20/06/11 Barnaby Drabble
Bice Curiger gained international fame as the editor of the Swiss art magazine Parkett. This year she is responsible for ILLUMInations, the central exhibit at the Venice Biennale. Metropolis M spoke with her in Zurich.
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features 02.06.11 Metropolis M
Venice: interview with Bice Curiger; the national pavilion is making a comeback, Metropolis M discusses NL + India + USA + Iceland; Willem Schinkel responds to the ambitions of the Dutch Pavilion… For a quick impression: check the video flip through.
features 27.05.11 Sanneke Huisman
Maria Hlavajova discusses the project Call the Witness, which adresses the situation of the Roma within European culture and society.The project has an exhibition platform in both BAK in Utrecht and in the Roma Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, opening on June 1st.
10/08/09 Christel Vesters
Language, with all its complexities and various manifestations, is the research domain of the Serbian-born artist Katarina Zdjelar, inhabitant of the Serbian pavilion at the current Venice Biennale.
10/08/09 Pelin Tan
Two common questions could come up when curating the Turkish pavilion in the Venice Biennale, one being how to create manoeuvres in order to escape from ‘national pavilion representation’ and the other, how to create a specific visual engagement about social, economical and political issues within the ‘glamorous’ city marketing of the biennal.
South Korean pavilion: Haegue Yang
10/08/09 Binna Choi
A national pavilion at the world’s oldest art biennale can be a logical place for an artist whose ‘career’ has been vigorously progressing – an artist like Haegue Yang, born and raised in South Korea and now active in Europe for about a decade.
13/07/09 Luk Lambrecht
Luk Lambrecht discusses the presentation of Jef Geys at the Belgian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Dutch pavilion: Fiona Tan
13/07/09 Erik van Tuijn
Fiona Tan’s international career took off when Okwui Enwezor presented her at Documenta 11 as an artist capable of handling identity and background in a form that is both political and poetic. This summer, her exhibition at the Dutch pavilion in Venice, entitled Disorient, may well prove Enwezor right.