A “virtual” Venice Biennale to go on show in Moscow

A “virtual” Venice Biennale to go on show in Moscow
Video footage of pavilion and Arsenale exhibitions on display at the Garage

(Source Art Basel daily edition)
Dasha Zhukova, the founder of the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow and partner of billionaire Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, has told The Art Newspaper that video footage of the national pavilions in the Giardini and the displays in the Arsenale will be shown on large screens in the gallery for one month from 15 June. The footage also contains artist interviews as well as a commentary by Russian artist Gosha Ostretsov. “A lot of people haven’t been able to travel to Venice this year because of the financial situation,” she said. So Ms Zhukova sent a team to the biennale to film the displays and bring the show back to Moscow.

Speaking in Venice last Friday, she also revealed plans for a large exhibition of contemporary Russian art to be held at the Garage later this year. It will go on an international tour. A venue has already been found in Paris, although she declined to identify it. Talks are also underway to send the exhibition to “Berlin, London, New York and Los Angeles”.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/A-virtual-Venice-Biennale-to-go-on-show-in-Moscow/17462

Venice Biennale Opens Showing Works by Over 90 Artists from all Over the World

Ragnar Kjartansson, The End, 2009. Performance installation. Commissioned by the Center for Icelandic Art. Courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine, New York and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik. Photo: Rafael Pinho

Venice Biennale Opens Showing Works by Over 90 Artists from all Over the World

(Source ArtDaily)VENICE.- The 53rd International Art Exhibition, entitled Making Worlds, directed by Daniel Birnbaum, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, and chaired by Paolo Baratta, will open to the public from Sunday June, 7th to Sunday November, 22nd 2009 in the Giardini (50,000 m2) and the Arsenale (38,000 m2) as well as in various other locations around the city.

The Director of the 53rd Exhibition, Daniel Birnbaum, has been Rector of the Staedelschule Frankfurt/Main and its Kunsthalle Portikus since 2001. Making Worlds, presented in the renewed Palazzo delle Esposizioni in the Giardini and in the Arsenale, is a single, large exhibition that articulates different themes woven into one whole. It is not divided into sections. Considering collectives, it comprises works by over 90 artists from all over the world and includes many new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines. “The title of the exhibition, Making Worlds – says Director Daniel Birnbaum – expresses my wish to emphasize the process of creation. A work of art represents a vision of the world and if taken seriously it can be seen as a way of making a world. The strength of the vision is not dependent on the kind or complexity of the tools brought into play. Hence all forms of artistic expression are present: installation art, video and film, sculpture, performance, painting and drawing, and a live parade. Taking ´worldmaking´ as a starting point, also allows the exhibition to highlight the fundamental importance of certain key artists for the creativity of successive generations, just as much as exploring new spaces for art to unfold outside the institutional context and beyond the expectations of the art market. Making Worlds is an exhibition driven by the aspiration to explore worlds around us as well as worlds ahead. It is about possible new beginnings—this is what I would like to share with the visitors of the Biennale.”

For the direction of the exhibition Daniel Birnbaum is supported by Jochen Volz, artistic organization. Additional advice is provided by an international team of correspondents consisting of Savita Apte, Tom Eccles, Hu Fang, and Maria Finders.

On occasion of the 53rd International Art Exhibition – the Foundation La Biennale di Venezia inaugurates a number of important structural and organisational developments:

At the Arsenale, the Italian Pavilion has been enlarged from 800 to 1,800 square meters, now opening out to the Giardino delle Vergini and adjacent to a new public entrance. Here a newly constructed bridge links the far side of the Arsenale to the Sestiere di Castello. This renewed Italian Pavilion will be reserved for exhibitions organised by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Affairs. The Italian participation at the 53rd International Art Exhibition is curated by Beatrice Buscaroli and Luca Beatrice. Furthermore, the Arsenale’s exhibition spaces have been extended by developing a larger part of the Giardino delle Vergini (Garden of the Virgins), now measuring 6.000 square meters and offering an enchanting new exhibition space for the main exhibition. Read on...
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