Artist: Katharina Fritsch (Germany) Title: Elephant Year: 1987 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Katharina Fritsch’s realistic sculptures dissolve the edges between the ordinary and the uncanny, stirring our deep-rooted dreams and nightmares while awakening childhood memories of religious tales, fables, and myths. […]
Artist: Louise Bonnet (Switzerland) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Louise Bonnet began her creative career working in illustration and graphic design. She shifted into the realm of painting in 2008, making acrylic paintings of people such as Yoko Ono or characters from […]
Artist: Firelei Báez (Dominican Republic) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The visual references in Firelei Báez paintings, drawings, and installations range from mythology and science fiction to histories of the African diaspora. By re-examining ancient folk tales, Báez reflects on the theme […]
Artist: Wu Tsang (USA) Title: Of Whales Year: 2022 Duration: 6 hours Techinical details: real-time video, multi-channel audio Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Wu Tsang’s works accentuate the intersections of collaboration, performative strategies, experimental processes, aesthetics, and storytelling. Tsang’s films, immersive installations, […]
Artist: Marguerite Humeau (France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Marguerite Humeau’s supernatural, biomorphic sculptures could have been lifted from a work of science fiction, occupying a world in which hypermodern technology and medical equipment have displaced human life. A vacillation between speculative […]
Artist: Ficre Ghebreyesus (Eritrea-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “At once pensive and exuberant, Ficre Ghebreyesus’ paintings capture the complexity of his East African childhood and life in diaspora, presenting fantastical landscapes drawn from longing for a time and place interrupted by […]
Artist: Gabriel Chaile (Argentina) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Gabriel Chaile’s practice is informed by his long-standing exploration of impoverished communities, rituals, and artistic customs from his home in Argentina. Raised in the northern city of San Miguel de Tucumán with Spanish, […]
Artist: Marcelo Tomaz Galvão de Castro aka Marcelot (Brazil) Title: Lion of St. Marc / Napoleon Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “My work is often inspired by contrasts and challenges. For my participation in the Biennale 2022 in Venice, invited […]
Artist: Jakup Ferri Title: The Monumentality of the Everyday Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Kosovo Curated by: Inke Arns Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Jakup Ferri presents paintings, embroideries, and carpets in a monumental display. Ferri’s works are inspired by children’s drawings, folk art, and so-called […]
Artist: Rosana Paulino (Brazil) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Rosana Paulino’s practice spans drawing, embroidery, engraving, printmaking, collage, sculpture, and installation to explore the history of racial violence and the persisting legacy of slavery in Brazil, deconstructing the production and dissemination of […]
Artist: Niki de Saint Phalle (France) Title: Gwendolyn Year: 1966-1990 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Niki de Saint Phalle is best known for her Nanas (French slang for “girls”) – large, leaping female figures painted in kaleidoscopic hues and often found frolicking […]
Artist: Sheree Hovsepian (Iran-USA) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Iranian American artist Sheree Hovsepian’s wall-based assemblages incorporate photographic prints into three-dimensional vignettes with nylon, ceramics, string, nails, and walnut wood in deep, custom-built box frames. Her compositions are imbued with an incisive […]
Artist: Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Title: Between Sunrise and Sunset Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: United Arab Emirates Curated by: Maya Allison Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim developed this single, room-filling installation commissioned for the Emirates Pavilion. Dozens of human-sized, biomorphic sculptures cluster in […]
Artist: Charline von Heyl (Germany) Year: 2020/2021 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Working in the vibrant Cologne art world of the 1980s only led painter Charline von Heyl to more firmly believe in the importance of her chosen medium: painting. The eight […]
Artist: Muhannad Shono Title: The Teaching Tree Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Pavilion: Saudi Arabia Curated by: Reem Fadda Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This artwork forms a monolith tree-like installation that occupies and consumes the space it inhabits. It has been carefully crafted combining natural elements and […]
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 […]
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