Si attende l'ufficializzazione di Gian Maria Tosatti come l'artista del Padiglione Italia alla prossima Biennale di Arti Visive.
Ne ha dato informativa Eugenio Viola, curatore incaricato lo scorso 15 maggio alla gestione del Padiglione Italia.
Si attende l'ufficializzazione di Gian Maria Tosatti come l'artista del Padiglione Italia alla prossima Biennale di Arti Visive.
Ne ha dato informativa Eugenio Viola, curatore incaricato lo scorso 15 maggio alla gestione del Padiglione Italia.
Sarà Angela Su a rappresentare Hong Kong alla prossima Biennale Arti Visive di Venezia, conosciuta soprattutto per le sue pratiche molto variegate fra disegno, performance, video e installazioni.
L'artista è stata selezionata dal museo M+ di Hong Kong e l'Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
Al via da oggi il primo bando Biennale College Arte, il cui workshop avrà inizio dal prossimo autunno 2021. L’obiettivo è quello di affiancare all’Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte un laboratorio di alta formazione, ricerca e sperimentazione per lo sviluppo e la produzione di progetti di artiste/i emergenti under 30 provenienti da tutto il mondo.
Il bando internazionale Biennale College Arte resterà aperto per sei settimane, da mercoledì 16 giugno fino a lunedì 26 luglio 2021.
Il bando è riservato a giovanni artiste/i emergenti under 30 provenienti da tutto il mondo (che non abbiano compiuto 31 anni alla data di scadenza di presentazione delle domande), che abbiano partecipato ad almeno una mostra collettiva e al cui lavoro sia stata dedicata almeno una mostra personale in spazi espositivi riconosciuti in ambito nazionale e/o internazionale.
Saranno selezionati 12 progetti e le/gli artiste/i saranno invitate/i a partecipare a un workshop di 10 giorni dedicato allo sviluppo dei progetti proposti, che si svolgerà a Venezia nel mese di ottobre 2021.
Il workshop, che alternerà momenti individuali e di gruppo, sarà coordinato dalla Direttrice del Settore Arti Visive, Cecilia Alemani, assieme a curatori e artisti, tutor e mentori direttamente impegnati allo sviluppo dei progetti con i partecipanti.
Al termine del workshop le/gli artiste/i avranno a disposizione 3 settimane per lavorare sui progetti e consegnare una proposta finale. Sulla valutazione dei materiali Cecilia Alemani selezionerà fino a quattro progetti, che potranno accedere a un contributo massimo di 25.000 euro per la realizzazione del lavoro finale.
Le opere saranno presentate, fuori concorso, nel contesto della 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, Il latte dei sogni / The Milk of Dreams, a cura di Cecilia Alemani.
Il Presidente della Biennale Roberto Cicutto dichiara:
«Con l’avvio del College Arte, La Biennale offre un’ulteriore importante opportunità a giovani artisti di allargare il raggio dei propri rapporti professionali e soprattutto di stringere relazioni con altri giovani e con affermati professionisti. Le artiste e gli artisti saranno accompagnati in una nuova fondamentale tappa della loro crescita dal curatore dell’Esposizione Internazionale e dai tutor che li assisteranno. Dopo Cinema, Danza, Teatro, Musica e Archivio Storico, l’Arte non poteva mancare a questo approfondimento che caratterizza le attività della Biennale da molti anni. Sono grato alla Curatrice della Biennale Arte 2022, Cecilia Alemani, di aver accettato di aprire questa nuova sfida, che la carica di più responsabilità e lavoro. Ma sono certo che i risultati, che saranno raggiunti a partire dal prossimo anno e per molti anni a venire, ripagheranno largamente dell’impegno investito. La Biennale è lieta di accogliere nella propria famiglia ancor più giovani artisti, ai quali va un grande in bocca al lupo per l’affrontare con noi questa nuova straordinaria esperienza.»
