By Zoë Lescaze 5/13 3:29pm

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The Venice Biennale International Jury Has Been Selected

Venice Biennale officials have announced the five members of the International Jury, which will determine the recipients of the coveted Golden and Silver Lion prizes at this year’s exposition. The jury, which will be led by Jessica Morgan, the Daskalopoulos Curator of International Art at Tate Modern, will also include Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, the chief curator of the 9a. Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil and curator for contemporary art at the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York and Caracas, Francesco Manacorda, who was recently appointed artistic director of Tate Liverpool, Bisi Silva, founder and director of the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos, Nigeria, and Ali Subotnick, curator at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.  Read More

By Zoë Lescaze 2/06 12:38pm

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South Korea Selects Kimsooja for Venice Biennale

Despite previous reports that South Korea would send a group show to this year’s Venice Biennale, it appears that installation artist Kimsooja—a regular at MoMA PS1 and other New York venues—will be the country’s sole representative (Blouin Artinfo broke the news). Kimsooja is no stranger to the City of Bridges; this will be her fifth time exhibiting at the Biennale (she also participated in 2007, 2005, 2001 and 1999). It won’t be the artist’s first time working with Biennale director Massimiliano Gioni either—he curated the 2009 Gwanju Biennale in Korea, in which she appeared. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 9/19/12 12:11pm

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Ai Weiwei. Still from 'Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,' 2012. (Courtesy Aiweiweineversorry.com)

Ai Weiwei Among Four Artists to Represent Germany at Venice Biennale

Among the four artists who will represent Germany at the next Venice Biennale is Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Indian artist Dayanita Singh, South African artist Santu Mofokeng and French-German artist Romuald Karmakar round out the international team, as announced today by Frankfurt am Main’s Museum für Moderne Kunst. Susanne Gaensheimer, the director of the museum and the curator of the German pavilion, said in the statement that each of the four artists has ties to the art scene in Germany and had worked there for many years. Read More

By Susan Michals 9/04/12 5:56pm

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Just, Arrived: With Three Ambitious New Films, Jesper Just Explores the Poetry of Place

Sitting in Zinque, a boho hippie wine bar in Venice, Calif., Jesper Just, with his piercing blue eyes and disheveled blond hair, looked more like a surfer dude than an artist whose famously open-ended narrative films grace the collections of world-class museums like the Guggenheim, the Tate Modern and MoMA, and who was recently chosen to represent Denmark in the 2013 Biennale—in that other Venice. This was in late July, and the Danish-born, New York-based 37-year-old had just spent a few days filming in Llano Del Rio, a long-deserted socialist community in the Antelope Valley outside Los Angeles. He’d come to Zinque to discuss that film, Llano, that will have its world premiere in an exhibition opening at New York’s James Cohan Gallery on September 6—along with two other new films getting their New York premieres—but he gave the impression that he’d prefer the content of his work to remain at least partly ambiguous. Read More

By Rozalia Jovanovic 6/15/12 7:06pm

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Valentin Carron, 'L'homme,' 2006. (Courtesy 303 Gallery)

Valentin Carron to Represent Switzerland at 2013 Venice Biennale

Valentin Carron has been selected to represent Switzerland at the 2013 Venice Biennale, we were just alerted via Artnet. Mr. Carron, who has emerged in recent years as one of the most compelling of the younger-generation Swiss artists, paints, sculpts and creates installations that question the central traditions of contemporary art through appropriation and reproduction. Right, he copies, sort of. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 5/31/12 9:29am

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Kassel is king. (Courtesy compujeremy/Flickr)

Documenta About Twice as Popular as Venice Biennale

Though Kassel, Germany, is not quite as glamorous as Venice, it turns out that the most recent edition of the international art exhibition that it hosts ever five years, Documenta, had about twice as many visitors as the most recent Venice Biennale. According to published reports, Documenta 12, in 2007, attracted about 750,000 people, while the most recent Venice Biennale, in 2011, attracted 375,000 visitors. Read More

By Andrew Russeth 5/30/12 4:38pm

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Installation view of Mr. Tonaka's work "Approach to an Old House." (Courtesy the artist)

Koki Tanaka Will Rep Japan at 2013 Venice Biennale

The names just keep coming! The latest country to put forward its representative for the 2013 Venice Biennale is Japan, which announced that the high honor will go to Koki Tanaka. Mike Kuraya, the chief curator of the department of fine arts at Tokyo’s National Museum of Modern Art will handle curatorial duties. Artforum has the story, which reports: “Kuraya states that he plans to use the pavilion as a platform for sharing experiences surrounding disaster, noting that any message coming from Japan will necessarily be in the context of the 2011 earthquake.” Read More