Yuki Kihara per la Nuova Zelanda

Mentre sta per concludersi un’edizione tranquilla della Biennale di Venezia ecco già da parte della Nuova Zelanda l’indicazione dell’artista che parteciperà all’edizione del 2021, sarà l’artista Yuki Kihara.

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The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa is pleased to announce interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara as New Zealand’s artist for the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia presented in 2021.

Yuki is renowned for delving into the complexities of postcolonial histories in the Pacific and interrogating Western misinterpretations from the perspective of Fa’afafine (Samoan for ‘in the manner of a woman’ broadly understood as the LGBTIQ+ in the Western context) community which she belongs to in Sāmoa.

The Arts Council is also pleased to announce Natalie King as the curator for New Zealand’s participation. Currently Enterprise Professor at the University of Melbourne, Natalie has extensive curatorial experience in contemporary art across Australia, Asia-Pacific and Europe. She was the curator of Tracey Moffatt’s acclaimed exhibition for the Australian pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2017.

Arts Council Chair, Michael Moynahan says, “Yuki Kihara will be the first artist of Pacific descent to represent New Zealand at the Biennale Arte. This is a significant moment, not only for Yuki, but for the legacy of the New Zealand presentation.”

“Yuki has built a strong reputation for work that is engaging, visually striking and topical. Her presentation will speak to the shared histories between Aotearoa and the Pacific, illuminating alternative voices through a focus on Yuki’s homeland Sāmoa.”

In response to her official appointment to represent New Zealand at Biennale Arte 2021 Yuki says, “The glass ceiling has been shattered. This moment is so much bigger than me, especially for the Pacific art community. I am humbled by this opportunity and the platform that enables me to further amplify my practice.”

Michael Moynahan has been appointed Commissioner for the Biennale Arte 2021, in compliance with the rules of the Biennale which require Commissioners for official country pavilions to be members of the national governing body. The Commissioner’s role is crucial in supporting the delivery of the exhibition and provides significant ambassadorial support to the project.

Seventeen high-calibre proposals were received for New Zealand’s presentation at the Biennale Arte 2021. They were assessed by a Selection Advisory Panel, chaired by Michael Moynahan.

The Selection Advisory Panel for the Biennale Arte 2021 comprised:

Lisa Reihana, NZ artist for the Biennale Arte 2017

Karl Chitham, Director, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt

Nina Tonga, Curator Contemporary Art, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington

Mami Kataoka, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Dame Jenny Gibbs, New Zealand at Venice Commissioner 2019

Leigh Melville, Head of New Zealand at Venice Patrons

Christina Barton, Director, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington

Remco de Blaaij, Director, Artspace, Auckland

Anthony Byrt, Art Critic, Writer and Journalist.

The Biennale Arte is the world’s largest and most prestigious international contemporary art exhibition, attended by key curators, writers and collectors. It opens every two years in late May and runs for approximately six months. It involves more than 80 countries and attracts over 30,000 key international curators, critics, collectors and artists to the three-day Vernissage (preview) period alone.

Creative New Zealand’s financial commitment for the 2021 presentation will be $800,000 over two financial years.

New Zealand has exhibited at the Biennale Arte since 2001. New Zealand artists who have exhibited are: Jacqueline Fraser and Peter Robinson (2001); Michael Stevenson (2003) et al. (2005); Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard (2009); Michael Parekowhai (2011); Bill Culbert (2013); Simon Denny (2015); Lisa Reihana (2017) and Dane Mitchell (2019).

The 2021 announcement follows New Zealand’s highly successful exhibition Post hoc by Dane Mitchell at the Biennale Arte 2019 which attracted widespread international acclaim, and has had 56,263 visitors to date. Post hoc is currently open to the public until 24 November.  

Lisa Reihana per la Nuova Zelanda

Lisa Reihana sarà l’artista per la Nuova Zelanda alla prossima Biennale del 2017 con un progetto di rielaborazione di un’opera d’arte “I selvaggi del mare pacifico”

New Zealand presents Lisa Reihana at 57th Venice Biennale

An historic naval warehouse in the heart of the Arsenale exhibition district will be the venue for Lisa Reihana’s media-based exhibition at the Venice Art Biennale in 2017.

The New Zealand pavilion will be housed in the Tesa dell'Isolotto, one of the oldest buildings in the Arsenale, among many permanent national pavilions and part of the Biennale’s curated exhibition.

