trione…

Vincenzo Trione: Italy Code, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Civil Future, China Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

China’s pavilion bringing the innovative ideas of Chinese artists at the 56th International Art Exhibition, or Venice Art Biennale 2015. The Chinese pavilion is themed “Civil Future”, it means “everything is among the people and points to the future” . The main theme not only covers broad areas but also…

Civil Future, China Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Third Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The 56th International Art Exhibition entitled All the World’s Futures, organized by la Biennale di Venezia 2015 at the Giardini della Biennale and at the Arsenale. 89 National Participations will be exhibiting in the historical Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice. The countries…

Third Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Second Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Second Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

First Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

First Part in Central Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Subjects, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

“The Subjetcs”, the exhibition at the Spanish Pavilion, presents an asinchronic dialogue between Cabello/Carceller, Francesc Ruiz, Pepo Salazar and Salvador Dalí. History and present times from a queer theory and feminism approach. The artists Cabello/Carceller, Francesc Ruiz and Pepo Salazar, under the guiding light of Salvador Dalí, will serve up…

The Subjects, Spanish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Kamol Tassananchalee: Earth, Air, Fire & Water, Thailand Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

At the Thai National Pavilion, the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture has invited Kamol Tassananchalee to welcome visitors to reflect upon the theme of the 56th Biennale di Venezia, “All the Worlds Futures” This is the seventh la Biennale di Venezia in which Thailand has participated as a country.…

Kamol Tassananchalee: Earth, Air, Fire & Water, Thailand Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Irina Nakhova: The Green Pavilion, Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Russian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale will present Irina Nakhova’s The Green Pavilion. Since the mid-1970s, Nakhova (b. 1955) has made a significant contribution to the development of Moscow Conceptualism, infusing its logocentric model with visual intensity and a critical edge. In the early 1980s, using one of…

Irina Nakhova: The Green Pavilion, Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Tsibi Geva: Archeology of the Present, Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Tsibi Geva presents Archeology of the Present in the Israeli Pavilion at The 56th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Geva, who lives and works in Tel Aviv, is one of Israel’s most prominent and influential artists and has exhibited extensively in major exhibitions across Israel, America, and…

Tsibi Geva: Archeology of the Present, Israeli Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

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