La nascita del College per questa nuova disciplina si prefigura di importanza decisiva per il Settore Arti Visive della Biennale. Tale programma di attività permanenti, “oltre l’Esposizione”, assume così una configurazione del tutto inedita, volta a favorire lo sviluppo di nuove energie creative.
Come partecipare
Il testo completo del bando Biennale College Arte è disponibile online su www.labiennale.org
Tutti i materiali richiesti dovranno essere trasmessi entro il 26 luglio.
Calendario e programma
16 giugno 2021 - Lancio bando “Biennale College Arte”
26 luglio 2021 - Chiusura bando “Biennale College Arte”
23 agosto 2021 - Comunicazione del risultato ai selezionati
15 settembre 2021 - Annuncio dei 12 progetti e artiste/i selezionati
1-10 ottobre 2021 (giorni di viaggio: 30 settembre – 11 ottobre) a Venezia - workshop per le/gli artisti dei 12 progetti selezionati
1 novembre 2021 - scadenza per la consegna del progetto finale, del budget e del calendario richiesti alle/agli artiste/i dei 12 progetti selezionati
Entro il 15 novembre 2021 - Comunicazione dei risultati della selezione finale
11 – 17 gennaio 2022 - workshop online di pre-produzione
1 aprile 2022 - data di consegna a Venezia
Biennale College
Biennale College è il progetto della Biennale di Venezia dedicato alla formazione e al supporto dei giovani in tutti i settori artistici e nelle attività proprie della struttura organizzativa della Biennale. Già attivo per i settori di Cinema, Danza, Musica, Teatro e Archivio Storico, Biennale College nasce con l’obiettivo di promuovere giovani talenti, offrendo loro di operare a contatto con Maestri per la messa a punto di “creazioni” che diventeranno parte dei programmi dei Settori artistici.
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Vi segnalo questo interessante e ampio articolo che è uscito oggi sulla prossima Biennale di Venezia sul sito Artsy.
Terrence Musekiwa per il Padiglione del Zimbabwe
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Catinca Tabacaru Gallery is thrilled to announce that Terrence Musekiwa has been selected to represent Zimbabwe at the 59th Venice Biennale. The Pavilion is curated by Fadzai Muchemwa.
Musekiwa participated in the Gallery's inaugural CTG Collective art residency in Harare in 2015, and in 2017 he presented his first solo exhibition at Catinca Tabacaru New York. Since that time he has exhibited internationally in public and private institutions in London, Lagos, Mänttä, Mexico City, Amsterdam, Utrecht, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Miami, New York, Tel Aviv, Harare, and at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Also coming up for Musekiwa is a third solo exhibition with the Gallery in Bucharest, and inclusion in the 14th Dakar Biennale in Senegal.
L'Islanda per il 2022 ci porterà il lavoro di Sigurður Guðjónsson che si sta strutturando in un interessante progetto che si realizzerà col supporto della curatrice Mónica Bello.
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The Icelandic Art Center is delighted to announce that Sigurður Guðjónsson, Iceland’s chosen artist representation at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, will collaborate with curator Mónica Bello to realise his project for the Pavilion of Iceland, which will be located in the Arsenale for the first time.
Working with moving imagery, sound and installation, Sigurður Guðjónsson is known for his powerful, immersive works that create an organic synergy between visuals, audio and space, carrying carefully constructed soundscapes. His works often investigate man-made construction, machinery and the infrastructure of technical relics, in conjunction with natural elements, set within the form of complex loops and rhythmic schemes. His multi-faceted compositions allow for the viewer to be engaged in a synaesthetic experience, linking vision and hearing in ways that seem to extend the perceptual field and produce sensations never felt before.
Son già più di 20 le nazioni che hanno annunciato le loro rappresentanze e di questi la maggioranza ha scelto donne, come Simone Leigh per Usa, Zineb Sedira per la Francia o Sonia Boyce per la Gran Bretagna.