The venue was announced by the Hon Maggie Barry, Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage, at a patrons’ campaign launch in Auckland tonight. 

Commissioner Alastair Carruthers says selecting a venue early was crucial as few spaces are suitable for the artist’s large-scale audiovisual immersive project. He says, “Tesa dell'Isolotto’s location in a shipyard offers new possibilities for Reihana’s exhibition as she develops it for the Venice environment.” 

“We are very fortunate to have found space in the Arsenale, where hundreds of thousands of visitors come to experience the best contemporary art from around the globe. This will be the first time the New Zealand pavilion is within the Biennale’s official exhibition area.”

He says, “The Arsenale is the magnificent historic shipyard of Venice, a naval basin that still operates and a place where ocean ready sailing vessels were built – at a rate of one per day.”

Emissaries will be the exhibition title of Reihana’s 2017 Venice Biennale presentation, which will include her panoramic video in Pursuit of Venus [infected], expanded and augmented with a series of new photographic works.

Reihana says, “Isolotta means ‘island’ and I’m very interested in the relevance of that, and of the location’s history as I develop this exhibition. Transported half a world away we will be new emissaries to Venice.”

Arts Council Chairman Dr Dick Grant says the Venice Biennale is widely recognised as the world’s pre-eminent contemporary art exhibition.

He says, “It provides a huge opportunity for international exposure for New Zealand art and artists – and presents New Zealand as an assured country confidently taking its place on the world cultural stage. Each year, as we build on the success of previous exhibitions, our presence becomes more anticipated.”

New Zealand at the Venice Biennale

New Zealand’s arts development agency, Creative New Zealand, funds and manages New Zealand’s presence at the Venice Art Biennale for the almost seven month duration. 

Creative New Zealand is pleased to again be working with Te Papa as our Key Partner and for the first time with Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki as our Presenting Partner.

The New Zealand at Venice patrons generously contribute around a third of the budget for New Zealand’s project at the Venice Art Biennale.

The Venice Art Biennale is widely recognised as the pre-eminent international art exhibition in the world. In 2015 almost 90 countries had a presence – and the Biennale attracted more than 8,000 accredited journalists and 500,000 visitors. 

An official presence there provides a career development opportunity at the highest level for New Zealand contemporary visual artists. It brings the New Zealand pavilion to the attention of global media, art institutions, experts and gallerists and offers professional development opportunities for the curators, exhibition attendants and team members including the technical, design and artistic contributors to the project.

New Zealand has exhibited at the Venice Art Biennale since 2001. New Zealand artists who have exhibited are: Peter Robinson and Jacqueline Fraser (2001); Michael Stevenson (2003) et al. (2005); Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard (2009); Michael Parekowhai (2011); Bill Culbert (2013) and Simon Denny (2015).

Lisa Reihana, artist

Lisa Reihana (b 1964) completed a Masters in Design from the School of Visual Art and Design, Unitec in Auckland in 2014 and graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 1987.Of Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Hine, Ngāi Tū descent, she lives and works in Auckland.

Reihana’s work has featured in significant international exhibitions including the Museum van Loon, the Amsterdam Film +Media Arts Festival, the Samstag Museum in Toronto, the Campbelltown Arts Centre, the Havana Biennale, the Brooklyn Museum, the Liverpool Biennale, the Asia Society Museum in New York, the Noumea Biennale, the 12th Biennale of Sydney, and the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane.

Reihana was made an Arts Laureate by the New Zealand Arts Foundation in 2014. She was shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize at the Singapore Art Museum in 2014 for in Pursuit of Venus; as well as the Double Take Anne Landa Award, Art Gallery of New South Wales in 2009 and the Walters Prize at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki in 2008, both forDigital Marae. She has recently been shortlisted for the 2016 Walters Prize for in Pursuit of Venus [infected].

Rhana Devenport, curator

Rhana Devenport is director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She was director of Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (2006-2013) and held senior positions with the Biennale of Sydney (2005-2006), Artspace NZ (2005) and the Sydney Festival (2004) and was Senior Project Officer for the Asia Pacific Triennial with the Queensland Art Gallery (1994-2004). Her curatorial and publishing projects include projects with Peter Robinson, Fiona Pardington, Judith Wright, Nalini Malani, NS Harsha, Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, Song Dong, Yin Xiuzhen, Zhang Peili, Lee Mingwei and Lisa Reihana.

