Inside and outside the traditional Biennale venues, there are exhibitions which deal with the way we treat nature. Fiona Pardington shows in the Pavilion of Aotearoa New Zealand photographs of native birds that are threatened with disappearance or are already extinct. Ten international artists reflect in the Nauru-Pavilion on the endangered island in Oceania and… (read more)
This years’ pavilion of New Zealand of the 58. Venice Biennale in the Palazzina Canonica is housing an installation by Dane Mitchell. The exhibition is curated by Dr Zara Stanhope and Chris Sharp. The heart of the work is an inventory of over two million items, naming bygone phenomena, ranging from dead words to extinct… (read more)
To start the 58th Venice Biennale, the curator Ralph Rugoff, conceals the entrance of the Central Pavilion with clouds of fog by Lara Favaretto (Thinking Head). The vapour makes not only disappear the building, but is also the expression for smoking brains of thinkers in an undisclosed location. Veiling, disappearance as well as making things… (read more)
