My Art Guides Venice Top 20

Top 20 Projects at the
60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

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Christoph Büchel: Monte di Pietà
Apr 20 — Nov 24, 2024
Fondazione Prada
The project develops in an immersive environment, taking over Ca’ Corner della Regina it weaves together spatial, economic, and cultural narratives. It consists of a fictitious bankrupt pawnshop filled with diverse historical artifacts, contemporary artworks, and immersive installations.

Egypt: Drama 1882  – دراما ١٨٨٢
Apr 20 – Nov 24, 2024
Giardini
A natural storyteller, Wael Shawky takes historiographical and literary references as starting points for his concentrated narratives, in which he interweaves fable, fact and fiction. Tackling notions of national, religious and artistic identity through film, performance, painting and sculpture, based on extensive periods of research and enquiry, Shawky frames contemporary culture through the lens of historical tradition and vice versa.

Rebecca Ackroyd: Mirror Stage
Apr 20 – Nov 24, 2024
Fondaco Marcello
Ackroyd’s site-specific installation, influenced by Lacan’s mirror stage concept, explores the duality of mirrors as tools for self-insertion into the surrounding world and a symbol of the division between conscious and unconscious states.

Nebula
Apr 17 – Nov 24, 2024
Complesso dell’Ospedaletto
Nebula is a meditation upon the unstable borderline between seeing and understanding, between what we perceive and what we believe. The eight artists have been invited to create their works in close dialogue with the spaces to further deepen the narrative and spatial interaction between moving images and the architecture.

Benin: Everything Precious Is Fragile
Apr 20 — Nov 24, 2024
Arsenale
The first-ever Benin Pavilion at the Venice Biennale emanates from a deep exploration of traditions addressing the contemporary world’s fragility marked by ecological challenges, conflicts, and social inequalities. In collaboration with traditional rulers, the curatorial team shaped the pavilion’s concept, humbly embracing fragility and the ephemeral nature of existence.

Berlinde De Bruyckere: City of Refuge III
Apr 20 – Nov 24, 2024
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
The third in a series of exhibitions by the artist thematizing art as a place of refuge and shelter-a theme accentuated here by the spiritual intensity of the place. In the Sacristy, De Bruyckere’s post-apocalyptic tableau invites contemplation on nature’s renewal, resonating with the adjacent religious imagery.

Holy See: With My Eyes
Apr 20 – Nov 24, 2024
Giudecca Women’s Detention Home
The project is dedicated to the theme of human rights and people living on the margins of society, and seeks to draw the world’s attention to those people who are largely ignored while fostering a culture of encounter. On display in an unusual unprecedented venue, the pavilion illustrates the ability of inmates to welcome art to transform their lives.

Poland: Repeat after Me II
Apr 20 – Nov 24, 2024
Giardini
“Repeat after Me II” is a collective portrait of witnesses of the war in Ukraine. The protagonists of two films from 2022 and 2024 are civilian war refugees who speak of the war as recalled through the sounds of firearms, and then invite the audience to repeat after them. The artists use a karaoke format.

Guglielmo Castelli: Improving Songs for Anxious Children
Apr 15 — Jul 7, 2024
Istituzione Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa
The diverse site-specific works, conceived for Palazzetto Tito explore the delicate boundary between fragility and violence. Drawing inspiration from a children’s book, Castelli reflects on the universal experiences of first times, attempts, and the inexorable failures of childhood.

Argentina: Hope the Doors Collapse
Apr 20 — Nov 24, 2024
Arsenale
Curved woods and scaffolding tubes create a transmateriality, generate a mechanism in which each part is fundamental: there is solidarity between the elements and structures that make up that system, that community. Lamothe believes in a queer proposition of her work based on what these materials are saying, which are living bodies.