Nel complesso si presentano prospettive di opere che più di arte parlano di sociologia e impegno politico, diritti (soprattutto femminili e di colore), spesso con risultati deboli ma che sicuramente smuovono un poco il dibattito nel sistema dell'arte contemporanea.
Anche qui il tema delle integrazioni culturali si manifesta purtroppo più in uno scontro che in un incontro, come sempre fa più attenzione mediatica lavorare sulle polemiche che sul difficile piano del dialogo.
Intanto per il Padiglione Italia non si sa ancora nulla ...
Per l'anno della Biennale Arti Visive la Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia proporrà una grande mostra su Anish Kapoor
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La Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia sono liete di annunciare che Anish Kapoor sarà il primo artista britannico a essere celebrato con una grande mostra al museo. L'esposizione, inizialmente prevista nel 2021 e slittata di un anno a causa della pandemia, sarà presentata in concomitanza con la prossima Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte della Biennale di Venezia, e si terrà dal 20 aprile al 9 ottobre 2022. Il curatore è lo storico dell'arte Taco Dibbits, Direttore generale del Rijksmuseum di Amsterdam.
La mostra costituisce una completa e ampia retrospettiva che presenterà i momenti chiave della carriera di Kapoor ed esplorerà lo sviluppo del suo linguaggio visivo unico. Per la prima volta verranno esposti i nuovi lavori fortemente innovativi, creati utilizzando la nanotecnologia del carbonio. Queste nuove opere sviluppano ulteriormente il linguaggio delle prime sculture di Kapoor, che esplorano la condizione di ciò che l’artista ha definito il 'non-oggetto' - opere che indagano lo spazio liminale occupato da un oggetto, tra presenza fisica e immaterialità, qualcosa che è presente ma al tempo stesso assente, vuoto ma pieno.
Giulio Manieri Elia, Direttore delle Gallerie dell’Accademia, afferma: “Per affinità con la collezione del Museo, in passato è sempre stato selezionato un “pittore-pittore” e di conseguenza oggi potrebbe stupire il fatto che la scelta sia caduta su uno scultore: in realtà Kapoor, in virtù delle sue originali e profonde ricerche sul colore, sulla luce, sulla prospettiva e sullo spazio va alla radice dei principi della pittura rinascimentale veneta, ne indaga l’essenza e riesce a dialogare intimamente su un piano ideale – potremmo anche dire concettuale – con l’opera di Giovanni Bellini, di Giorgione, di Tiziano, di Veronese e di Tintoretto.”
Le opere di Kapoor instaurano un dialogo dinamico con l'arte medievale e rinascimentale della collezione delle Gallerie. L'uso di Kapoor della pelle di un oggetto come un “velo” tra il mondo interno ed esterno rievoca, infatti, il motivo della piega nell'arte rinascimentale, dove funge da confine tra corpo, pelle ed essere, tra il corporeo e il sacro. Tali indagini sul soggetto incarnato portano alla modernità di Malevich, Newman e Rothko. Kapoor continua questa indagine con sculture sensuali e intriganti che mettono in discussione lo status sia della materia che dell'essere.
Taco Dibbits osserva: “Tutti gli artisti, per quanto all'avanguardia e contemporanei, sono sempre in dialogo con quelli che li hanno preceduti. Le Gallerie dell'Accademia sono il luogo perfetto per un maestro moderno per approfondire i temi che hanno da sempre coinvolto scultori e pittori. Gli ultimi lavori di Kapoor, utilizzando la nanotecnologia più avanzata, promettono di essere una vera rivelazione ".
