Category Archives: Exhibition

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…

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.…

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…

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…