It’s awards time in Venice.
The Venice Biennale’s jury presented its top honor, the Golden Lion, to Tino Sehgal for his work in Massimiliano Gioni’s biennale exhibition, “The Encyclopedic Palace,” and to Angola for the best national pavilion, which included a show by photographer Edson Chagas and a group show called “Angola in Motion.” (Thanks to Artforum for directing us to the news.) Read More
There are plenty of entertaining moments to pull from Carol Vogel’s profile of Venice Biennale curator Massimiliano Gioni, which hit The New York Times‘s website this afternoon, but we’re going to go with this tidbit about what Ragnar Kjartansson has planned for the biennial. Read More
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
The Venice Biennale office has released the official list of collateral events. The 48 projects organized by nonprofits (up from 37 in 2011) will occur throughout the city during the Biennale, from June 1 to Nov. 24. Art in America first shared the news. The list features stars like Ai Weiwei, Lawrence Weiner, Shirazeh Houshiary and Thomas Zipp. See the full roster below. Read More
The Venice Biennale artist list is out, and it is filled with some tantalizing names! Heavyweights like Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman and Tacita Dean are on there, along with some beloved deceased figures like Hilma af Klint, James Castle and David Weiss. (Sadly, my big prediction that Maurizio Cattelan would come out of retirement for the affair seems not to be happening.) Read More
Big news! The artists participating in Massimiliano Gioni’s Venice Biennale exhibition, “The Encyclopedic Palace,” were just announced. The show, which will run from June 1 to Nov. 24, will feature a dizzying array of artists (as well as cultural items like “Shaker Gift Drawings” and “Haitian Vodou Flags”). See the complete list below. (And Read More
The Venice Biennale announcements just keep on coming! The latest nation to release its plans for its national pavilion is the Bahamas, which announced that Tavares Strachan will represent it at the grand show, which runs June 1 through Nov. 24 this year. Read More
The Danish Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale will feature a multi-channel film by the artist Jesper Just. The project will consist of five films played simultaneously on a loop that examine “architectural pastiche and cultural dislocation,” particularly that of Paris, according to a release from the Danish Arts Council. Read More
With the opening of the 2013 Venice Biennale just a few months away, countries are finalizing their plans for their national pavilions. The latest to state its intentions is Latvia, which announced that Kaspars Podnieks and Krišs Salmanis will represent it at the international showcase. The pavilion is being organized by Anne Barlow and Courtenay Finn, who are respectively director and curator of New York–based nonprofit Art in General, as well as Alise Tīfentāle, who is serving as the representative for the KIM? Contemporary Art Center, of Riva, Latvia. The news comes to us via Artforum. Read More
