Tag: Venice Biennale
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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
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Sean Edwards: Undo Things Done – Venice Biennale 2019
Sean Edwards discusses growing up in a community with low expectations and expressing the most honest version of self as an artist, through his multi-media Wales in Venice installation Undo Things Done
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Joana Vasconcelos: I’m Your Mirror
Joana Vasconcelos has filled the Guggenheim Bilbao with work from the past 20 years. She talks about craft, the importance (or otherwise) of scale, and how she seeks to expose and explode the myths and realities around female experience
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Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
The YBA’s watery comeback dazzles with its extravagance, but the audacity of Hirst’s exhibition only goes so far
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Monica Bonvicini: ‘It is not merely a display of sculptures and objects but a praxis about what it means to produce, show and display’
The Italian artist talks about her survey show at Baltic and how bringing together her works in new combinations helps her see them in different ways
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Mark Wallinger: ‘Even the ugliest mark, with symmetry, gains some kind of élan’
After months of psychoanalysis, the Turner Prize-winning artist reveals something of his inner self in his debut solo show at Hauser & Wirth. The id, the ego and the superego are all vying for attention and begging interpretation