Anish Kapoor dichiara: "La luce e lo spazio di Venezia e le glorie della collezione delle Gallerie dell'Accademia, sono stati a lungo fonte di ispirazione per me. Ho imparato ad amare questa città e i suoi pittori, scultori e architetti e mi sento onorato di essere stato invitato a impegnarmi in un dialogo visivo con essi. Spero di poter aggiungere qualcosa al vocabolario del colore e della forma che è stato il dono di Venezia al mondo. "
Anish Kapoor è considerato uno degli artisti più influenti di oggi. Nato a Mumbai, in India, nel 1954, ora vive e lavora a Londra. Le sue opere sono esposte nelle più importanti collezioni permanenti e nei musei di tutto il mondo, dal Museum of Modern Art di New York alla Tate di Londra; alla Fondazione Prada di Milano; ai Musei Guggenheim di Venezia, Bilbao e Abu Dhabi. Recenti mostre personali si sono tenute alla Pinakothek der Moderne, a Monaco, Germania (2020); Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum and Imperial Ancestral Temple di Pechino (2019); Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires (2019); Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemorânea, di Porto, Portogallo (2018); University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), in Messico (2016); Château de Versailles, in Francia (2015); Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, di Mosca (2015); Gropius Bau, Berlino (2013); Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, Istanbul (2013); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2012).
Anish Kapoor ha rappresentato la Gran Bretagna alla 44a Biennale di Venezia nel 1990, dove ha ricevuto il Premio Duemila. Nel 1991 ha vinto il Premio Turner e ha ricevuto numerosi premi internazionali tra cui il Praemium Imperiale nel 2011 e Padma Bhushan nel 2012. È stato insignito del riconoscimento di Commander of the Order of the British Empire nel 2003 e del titolo del Knighthood nel 2013 per il suo contributo nelle arti visive.
Noto anche per le sue opere architettoniche, i progetti pubblici che ha realizzato comprendono, tra gli altri: Cloud Gate (2004), Millennium Park, Chicago, USA; Leviathan (2011) esposto a Monumenta 2011, Parigi; Orbit (2012), Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Londra; Ark Nova, una sala da concerto gonfiabile creata per il Festival di Lucerna, Giappone (2013-) e Descension, (2014) recentemente installata a Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, USA (2017).
Oggi l'inserto settimanale del Sole24Ore Plus pubblica un bell'articolo sulla futura Biennale di Venezia.
Con calma anche la Germania ha scelto la sua rappresentate per la prossima Biennale di Arti Visive, sarà Maria Eichhorn, artista poco conosciuta in Italia ma già affermata nel nord Europa con una tipologia di lavoro, molto concettuale che affronta spesso le intricate relazioni tra denaro, arte e le istituzioni politiche, soprattutto legate alla storia della sua nazione. Curerà il progetto Yilmaz Dziewior, direttore del Museum Ludwig di Colonia.
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MARIA EICHHORN
The German Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia in 2022 will feature the artist Maria Eichhorn. By choosing Eichhorn, who was born in Bamberg in 1962 and lives in Berlin, the curator Yilmaz Dziewior has decided in favor of an internationally highly recognized artist known as much for her conceptual approach as for her subtle sense of humor. With her visually minimal gestures, spatial interventions, and process-based works, Eichhorn critically examines institutional power structures and political and economic interrelationships.
Maria Eichhorn already drew wide notice in 2002 with her work Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft [Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company], which she realized for the Documenta11 in Kassel. It consisted in the artist’s founding a public limited company with a special status that prohibited it from increasing its capital. By presenting foundation documents and the 50,000-Euro equity capital—placed in a display case in a neat bundle of a hundred brand-new 500-Euro bills—, she made a striking commentary on the relationship between art and the economy.
The Rose Valland Institute founded by Maria Eichhorn in 2017 on the occasion of the documenta 14 likewise gained international attention. The project, which is still in progress today in cooperation with various scholarly institutions, researches and documents the dispossession of Europe’s Jewish population. In a manner resembling her earlier projects— for example Restitutionspolitik / Politics of Restitution (2003) and In den Zelten ... (2015)—, Eichhorn thus raises the issue of unresolved ownership and property structures from 1933 to the present and the continued effects of Nazism.
Maria Eichhorn is the artist I have always wanted to see in the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Because in my view there are few artists who address themselves to German history and its impact on the present in as multifaceted and intensive a manner as Maria Eichhorn.
