Precarious Communities
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney is a highly located and physical exhibition experience which, after being open for just 10 days, can only be accessed online.
The 22nd Biennale of Sydney is a highly located and physical exhibition experience which, after being open for just 10 days, can only be accessed online.
The 11th Gwangju Biennale is occasionally unfocused, yet it is ultimately working without pomp to tackle daunting questions of the moment.
This years’ Biennale of Sydney is devoted to alternative forms of communication and being, far from the controversies and political protests from two years ago.
The 19th Biennale of Sydney reflects a curatorial belief in the artistic imagination transcending the bounds of reality – yet most of the artists seem more concerned with politics.
‘Photography is a direct extension of the eye. It’s history writing from our own perspective’, says Inuuteq Storch, the first Greenlandic artist in the Danish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
Maurizio Cattelan’s show at Moderna Museet rejects both religion and politics as models for art. Instead, it proposes, artists can take back control by slacking off.
‘You can never guarantee that it won’t be uncomfortable’, says performance artist Marthe Ramm Fortun.
In Denmark, the International Women’s Day was about women of the nation cast in bronze and women of the desert of flesh and blood.