KUNSTFORUM International proudly announces the release of KUNSTFORUM’s Guide to the 58th Venice Biennale.
Get all the information you need for this year’s international art exhibition in Venice. Benefit from the commented photographic tours, maps, critical essays and detailed analyses. Get insights throughout interviews with artists and curators and start to understand the general principles and ideas of the 58th Venice Biennale—in order to complete your preparation and follow-up and as your perfect companion in Venice. Additionally, use the KUNSTFORUM International App to download the whole issue as a mobile version which will already be released on June 7 to have your guide at hand while visiting the exhibition.
As in the previous years, the international art world is coming together to experience the oldest and one of the most important large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art in the lagoon city Venice. May You Live in Interesting Times — is the title of the 58th Venice Biennale. It is a reference to a “fake” Chinese curse, which is often quoted by politicians to define our era marked by crisis, riots and “alternative facts”—this was speculated by many after the title was announced. But according to curator Ralph Rugoff this year’s Biennale is about working out the ambivalent potential of our crisis-ridden time and rethinking the purpose of art in this context, instead of analyzing and evoking negative future perspectives. Proceeding from this assumption, works from 79 living artists were selected, to offer new and ambivalent perspectives—complemented by 90 national pavilions and 21 official “Eventi Collaterali”.
The KUNSTFORUM International issue to the 58th Venice Biennale will guide you through one of the most important international large-scale exhibitions: explore and understand through commented photographic tours, maps, critical essays, detailed analyses and comprehensive interviews. This issue is a complete documentation of the exhibition which will help you interpret backgrounds, links and forms—and maybe even sharpen our view on the world a bit in these “interesting times”.
To be published in print on June 14.
In the app on June 7.
Language: German
www.kunstforum.de/58BiennaleVenedig