—Yilmaz Dziewior
Maria Eichhorn’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions in prestigious institutions and at international biennials. The artist has been teaching at the Zurich University of the Arts since 2003.
IN THE 2022 GERMAN PAVILION
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La Biennale di Venezia
59th International Art Exhibition
Deutscher Pavillon 2022
Curator: Yilmaz Dziewior
Artist: Maria Eichhorn
YD Do you still remember what went through your mind when I asked you whether you could imagine exhibiting in the German Pavilion at the next Biennale in Venice? I thought you seemed very relaxed, but you did want to know immediately whether you’d be exhibiting alone or with others.
ME At first I was incredulous and amazed and at the same time very delighted about your invitation. I remember we talked for a long time about the Biennale’s past and present and what it means to society, and about certain Biennale contributions. Our conversation gave me a sense of the seriousness and responsibility artists before me have attached to this task. In any case, I was glad that we’ve known each other for so long, have already worked together several times, that we’re a team built on trust.
YD When I’ve visited the German Pavilion in the past, I’ve often asked myself which artist I would have presented there. In that sense, I’ve often tried to imagine one day being responsible for the German Pavilion in Venice in the role of curator, though admittedly never in great depth. Was it like that for you, too? I mean, did you ever think of possibly taking on this task as an artist?
ME No, I didn’t start thinking about it until you invited me.
YD I think it’s downright surprising that you’ve never exhibited in the German Pavilion before because you’ve addressed yourself repeatedly to various topics related to German history. I’m thinking above all of Restitutionspolitik / Politics of Restitution (2003) and In den Zelten ... (2015), and of course the Rose Valland Institute (2017) you founded in the context of the documenta 14. All of these projects are about unresolved ownership and property structures from 1933 to the present—that is, about how Nazism continues to have an impact today in the broadest sense. The architecture of the German Pavilion in Venice can also be interpreted as a symbol of that period. What’s your view on the subject?
ME Several artists have grappled with the architecture of the German pavilion and with German history. There have been a number of attempts and proposals to redesign the pavilion. Since its monumental reconstruction in the Nazi period, the building has undergone various changes—inside and out. In 1957, for example, the documenta founder Arnold Bode had the idea of redesigning the pavilion in such a way as to give it a more democratic look. He wanted to renew the façade, m ve the entrance, and have a second level constructed in the interior—an idea later exhibition contributions picked up on. The issue of how we should deal with the architectural vestiges of the Nazi era, or with Nazi architecture, is one of ongoing topicality. With regard to the German Pavilion in Venice, I share the view of Hans Haacke and others that, historically speaking, the pavilion should be preserved as a monument. History, which also conveys itself to us in architecture, can’t just simply be dismantled and belied like with the Palast der Republik in Berlin, which was replaced with a fake Schloss.
YD What contributions to the German Pavilion have you especially liked and why?
ME I especially remember contributions by artists who responded to the site, for example Sigmar Polke, whose works reacted to the humidity of the lagoon and who showed a painting entitled Polizeischwein (Police Pig) on the pavilion’s façade, right next to the words “Bundesrepublik Deutschland.” Then there was Hans Haacke, who made reference to the history of the pavilion and broke up the floor. The commissioner Klaus Bußmann’s nomination of Hans Haacke and Nam June Paik, which questioned national affiliation, was quite foresighted. I liked Katharina Fritsch for the clarity of her contribution. Isa Genzken, who hid the façade behind scaffolding. Liam Gillick and his talking cat. Hito Steyerl’s attack on the Deutsche Bank, and finally Natascha Sadr Haghighian, who involved herself performatively by disguising herself and focused on the AnkER centres.
YD It’s not uncommon for your works to bear specific reference to the exhibition site for which they’re made. Against that background, what does it mean to you to exhibit in the German Pavilion?
