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...Dina A. Ramadan Thirty-two-year-old multimedia artist Ahmed Basiony was one of the earliest martyrs of the 2011 Egyptian uprisings. Shortly after his death his work was selected for the Egyptian pavilion at the fifty-fourth Venice Biennale. This article questions the choice of Basiony...

..., presented Feeling Her Way in the British National Pavilion, for which she won the Golden Lion, the biennale’s highest honor. Zineb Sedira, a Franco-Algerian artist who lives and works in Britain, exhibited Les rêves n’ont pas de titre ( Dreams Have No Titles ) in the French National pavilion. The Moroccan...

... , curated by Adriano Pedrosa, suggesting that it may be seen as both conceptually canon-expanding and structurally center-affirming. It also discusses the curatorial frames and strategies of self-definition of a select group of first-time and returning national pavilions: Benin, South Africa, Uganda...

...Rebekah Flake This review considers the curatorial strategies employed by each pavilion at the Fifty-Fourth Venice Biennale in 2011 and the ways that they represent national perspectives through themed group exhibitions. The works of individual artists are discussed in terms of their contribution...

...Holiday Powers Occurring every two years, the Venice Biennale remains a key node for contemporary art. In Venice, in addition to a main exhibition, national pavilions are located primarily between the two main biennale sites, the Giardini and the Arsenale, and collateral events are scattered across...

...Anna Arabindan-Kesson This article reviews a selection of works by Black diaspora artists who were included in the 2024 Venice Biennale. The article focuses on artists included in the pavilions of Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, and Benin, along with artists included in the Arsenale...

...Vanessa Rocco Steve McQueen’s Giardini , a ravishing half-hour dual projection, comprises vignettes recorded around the national pavilions that are the principal organizing spaces of the Venice Biennale. Fluctuating among images of serene nature and images of trash, piles of building materials...

... African national pavilion (Egypt).1 And, it was not until 1990 that continental representation was first attempted, with the well-received exhibition organized by Grace Stanislaus for Studio Museum in Harlem, followed in 1993 by Susan Vogel s exhibition sponsored by the Center for African Art (now...

... or sustainable repre• economies; indeed we are reminded of the symbiot• sentation in Venice and other biennials with nation• ic, if uncomfortable, relationship between art and al pavilions, short of an improbable decision on the money, between the big shows and massive capital part...

...Claire Tancons Copyright © 2004 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2004 CHRIS OFIU'S WITHIN REACH 'Afro Kaleidoscope' 2002 (detail), 2003. Glass and steel. Installation at British Pavilion, 50 Venice Biennale, 2003. Courtesy...

... project Rapture for the and Antonio Cataldo Nordic Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, it would be good to talk more generally about the ideas and themes in your work, with reference...

... and contemporary culture. 3 Whether or not the choices made by the national pavilions were directly inspired by Alemani s vision, there is poetic justice in the fact that three outstanding Black women, Sonia Boyce, Simone Leigh, and Zineb Sedira, were chosen to represent the British, American, and French pavilions...

... quartet by Sean Griffin. for artistic expression. For instance, a large-scale In the main pavilion Gaines’s Sound Text fills an wall installation composed of books functions as a entire room with a symphonic narrative. Gaines has physical record of Hadjithomas’s and Joreige’s live a gift...

... in This Is Tomorrow: one is Patio and Pavilion, by Peter and Allison Smithson, Eduardo Paolozzi, and Nigel Henderson, members of the Independent Group; the other is a homage to the architectonic, geometric abstraction of Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement by Williams, John Ernest, Anthony Hill, and Colin Glennie...

... by Interference, a Tunisian collective, for the im- age they projected. Clearly, continuity and coher- ence were present. The same red brick building was used to host the International Pavilion, composed of young artists from twelve African countries. The Malian Pavilion was in an adjacent space, recently added...

... portraiture 60TH VENICE BIENNALE Exploding the Canon Modernism from Africa at the 60th Venice Biennale Perrin M. Lathrop 88 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 55 November 2024 DOI 10.1215/10757163-11507529 © 2024 by Nka Publications Installation view, Foreigners Everywhere, Central Pavilion...

.... As its title indicates, the film is set in the famous exhibition grounds, the loca- tion of the aging national pavilions—­the American, Italian, Swiss, and Israeli are among those shown. These otherwise well-­known monuments are por- trayed here in an unexpected light, during...

...: African Independence and Nordic Models at the Nordic Pavilion and with the Young Architects in Africa competition and exhibition. Africa—Big Change / Big Chance debuted...

.... Ibirapuera Pavilion, which is home to the on the other hand, appropriates that critique Cannibalism read from such a point of view Biennial, was dedicated to this aspect, and of instrumental rationality, with the goal of metamorphosed into a sort...

... It is this conceptual framework that is at play in Wilson's installation for the U.S. Pavilion, which focuses on the historical Venice of the Renaissance period...