Artist: Miriam Cahn (Switzerland) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “From the 1970s to the mid-1990s, Miriam Cahn shunned painting as an act of feminist resistance against the Western art world’s male, Abstract and Minimalist Zeitgeist. Painting had passed its art […]
Artist: Cosima von Bonin (Kenya) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cosima von Bonin came of age as an artist in the 1990s amid the storied art scene in Cologne. In her practice, mixed references to art history, popular culture, and music are […]
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade Title: Com o coração saindo pela boca / Con il cuore che esce dalla bocca Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Brazil Curated by: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jonathas de Andrade bases his work on his profound interest in […]
Artist: Alexandra Pirici (Romania) Title: Encyclopedia of Relations Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Alexandra Pirici is a Romanian artist and choreographer known for staging public actions, gestures, and sculptures that provoke re-assessments of historical narratives and civic space, nature, and […]
Artist: Merikokeb Berhanu (Ethiopia) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Brimming with abstract forms, at the blink of an eye Merikokeb Berhanu’s canvases become recognisable cosmologies and topographies, bearing with them evocations of nature and its universal rhythms. Berhanu’s series Cellular […]
Artist: Zineb Sedira Title: Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: France Curated by: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Zineb Sedira’s film installation investigates the drive to make militant films […]
Artist: Mrinalini Mukherjee (India) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Born to artist parents in post-partition Bombay and raised in Santiniketan, a utopian community in West Bengal, Mrinalini Mukherjee worked intensively with fibre – and later, bronze and ceramic – for most of […]
Artist: Yunchul Kim Title: Gyre Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: South Korea Curated by: Youngchul Lee Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “In the infinite cycles of creation and extinction, it gyrates and descends; this theme permeates everything from energy to matter, life, and the universe – […]
Artist: Paolo Fantin (Italy) Title: Lympha Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 – Venice Pavilion Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The exhibition project of the Venice Pavilion, this year entitled Alloro, has basically three main themes: the approach of man to nature, the strength of woman and the […]
Artist: Sandra Mujinga (Congo) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Sandra Mujinga’s multidisciplinary practice is driven by a profound interest in the body – and its absence. In her uncanny installations, ghostly hooded figures, sculptures resembling flayed skins, and fantastical hybrid creatures are […]
Artist: Gian Maria Tosatti Title: History of Night and Destiny of Comets Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Italy Curated by: Eugenio Viola Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “History of Night and Destiny of Comets is an installation by Gian Maria Tosatti that combines literary references, visual […]
Artist: Andra Ursuţa (Romania-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Andra Ursuţa’s seductive and unsettling sculptures – often made from casts of her own body – are radical hybrid beings. Recalling both American science fiction action horror films including Predator and the Alien […]
Artist: Jana Euler (Germany) Year: 2019–2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jana Euler’s work bounds between stylistic conceits, trafficking in grotesque, monstrous, contorted, eroticised, and frequently off-putting representations of figures, both human and not. Aping the jokey, anarchist attitude, surrealist fixations, and […]
Artist: Ilit Azoulay Title: QUEENDOM Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Israel Curated by: Shelley Harten Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “How sovereign can art be? Ilit Azoulay casts off the restrictions of national and male representations and opens pathways into an interconnected Middle East. The Queendom, […]
Artist: Elias Sime (Ethiopia) Titles: Red Leaves, two Veiled Whispers Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Elias Sime’s large-scale abstractions are made from thousands of electrical wires, type keys, microchips, and computer hardware components. His focus on electronic materials began approximately […]
Artist: Hannah Levy (USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Hannah Levy defamiliarises commonplace objects by warping or exaggerating their formal properties. Levy’s visual vocabulary includes medical equipment, gymnastic devices, safety bars, vegetables, pastries, and pearls. Her objects provoke repulsion and attraction to […]
Artist: Joanna Piotrowska (Poland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Joanna Piotrowska’s psychologically charged photographs probe human behaviour and the dynamics of familial relations, exploring intimacy, violence, control, and self-protection. The artist reveals moments of care as well as hierarchies of power, anxieties, […]
Artist: Simone Leigh (USA) Title: Sovereignty Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: USA Curated by: Eva Respini, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Characterised by an interest in performativity and affect, Simone Leigh’s expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance parses the […]
Artist: Sondra Perry (USA) Title: Lineage For A Phantom Zone Year: 2020 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Sondra Perry rigorously considers the dehumanisation of Black bodies from a historical and personal perspective, using visual strategies culled from computer-based media to reflect critically […]
Artist duo: Skuja Braden Title: Selling Water by the River Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Latvia Curated by: Solvita Krese and Andra Silapētere Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Skuja Braden, an international artistic collaboration that was born in 1999 between Ingūna Skuja from Latvia and Melissa […]
Artist: Felipe Baeza (Mexico) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “These lines title a large-scale painting by Felipe Baeza, who combines collage, mixed media, egg tempera, and printmaking to make heavily textured two- dimensional works. Dreams of other planets, of another life arise […]
Artist: Tau Lewis (Canada) Year: 2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Tau Lewis transforms foraged textiles and artifacts through painstaking processes of sewing and quilting into imaginary talismans and magical beings who inhabit sci-fi worlds. Recalling the works of Gee’s Bend quilters, […]
Artist: Justin Cloud (USA) Exhibition: When You Were Bloom Exhibition at: Thierry Goldberg gallery, New York, 2018 USEFUL LINKS: Justin Cloud in this blog | Website | Instagram
Artist: Uffe Isolotto Title: We Walked the Earth Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Denmark Curated by: Jacob Lillemose Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Step into a hyperrealistic world of unexpected drama. Set in a strange hybrid time period where elements from the historical past of Danish […]
Artist: Simone Leigh (USA) Title: Brick House Year: 2019 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Characterised by an interest in performativity and affect, Simone Leigh’s expansive body of work in sculpture, video, and performance parses the construction of Black femme subjectivity. Leigh’s large-scale […]
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