ME The German Pavilion is symbolically charged and presents a challenge to artists on several very different levels. With every attempt at deconstruction you’re confronted with that fact, but it also makes it fun. Without departing from that aspect, I regard the German Pavilion not as isolated, but as part of an ensemble and engaged in interplay with other pavilions and other country participations in terms of national-territorial and geopolitical, global-economic, and ecological developments. Why was the Biennale founded in 1895? When were the respective country pavilions built? Which countries have never been represented and why? Is the Biennale really still a mirror of politics between nation states, as is often assumed, or hasn’t its representative function actually already long been brokered in a transnational arena of the art market extended by capital? Then there’s the question of ownership: Who do the pavilions belong to? The fact that Venice continues to adhere to the model of national pavilions is inseparably linked to the fact that, like embassy buildings, the Giardini pavilions are the property of the respective countries—except the U.S. pavilion, which is owned by the Guggenheim Foundation. And country participations without their own Giardini pavilions copy this dominant structure almost without exception. How would art be produced and received more independently of such constructions of national identity? The individual state, to refer to Hannah Arendt, can be seen as an abstract structure consisting of many nationalities, which could help dissolve the concept of the nation.
YD Country contributions at the Biennale in Venice are also always associated with attributions and expectations regarding national representation and cultural affiliation. How will you deal with the expectations that might be placed on you?
ME I don’t think art is subject to the kind of representation that occurs in politics or religion, where figures with a claim to leadership and representation play a prominent role. Most of the artists who do a Biennale pavilion, including the German Pavilion, simply see it as an assignment either to pursue their accustomed work and show that, or to expose grievances, question politics, initiate forms of solidary exchange between groups of society, take a stance, etc. In my view, an artist is not a representative of a country, but of a certain attitude, a certain way of thinking and acting in relation to a given situation. As for the question of affiliation: I conceive of myself as a mixture of multiple identities and non-identities and distinguish myself from myself. It’s not me as a person but my work that’s supposed to be the focus of the attention. I make my work and then recede into the background.
YD Biennials are a special kind of exhibition format you’ve already had a lot of experience with, for example through your participation in Istanbul (1995 and 2005), Yokohama (2001), Berlin (2004 and 2008), Łódź (2004), Sevilla (2006), and Guangzhou (2008). You’ve even contributed to the Venice Biennale three times in the past—in 1993, 2001, and 2015. Do you think those experiences will help you in Venice in 2022?
ME Yes, definitely. But conversations with colleagues and artist friends who have exhibited in the German Pavilion or other pavilions in the past are also instructive and helpful.
YD Large-scale exhibitions like biennials are coming under fire more and more frequently, also with regard to the ecological implications of the excessive travelling they’re associated with. Neither art insiders nor art tourism necessarily contribute to improving the ecological footprint. How do you see the relationship between ecology and large-scale exhibitions?
ME Ironically, the 1895 Venice Biennale was founded in response to Venice’s economic decline as a way of boosting the economy and the tourist industry. And by the way, that’s often the modus operandi for newly founded biennials to this day. Now, 126 years later, we have to bear the consequences of an excessive tourist industry. The Venice Biennale, and the culture industry in general, are part of the ecological disaster. In addition to social displacement and real estate speculation, cruise and mass tourism are huge problems in Venice. The Comitato No Grandi Navi has been protesting against the cruise and luxury liners for years already, and the Venice Climate Camp activists carry out campaigns demanding that tourists stay away from Venice.
YD Do you think the pandemic that’s still very much with us today will have an impact on your work? And how will it be reflected in Venice in 2022?
ME No one knows how things will be in 2022. But Covid-19 has been raging for more than a year and has had extreme consequences for nearly all areas of life. The pandemic is going to have a lasting impact already for that reason alone, even if it’s not being talked about directly.
YD Without revealing too much at this early stage, how would you characterize your contribution in Venice in 2022 in three sentences?
ME I’ll try it in two: The work is accessible. It can be experienced both conceptually and— physically and in motion—on site.
