Proceeding with our series of itineraries dedicated to the most exciting exhibitions on view in Venice during the Biennale Arte 2024, today we guide you through San Marco district.
Titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere and curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the Biennale Arte 2024 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.
SAN MARCO
- Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957): In the First Person
Collateral Event – Biennale Arte 2024
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Procuratie Vecchie, San Marco 139 – 153/A
The works of Andrzej Wróblewski, a pivotal Polish artist of the mid-20th century, are showcased in the exhibition Andrzej Wróblewski (1927-1957): In the First Person, hosted at St. Mark’s Square in Venice, on the northern side of the Procuratie Vecchie, an area steeped in historical significance. Curated by Anna Muszyńska, the project emerges from the initiative of the Starak Family Foundation and it is one of the 30 Collateral Events of the Biennale Arte 2024. Wróblewski’s journey as an artist was marked by a strong engagement with socialist realism, yet he was equally fascinated by the boundaries of abstraction.
- Lion of God
17.04.2024-22.09.2024
Ateneo Veneto, Campo San Fantin 1897
Walton Ford unveils a major site-specific exhibition in Venice, featuring a new body of work conceived in response to the collection of the city’s historical institution Ateneo Veneto. Lion of God will be Ford’s first solo exhibition in Italy, consisting of a series of monumental watercolor paintings that explore the historical, biological and environmental resonance of the subjects of the library’s collection, particularly the figure of the lion in Tintoretto’s Apparizione della Vergine a San Girolamo (The Apparition of the Virgin to St. Jerome) (c. 1580).
- Rebecca Ackroyd, Mirror Stage
Collateral Event – Biennale Arte 2024
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Fondaco Marcello, Calle del Traghetto 3415
Kestner Gesellschaft is pleased to present the exhibition Rebecca Ackroyd: Mirror Stage, a Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia. Curated by Attilia Fattori, Rebecca Ackroyd: Mirror Stage presents a collection of new works by Rebecca Ackroyd (b. 1987 in Cheltenham, UK), assembled into a dreamlike installation where the artist’s singular processes of replication and fragmentation distort our perception of reality. Taking its title from the homonymous Lacanian notion describing a fundamental development step in the child’s distinction between the self and others, the exhibition ambiguously plays with the figure of the mirror as a reflective tool, as well as a symbol of the division between the conscious and unconscious states. Desire and disgust, repetition and fragmentation, past and present coalesce into an intriguing phantasmagoria comprising large-scale paintings, drawings, cast sculptures, and ready-made objects
More details: kestnergesellschaft.de
- Breasts
17.04.2024-24.11.2024
Palazzo Franchetti, San Marco 2847
Hosted at Palazzo Franchetti, the group exhibition Breasts, curated by Carolina Pasti, showcase the works of more than thirty emerging and established artists from around the world – including Sarah Lucas, Nobuyoshi Araki, Marcel Duchamp, and Cindy Sherman – , spanning the fields of painting, sculpture, photography and film from the 1500s to the present day. The works in the exhibition explore how the breast has been understood and represented in art across different cultures and traditions. Reflecting on a range of themes from motherhood to empowerment, sexuality to body image and illness, the exhibition investigates how the breast acts as a catalyst to discuss realities socio-political realities, challenge historical traditions, and express personal and collective identities.