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The 60th edition of the Venice Biennale is a bright, bold and boundary-breaking spectacle. The international exhibition is renowned for distilling many of the major geopolitical issues of the moment, and this year is no exception. Curator Adriano Pedrosa’s title "Foreigners Everywhere" is conveniently malleable, bringing under its wing topics like nationalism, displacement, marginalisation and colonialism. Some pavilions and exhibitions explicitly confront these contemporary issues. The Dutch Pavilion did more than just reflect on the colonial art theft debate; it enacted change by persuading ...
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In the desert-hued pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Venice Biennale, a rising harmonised humming fills the space. These are the voices of some 1,000 Saudi women that artist Manal AlDowayan has “brought with her” to the international exhibition. With her all-female team of curators, AlDowayan’s installation aims to be a rebuttal of the international media’s preconceptions of women in Saudi Arabia and an amplification of their own voices instead. In Lebanon’s pavilion, artist Mounira AI Solh challenges the male gaze and the way it has shaped the ancient myth of Europa. Like AlDowayan, she returns...
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Through drawing, installation, photography, film and sound, Mónica de Miranda explores the intersections of politics, gender, memory, space and history, inviting audiences to explore themes of resistance, geographies of affection, storytelling, and ecologies of care. She is currently representing the Portugal Pavilion at the esteemed Venice Biennale 2024, presenting her project "Greenhouse", in collaboration with activist Sónia Vaz Borges and choreographer Vânia Gala. Inspired by the French director Agnès Varda's 'Une minute pour un image' (one minute for one image), we've put together four ...
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Entitled ‘Foreigners Everywhere’, the 2024 Venice Biennale has at its core the exploration of identity. The international show is notably - and for some anachronistically - organised into national pavilions. Prompted by the theme, many countries have chosen to examine ideas of nationhood, belonging and foreignness. Collectively, however, this also raises the question of how valid the Biennale’s division of exhibitors into national showrooms continues to be. ‘You are always, deep down inside, a foreigner’The 60th edition of the international exhibition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, takes its tit...
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A major collateral exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale will be dedicated to the iconography and symbolism of breasts. They are a fixture of art, whether it’s a 16th-century devotional painting of the breastfeeding Virgin or a wearable breastplate from 20th-century fashion design, as the show highlights. ‘Breasts’, at Palazzo Franchetti, showcases works from old masters to modern publicity, spanning the realms of painting, sculpture, photography and film. Curated by Carolina Pasti, the show reflects on a range of themes including motherhood, empowerment, sexuality, body image and illness. It...
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Have you heard of the Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan? He’s the one behind the infamous “Comedian” - the ripe banana duct-taped to a wall - which was eaten by a South Korean student with an urgent hankering for protein during an exhibition. Ring a bell? He’s also the artistic mind who came up with “Him” (2001), a sculpture of a genuflecting Adolf Hitler. What about now? Surely you've heard of “America” (2016), the brilliantly satirical piece consisting of a fully functioning 18-carat gold toilet which would have shrunken Marcel Duchamp’s underwear - and which was stolen by naughty ...
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Thousands of artists have called for Israel to be excluded from this year's Venice Biennale in an open letter that accuses the country of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The letter published online by the Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) states that it is unacceptable to present art at an international cultural event from a state that is currently carrying out atrocities in the embattled Gaza Strip. According to ANGA, more than 8,000 artists and cultural professionals have now signed the petition. The demand comes just two months before the renowned art exhibition, hosted ann...
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The European Cultural Foundation (ECF) has announced the selection of five finalists competing to be selected for The European Pavilion 2024, an EU-focused alternative to the Venice Biennale. These five projects have been put forward for their potential to ignite critical discourse and reimagine the trajectory of Europe through artistic expression. Launched by the ECF in 2020, The European Pavilion extends a commissioning grant of of up to €500,000 to a European cultural organisation that presents the most ambitious and compelling vision for curating and hosting events. The unveiling of this y...
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