Ganz Venedig ist Biennale

Juni 2015
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Ganz Venedig ist Biennale
The Biennale takes over Venice
Balearen
Heiße Stunden auf Ibiza
Balearic Islands:
Happy hours on Ibiza
Palm Springs
Sonne, Wüste, Baujuwelen
Sun, desert, architectural jewels
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Venedig Venice
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Ganz Venedig
Eine Stadt spielt mit
moderner Kunst. Dabei gehen
Vergangenheit und Zukunft
reizvolle Verbindungen ein.
Helidon Xhixha will mit
seinem schwimmenden
„Eisberg“ (o.) auf Umweltprobleme hinweisen. Hito
Steyerl zeigt eine digitale
Lichtfabrik im Deutschen
Pavillon.
Helidon Xhixha wants
to raise awareness of
environmental issues with
his floating “iceberg”
(above). Hito Steyerl’s
“Factory of the Sun” is on
show in the German pavilion.
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Georg Baselitz stellt alles
auf den Kopf. In den Arsenale-Hallen zeigt der deutsche
Künstler auf acht monumentalen Leinwänden jeweils
eine nackte Figur kopfüber
auf schwarzem Grund.
ist Biennale
Georg Baselitz has turned
everything on its head: the
German artist is exhibiting
eight vast canvasses, each
featuring a naked figure
painted upside down on a
black background.
The Biennale
takes over Venice
A city plays with modern art,
creating fascinating links
between past and present in
the process.
Chiharu Shiota
nennt ihre
Installation „Den
Schlüssel in der
Hand“. Tausende
Schlüssel bilden
den Rumpf eines
Schiffes, das
den Menschen in
seinem Innersten
erreichen soll.
Chiharu Shiota’s
installation is
entitled “The
Key in the Hand”.
Featuring thousands
of keys and two
boats made of yarn,
the artwork has
been designed to
promote human
understanding.
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Venedig Venice
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Wer auf die Kunst der Gegenwart
fliegt, landet am Flughafen Marco Polo
mitten in der 56. Kunst-Biennale. Eine
Gebrauchsanweisung (nicht nur) für
Biennale-Anfänger, die den richtigen
Zugang zur Kunst finden wollen.
Text: Marilis Kurz-Lunkenbein
enn Menschen aus aller Welt auf Kunst
aus aller Welt treffen, ist in Venedig Biennale. 136 Künstler zeigen bis zum 22. November in 89 Nationenpavillons und über
700 Kunstwerken den Zustand der Welt aus
ihren jeweiligen Blickwinkeln. Denn der Chef
der 56. Biennale, Okwui Enwezor, Nigerianer
mit US-Pass und Direktor am Münchener Haus der Kunst,
wählte als Motto „All the World’s Futures“.
Seit 1895 findet die Kunst-Biennale alle zwei Jahre an
der Lagune statt, immer alternierend mit der Architektur-Biennale. Dieses Jahr landen die Fluggäste übrigens
erstmals mittendrin in der weltweit größten Kunstmesse
– direkt im Länderpavillon von Neuseeland in der Ankunftshalle des Airports.
In den parkähnlichen Giardini-Gärten und gleich
nebenan in den Arsenale-Hallen, wo früher Schiffe gebaut wurden, schlägt das Herz der Biennale mit seiner
Hauptausstellung und 28 Nationenpavillons. Wer dort
keinen eigenen Pavillon besitzt, weicht aus auf die vielen
anderen (oft spektakulären) Locations in der Stadt. Auch
Menschen treffen sich unter
einem Videoporträt für den
türkischen Kunstmäzen
Sakıp Sabancı. Drei Jahre
hat Kutlu Ataman an der
Installation der 10.000 Bilder
gearbeitet.
People congregate under a
video portrait celebrating
the Turkish art patron Sakıp
Sabancı. Kutlu Ataman
spent three years working on
the installation: it features
10,000 images.
Jackson Pollock hat mit
„Mural“ Generationen von
Künstlern beeinflusst. Die
Auftragsarbeit für Peggy
Guggenheims New Yorker
Stadthaus ist erstmals in
Italien zu sehen.
Jackson Pollock influenced
generations of artists with
his “Mural”. The work
commissioned for Peggy
Guggenheim’s New York
town house is on show in
Italy for the first time.
die Collaterali, ein riesiges Parallelprogramm, werden in
den historischen Palästen und ehemaligen Fabrikhallen
Venedigs gezeigt. Locations und Events, Architektur und
Kunst, Geschichte und Gegenwart gehen dabei einzigartige Verbindungen ein.
