Lotus L. Kang
has been selected by Bvlgari as the inaugural artist for its pavilion
in the Giardini della Biennale at the 61st Venice Biennale.
Known
for her complexly layered environments that meld organic, structural
and metabolic languages, Lotus L. Kang’s works give poetic form to
reflections on themes spanning inheritance, impermanence, memory, and
translation. Working fluidly between sculpture, photography and
site-responsive installation, she frequently draws on unfixed, unstable
materials and forms in her practice, giving evocative, often expansive
shape to questions of “becoming.”
Kang
has been commissioned to produce a major new installation for the
Bvlgari Pavilion, one that continues her enduring engagement with time
as multiplicitous and non-linear. Matthew Hyland, Executive Director of
the Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, has been appointed curator of
the project.
This
presentation is a centerpiece of Bvlgari’s role as Exclusive Partner of
La Biennale di Venezia, a partnership that will continue across three
editions of La Biennale through 2030.
Lotus L. Kang
was born 1985 in Toronto. Kang studied fine arts at Concordia
University in Montreal (2004-2008), and completed an MFA at the Milton
Avery School of the Arts at Bard College, New York, in 2015. The artist
lives and works in New York. Lotus
L. Kang’s practice unfolds across sculpture, photography and
site-responsive installation. Using an acute sensitivity towards process
and space, her works explore self and environment as contingent,
continuous and inseparable, with her materially dense, non-linear
installations metabolizing and translating themes drawn from industrial
and architectural forms, familial and social histories, poetry, and
non-human figures, among others.
Selected solo exhibitions: Already, 52 Walker, New York (2025); In Cascades, CAG Vancouver, Vancouver (2023); In Cascades, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2023); Molt, MCA Chicago, Chicago (2023). Selected institutional group exhibitions include: Does the flower hear the bee?, 15th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai (2025); Key Operators, Kunstverein Munich (2024); After Images, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin (2024); A Woman You Thought You Knew, Kadist, San Francisco (2024); Whitney Biennial 2024: Even Better Than the Real Thing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2024); GTA Triennial 2024, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2024); New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone, New Museum, New York (2021); In Practice: Total Disbelief, SculptureCenter, New York (2020); If I have a body, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (2019).
