{"id":70192,"date":"2019-05-08T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/art50.net\/venice-biennale-2019-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:57:34","slug":"venice-biennale-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/art50.net\/en\/venice-biennale-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Biennale 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Venice Biennale time again. The 58th edition of Venice Biennial, which has been organizing since 1895, will take place between 11 May-24 November 2019. This year the biennial is expected to bring more than half a million people to Venice. Once again, it will turn Venice into an art city, feature most important names of the artworld, shine its young rising stars and bring 90 countries to Venice. With its main exhibition entitled \u201cMay You Live in Interesting Times\u201d, country pavilions, collateral events and art presentations, the 58th Venice Biennial will offer the artlovers a 6-month period filled with history, art, colors and energy. Let\u2019s look at the 58th Venice Biennial\u2019s venues, events and must-haves together. (Cover Photo:\u00a0artnews.com)<\/p>\n

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58. Venice Biennale<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Often referred as \u201cthe Olympics of the art world,\u201d the 58th edition of Venice Biennale will take place in two main locations, Arsenale and Giardini, and will consist of three parts:<\/p>\n

1. A central exhibition \u201cMay You Live in Interesting Times\u201d curated by Ralph Rugoff. The exhibition will take place in the public gardens known as the Giardini and the former dockyards known as the Arsenale.<\/p>\n

2. 90 national pavilions organized by dozens of countries will be presented in Giardini and Arsenale. Each pavilion will offer a show of one or more artists representing their country.<\/p>\n

3. Biennial\u2019s collateral events, organized by independent institutions and artists, will take place across Venice. This year will host a total of 21 independently organized exhibitions, events and presentations.<\/p>\n

58. Venedik Bienali Ana Sergisi<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ralph Rugoff. Photo Source: xoxodigital.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 58th edition of the Venice Biennale is curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery, London. \u2018May You Live in Interesting Times\u2019 is taken from an ancient Chinese curse; used in a speech given in the late 1930s by British MP Austen Chamberlain. The exhibition draws attention to the relationship between arts and politics and the times of nationalism and crisis. Taking place across two sites \u2013 in the Giardini and the Corderie dell\u2019Arsenale, the show features 83 artists \u2014 50% of whom are women. The youngest of artists is Lithuanian artist Augustus Serapinas, born in 1990, while the oldest is Berlin-based, US artist Jimmie Durham, born in 1940.<\/p>\n

National Pavilions<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Zahrah Al Ghamdi \u2013 Suudi Arabistan. Photo Source: artnews.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As well as the main show, the 58th Venice Biennial features presentations by 90 nations in their own pavilions across Venice. The new comers of 2019 biennial include Algeria, Ghana, Madagascar, and Pakistan. In addition to these nations, some other participators include Albania, Argentina, Australia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Egypt, Germany, Endonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Russia, South Africa, USA, England and Switzerland. For the first time, the Russian pavilion is presenting an art institution, Hermitage Museum, instead of an artist.<\/p>\n

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\u0130nci Eviner \u201cBiz, Ba\u015fka Yerde\u201d Photo Source: sanatatak.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Turkey pavilion, we will see an artwork by Inci Eviner. Specially made for the biennial, \u201cWe, Elsewhere\u201d is a site-specific installation presented by Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation. Placed in Arsenale, Sale d\u2019Armi, the artwork brings together many disciplines such as drawings, videos, sound and performance and hence addresses the politics of desire and disaster and the potentials of subjectivity.<\/p>\n

Collateral Events of Venice Biennial:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Installation by Todd Williamson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Todd Williamson. Photo Source: gofundme.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Organized by The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Todd Williamson\u2019s site-specific installation at Chiesa di Santa Maria della Piet\u00e0 illustrates ideas of order and tradition, and uncertainty and uncontrollable political, social, and cultural movements of our time. The exhibition features large scale canvases which propose a new layer to the church. The exhibition will be on view from May 9th until November 24th, 2019.<\/p>\n

Melissa McGill\u2019s Red Regatta<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Melissa McGill, Red Regatta (Coppa del Presidente della Repubblica), 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Melissa McGill, Red Regatta (Coppa del Presidente della Repubblica), 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Georg Baselitz at Gallerie dell\u2019Accademia<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Source: widewalls.ch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the Venice Biennale, the audience will also have an opportunity to see a major retrospective of works by the renowned German artist Georg Baselitz. The first exhibition by a living artist to be presented at the Accademia, the exhibition will trace the periods in the artist\u2019s extraordinary 60-year career through paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. The exhibition will be on display between 8 May-8 September.<\/p>\n

