Tag: Venice Biennale
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Venice Biennale 2026 Roundup
The 61st international art exhibition is a vast, volatile project that this year, more than most has faced personal loss, political conflict and protests
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Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir – interview: ‘I am inspired by the underwhelming’
Recycled jute coffee bags, plastic pizza and a heap of wet wipes – for Iceland’s Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Birgisdóttir takes a wry look at our consumerist society and the mixed messages we absorb subliminally
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Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia – Venice Biennale 2024
His practice centres on journeys exploring the region where he was raised and lives as he attempts to capture the passage between present and past, between remembering and forgetting
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Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way
Now on show at Turner Contemporary, Sonia Boyce’s immersive multimedia installation, which won the Golden Lion for best national participation at the 59th Venice Biennale, celebrates black female musicians and invites visitors on a journey of self-discovery, with the ultimate…
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Alberta Whittle: Deep Dive (Pause) Uncoiling Memory – Venice Biennale 2022
The Barbadian-Scottish artist has used sculpture, film and tapestry for her Scotland in Venice presentation. Her aim, she says, is to show that, through self-compassion and collective care, we can battle racism and colonialism
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Venice Biennale 2022 Roundup
This year’s citywide jamboree features riot and revolution, gyrating bodies, battling jet planes, burning fountains and an exhibition for prisoners’ eyes only
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Emily Jacir – interview: ‘I wanted the locals to show me what was important for them, what they thought I should see, what they wanted to talk about’
The artist talks about her stone sculpture, Pietrapertosa, created as part of the Gardentopia project for Matera 2019, and currently on show at the Fondazione Merz in Turin
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Larissa Sansour – interview: ‘That is often what identity and trauma does to you: you become stuck in an idea that you can’t get out of without losing yourself’
The Palestinian artist unravels some of the layers of In Vitro, her science-fiction film now showing in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, and relates it to our present – unsettling – reality
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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