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La Nuova Zelanda alla Marciana

La Nuova Zelanda annuncia che per la prossima edizione occuperà i fantastici spazi della Biblioteca Marciana, una location veramente stupenda!

Press Release:

New Zealand’s exhibition for the 56th Venice Biennale 2015 will be housed in the grand salon of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, one of the finest buildings in Venice and home to priceless works of cartography, art and literature.

New Zealand sculptor and installation artist Simon Denny, who will be exhibiting at next year’s Biennale, says the Marciana Library will provide a rich context for his work.  “The exhibition will address the intersection of geography and power, and the ownership of knowledge, so this pioneering library will provide an enriching and highly relevant context for the work.”

New Zealand Commissioner for the 2015 Venice Biennale, Heather Galbraith says securing the Marciana Library is a coup for New Zealand. “It is located in the Piazzetta San Marco, in the heart of Venice. Designed by Jacopo Sansovino, the building is exquisite—a significant visitor destination in its own right. The Marciana Library holds many treasures including an exemplary early map of the world by fra Mauro (1448–53), which Simon’s project takes into consideration as it offers a parallel mapping of world power.”

Creative New Zealand has also announced additional team members to assist with New Zealand’s Biennale presentation.

One of New Zealand’s most experienced contemporary-art curators and writers, Robert Leonard will be the curator. Leonard has held curatorial positions at the National Art Gallery, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, and Auckland Art Gallery, and was Director of Artspace, Auckland. Having been Director of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, since 2005, he recently returned to New Zealand to take up the role of Chief Curator at City Gallery Wellington. 

He will be joined by Assistant Curator Alex Davidson. A graduate of the University of Auckland, she was Curatorial Assistant at Artspace in 2012. Her role is generously supported by Dame Jenny Gibbs.

Joining the team as a specialist adviser will be investigative journalist and author Nicky Hager. He has extensively researched and written on the intelligence industry.

The project takes its title from Hager’s 1996 book Secret Power, an account of the role and international standing of New Zealand’s intelligence work.

Amsterdam-based designer David Bennewith will work with Denny on the project’s branding and will design the website and exhibition catalogue. The catalogue will be edited by Robert Leonard and art writer, editor and commentator Mary Barr.  

Heather Galbraith says, “We expect a high level of interest in New Zealand’s exhibition and finalising a team of this calibre along with a spectacular venue has been very exciting. These are significant milestones towards New Zealand at Venice 2015.”  

Venice Art Biennale

The Venice Biennale is the leading international event for contemporary art. More than 80 countries participate in the seven-month exhibition, which last year attracted more than 470,000 visitors.   New Zealand has an official exhibition at the Venice Biennale since 2001. The artists have been Peter Robinson and Jacqueline Fraser (2001), Michael Stevenson (2003), et al. (2005), Judy Millar and Francis Upritchard (2009), Michael Parekowhai (2011), and Bill Culbert (2013).

Simon Denny

Simon Denny studied at the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts and at Frankfurt’s Städelschule, graduating in 2009. Born in Auckland, he is currently based in Berlin. Denny was a founding member of the Auckland artist-run space Gambia Castle. His work is regularly exhibited in New Zealand and is held in major public and private collections in New Zealand, including the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Denny’s work has been included in shows in major European art museums, including the ICA, London; Kunsthaus Bregenz; KW Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Fridericianum, Kassel, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

In 2013, he presented All You Need Is Data: The DLD 2012 Conference Redux at Kunstverein Munich, Petzel Gallery, New York and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (as one of four nominees for the 2013 Preis der Nationalgalerie für Junge Kunst). In 2013, he exhibited The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom, at MUMOK, Vienna, and, in 2014, at Firstsite, Colchester. These shows received positive reviews in various publications including the New York Times, Focus, Frieze, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Denny recently opened New Management at the Portikus, Frankfurt.

In 2012, Simon Denny won the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel. He was the only New Zealand artist invited to exhibit in the curated show at the 2013 Venice Biennale and is a nominee for the 2014 Walters Prize.

The Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana

The Biblioteca Marciana, the Library of St Mark, is one of the most important research libraries in Italy.  It currently occupies the original Renaissance library dating from 1537 and the building that was constructed between 1537 and 1588 to house the mint.

Today, besides about a million printed books, the Marciana Library contains some 13,000 manuscripts and 2883 incunabula and 24,055 works printed between 1501 and 1600.

