During the few weeks left to the Biennale Arte 2024, The PhotoPhore will guide you with a series of itineraries, divided among the different neighborhoods of Venice (“sestieri“), with the most relevant exhibitions in the city, selected by our editorial team.
Titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere and curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the Biennale Arte 2024 will see the participation of 88 National Pavilions, 30 official Collateral Events, and a huge number of parallel exhibitions organized by museums, foundations, private and international institutions around Venice.
CASTELLO
- Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death
Collateral Event – Biennale Arte 2024
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà, Castello 3703
The Peter Hujar Foundation, New York presents the first exhibition in Europe of Peter Hujar’s legendary Portraits in Life and Death, a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 2024. Comprising the complete set of 41 photographs reproduced in the 1976 book, Portraits in Life and Death — the only publication Hujar produced during his lifetime — the exhibition will be curated by Grace Deveney, David C. and Sarajean Ruttenberg Associate Curator of Photography and Media at the Art Institute of Chicago. Hujar is renowned for photographing his subjects with penetrating sensitivity and psychological depth. Deeply embedded within the avant-garde milieu of artists, musicians, writers, and performers in downtown New York during the 1970s and early ‘80s, Hujar’s unflinching portraits captured his subjects with astonishing intimacy and vulnerability.
More details: peterhujararchive.com
- Estranged from Nature
16.04.2024-14.07.2024
Zuecca Projects, Salizada Streta 368
Zuecca Projects and the European ArtEast Foundation present Estranged from Nature, a solo exhibition by Ioan Sbârciu, one of the most prominent figures of the Romanian contemporary art scene. The Amsterdam based international curator Maria Rus Bojan curates the exhibition together with Alessandro Possati, director of Zuecca Projects. Conceived as an adjacent response to the theme Foreigners Everywhere of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024, this presentation focuses on Ioan Sbârciu’s visionary artistic creation and his large pictorial spaces, addressing issues of estrangement, loss and resilience.
More details: www.zueccaprojects.org
- Are We The Aliens_
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna, Calle S. Francesco 2786
Belgian artist Arne Quinze and American music producer Swizz Beatz will present a collaborative exhibition titled Are We The Aliens_ in Venice, coinciding with the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale. Visitors will be engaged with Swizz Beatz’s soundscapes and Quinze’s sculptures in the immersive installation Sonic Levitation (2024), which will be on the first floor of the San Francesco della Vigna church’s Scoletta—the 300-square-meter private religious study. The ground floor will also host Quinze’s Impact Glass (2024) installation—fifteen individual glass sculptures created with Berengo Studio. The church’s voluted colonnade will feature the artist’s first large-scale ceramic sculptures, created in collaboration with Atelier Vierkant.
Image of the Complesso dell’Ospedaletto by Giacomo Bianco
- NEBULA
17.04.2024-24.11.2024
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Barbaria de le Tole 6691
Nebula is a group exhibition curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi that features 8 new site-specific video installations commissioned to Giorgio Andreotta Calò (1979, Italy), Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme (1983, Cyprus/1983, USA), Saodat Ismailova (1981, Uzbekistan), Cinthia Marcelle and Tiago Mata Machado (1974, Brazil/1973, Brazil), Diego Marcon (1985, Italy), Basir Mahmood (1985, Pakistan/Netherlands), Ari Benjamin Meyers (1972, USA) and Christian Nyampeta, and produced by Fondazione In Between Art Film. Nebula, the Latin word for “cloud” or “fog,” is the second chapter of a series of exhibitions organized by the Fondazione in Venice that began with Penumbra in 2022 and explores states of vision and extra-visual perception.
More details: inbetweenartfilm.com
- Planète Lalanne
17.04.2024-04.11.2024
Palazzo Rota Ivancich, Calle del Remedio 4421, Castello
Ben Brown Fine Arts presents Planète Lalanne, a comprehensive exhibition of the celebrated artistic duo Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne that will take over the historic Palazzo Rota Ivancich in Venice. Curated by Jérôme Neutres, the fantastical sculptures, furniture and objets d’art will be placed throughout the palazzo in intimate dialogue with this unique environment, highlighting their ingenious functionality and surrealist whimsy, imagining an enchanted ‘Palazzo Lalanne’. With over 150 works, Planète Lalanne will be one of the largest Lalanne exhibitions historically and the first in Italy.