Mit zwei, drei Tagen Zeit und dem Rat von Okwui
Enwezor, sich nicht festzubeißen, kommt man am besten
durch die große Kunstschau. Die größte Kunst in Venedig
ist die Kunst des Auslassens und am meisten profitiert,
wer die Kunst beherrscht, Venedig in allen Facetten auf
sich wirken zu lassen.
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Im Palazzo Falier direkt am
Canal Grande gehen Location
und Kunst eine stimmige
Verbindung ein. Sean Scully
setzt sich in seinen Bildern
mit Figur und Abstraktion
auseinander.
Location and art are combined
in effective fashion at Palazzo
Falier on the Grand Canal.
Sean Scully’s work provokes
debate about the importance
of abstract art.
The Biennale
takes over Venice
Contemporary art lovers will find themselves
immersed in the world of art as soon as they land at
Marco Polo airport for the 56th Venice Biennale. We
provide a brief guide to this famous art fair for both
newcomers and old hands alike.
he Venice Biennale offers people from around
the globe the chance to view art from around
the globe. A total of 136 artists are showcasing
their work in 89 national pavilions until 22 November. The curator of the 56th Biennale, Okwui
Enwezor, a Nigerian with US citizenship who is
currently director at Munich’s Haus der Kunst, selected
the title “All the World’s Futures” for the 2015 event.
The Art Biennale has taken place in Venice every
two years since 1895, alternating with the Architecture
Biennale. This year, visitors arriving by air will
immediately be immersed in the world’s biggest art fair –
New Zealand’s pavilion is situated in the arrivals lounge
of the airport.
The heart of the event, however, beats in the park-like
Giardini gardens and in the nearby halls of the Arsenale,
where ships were formerly built. These two major venues
are home to the main exhibition and 28 national pavilions.
Many other (often spectacular) locations in the city are
also hosting exhibition areas that showcase a variety of
works, while Venice’s historic palaces and former factory
halls provide the setting for the “Collaterali”, a wideranging programme of collateral events. Locations and
events, architecture and art, past and present are linked
in unique fashion at this world-famous fair.
It’s best to view the Biennale over two or three days
and follow Okwui Enwezor’s advice not to get bogged
down in too much detail. The biggest art in Venice is
the art of what to leave out, and the visitors who allow
Venice to exert its all-round magic on them are the ones
who will benefit most from the event.
Selected artworks
Phoenix made from debris. The new ARENA in the
Central Pavilion offers something to appeal to both
the eyes and the ears at the Giardini entrance: live
performances and a continuous live reading of Karl
Marx, self-portraits by Andreas Gursky, and films by
Haroun Farocki, Alexander Kluge, Chris Marker and
Steve McQueen. Don’t miss Xu Bing’s spectacular giant
phoenix sculpture made from construction site debris.
Painting, in particular, is writ large at the Biennale:
Georg Baselitz and Katharina Grosse fill vast spaces at
the Asenale. Individual mini-exhibitions in the Central
Pavilion are devoted to stars such as Wangechi Mutu,
Andreas Gursky, Marlene Dumas and Victor Man. If you
need a break after so much culture, why not visit the
Central Pavilion’s cafeteria designed in dots and stripes
by Tobias Rehberger in 2009?
Behind the images. The German pavilion at Giardini is
curated by Florian Ebner, who is in charge of the photographic collection at Museum Folkwang in Essen. In
Venice he is showcasing works by photographer Tobias
Zielony (1973, Wuppertal), filmmaker Hito Steyerl (1966,
Munich), media artist Olaf Nicolai (1962, Halle an der
Saale), video artist Jasmina Metwaly (1982, Warsaw/
Poland) and blogger Philip Rizk (1982, Limassol/Cyprus).
In the words of the curator, these five media artists are
seeking to draw attention to the “material and political
nature of their images in the digital age and a globalised
world”.
For stressed visitors. The Austrian pavilion at Giardini
has a pared-down presence this year: curator Yilmaz
Dziewior (formerly at Kunsthaus Bregenz) has selected
as his artist Heimo Zobernig, who exerts a calming,
minimalistic influence on his surroundings. His secretive
approach attracted attention in the run-up to the Biennale.
Born in Carinthia in 1958, Zobernig had the different floor
levels in the pavilion aligned and the surroundings painted
black, thus making for the odd surprising effect.
Lampedusa. Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has an eyecatching 13-metre boat on show at the Arsenale harbour.
Although made of wood, it appears to have been created