Among the irreplaceable treasures are unique scores of operas by Francesco Cavalli and sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, two manuscripts of the Iliad from the 10th and 11th centuries and the first book ever printed in Venice (1469).

In the first floor vestibule the ceiling is decorated with a painting by Titian "La Sapienza", and on the vaulted ceiling of the library hall are twenty one paintings, the work of seven artists chosen by Titian and Sansovino themselves: the most famous are three by Paolo Veronese; on the walls are portraits of philosophers, some of which are works by Tintoretto and Veronese.

Fra Mauro’s famous Map of the World (1450ca.), which has just been exhibited in Australia, is also housed in the vestibule, and will be on view in conversation with the New Zealand Pavilion.

Biennale 2015, la Nuova Zelanda guarda già al futuro

Non è ancora finita questa edizione della Biennale che già la Nuova Zelanda annuncia il suo futuro artista, lo scultore Simon Denny, che si divide fra il paese natale e Berlino.

L’artista è già presente però all’interno del Palazzo Enciclopedico di M.Gioni. 

Il curatore sarà Robert Leonard.

Nuova Zelanda blog

Sono molti i progetti che per dare visibilità agli eventi hanno realizzato dei blog con post degli artisti o dello staff, fra i tanti eccovi quello della Nuova Zelanda, forse uno dei migliori:

http://www.nzatvenice.com/blog/2013/5/6/venice-at-last

News dalla Nuova Zelanda

Ecco le ultime notizie sul prossimo Padiglione Nuova Zelanda che ospiterà l'artista Bill Culbert, che ha ideato un progetto site-specific per le stanze dell'Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà

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Bill Culbert has been commissioned by Creative New Zealand Arts Council of New Zealand, Toi Aotearoa to exhibit at the 55th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia.

Culbert will show site-specific works for the New Zealand Pavilion at the Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà (La Pietà). The lagoon-facing venue offers five exhibition spaces, including an outdoor courtyard and a spacious corridor where Vivaldi once taught violin. For the first time the main entrance will be on the Riva degli Schiavoni.

"Bill makes marvelous work, constantly re-investigating how light works and revitalising how we think of it,” says New Zealand’s Venice Biennale Commissioner, Jenny Harper. “Venice is a wonderful platform for us to celebrate his individual achievements and to continue to present the richness of this country’s visual arts practice. It will be fascinating to see how he responds to a venue that is both spatially and historically rich.”

Culbert (b. 1935) is a pioneer of the use of electric light in art, making works that harness the qualities of this most intangible of mediums from as early as the 1960s. Over a career that spans almost six decades, he has pushed the frontiers of art through a rigorous, inventive and economic use of materials. Light is both medium and subject matter in his sculptures, installations and photographs, the means of mounting a philosophical enquiry into the art object and its materiality. Culbert's sculptural installations make striking use of found and new materials. From suitcases pierced with fluorescent tubes, to chandeliers of repurposed furniture, through to arrays of reclaimed plastic containers, his artworks illuminate the qualities of common things and their surrounding environments.

Culbert has had more than 100 solo exhibitions since 1960, showing across New Zealand, England, Europe, the United States, and Australia. His work is owned by numerous public and private collections around the globe and can currently be seen in exhibitions at the Château de Servières, Marseilles, France (19 January to 23 February 2013), and in the Hayward Gallery, London’s group exhibition, 'Light Show' (30 January - 28 April 2013). Culbert is based in Provence, France and London, England.

Sito ufficiale Nuova Zelanda

Iniziano a prendere forma i primi siti per le prossime partecipazioni, ecco quello della Nuova Zelanda col lavoro di Bill Culbert  http://www.nzatvenice.com/

Nuova Zelanda Bill Culbert

La Nuova Zelanda propone lo scultore, fotografo e artista di installazioni Bill Culbert per la Biennale di Venezia con una mostra curata da Justin Paton. 

Bill Culbert ha avuto numerose mostre personali in tutto il mondo, ed è apparso in numerose mostre collettive. Culbert dipingeva  e lavorava più concettualmente prima di iniziare la sperimentazione con la luce elettrica alla fine del 1960. Spesso associato con l'arte cinetica e costruttivista, ha anche una forte affinità con Marcel Duchamp e Lazlo Moholy-Nagy attraverso il suo lavoro con oggetti trovati  e adattati a continue esplorazione di idee attorno alla luce, energia.

info al sito http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/en/arts-development-and-resources/international-events-and-initiatives/new-zealand-at-the-venice-biennale

Celebrated New Zealand sculptor, photographer and installation artist Bill Culbert has been invited by Creative New Zealand to present his work at the 55^th Venice Biennale in 2013.

