In the Giardini, the late curator’s vision for new ways of engaging art is gestured towards, but even a commendable ...
From Esther Pearl Watson’s UFO-infused paintings of American rural life to Nobuyoshi Araki’s photographs of his beloved cat, ...
She is flanked by two porta-potties, into which visitors are invited to ‘donate’ their urine, which is then descaled and fed ...
Of course, many of the national pavilions in the rest of the Giardini do offer more thoughtful perspectives. Two standouts ...
From shared lament to sonic trauma, Venice’s strongest off-site presentations explore grief, listening and historical memory ...
Join associate editor Sean Burns for a tour of the exhibition’s opening days, from private views to late-night parties ...
The painter reflects on home, her vision for the Venice Pavilion, and why her figures linger between leaving and staying ...
Ahead of his Venice exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion, the artist reflects on diasporic distance and withholding as a form ...
A plague island in the Venetian lagoon becomes the artist’s latest muse in a practice tracing migration and memory ...
At Tiwani Contemporary, Lagos, the artist renders domestic spaces with formal precision while probing the elusive inner lives ...
At Pavilion 13, Kyiv, the artist’s kinetic sculptures register war-related trauma without reducing the human subject to it ...
The controversial artist, who grappled with what it meant to be German after WWII, leaves behind a complicated legacy ...