Prague, July 22 – November 15, 2020, https://matterof.art/ I have visited the show right during the opening week. The show is spread across two main sites, the Prague City Gallery on the top floor of the Municipal Library Prague, and a couple of industrial style ex-market halls in the Holesovice (Prague) Market. The visitor guidebook…
Venice, Palazzo Rota Ivancich, May 11 – November 24, 2019, www.2019northmacedonia-labiennale.art I enjoyed “Subversion to Red” a lot. Probably a part of my positive feelings was caused by arriving at the cool palace after wandering through the Venice summer heat. Probably a part of my positive feelings was caused by the off-location in a crumbling…
Venice, Arsenale and Giardini, May 11 – November 24, 2019, https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/ (videos below text) Venice Biennale… the original mega-show, the art circus. A lot of stuff. This year the show was doubled: The seemingly never-ending long noodle-shaped Arsenale docks exhibition had its double in the large Central Biennale Pavilion located in the gardens (Giardini). The…
Venice, Santa Croce 2258, Calle della Regina, http://igorgrubic.org/ Igor Grubic seems to be most of all a documentary photographer and urban explorer: Old factories, temporary shelters built by homeless people, disappearing handicrafts… The printed panels with photo collages in the exhibition looked like storyboards or pages from a book. Indeed a thick catalogue was available…
Venice, Palazzo Francesco Molon Ca’ Bernardo, May 11 – November 24, 2019, http://www.labiennalebih.com Danica Dakic’ exhibition consists of three videos, prints and a golden shovel. The show deals with transformation of a specific place and people in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Zenica, a decaying polluted steelworks town. I found the people aspect, most prominently contained in…
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Busan, September 15 – October 18, 2015, http://busanbiennale.org A sculpture festival on one of the beaches of Busan: I only managed to visit the site after dark, but I still got at least some impression. It had been quite a broad range of works, from monumental figurative works to abstract structures or smaller works sheltered…
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, September 13, 2014 – January 4, 2015, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud. I am writing this a few months after my visit, so my memories are filtered through the time that passed, and supported by photos, but that shouldn’t matter. Even now a few month later I still find myself returning to…
第九上海雙年展2012: 黎肖嫻《1906 – 1989 – 2012: 廣州-香港-上海-安吉》 Now that the Shanghai Biennale is getting close to its end (scheduled to finish in the end of March), I would like to conclude my previous posts related to the biennale (Shanghai Biennale 2012, Berlin Pavilion, Sydney Pavilion, Daejeon Pavilion) with one more post, this time about one…
(Nanjing East Road, Shanghai, September 2012 – March 2013) The Daejeon City Pavilion featured the works of three Korean artists. I found it remarkable how the curator managed to put together three artists with a completely different background an still create a very coherent impression. Choi Taeyoon is a US-Korean artist, who presented his anti-manifesto…