Glasstress at Fondazione Berengo Art Space<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Fondazione Berengo Art Space. \u00a9 Francesco Allegretto. Photo Source: artsy.net<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between May 9\u2013Nov. 24, 2019, Glastress will take place in Fondazione Berengo Art Space in the island of Murano. Opened by Venice native Adriano Berengo in 1989, the gallery is dedicated to bridging glass traditions and contemporary art. This year, visitors are treated to new work and highlights from years past, including pieces by internationally renowned artists like Ai WeiWei, Laure Provoust and Rose Wylie.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmerging Polish Artists: Force Field\u201d Exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Emerging Polish Artists: Force Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe Force Field\u201d is an exhibition of energy and weight of Polish contemporary art, presented in Fondamenta San Biagio in Venice from 8 May to 15 September. The project features thirteen artists, who currently represent the young generation\u2019s new perspectives.The exhibition draws attention to affective experiences, personal relations, intimate emotions. Works by Norbert Delman, Ma\u0142gorzata Goliszewska, Bartek G\u00f3rny, Laura Grudniewska, Marta Hryniuk, Kornel Janczy, Tomasz Koszewnik, Dorota Kozieradzka, Magdalena \u0141azarczyk, Karolina Me\u0142nicka, Maciej Nowacki, Cyryl Polaczek and Stach Szumski present an overview of dynamic contemporary young Polish art which is defined as inquisitive, attentive and critical.<\/p>\n

Future Generation Art Prize<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Photo Source: Pinkcuk Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Victor Pinchuk Foundation present works by 21 young artists across 17 countries for the 5th edition of the Future Generation Art Prize. As the global art prize for artists aged 35 or younger, the art prize exhibition brings young names together with the Biennale audience in Palazzo Ca\u2019Tron between May 11-August 18. Chosen from amongst 5,800 entries, exhibition\u2019s participants include the winner of the Future Generation Art Prize 2019, the Lithuanian artist Emilija \u0160karnulyt\u0117, and the winners of the Special Prize, Gabrielle Goliath (South Africa) and Cooking Sections (UK).<\/p>\n

Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Foto\u011fraf Kayna\u011f\u0131: V&A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marysia Lewandowska is the artist set to exhibit in the Pavilion of Applied Arts which is organized in collaboration between La Biennale and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Located in the Arsenale, Sale d\u2019Armi between May 11-November 24, now in its 5th year, the project features an installation by Polish-born, London-based artist, whose work explores the public function of archives, museums and exhibitions. For the installation titled \u201cIt\u2019s About Time\u201d, Lewandowska set on stage her discovery of these cinematic negatives which consist of a total of 103 specifically selected rolls.<\/p>\n

Phi Fondation Presents Renata Morales and Marina Abramovic<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Left: Renata Morales, Invasor, 2019. Courtesy the artist and Phi. Foto\u011fraf: Luke Walker. Right: Marina Abramovic, Rising, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Montreal\u2019s Fondation Phi is bringing a Montreal-based artist, Renata Morales and international star, Marina Abramovic to an international audience in Venice during the Biennale. \u201cInvasor\u201d is a sculptural installation show by Renata Morales at the Ca\u2019 Rezzonico Gallery which stretches over two large rooms\u2014 one room is more monochromatic, the other, more technicolour. Phi is also presenting \u201cRising\u201d, an artwork that presents a virtual rather than material, digital rather than analog experience. Abramovic\u2019s VR project touches upon the issues of climate change and the rising sea levels both within and beyond the Biennale.<\/p>\n

Luc Tuymans\u2019 First Italy Retrospective \u201cLa Pelle\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u2018La Pelle\u2019 Luc Tuymans, Palazzo Grassi, Venice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Pinault Collection presents Luc Tuymans\u2019 first personal exhibition in Italy. Curated by Caroline Bourgeois, the show is entitled \u2018La Pelle\u2019 after Curzio Malaparte\u2019s 1949 novel. Organized between March 24-December 24 in Palazzo Grassi, the exhibition includes over 80 works from the Pinault Collection, international museums and private collections which survey the artist\u2019s works from 1986 to today. Luc Tuymans\u2019 works deal with questions connected to the past and to more recent history through a set of images borrowed from the private and public spheres \u2013 the press, television, the Internet.<\/p>\n

\u201cArshile Gorky: 1904-1948\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arshile Gorky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ca\u2019 Pesaro- International Gallery of Modern Art presents a major exhibition of the work of Arshile Gorky between May 9-September 22. The first exhibition in Italy of this influential figure of 20th Century American Art examines the stages of Gorky\u2019s career and production. Bringing together 80 emblematic works of art borrowed from significant.<\/p>\n

international institutions and private collections such as the Tate London, the National Gallery of Art of Washington, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, the Centre Pompidou of Paris, the Israel Museum of Jerusalem, the exhibition pays a rich selection which pays tribute to the artist and his artistic excellence.<\/p>\n

Some Tips to Visit Venice Biennale<\/strong><\/h4>\n

You can purchase online tickets on https:\/\/labiennale.vivaticket.it\/ in order to escape from long lines and crowds. We would suggest you to not to visit the biennial on Mondays and at weekends. Mondays are the days when most biennial events and places are closed whereas weekends are the peak times when the crowds and tourists visit the biennial.<\/p>\n

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Yin Xiuzhen \u2013 Nowhere to Land. Photo Source: artnews.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On rainy days, you can visit Arselane, which mostly consists of closed areas of a dockyard. On sunny days, on the other hand, you can visit Giardini which composes of outdoors and gardens. You can reach both main venues via Vaporettos, which depart frequently from Venice waterfront and sail the whole city. You can also reach from one venue to another by foot approximately in 10-15 minutes.<\/p>\n

For more details on art spaces, hotels and city life of Venice you can visit\u00a0link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Simge Erdo\u011fan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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