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Pixels of Ubuntu/ Unhu, Zimbabwe Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Pixels of Ubuntu/ Unhu was opened in the Zimbabwe Pavilion at Venice and this year”s theme is to exploring the social and cultural identities of the 21st century continues the nature of the Zimbabwe, how elements of the past are linked to the now and how the artist is evolving…

Pixels of Ubuntu/ Unhu, Zimbabwe Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Simon Denny: Secret Power, New Zealand Pavilion in National Library of St Mark, Venice Biennale 2015

Two installations that form Simon Denny’s Secret Power exhibition are in the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Simon Denny’s project for the New Zealand pavilion is split across two spaces—the arrivals areas of the Marco Polo Airport and the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana…

Simon Denny: Secret Power, New Zealand Pavilion in National Library of St Mark, Venice Biennale 2015

On Ways of Travelling, Angola Pavilion in Palazzo Pisani, Venice Biennale 2015

At the 2015 Biennale, Angola presented five artists in On Ways of Traveling. Based on the idea of an intergenerational dialogue, the exhibition focuses on how a younger generation of artists and citizens in an independent Angola further the legacies and cultural fusions of past generations. The Angola pavilion is…

On Ways of Travelling, Angola Pavilion in Palazzo Pisani, Venice Biennale 2015

João Louro: I Will Be Your Mirror / Poems and Problems, Portugal Pavilion in Palazzo Loredan, Venice Biennale 2015

The Portugal Pavilion is at the beautifull Palazzo Loredan, in Campo Santo Stefano, and presents the exhibition, I Will Be Your Mirror / Poems and Problems, by João Louro The motto of the exhibition, I’ll be your mirror, is taken from a song by the Velvet Underground. The lyrics of…

João Louro: I Will Be Your Mirror / Poems and Problems, Portugal Pavilion in Palazzo Loredan, Venice Biennale 2015

Sarkis: Respiro, Turkish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

“Respiro”, an installation conceptual artist Sarkis, will be presented in the Pavilion of Turkey at the 56th International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, the Pavilion of Turkey is curated by Defne Ayas, in the main venue of the biennale. A…

Sarkis: Respiro, Turkish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Juan Carlos Distefano: The Rebellion of Form, Argentine Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The theme of the Argentine Pavilion is “The Rebellion of Form”， Created by artist Juan Carlos Distéfano. The pavilion had an assemblage of 29 human-size sculptures that were lined up beautifully to make up the exhibition La Rebeldía de la Forma (meaning The Uprising of Form). Each sculpture represents an…

Juan Carlos Distefano: The Rebellion of Form, Argentine Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. Representing Sweden at the 56th Biennale di Venezia 2015, she has compiled a group of works and documents describing a migration between utopia and collapse, where technological or ideological…

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

UTTER: The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

“UTTER / The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope”, a new project by JAŠA, representing Slovenia at the 56th Venice Biennial International Art Exhibition. The project’s title embraces the very core of JAŠA’s aim to create an artwork as both a poetic stance and a dynamic, politicized presence.…

UTTER: The violent necessity for the embodied presence of hope, Slovenian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lotty Rosenfeld-Paz Errázuriz: Poetics of dissent, Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

For the first time, the concept for the Pavilion of Chile at la Biennale di Venezia was selected in a public competition. Poetics of Dissent was announced as the winning proposal by the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Chile (CNCA). Artists and creative practitioners to be known…

Lotty Rosenfeld-Paz Errázuriz: Poetics of dissent, Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Ways of Folding Space & Flying, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Moon kyungwon and jeon joonho immerse the korean pavilion at the 56th international art exhibition, in a site-specific work that is a continuation of the artists’s ongoing investigation into trying to ‘make sense of what they perceive as a fundamental function of art in the increasingly uncertain and precarious environment…

The Ways of Folding Space & Flying, Korean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

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

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