Maria Eichhorn’s artistic projects are usually processual in nature and aspire to illuminate and transform existing social orders.
Within the context of her work, she often poses the question of ownership. On the occasion of the Sculpture. Projects in Münster 1997, Eichhorn explored the topic of land holding and purchased a plot in the city center. When she sold the property, she donated the proceeds to an organization that combats gentrification. For her presentation at the Documenta11 in Kassel she founded the Maria EichhornAktiengesellschaft [Maria Eichhorn Public Limited Company](2002), whose share capital was withdrawn from the monetary cycle and whose shares were transferred to the company itself. Her exhibition Restitutionspolitik / Politics of Restitution (2003) at the Lenbachhaus in Munich marked the beginning of her search for artworks stolen from Jewish ownership in the Nazi era—a topic she continued to pursue in later projects. For her contribution to the exhibition Wohnungsfrage [Housing Question] at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, she realized a work entitled In den Zelten 4 / 5 / 5a / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 9a / 10, Kronprinzenufer 29 / 30, Beethovenstraße 1 / 2 / 3 (1832 to 1959) > John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 (since 1959), Berlin (2015) to determine the ownership structure of the property on which the building was erected. Consisting among other things of floor drawings, excerpts from the registry of deeds, and related texts, this work exposes the fact that the Kongresshalle (now the Haus der Kulturen der Welt) was built partially on expropriated land for which restitution should have been paid. For Building as Unowned Property (2017—), the work she presented at the documenta 14, she purchased a property in Athens in order to convert it into unowned property, and founded the Rose Valland Institute (2017—) in Kassel for research on the dispossession of Europe’s Jewish population and its lingering effects until the present.
Maria Eichhorn concerns herself as intensively with the relationship between ownership and possession as with that between work, value, and time. Her exhibition 5 weeks, 25 days, 175 hours (2016) at the Chisenhale Gallery in London consisted in giving all the employees time out from their work. The institution remained closed for the duration of the show.
The same year, Maria Eichhorn had the city of Cologne hire her as a research associate at the Museum Ludwig and, in a work called Employment Contract between the City of Cologne, Represented by the Mayor, and Ms. Maria Eichhorn (2016), addressed herself to the status society assigns to artistic work.
Maria Eichhorn was born in Bamberg in 1962 and lives in Berlin. She studied with Karl Horst Hödicke at the Berlin University of the Arts between 1984 and 1990. She has been teaching as a professor since 1999, initially as a guest professor at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia and since 2003 at the Zurich University of the Arts.
In addition to her participation in the documenta in Kassel in 2002 and in Athens and Kassel in 2017, Maria Eichhorn has participated in the Biennale di Venezia several times (2015, 2001, 1993) as well as in numerous other international biennials, for example in Guangzhou (2008), Berlin (2008, 2004), Sevilla (2006), Istanbul (2005, 1995), Łódź (2004), and Yokohama (2001) and in the Sculpture. Projects in Münster 1997. She has been exhibiting her work in prestigious institutions since 1986. From 2018 to 2019, the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich presented an extensive monographic show of her work entitled Zwölf Arbeiten / Twelve Works (1988—2018). Solo exhibitions featuring Maria Eichhorn have also taken place at the Chisenhale Gallery in London (2016), the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in Vancouver (2015), the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2014), the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (2007—2010), the Lenbachhaus in Munich (2003), the Kunsthalle Bern (2001), the Portikus in Frankfurt am Main (1999), the Kunsthaus Zürich (1997), and elsewhere. Eichhorn’s work has moreover been on view in numerous group exhibitions, for example at the MACRO—Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2021), the Jewish Museum in New York (2021, 2016), the IVAM—Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (2019), the Swiss Institute in New York (2018, 2009), the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2016, 2010), the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (2015), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2015), the mumok—Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna (2015, 2013), the Jeu de Paume in Paris (2013), the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2009), the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (2009), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2008), the Hamburger Bahnhof—Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin (2008, 2002, 2001), the Museo de Arte Carillo Gil in Mexico City (2003), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2000, 1992), the Castello di Rivoli—Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin (1996), the Serpentine Gallery in London (1995), the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (1994), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1993), and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (1991).
