The Biennale Arte 2024, one of the most prominent events dedicated to Contemporary Art, is getting closer. Titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere and curated by Adriano Pedrosa, this 2024 edition will see the participation of 88 National Pavilions, 30 official Collateral Events, and a huge number of parallel exhibitions organized by museums, foundations, private and international institutions around Venice.
The PhotoPhore will guide you with a series of itineraries, divided among the different neighborhoods of Venice (“sestieri“), with the most relevant exhibitions selected by our editorial team.
DORSODURO
- Josèfa Ntjam: swell of spæc(i)es
Collateral Event – Biennale Arte 2024
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Fondamenta Zattere allo Spirito Santo, 423
Housed in a pavilion in the courtyard of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Josèfa Ntjam’s exhibition takes the form of an otherworldly environment. The cosmic landscapes of a cyclical film morph on a large curved LED wall, enriched by a soundscape composed by Fatima al Qadiri. Suspended jellyfish ‘sound showers’ play fragments of narration, while a membrane-like form emerges from the ground, diffusing electroacoustic frequencies and offering a resting space. These sonic sculptures are made from innovative materials such as biosourced resin and reishi mycelium. The installation shapes a poetics of alterity, merging multiple perspectives and knowledge systems. The film fuses Dogon cosmogony and recent discoveries into a circular narrative of creation, featuring a cast of interspecies characters synthesised using artificial intelligence (AI) and digital tools.
More details: www.las-art.foundation
- PIERRE HUYGHE. LIMINAL
17.03.2024-24.11.2024
Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Dorsoduro 2
Punta della Dogana invites Pierre Huyghe to conceive, together with curator Anne Stenne, a new exhibition featuring a large group of works, including a selection from the Pinault Collection. Huyghe’s works are conceived as speculative fictions and are often presented as a continuity of several forms of intelligence that learn, modify, and evolve during the exhibition. For Punta della Dogana, the artist creates his largest exhibition to date and transforms the venue into a dynamic environment, a transitory state, whose time and space, as well as everything that enters, visible or invisible, are constituents of the works.
More details: www.pinaultcollection.com
- Improving Songs for Anxious Children
15.04.2024-07.07.2024
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Dorsoduro 2826
The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, supported by the galleries Mendes Wood DM and Rodeo, presents Improving Songs for Anxious Children, an exhibition by Italian artist Guglielmo Castelli, curated by Milovan Farronato. Castelli’s diverse site-specific works, conceived for Palazzetto Tito in Venice, include paintings, maquettes, textiles, and kinetic sculptures, exploring 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.
- Jean Cocteau: The Jugglers Revenge
13.04.2024-16.09.2024
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701
From April 13, 2024, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Jean Cocteau: The Jugglers Revenge, the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to Jean Cocteau (1889–1963). The exhibition, organized by eminent Cocteau specialist and New York University art historian Kenneth E. Silver, highlights the artist’s versatility, the multiple juggling acts that distinguished his production, which often drew criticism from his contemporaries. Through an impressive variety of media, including drawings, graphics, jewelry, tapestries, books, magazines, photographs, films, and documentaries authored by the French art world’s enfant terrible, Jean Cocteau: The Juggler’s Revenge traces the development of Cocteau’s unique and highly personal aesthetic, alongside the key moments of his turbulent artistic career.
More details: www.guggenheim-venice.it
