For our series of itineraries dedicated to the most relevant exhibitions on view in Venice during the Biennale Arte 2024, today we will visit the districts of Santa Croce and San Polo.
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.
SANTA CROCE
- Cosmic Garden
Collateral Event – Biennale Arte 2024
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Salone Verde – Art & Social Club, Calle Regina 2258
The exhibition Cosmic Garden emerges from an ongoing fertile exchange between Indian artists Madhvi Parekh, Manu Parekh, Karishma Swali and the Chanakya School of Craft — a non-profit institution committed to the emancipation of women through craft. A Collateral Event of the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the exhibition honours the pluralistic beauty of India’s cultural heritage, featuring paintings and sculptures by Madhvi Parekh and Manu Parekh, and the evolution of their practice into a third interdisciplinary medium — hand-embroidery — presented through crafted works and sculptures created by the Chanakya School of Craft and its Creative Director Karishma Swali. This carefully curated series of works embraces a multidisciplinary approach, dismantling hierarchies between the arts, roles, and genres.
More details: www.chanakya.school/exhibitions/index.php
- Monte di Pietà
20.04.2024-24.11.2024
Fondazione Prada, Palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina, Santa Croce 2215
During the Art Biennale, the Venice venue of Fondazione Prada, located in the historical palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina, will present the project Monte di Pietà conceived by artist Christoph Büchel (Switzerland, 1966). The layered history of Palazzo Ca’ Corner della Regina is Büchel’s starting point for the construction of an articulated network of spatial, economic, and cultural relationships. The study of debt as the concept at the base of society and an instrument of power takes shape as a complex installation. The project will include historical and contemporary works, new installations and a vast selection of objects and documents related to the history of property, credit and finance, the development of collections and archives, and the creation and meaning of real or artificial wealth.
More details: www.fondazioneprada.org
SAN POLO
- Harold Stevenson
16.04.2024-27.07.2024
Tommaso Calabro gallery, Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo 2177
On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, Tommaso Calabro inaugurates the new gallery venue in Venice, and celebrates the connection between Harold Stevenson (1929-2018) and the lagoon city, which was an important source of inspiration for the American artist. Harold Stevenson, the first monographic exhibition in Italy, represents a unique opportunity to discover the work of this artist, a prominent figure in post-war avant-garde culture, a close friend of Andy Warhol and renowned for his large-scale paintings of male nudes, such as the famous The New Adam (1962).
More details: www.tommasocalabro.com
Ayako Rokkaku, UNTITLED, 2023. Image based on photos by Francesco Allegretto © Courtesy of Berengo Studio and the artist
- DETOUR FOR AN ICE CREAM FAIRY
17.04.2024-26.05.2024
Palazzo Corner Mocenigo, San Polo 2128
DETOUR FOR AN ICE CREAM FAIRY is a solo exhibition of Murano glass sculptures and new paintings by Ayako Rokkaku, presented by König Galerie. This unique presentation is comprised of 8 glass works that the Japanese-born artist made in collaboration with a master glass blower at Berengo Studio. Additionally, Rokkaku will include six new paintings, including two triptychs, which took inspiration from the artist’s experiences with Murano glass.
More details: www.koeniggalerie.com
