![]() The National Gallery of Canada in Ontario is the institution commissioning Canada’s 2022 pavilion.Īt the invitation of the Mondriaan Fund, Estonia will take over the Dutch pavilion, located in the show’s main exhibition grounds in the Giardini, for the upcoming Biennale. Douglas won the Hasselblad Award in 2016 experimentations in abstract photography. In his work, Douglas centers the narratives of historically marginalized people, and he has previously exhibited at four past editions of La Biennale. The artist’s practice also spans video, audio, and performance work, and her pieces can be found in the collections of Tate Modern, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and other institutions.Ĭanada has chosen video artist and photographer Stan Douglas for its pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Boyce’s drawings, paintings, and photographs have featured portraits of black subjects and her work has alluded to her Afro-Caribbean heritage. The London-based artist Sonia Boyce will be the first black woman to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale. The artist’s politically-minded films and videos often focus on borders and conflict, his pieces have also been shown in main presentations at the Venice Biennale in 1999, 2001, and 2007. Hilde Teerlinck, a curator at the Han Nefkens Foundation in Barcelona, is organizing the country’s pavilion, where Alÿs will show a new work building on his video Children’s Games #19: Haram Soccer (2017). The Austrian pavilion will be curated by Karola Kraus, director of the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien.įrancis Alÿs, who showed work in the Iraq Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale, will represent Belgium at exhibition’s 59th edition. The artists said that they will show paintings, videos, textiles, photographs, and other works in their presentation, which seeks to upend the conventional format of museum exhibitions. Pieces by the artist also figured in the Museum of Modern Art’s first-ever exhibition of sound art, which went on view in 2013.Ĭollaborators Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl will represent Austria at the exhibition. In his work, which was shown in the main exhibition of the 2015 Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Fusinato explores modes of perception. The sculptural forms combine female bodies, traditional objects and vernacular architecture, recalling the artistic traditions of Africa and the African diaspora.Sound artist Marco Fusinato will represent Australia in the 59th Venice Biennale, and Alexie Glass-Kantor, executive director of Artspace in Sydney and curator of Art Basel Hong Kong’s Encounters section, will organize the Fusinato’s exhibition. Sculptor Simone Leigh has filled the US pavilion with large-scale ceramic and bronze sculptures that continue her ongoing exploration of black female subjectivity. Two prominent pavilions, the United States and the United Kingdom, are being represented by black women for the first time this year. Black female artists make their debut at the Venice Biennale Sara’s suspended sculptures of reindeer calves oscillate between eerie and hopeful while Feodoroff’s work looks at the industrial logging of Sámi forests, cleared to make way for the construction of wind farms. ![]() ![]() Pauliina Feodoroff and Máret Ánne Sara explore issues of colonialism and land guardianship. The work highlights the period of Algerian independence and the fight to construct a cultural identity no longer defined by French colonialism.Īt the Nordic Pavilion, illuminated with natural light and built around three trees that sprout through the roof, indigenous Samí artists are making their groundbreaking debut. The installation includes film sets taken from classics like The Battle of Algiers (1966) interspersed with autobiographical elements about her own life. In the pavilion, the French-Algerian artist explores Algerian cinema from the 60s and 70s and its connections with Italian and French film. Located in the Giardini della Biennale, one of the main sites of the Biennale along with the Arsenale, Sedira’s Dreams Have No Titles gives visitors the impression they have stepped into a classic film set. Of the headlining female artists in the 80 national pavilions, Zineb Sedira at the French Pavilion is one to look out for. Must see female artists at the Venice Biennale ![]()
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