Object-Oriented Curating Continues in 2013 Venice Biennale
The “Brain” area of Documenta 13 (Image via blindbild.com)
The artist list has just been released for New Museum associate director and curator Massimiliano Gioni’s 2013 Venice Biennale, and it features a slew of established names, including Tacita Dean, Carl Andre, and Bruce Nauman.
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The Vatican Will Mount a Group Show With Cindy Sherman at the 2013 Venice Biennale
The Sale d’Armi Arsenale area of the Venice Biennale (Image via theartnewspaper.com)
Just as Pope Francis begins his tenure at the head of the Catholic Church, the announcement comes that the Vatican will finally have its own pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
How Diverse Is the Venice Biennale?
Graphics in Section 2 of The Art Newspaper showing the statistics for “The Encyclopaedic Palace” by…
VENICE — At 10:20am this morning, two boatloads of artists and activists occupied the dock landing of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection (PGC) in Venice. It marks the first joint action between GULF (Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction) and Gulf Labor, which is an official participant in the 2015 Venice Biennale, and two Italian organizations, Sale Docks in Venice and Macao from Milan — an independent art space which started organizing art workers in 2012. The crowd of roughly 40 people are hoisting banners and flags that read, “Meet Workers’ Demands” and other labor-related messages. The museum occupation is the latest effort to highlight labor issues impacting migrant workers at Saadiyat Island, where Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and other luxury culture brands are building outposts.
Gulf Labor and Other Arts Groups Occupy Venice’s Guggenheim #GuggOccupied
“‘This makes me embarrassed to be an American,’ the megacurator of an extremely well-known U.S. art museum groaned to me. We were standing in front of what was truly a spectacle of American proportions. Directly in front of the American Pavilion in the beautiful Giardini, main site of the Venice Biennale — which opens on Saturday — the artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla have placed a 60-ton Army tank. It’s a real one, shipped from England at who knows what expense, turned upside-fucking-down, turret and gun barrel on the ground, steel treads to the sky. Atop this warlord wedding cake, they’ve installed a treadmill where a world-class runner works out for fifteen minutes of every hour. It’s the health club from Hell, Afghanistan in Venice, and it makes a humongous racket that can be heard all around the Giardini. I looked back at the curator and said, “I think being embarrassed to be an American is partly what this is about.”
I wouldn’t describe myself as the Saltz’s greatest fan, but the phrase “warlord wedding cake” is pretty fantastic.
I’ve been hesitant to embrace Christoph Büchel’s project for the Icelandic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale from the beginning. The notion of opening a mosque as an art pavilion in the city of Venice is the type of shocking gesture that gets attention and headlines, but not one that leads to building strong bonds between communities. I believe Büchel’s project was designed to be exactly the type of short-term project that gives many art world liberals an inflated sense of superiority at the expense of those who don’t “get” the project or share their perspective. Real change comes from sustained and difficult work, and there is no sign that Büchel was ever committed to that.
Why I Don’t Buy the Premise of Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Mosque Pavilion
Venetian officials plan to close the Icelandic Pavilion of the 2015 Venice Biennale, which features a working mosque that is part of an artwork by Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel. The Art Newspaper reported that the “decision to close the mosque has been taken following an evaluation by a committee tasked with maintaining order and public safety.” The city also said that events, particularly Friday prayer gatherings, attracted more than the legal limit of 90 individuals. Though Venetian officials claim they notified the pavilion’s organizers of the impending closure today, giving them a 60-day window to appeal the decision, a spokesperson for the pavilion told The Art Newspaper that they were not informed of the city’s decision to close the mosque.
Iceland’s Mosque Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Will Be Shut Down
The Venice Biennale in Pencil Sketches by Kyle Chayka
New York Times visual columnist and famed designer Christoph Niemann is at the 2011 Venice Biennale, documenting his experiencing with the contemporary art festival in a series of sketches…. READ MORE.
For more on the Venice Biennale, read Hrag Vartanian’s Is America Tanking in Venice? and Germany Snags Venice Biennale’s Top Prize, Christian Marclay for Best Work.
Resistance to Turkey’s Protest Violence Reach the Venice Biennale
Protesters at a solidarity rally in Venice during the Venice Biennale included Arsenale protest…
