Sonia Boyce per la Gran Bretagna

Per il padiglione del Regno Unito è stata selezionata l'artista Sonia Boyce, nota soprattutto per una intensa produzione di spicco nella scena artistica britannica negli anni '80, che riflette sui concetti di razza, società e genere. 

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The British Council is pleased to announce that Sonia Boyce OBE RA has been announced to represent Great Britain at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2021. The exhibition will run from May – November 2021 and will feature a major solo exhibition of new work from the artist.

Sonia Boyce is known for her highly innovative and experimental approach to art-making, using performance and audio-visual elements in her work. Since the 1990s, her practice has become increasingly improvisational and collaborative, inviting a broad cross-section of participants to come together and speak, sing or move in relation to the past and the present.

On accepting the British Council commission, Sonia Boyce commented:

“You could have knocked me down with a feather when I got the call to tell me I had been chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale 2021 - it was like a bolt out of the blue. Obviously, I’m extremely honored, excited – and nervous. I’m eager to start this creative journey, exploring the experience with others who agree to work with me along the way.”

Emma Dexter, British Council Director Visual Arts, Commissioner of the British Pavilion and Chair of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said:

“The British Council is thrilled to announce that Sonia Boyce has been commissioned to represent the UK at the Biennale Arte 2021. We are eagerly anticipating her exhibition, where collaboration, improvisation and dialogue will undoubtedly play a key role. Boyce’s work raises important questions about the nature of creativity, questioning who makes art, how ideas are formed, and the nature of authorship. At such a pivotal moment in the UK’s history, the Committee has chosen an artist whose work embodies inclusiveness, generosity, experimentation and the importance of working together”.

The British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia since 1937, showcasing the best of the UK's artists, architects, designers and curators. These exhibitions, and the British Council’s Venice Fellowships initiative introduced in 2016, help make the British Pavilion a major platform for discussion about contemporary art and architecture.

Later this year, the British Council will appoint an Associate Curator to work alongside Sonia Boyce and the British Council team to develop the exhibition. This post will be generously supported by Shane Akeroyd and offers mid-career curators a unique professional opportunity to work with a leading British artist on a global platform.

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Cathy Wilkes per la Gran Bretagna

Il British Council ha comunicato che sarà Cathy Wilkes a partecipare alla prossima edizione della Biennale di Venezia del 2019


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The British Council is delighted to announce that Cathy Wilkes has been selected to represent Great Britain at the 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, presenting a major solo exhibition of new work opening on 11 May 2019 and running till 24 November 2019. 

Since the late 1990s, Glasgow-based Cathy Wilkes (b. 1966, Dundonald, Belfast) has built a considerable reputation for sculptural installations of profound and mysterious intensity, which often evoke interiors and places of loss. Cathy Wilkes insists on the private life of the artist, and questions how art can relate to human experience. Cathy Wilkes’s work is tender, intimate, autobiographical – yet universal, inspiring the writer Laura McLean-Ferris to describe Wilkes’s recent survey at MoMA PS1 in New York earlier this year as “this magnificent exhibition”. 

The fierce integrity of her work is widely acknowledged, and, in 2016, she was awarded the inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize – a prestigious honour to recognise the achievements of mid-career artists.

To widen access to international working for UK visual arts professionals, the British Council has for the first time, created an opportunity for a UK-based mid-career curator to curate the British Pavilion. The British Council is delighted to announce that, following an open call selection process, Dr Zoe Whitley, Curator International Art, Tate, has been appointed to this position.

Emma Dexter, British Council Director Visual Arts, Commissioner of the British Pavilion and Chair of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said: “The British Council is delighted that Cathy Wilkes has been selected to represent the UK at the Biennale Arte 2019. Cathy Wilkes’s distinctive and highly personal sculptural installations, evoking the rituals of daily life while alluding to existential questions at the core of human existence, will trigger complex new meanings and atmospherics within the grand domestic architecture of the British Pavilion. I am in no doubt that her exhibition will be a unique and powerful contribution to the Biennale Arte 2019. We are also really excited that Dr Zoe Whitley will be working alongside both the British Council and the artist to help bring this fascinating artist’s work to the global audience for La Biennale di Venezia.”

Hugh Mulholland, Senior Curator at The Mac, Belfast and member of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said: “Cathy Wilkes is a deeply thoughtful artist; central to her practice is a desire to give voice to an inner world, to understand the human condition and to address an emotional deficit at the core of society, a preoccupation which could not be more apt for the current world order. Her presence at the Biennale Arte 2019 is a fitting acknowledgement of her considerable achievements to date.”

Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh and member of the British Pavilion Selection Committee, said: “I am pleased to have been part of this year’s Selection Committee and for Cathy Wilkes to be the selected artist. Cathy Wilkes’s work is eloquent and engaging, with an uncompromising visual intelligence that will reach across national borders to appeal to the many and diverse audiences for the Biennale Arte 2019.”

