A Walk Through The Art. Venice Biennale 2015

The Venice Biennale 2015 — 56th International Art Exhibition, titled All The World’s Futures, is curated by Okwui Enwezor and organized by la Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta. The Art Biennale is open to the public from Saturday, May 9th to Sunday, November 22nd, 2015 at the Giardini and the Arsenale venues.

The 56th International Art Exhibition forms a unitary itinerary that starts at the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and continues at the Arsenale, with over 136 artists from 53 countries, of whom 89 will be showing here for the first time. Of the works on display, 159 are expressly realized for this year’s edition.

89 National Participations will be exhibiting in the historical Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city of Venice.

44 Collateral Events, approved by the curator of the International Exhibition and promoted by non profit national and international institutions, present their exhibitions and initiatives in various locations within the city of Venice.

The following photo gallery is a walk-through of the Venice Biennale 2015 main exhibition spaces and a selection of other venues. All photographs were taken during the preview, that took place on May 6th, 7th and 8th.

Source: Droste Effect Mag’s instagram. Photographs by Matilde Soligno

GIARDINI

: German Pavilion: Hito Steyerl, “Resistant Images in Times of Digital Overexposure”

: Nordic Pavilion, “Rapture” by Camille Norment

: Austrian Pavilion: Heimo Zobernig, “ohne Titel”

: The United States Pavilion presents Joan Jonas, “They Come to Us without a Word”

: Canadian Pavilion: BGL, “Canadassimo”

: Danh Vo at the Denmark Pavilion with “mothertongue”
Artwork: Your mother sucks cocks in Hell (2015)

: Hungarian Pavilion: Szilárd Cseke, “Sustainable Identities”

: Sarah Lucas “I SCREAM DADDIO” at the British Pavilion

: At the Brasilian Pavilion

: Greek Pavilion: Maria Papadimitriou, “Why Look at Animals? AGRIMIKÁ”

: Romanian Pavilion, “Darwin’s Room” by Adrian Ghenie

: French Pavilion: moving trees by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, “revolutions”

: Main pavilion: Hans Haacke (1972)

: Main Pavilion. Victor Man (2015)

: Alexander Kluge’s video piece “Nachrichten aus der ideologischen Antike, Marx, Eisenstein – Das Kapital, 2008-2015″ at the Main Pavilion

: Japanese Pavilion, “The Key in the Hand” by Chiharu Shiota

: “Work Songs” by Jason Moran and Alicia Hall Moran performed at the opening of the Venice Biennale — Main Pavilion

: “Evil Nigger” (1979) by Julius Eastman performed at the opening of the Venice Biennale — Main Pavilion

: Jennifer Reid sings Jeremy Deller: Broadsides and Ballads of the Industrial Revolution at the opening of the Venice Biennale — main pavilion

ARSENALE

: Opening of the “Codice Italia” exhibition at the Italian Pavilion with curator Vincenzo Trione
Photo by Eleonora Castagna

: People’s Republic of China’s Pavilion. Costumes used in the making of Lu Yang’s video piece

: Steve McQueen, “Ashes”, 2014-2015 (video)

: Whale skeleton at “Albanian Trilogy; A series of devious stratagems”, curated by Marco Scotini for the Albanian Pavilion

: Mika Rottenberg, “NoNoseKnows” (2015), installation (pearls, video piece)

: Homage to the late Harun Farocki: “Atlas of Harun Farocki’s Filmography”, an anthology of his film production

: Ernesto Ballesteros, “Indoor Flights”, performance

: Olga Chernysheva, “Untitled (Good Morning), 2015, charcoal on paper

: Qiu Zhijie, “JingLing Chronicle Theatre Project”, 2010-2015 (mixed media installation)

OTHER VENUES

: Simon Denny, “Secret Power” for the New Zealand pavilion at the Marciana National Library

: Jenny Holzer, “War Paintings” at the Correr Museum

: Almost ready for its opening: the Pavilion of Light and Sound, designed by Shigeru Ban, the day before its opening at the Conservatorio in Campo S. Stefano

: Punta della Dogana: “Slip of the Tongue”, curated by Danh Vo in collaboration with Caroline Bourgeois
Trampoline: Elmgreen and Dragset, “Powerless structures, fig. 13″ (2015)
Photo by Eleonora Castagna

: “Hope!” Ukrainian Pavilion

: Punta della Dogana: “Slip of the Tongue”, curated by Danh Vo in collaboration with Caroline Bourgeois
Chandelier: Danh Vo, “08:03, 28.05″ (2009)
Photo by Eleonora Castagna

: “Proportio” exhibition at Palazzo Fortuny
Artwork: Eduardo Chillida, “Elogio de la luz XX”, marble sculpture (detail)

: “Dispossession” exhibition at Palazzo Donà Brusa
Artwork: Thomas Kilpper, “A Lighthouse for Lampedusa!”, with Massimo Ricciardo and Holger Wüst (detail)