59. Art Biennale Finissage

Some of the best installations at this year's Venice Art Biennale
by Marisa Santin

Five of each. Here is our selection of the best artists, national participations and collateral events in Cecilia Alemani’s kaleidoscopic Milk of Dreams.

Cecilia Alemani’s Milk of Dreams has allowed us to explore other universes and compare different visions, opening up to the world of Magic, embracing surrealist themes, and maintaining at the same time a critical and sharp gaze on our present. Below are the installations that we believe should not be missed out.

featured image: Pavilion of Great Britain, 2022, Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way 

Famous for her explicit pictures and for the inseparability of her life and work, Nan Goldin used her camera to record
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“We, people of dead languages, survivors of genocide, survivors of slavery, everything that we had to lose has already been t...

An American artist of Iranian origins, Hovsepian brings to the fore the materiality and physicality of photography by working w...

The Argentinian artist uses ancient and modern traditions to build a peculiar itinerary touching diverse topics, such as local ...

The textile and pictorial art of Marakatt-Labba is closely linked to the Sami culture, belonging to a geographical area that cr...

In her short film Lacerate, commissioned by Fondazione In Between Art Film as part of an initiative dedicated to the t...

A large, site-specific installation, this piece is a sort of aesthetical ‘device’ that involves different media – from ...

Consisting of human-sized abstract, organic sculptures, the installation by Emirati conceptual artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim (19...

By breaking down functional materials and using artisanal creations, Acaye Kerunen gives art back its narrative function. Her a...

In a low-environmental-impact Pavilion, an installation by Algerian photographer and video artist Zineb Sedira (Paris, 1963) is...

The Beheading of St John the Baptist is one of Caravaggio’s masterpieces. It is located at the Valletta Cathedral in...

The whole space is taken up by a multimedia installation of video, sound, wallpaper, and sculpture. The focal point of Sonia Bo...

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Are we sure of what our senses perceive? Are we living a real life or a simulation, however accurate and engaging, created by a...

After a solid thirty years experience on the theme of the interconnection between living beings and the socio-ecological values...

Ewa Kuryuluk (1946) is a peak exponent of Polish hyperrealism. She is an award-winning author and poet and, most importantly, a...

A pumping system takes water from the San Pietro Canal and routes it through glass pipes and tanks, where it releases its silt ...

Mexican artist Bosco Sodi worked on the art exhibited at Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, in a special residency that allowed him to ...

A conversation between the complexity of sign in the art by Lucio Fontana, the founder of the Spatialist movement, and the  re...

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Interview with Cecilia Alemani, curator of The Milk of Dreams - Venice Art Biennale 2022

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