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The art collective Chamber of Public Secrest (CPS) is appointed to curate the Maldivian Pavilion at the 55th Venice biennale in 2013. This is the first time the Maldives participates in the Biennial. The history of the artistic aesthetics of the Maldives is not widely documented as the Island is not known for its visual arts activities but rather for the supreme beauty of its ocean, ecology and envir...   [more]

Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva presents a major new installation work, Silentio Pathologia, at the Scuola dei Laneri, commissioned by the National Gallery of Macedonia, working with curator Ana Frangovska for the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia. Silentio Pathologia draws upon her original proposal to the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia, which reflected upon the movement, migratio...   [more]

Akram Zaatari is an artist whose work is tied to collecting and exploring photographic practices in the making of social codes and aesthetic forms. Regarding the present through a wealth of photographic records from the past, Zaatari co-founded the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation in 1997, and he has been working on the extensive archive of Hashem el Madani’s Studio Shehrazade, in the Lebanese po...   [more]

The exposition titled North by Northeast presents new site-specific works by the Latvian artists Kaspars Podnieks and Krišs Salmanis. Through the exploration of the artists’ relationship to the natural and ever shifting man-made world – including perceived borders and centres in Europe – Podnieks and Salmanis investigate and highlight the concepts and conditions of identity, uncertainty, an...   [more]

Koki Tanaka Born in 1975; currently lives and works in Los Angeles. In his diverse art practice spanning video, photography, site-specific installation, and interventional projects, Koki Tanaka visualizes and reveals the multiple contexts latent in the most simple of everyday acts. In his recent projects he documents the behavior unconsciously exhibited by people confronting unusual situations, e.g....   [more]

Le Gouvernement de Côte d’Ivoire, à travers le Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie, participe à la 55ème Exposition Internationale d’Art - la Biennale di Venezia. C’est une grande première non seulement pour la Côte d’Ivoire, mais aussi pour l’ensemble des pays d’Afrique de l’ouest, dont le Nigéria qui en est également à sa première participation. Les amateurs d�...   [more]

vice versa picks up on a concept introduced by Giorgio Agamben in his book Categorie italiane. Studi di Poetica (1996), in which the philosopher maintained that in order to interpret Italian culture, we must identify a "series of diametrically linked concepts" capable of describing its underlying characteristics – binomials like tragedy/comedy, architecture/vagueness and speed/lightness thus become original keys for rea...   [more]

Richard Mosse is the Irish artist selected to represent Ireland in 2013. He will be showcasing a new body of work, which includes a multi-media immersive installation.   [more]

The Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia in 2013 will host a group exhibition curated by Jonathan Watkins comprising works by eleven contemporary Iraqi artists resident in Iraq. Working across a wide range of media, including photography, drawing, painting, video, installation, sculpture, and textiles, they represent two generations of artists from ac...   [more]

“Sakti” as the curatorial theme for the Indonesia Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is based on its symbolic nature and its aptness in representing the spirit that ties together the Indonesian nation. Originally Sakti derives from the Sanskrit “shak,” (to be able) meaning the sacred force of empowerment or primordial cosmic energy representing the dynam...   [more]

Jeremy Deller will present a much-anticipated solo exhibition in the British Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice from 1st June to 24th November 2013.  Jeremy Deller’s way of working as artist, orchestrator, filmmaker, curator and cultural archivist is both highly influential and often collaborative. People often take centre stage in Deller’s practice and, over the las...   [more]

Opening: May 29th   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The Pavilion of Georgia at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia will be a parasitic extension to an old building in the Arsenale. This informal structure called a “kamikaze loggia”—characteristic of Tbilisi—will be designed by the artist Gio Sumbadze, who is a researcher of the typology of these architectural additions. Vernacular extensions of modernist buildings ha...   [more]

Construit sur le verbe to ravel qui en anglais signifie « emmêler » et son contraire, to unravel, qui signifie « démêler », entre lesquels a été inséré l’homographe de to ravel, Ravel, en référence au célèbre compositeur français Maurice Ravel, auteur en 1930 du Concerto en ré pour la main gauche, qui constitue ici le cœur du projet d’Anri Sala.   DU SON DANS L'ESPACE ...   [more]

Opening: May 31st   11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

The exhibition EVIDENT IN ADVANCE develops a vast diapason of issues, grouped around the elusiveness of language, the (im)possibilities of translation and the logic of infinite re-translations. Its concept is playfully inspired by an adventurous storyline of American writer, Bruce Duffy’s ground-breaking novel, „The World As I Found It“ (1987), a melange of fiction and reality, truth and fa...   [more]

Opening: May 31st   5:00 PM - 7:00 PM