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Thursday, August 27th, 2009Romania presents three artists at the 53rd International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu and Ciprian Muresan. Their works are shown within the framework of a site-specific installation conceived by the studioBASAR architectural group as a theatre set. The exhibition is entitled “The Seductiveness of the Interval“. Excerpt from [...]
Péter Forgács: Col Tempo / Hungarian Pavilion / 53rd Biennale di Venezia 2009
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009The Hungarian Pavilion in the Giardini presents the work “Col Tempo – The W. Project” by Péter Forgács. The Hungarian media artist and recipient of the 2007 Erasmus Prize conceived a work that revolves around one single motif: the human face.
Péter Forgács is working with archival footage from the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria [...]
Lucas Samaras: Paraxena / Greek Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009
Wednesday, August 12th, 2009At the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 Greece is represented by Lucas Samaras. Lucas Samaras presents the multi-installation “Paraxena” in the Greek Pavilion in the Giardini. The show brings together three recent series of photographic and video works produced between 2005 and 2009, juxtaposed with a discrete group of sculptural works [...]
Haegue Yang: Condensation / Korean Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
Monday, August 10th, 2009Haegue Yang is representing Korea at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009. Haegue Yang works primarily in sculpture, video, and installation. She received her B.F.A. from Seoul National University, Fine Arts College in 1994, and her Meisterschüler from Städelschule Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1999. Her works have been exhibited internationally [...]
Fiona Tan: Disorient / Dutch Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Amsterdam-based film and video artist Fiona Tan represents the Netherlands at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Fiona Tan was born in Indonesia and grew up in Australia. In 1988 she moved to the Netherlands to pursue studies at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie. Her work has been exhibited widely [...]
Elke Krystufek, Dorit Margreiter, Franziska & Lois Weinberger / Austrian Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale
Friday, July 31st, 2009Commissioned by Valie Export and Silvia Eiblmayr, the Austrian Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 presents works by Elke Krystufek, Dorit Margreiter, and Franziska & Lois Weinberger.
Elke Krystufek’s work “Tabou Taboo” deals with different topics: Polynesia being regarded as a mythical place of liberated life and eroticism in European [...]
Shaun Gladwell: MADDESTMAXIMVS / Australian Pavilion / La Biennale di Venezia 2009
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Shaun Gladwell represents Australia at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009. The show entitled MADDESTMAXIMVS brings together the artist’s trademark slowed-footage video installations of figures undertaking acts of physical virtuosity, with sculptural works and interventions into the fabric of the pavilion itself, such as a motorcycle that stucks in the outer [...]
Victory Over the Future / Russian Pavilion / 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
Friday, July 24th, 2009The Russian Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia presents works by seven artists: Georgy (Gosha) Ostretsov, Pavel Pepperstein, Anatoly Zhuravlyov, Alexei Kallima, Irina Korina, Sergei Shekhovtsov, and Andrei Molodkin. In this video we have a closer look at the installations by Ostretsov, Pepperstein, Zhuravlyov, Kallima, and Korina.
The exhibition at the [...]
Miquel Barceló / Spanish Pavilion / 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
Monday, July 20th, 2009Miquel Barceló represents Spain at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009. On display is a series of large format paintings surveying Miquel Barceló’s work from 2000 to the present. The exhibition also features a group of ceramics.
The most recent works come from the same time as when the Miquel Barceló was creating the dome at the [...]
Miwa Yanagi: Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe / Japanese Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009
Friday, July 17th, 2009Miwa Yanagi represents Japan at the 53rd Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, with her installation entitled Windswept Women: The Old Girls’ Troupe. For this work, Miwa Yanagi takes the Japanese Pavilion, built in 1956 and designed by Takamasa Yoshizaka and covers its exterior with a black, membrane-like tent. Inside, Miwa Yanagi installs giant 4m high [...]
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