Tag: Venice Biennale 2019
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Edmund de Waal – interview: ‘The great thing about a library is that, as soon as you have made it, people start to use it’
The British artist and author talks about his many exhibitions this year, including his work for the Venice Biennale 2019 in which he turned the idea of the ghetto into a place of hope and possibility
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Kudzanai-Violet Hwami – interview: ‘How I identify isn’t what pushes me to create. I create because I cannot do anything else’
The Zimbabwe-born, London-based artist talks about her new work for her solo show at Gasworks in London and why her paintings for this year’s Venice Biennale almost reduced her to tears
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Ibrahim Mahama: Parliament of Ghosts
Through the use of old train seats and other salvaged materials, the Ghanaian artist tells a story of his country, rich with the legacy of colonialism, independence and lost opportunities
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David Lewis, Billy Gerard Frank: Epic Memory – Venice Biennale 2019
Two quite different artists who have distinct and diverse relationships with the islands of Grenada and its people meditate on the impact these roots have had on their work and their identities
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Shirley Tse: Stakeholders – Venice Biennale 2019
The artist talks about accommodation and negotiation as expressed in her Venice installation, Stakeholders: a multi-dimensional sculpture using hand turned wood and 3D printed elements
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Remy Jungerman and Iris Kensmil: The Measurement of Presence – Venice Biennale 2019
Jungerman and Kensmil’s installations for the Dutch Pavilion explore issues of race, identity, culture, history and art history. Here, at the opening of the show, Jungerman talks about the sources of his work in Dutch and European modernism, Winti, an…
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Shu Lea Cheang: 3x3x6 – Venice Biennale 2019
Shu Lea Cheang’s multi-media installation for Venice uses its ancient prison setting well to explore the biographies of historical and contemporary sex offences, and ponder the impacts of today’s omnipresent digital surveillance
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Leonor Antunes: a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot – Venice Biennale 2019
Leonor Antunes combines her sculpture and craft to open up conversations within architectural spaces. Here she discusses the 20th-century figures, both known and lesser known, who inspired her Portugal installation for the Venice Biennale
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Renate Bertlmann: Discordo Ergo Sum – Venice Biennale 2019
Renate Bertlmann’s work is rooted in 1970s feminism, yet her message is entirely contemporary. She talks to us about celebrating sensuality and honesty of emotional expression –anger as well as tenderness, fear and lust
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Eva Rothschild: The Shrinking Universe – Venice Biennale 2019
Eva Rothschild’s installation in Venice’s Arsenale summons the spirit of infrastructure, rubble and monuments of disposable (yet not disposable) material. She hopes it will encourage a more direct interaction and encounter with the work
