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Friday, July 3rd, 2009Dropstuff.nl is a platform for media art and e-culture that broadcasts artworks by professional artists and designers on a network of Dropstuff Hotspots in (Dutch) museums, libraries, railway stations, schools and art academies. Base camp is the “glass house-pavilion”, a mobile AV-studio space with a gigantic LED screen that travels round various cities.
Dropstuff.nl has been [...]
Silvia Bächli / Swiss Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Silvia Bächli from Basel and Fabrice Gygi from Geneva represent Switzerland at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Silvia Bächli shows drawings in the Swiss Pavilion in the Giardini, Fabrice Gygi presents an installation in the Church of San Stae.
In this video, we have a look at Silvia Bächli’s works in [...]
Roman Ondak: Loop / Czech and Slovak Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009For the Slovak Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition Biennale di Venezia, Roman Ondák has developed a work that deals with the relationship between reality and art. Roman Ondák takes the park landscape between the exhibition pavilions in Venice’s Giardini Publici with their bushes, trees and paths, and replicates and places it in the [...]
Mona Hatoum: Interior Landscape / Fondazione Querini Stampalia / Venice, Italy
Friday, June 26th, 2009The Fondazione Querini Stampalia currently presents a major solo exhibition with new works by Mona Hatoum. The exhibition, entitled Interior Landscape, coincided with the opening of the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and takes place over two floors of the museum – both in the contemporary exhibition spaces as well as within [...]
Liam Gillick / German Pavilion / Venice Biennale 2009
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009In Liam Gillick’s German Pavilion at the 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2009 one meets a kitchen and a cat. The kitchen is inspired by the design of the Frankfurter Küche (Frankfurt Kitchen) by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Conceived in 1926, the Frankfurt Kitchen with its functional form was intended to [...]
Elmgreen & Dragset: The Collectors at Venice Biennial 2009 / Interview with Ingar Dragset
Friday, June 19th, 2009In this video, Ingar Dragset of the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset talks about their exhibition “The Collectors” that they showed as representation of Denmark and Nordic Countries Finland, Norway and Sweden at the 53rd Venice Biennale 2009 – the idea behind the exhibition, how it came about, the different concepts for the Danish and the [...]
The Collectors. Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset / Danish Pavilion / Venice Biennial 2009
Thursday, June 18th, 2009For the 53rd Venice Biennale, the Danish and Nordic Pavilions host “The Collectors“, an exhibition curated and staged by artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset. With contributions from twenty-four international artists, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset transform the Danish and Nordic Pavilions into domestic environments, and invite the audience to be guests in them.
In Elmgreen [...]
Tobias Rehberger: Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen (Cafeteria) / Venice Biennale 2009
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009The Golden Lion for best artist in curator Daniel Birnbaum’s Fare Mondi / Making Worlds art exhibition at the 53rd Venice Biennale went to German artist Tobias Rehberger. Tobias Rehberger designed the cafeteria at the Biennale pavilion (formerly known as Italian Pavilion). The jury stated: “Tobias Rehberger is awarded the Golden Lion as best artist [...]
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens / US Pavilion / 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
Friday, June 12th, 2009Bruce Nauman’s exhibition Topological Gardens, currently on view at the U.S. Pavilion in the Giardini at the 53rd Venice Biennale, has won the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. The Biennale stated that Bruce Nauman’s work “reveals the magic of meaning as it emerges through relentless repetition of language and form.”
Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens presents [...]
Claude Lévêque: Le Grand Soir / French Pavilion / 53rd Venice Biennale 2009
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009This year Claude Lévêque is the artist who represents France at the 53rd International Exhibition of Art – La Biennale di Venezia. At the French Pavilion, he presents an installation entitled “Le Grand Soir”. According to the press release, the work is a uniquely French concept from the eve of the Revolution. “Le Grand Soir” [...]
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