Dr Zoe Whitley, Curator at Tate Modern and Curator of the British Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2019 said: “It’s a privilege and the most wonderful responsibility to be entrusted with curating the British Pavilion. I'm thrilled to collaborate with Cathy Wilkes and the British Council in such a unique capacity; to consider, to learn from and to convey the work of such a significant artist is an exciting challenge.”

Amanda Catto, Head of Visual Arts, Creative Scotland, said: “The Scotland + Venice partners – Creative Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland and British Council Scotland – are delighted to hear that Cathy Wilkes has been selected to represent Great Britain at the Biennale Arte 2019. Cathy Wilkes is a remarkable artist, making complex and emotionally powerful work.  This is a tremendous accolade for Cathy Wilkes and an affirmation of the exceptional quality of art making that is taking place in Scotland today.”

Suzanne Lyle, Head of Visual Arts, Arts Council of Northern Ireland said: “It is so delightful to have an artist of Cathy’s calibre, with a Northern Ireland connection, representing the UK at the Biennale Arte 2019. Her work and her role in Venice will be an inspiration to the rich seam of visual artists from these shores. The British Council’s selection of Cathy Wilkes’s work is recognition of her artistic excellence; it is well-deserved and we send her our heartfelt congratulations.”

The 58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, which is the foremost global presentation of visual art, will run from 11 May 2019 to 24 November 2019. 

The British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice since 1937, showcasing the best of the UK's artists, architects, designers and curators. In 2014 the British Council created the Venice Fellowships programme to offer students, artists and architects the opportunity to spend a month at the Biennale conducting research alongside the exhibition.

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Phyllida Barlow has been selected to represent Britain at the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and she presents a major solo show in the British Pavilion. 

Best known for her colossal sculptural projects, for over four decades Phyllida Barlow has employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such as plywood, cardboard, plaster, cement, fabric and paint to create striking sculptures and bold and expansive installations that confront the relationship between objects and the space that surrounds them. Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s practice is grounded in an anti-monumental tradition characterised by her physical experience of handling materials in an expedient and direct way.

“It is an extraordinary privilege and honour to be invited to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale 2017. I am astonished, thrilled and, of course, hugely excited... The international diversity for which the Biennale is so renowned within the particular context of Venice is a unique and stimulating creative opportunity beyond my wildest dreams." 

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The Commissioner of the British Pavilion is Emma Dexter, Director Visual Arts, British Council. The exhibition is commissioned by the British Council for the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2017 and has been made possible with support from Hauser & Wirth.

Padiglione Gran Bretagna - Jeremy Deller

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Commissario: Andrea Rose. Curatore: Emma Gifford-Mead. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini
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Padiglione della Gran Bretagna

Andiamo ora verso il vialone centrale dove si trova subito la Francia e poi centrale il Padiglione della Gran Bretagna


Il Padiglione è stato realizzato nel 1909, sullo spazio del caffè-ristorante esistente, su progetto di Edwin Alfred Rickards, grazie al contributo di Sir David Salomans.


