Tag: Venice Biennale 2017

  • Tania Kovats and Kimathi Donkor discuss drawing practice and education

    After the pop-up symposium Lines of Thought at Trinity Buoy Wharf, the new partner for what was formerly the Jerwood Drawing Prize, practitioners and educators Tania Kovats and Kimathi Donkor talked about drawing in education and practice today

  • James Richards: Music for the gift – Wales in Venice, 2017

    Wales has always punched above its weight at the Biennale, and 2017 is no exception. This year – for its eighth successive appearance – the selected artist is James Richards, a multimedia artist whose work combines layers or fragments of…

  • José Pedro Croft: Uncertain Measure – Venice Biennale 2017

    For his Portugal Venice Biennale commission, artist José Pedro Croft has made a series of six glass-and-steel sculptures that lurch and loom around the gardens of Villa Hériot, on the Giudecca. He talks about the uniquely Venetian dialogue between precariousness…

  • Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda – Venice Biennale 2017

    UK artist Stephen Chambers talks about looking for the extraordinary within the ordinary, about the appeal of fictional kingdoms, the relationship between art and literature, and being led by his instincts to do what he ‘can’t help doing’

  • Andrew Rogers: I AM–ENERGY

    Among Expo 2017’s vast complex of pavilions stands Andrew Rogers’ I AM–ENERGY. A sculptural feat of engineering, it spirals triumphantly upwards to more than 10 metres, confronting visitors like a graceful ballerina en pointe

  • Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble – Venice Biennale 2017

    Gender inequality was one of many human rights issues that artists wrestled with at the 57th Venice Biennale, with one of the most powerful statements coming from the Irish pavilion, in the Arsenale. Here, artist and film-maker Jesse Jones has…

  • George Drivas: Laboratory of Dilemmas – Venice Biennale 2017

    For the 57th Venice Biennale, Greek artist George Drivas offers his customary blend of architecture and film in a narrative video installation that explores the resonances between an ancient story by Aeschylus, involving a group of women seeking asylum, and…

  • Samson Young: Songs for Disaster Relief – Venice Biennale 2017

    Samson Young’s Venice Biennale collateral event for Hong Kong explores the disquieting cocktail of components that comprise the charity single. He talks about the power of music, fake news and what our cultural products say about human nature

  • Nathaniel Mellors and Erkka Nissinen: The Aalto Natives – Venice Biennale 2017

    Mellors and Nissinen represent Finland at this year’s Venice Biennale. They discuss handmade puppets, homemade film sets, creation myths involving eggs, the flimsy narratives on which national identities are built, and whether you have to love something in order to…

  • Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017

    Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…