Tag: Venice Biennale

  • Patricia Cronin: ‘A silent protest can be quite powerful’ – Venice Biennale 2015

    Patricia Cronin talks about Shrine for Girls, her installation at the Venice Biennale that commemorates three girls raped in India, 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram, and the women of the Magdalene laundries, and what compelled her to speak out

  • BGL: ‘In our installation, people play with money, and we like this game’

    Canadian art collective BGL makes art that is playful and provocative, parodying everyday objects to comment on our material passions and obsessions with consumerism. Studio International spoke to them at the 56th Venice Biennale

  • All the World’s Futures: the 56th Venice Biennale

    Under the African curator Okwui Enwezor, the 56th Venice Biennale attempts to bring together our disorganised world, reflected in the diversity of works on display, and to embrace our pasts, presents and futures

  • Céleste Boursier-Mougenot: persistances

    Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s immersive installations merge movement and sound and extract the musical potential from the seemingly banal soundtrack of quotidian life

  • Bedwyr Williams: interview

    Living in a small village in north Wales, Bedwyr Williams is the first to confess that most people there, including his partner, think he is a little strange. And indeed, there is no straight talking with this polymath-artist-come-standup comedian whose…

  • Stay of life in Venice

    Venice Biennale 1 June-24 November 2013

  • Outside In: 55th Venice Biennale

    In the alleyways of Venice, street vendors are touting a new product – a globule of goo, which when thrown at the pavement splatters into a seemingly irreconcilable fried egg shape, but over the course of five seconds, reforms itself…

  • Richard Long: Walking and Marking

    National Galleries of Scotland 30 June-21 October 2007 The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) in Edinburgh, in time for the Edinburgh Festival 2007, is currently staging an outstanding recent retrospective exhibition on Richard Long. There is a curious irony…

  • A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim

    Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist’s nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges…

  • Douglas Gordon: Superhumanatural

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 2 November 2006-14 January 2007 The film and video artist Douglas Gordon had his first one-man exhibition in Britain at the Lisson Gallery in 1994, sponsored by its perceptive director Nicholas Logsdail, to which he…