2015 — Sarah Lucas
2013 — Jeremy Deller (Curatore: Emma Gifford-Mead)
2011 — Mike Nelson
2009 — Steve Mc Qeen ( Curatore: Richard Riley)
2007 — Tracey Enim
2005 — Gilbert & George (George Passmore, Gilbert Proesch) (Curatore: Richard Riley)
2003 — Chris Ofili
2001 — Mark Wallinger
1999 — Gary Hume
1997 — Rachel Whiteread
1995 — Leon Kossoff. Mostra Young British Artists Fiona Banner, Dinos Chapman, Chapman Jake, Chodzko Adán, Dalziel Mateo, Scullion Louise, Cerith Wyn Evans, Elizabeth Wright, Tacita Dean, Gunning Lucy, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jane y Louise Wilson, Jaki Irvine, Gary Hume, Douglas Gordon, Tom Gidley, e Floyer Ceal.
1993 — Richard Hamilton. "Aperto 93 Henry Bond, Christine Borland, Angela Bulloch, Mat Collishaw, Damien Hirst, Simon Patterson, Phaophanit Vong, Steven Pippin, Julia Roberts, Georgina Starr. 'Punti dell'arte' Anish Kapoor. 'Slittamenti' Peter Greenaway e Derek Jarman. 'Macchine ritmo della' Tony Cragg, Houshiary Shirazeh, y Julian Opie. 'Dell'arte coesistenza' Braco Dimitrijevic.
1990 — Anish Kapoor. David Mach, Watson Arthur y Kate Whiteford. "Aperto 90 ' Eric Bainbridge, Leapman David, Patrick Joseph McBride, Oulton Teresa, Fiona Rae, Wilson Antonio. "Fluxus"Braco Dimitrijevic, Brion Gysin, Dick Higgins.
1988 — Tony Cragg. "Aperto 88 Tony Bevan, Hannah Collins, Davey Grenville, Andy Goldsworthy, Linke Simon, Peter Nadin, y William Thoms Puckey. exposición 'Scultori ai Giardini ", con obras de Lynn Chadwick, Core Anthony, el rey Felipe, y Joe Tilson.
1986 — Frank Auerbach. "Aperto 86 Lisa Milroy, John Murphy, Newman Avis, Poncelet Jacqueline, Boyd Webb, y Richard Wilson. 'Arte e Scienza " Eric Bainbridge, Brotchie Alastair, Anthony Caro, Leonora Carrington, Colquhoun Ithell, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, Neil Cummings, Brian Eno, Barry Flanagan, Gardiner Jeremy, Gidney Eric, Jocelyn Godwin, Anthony Gormley , Paul Jones Hayward, Allen, Liliane Lijn, Peter Lowe, Lyon Kyeran, Conroy Maddox, el Mayor Martin Thomas, Kenneth, Mary Martin, Alastair Morton, Hugh O'Donnell, Andrew Owens, Punt Mike, Bridget Riley, Kurt Schwitters , Sedgley Pedro, Jeffrey Steele, Paul Thomas, Oeste Felipe, y Alison Wilding.
1984 — Howard Hodgkin. Peter Greenaway e Christopher Le Brun. 'Arte, Ambiente, Scena' Judy Pfaff. "Aperto 84 Terry Atkinson, Helen Chadwick, Garrard Rose, Glenys Johnson, Paul Richards, Toren Amikam, Treng Kerry.
1982 — Obras de Barry Flanagan. "Aperto 82 'exposición con obras de Catalina Blacker, Stephen Cox, Antony Gormley, director Tim, Houshiary Shirazeh, Anish Kapoor, Christopher Le Brun, Judy Pfaff, Willats Esteban, y Bill Woodrow. 'Arte vienen arte: Ópera persistenza - Mostra internazionale "exposición con obras de Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Kitaj Ronald, y Raymond Mason.
1980 — Las obras de la cabeza de Tim y el Papa Nicolás. "El arte en los años setenta" exposición con obras de Bruce McLean, Martin Kenneth, Exposiciones televisión, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert y George, Hamish Fulton, y Richard Long. "El arte en los años setenta. Abierto de 80 exposiciones con obras de Roger bordar, Tony Cragg, y Leonard McComb.
1978 — fotografía de Boyle por Marcos. 'Seis Estaciones de Arte-Naturaleza. La naturaleza de la exposición de arte "con obras de Gilbert y George, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Richard Long, y Malcolm Morley. "Arte y Cine" por Anthony McCall.
1976 — Las obras de Richard Long, Richard Hamilton, Pasmore Víctor, David Mackay, Alison y Peter Smithson, James Stirling, John Davies, Hyde Felipe, el rey Anne Rawcliffe, Teuten Yolanda.
1972 — John Walker, William G. Tucker, Pentagram (Alan Fletcher, Colin Forbes, Mervyn Kurlansky), Michael Inglés, John Gorham, FHK Henrion, Lou Klein, Enzo Ragazzini, Gilbert e George , Victor Burgin.
1970 — Richard Smith
1968 — Bridget Riley, Francis Bacon, Felipe, Anthony Caro, David Hockney, Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi, Víctor Pasmore, Graham Sutherland.
1966 — Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen, Denny Robyn, Anthony Caro, Richard Smith.
1964 — Técnica mixta obras de Joe Tilson. Las pinturas de Roger Hilton, Irwin Gwyther. Esculturas de Meadows Bernard.
1962 — Los cuadros de Ceri Richards. Esculturas de Robert Adams y Dalwood Hubert.
1960 — Víctor Pasmore, Merlyn Evans, Geoffrey Cliffe Clarke, Henry
1958 — Scott e William Hayter SW. Esculturas de Kenneth Armitage, Giovani Sezione, Sandra Golpe, Anthony Caro, Alan Davie.
1956 — Ivon Hitchens, Bratby John Greaves Derrick, Middleditch Edward, Jack Smith, Lynn Chadwick.
1954 — Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Ben Nicholson, Reg Butler, Braun Allin, Clarke Geoffrey, Cliffe Henry, Robert Colquhoun, William, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Ceri Richards, William Scott, Graham Sutherland.
1952 — Sutherland Graham, Edward Wadsworth, Robert Adams, Kenneth Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick, Clarke Geoffrey, Meadows Bernard, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, y William Turnbull.
1950 — Matthew Smith, John Constable, Barbara Hepworth.
1948 — Henry Moore, J. M. W. Turner, Ben Nicholson y Tunnard Juan.


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