The 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 for taking us beyond the white cube, where past modes of exhibition are reinvented and the work of art turns into a cafeteria. In this shift social communication becomes aesthetic practice.”
La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.
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On Sunday, June 7, 2009, the 53rd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale 2009 officially opened its doors. The show is curated by Daniel Birnbaum and is titled Fare Mondi, Making Worlds. VernissageTV starts its coverage with the Palazzo delle Esposizioni (or Biennale Pavilion) in the Giardini. There, visitors find a huge spiderweb-like work by Tomas Saraceno, an installation by Swedish artist Nathalie Djurberg (who won the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist in the Fare Mondi / Making Worlds exhibition) and the Café designed by Tobias Rehberger, who won the Golden Lion for the Best Artist of the exhibition Fare Mondi / Making Worlds (with the work “Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum Weinen).
The Golden Lion for best National Participation was awarded to the United States of America (Pavilion in the Giardini) with the presentation of Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens. More episodes on the Venice Biennale are coming soon.
La Biennale di Venezia 2009: Fare Mondi (Making Worlds). Professional Preview, June 4, 2009.
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With the installation “the chicken-and-egg-no-problem” wall-painting at Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, German artist Tobias Rehberger presents some 40 works from 15 years of creative production. Spread along 70 meters the visitors to the exhibition encounters Tobias Rehberger’s paper flowers, his “vase portraits”, lamps made of Velcro tape, objects made of Perspex, “videolibraries”, chairs reminiscent of designer classics, limbs mounted on plinths. Lit by spotlights, the works all cast their shadows onto the white wall facing them, merging with the paintings on the wall and forming a mural made of light, shadows and color. “What was there first: the chicken or the egg? Tobias Rehberger’s wall painting cannot be imagined without his sculptures, just as the egg is impossible without the chicken. But: is a three-dimensional work conceivable without a two-dimensional sketch? Is a chicken possible without an egg? What came first? Rehberger’s sculptural work and its shadow image confront one another like the chicken and the egg.” (from the PR). Tobias Rehberger was born 1966 in Esslingen, Germany. He studied from 1987 to 1992 under Thomas Bayrle and Martin Kippenberger at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main, where he currently teaches. The exhibition has been taken on from the Stedelijk Museum CS in Amsterdam. At Museum Ludwig, the exhibition “the chicken-and-egg-no-problem” wall-painting (“Das-kein-Henne-Ei-Problem”-Wandmalerei) runs until September 21, 2008.
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