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.
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.
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.
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