Maria Eichhorn’s publications include the Film Lexicon of Sexual Practices / Prohibited Imports (2019); Maria Eichhorn Werkverzeichnis / Catalogue Raisonné 1986—2015 (2017); 5 weeks, 25 days, 175 hours (2016); In den Zelten 4 / 5 / 5a / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 9a / 10, Kronprinzenufer 29 / 30, Beethovenstraße 1 / 2 / 3 (1832 bis/to 1959) > John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 (seit/ since 1959), Berlin (2015); Die Zeitkapsel im Wasserfall der Steinach / The Time Capsule in the Waterfall on the Steinach River (2012); The Artist’s Contract: Interviews with Carl Andre, Daniel Buren, Paula Cooper, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Adrian Piper, Robert Projansky, Robert Ryman, Seth Siegelaub, John Weber, Lawrence Weiner, Jackie Winsor (2009); Between Artists (with John Miller, 2008); Maria Eichhorn Aktiengesellschaft (2007); von 12,37 bis 36,08 = 24,94 von 100% (2007); CAMPUS: Politische Mündigkeit / Political Responsibility / Emancipazione politica (2005); Restitutionspolitik / Politics of Restitution (2004); and Das Geld der Kunsthalle Bern / Money at Kunsthalle Bern (2001/2002). In 2017, Maria Eichhorn launched the website www.rosevallandinstitut.org Among the awards Maria Eichhorn has received for her work are the George Maciunas Prize (1992), the Arnold Bode Prize of the City of Kassel (2002), and the Paolo Bozzi Prize for Ontology of the University of Turin (2018). From 2018 to 2020 she was a Georg Simmel grant recipient as well as a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Law as Culture” of the Bonn University, which, in cooperation with the Department of Art History, housed her Rose Valland Institute.
Since 2020, Eichhorn has been a research fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Grant Programme. In 2021 she will receive the Käthe Kollwitz Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
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Era già nella short list del 2016 e ora è stato selezionato con lo Temple Bar Gallery + Studios per la prossima edizione della Biennale di Venezia che si dovrà svolgere nel 2022.
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Today, 05/10/20, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, announced that artist Niamh O’Malley and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, as the curator, will represent Ireland at the 59th Venice Art Biennale in 2022.
The Venice Arts Biennale is one of the most important international platforms for the visual arts, attracting over half a million visitors, including global curators, gallerists, art critics and artists. The selection of the team to represent Ireland was made following an open, competitive process with international jury members. Ireland at Venice is an initiative run by Culture Ireland in partnership with the Arts Council.
The Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD, said:
"I wish Niamh O’Malley and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios every success in representing Ireland at Venice in 2022. It is a hugely important moment in an artist’s career as the Venice Biennale serves as a global showcase. Niamh O’Malley’s practice will gain further international recognition and working with TBG+S, as curators, will increase awareness of Ireland’s strong visual arts sector."
Niamh O’Malley’s proposal for the Irish pavilion, entitled “To mark a space, to hold a spot”, reflects an emphasis on the importance of the studio and its role in the creation of work. This collaboration with TBG+S will present O’Malley’s sophisticated and precisely executed work.
TGB+S Director, Cliodhna Shaffrey, said:
"Temple Bar Gallery + Studios is greatly honoured to present artist Niamh O'Malley at the Irish Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale 2022. Niamh O’Malley's proposal sets us on an artistic journey originating in her TBG+S studio and going out into the world at Venice. Known for her exquisitely crafted sculptures and moving image installations, O’Malley brings attention to the act of looking; encouraging the viewer to slow and hold still in the moment. Her work is founded in making and materiality and underpinned by a questioning of how we touch the world."