Otago-born Culbert painted and worked more conceptually before beginning his experimentation with electric light in the late 1960s.  Often associated with kinetic and constructivist art, he also has a strong affinity with Marcel Duchamp and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy through his work with found objects and through a continuing exploration of ideas around light, energy, perspective, social space and politics.

Culbert has sustained a busy exhibition schedule throughout his career, with more than 100 solo exhibitions in New Zealand, England, Europe, the United States and Australia since 1960, and many more group exhibitions and major public art commissions.  Details of his exhibition in Venice to come.

Curatore: Justin Paton

Artisti : Bill Culbert

Indirizzo: Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701

Web: www.creativenz.govt.nz

Padiglione Nuova Zelanda

Il Consiglio per le Arti della Nuova Zelanda, Toi Aotearoa, è lieto di annunciare che Michael Parekowhai rappresenterà la Nuova Zelanda alla 54esima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia.

Parekowhai è stato invitato dal Consiglio per le Arti neozelandese e da Jenny Harper, membro della commissione responsabile per la 54esima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte del 2011. La sua nuova opera, On first looking into Chapman’s Homer (“Guardando per la prima volta l’Omero di Chapman”), rende omaggio all’omonimo sonetto del poeta romantico inglese John Keats e rinvia ai concetti di scoperta, esplorazione e interazione culturale tra il Vecchio e il Nuovo mondo.

Musica e spettacolo sono aspetti centrali dell’installazione. Con le parole di Michael Parekowhai, “se in On first looking into Chapman’s Homer gli oggetti sono importanti, gran parte del vero significato dell’opera è reso dalla musica, che è in grado di riempire lo spazio come nessun oggetto potrebbe fare”.

L’opera si compone di un pianoforte a coda Steinway, riccamente intagliato, e di due pianoforti da concerto in bronzo che sorreggono due tori – in bronzo anch’essi. Sulla coda di un pianoforte è adagiato un toro a grandezza naturale che, con il suo corpo massiccio, ricorda le sinuosità delpaesaggio. Sull’altro pianoforte il secondo toro si regge ben saldo sulle zampe, pronto a sfidare chiunque voglia mettersi alla tastiera. L’esposizione mostrerà anche un personaggio della serie “Kapa Haka” (Officer Taumaha) e due alberelli d’ulivo in bronzo (Constitution Hill).

Il membro della commissione neozleandese, Jenny Harper, ha affermato: “On first looking into Chapman’s Homer è un’opera attuale, e creerà un senso di drammaticità e di sorpresa nel pubblico”.

Cinque pianisti neozelandesi sono stati selezionati per eseguire un mix di musica neozelandese, classica e jazz con il pianoforte a coda Steinway He Korero Purakau mo Te Awanui o Te Motu story of a New Zealand river, uno dei pezzi che compongono l’installazione. Il pubblico avrà anche la possibilità di suonare il piano a discrezione del pianista.

Michael Parekowhai è uno dei più importanti artisti neozelandesi contemporanei. Al di là della sua lunga carriera espositiva, i suoi lavori sono oggi in mostra in numerose e rilevanti collezioni pubbliche e private neozelandesi e australiane, oltre ad essere presenti in molte collezioni permanenti nei Paesi dell’Asia‐Pacifico e in Europa. Nato a Porirua (Nuova Zelanda) nel 1968, è di origine europea (Pakeha) e Maori (Ngati Whakarongo). Ha conseguito la laurea e un master presso la Elam School of Fine Arts dell’Università di Auckland, dove è attualmente professore associato di belle arti. Nel 2001 è stato insignito del titolo di artista laureato dalla Arts Foundation of New Zealand.

Quest’anno l’esposizione neozelandese è situata presso Palazzo Loredan dell’Ambasciatore, sul Canal Grande, vicino al ponte dell’Accademia. Il palazzo, in stile gotico del quindicesimo secolo, apparteneva alla famiglia aristocratica dei Loredan ed è stata la casa natia di due dogi di Venezia, Leonardo Loredan (1436‐1521) e Francesco Loredan (1685‐1762). È la prima volta che questo palazzo ospita un padiglione nazionale alla Biennale di Venezia.

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