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by Georg-Christof Bertsch
How would we build if we could build how we liked? What would our cities look like, would our submerged dreams come true? Marjetica Potrč offers us answers - in a light and playful way in the Arsenale, Venice.
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by Georg-Christof Bertsch
Can art be instrumental in eluding the vicious circle of violence? Not being an officially recognized state, Palestine does not have an official pavilion. Nonetheless, the show "Palestine c/o Venice", demonstrates how diversely and vividly a subtenant can operate.
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by Thomas Wagner
In the giardini the spectacle is in full swing. People everywhere and art everywhere. Everything is important and everything clamors for attention. But in the film "Giardini" by Steve McQueen in the Great Britain pavilion, visitors are confronted with a surprisingly different image of the gardens of the Venetian Biennial and of art.
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by Thomas Wagner
A house full of art that's up for sale, and a Modernist bungalow in whose noble seats young men pose slurping their vodka-&-tonics. In the form of "The Collectors", Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created not only a psychogram of art collectors today.
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by Thomas Wagner
What are we to believe: Is the German Pavilion once again a disappointment? Or has Liam Gillick delivered exactly what was to be expected of him?
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by Thomas Wagner
The opening razzmatazz of the 53rd Art Biennial is over and the art world caravan, having made a brief stop in Basel, has long since disappeared over some summery horizon. Venice long since belongs to yesterday's art-review papers and image-saturated blogs. Everything noted. So we can now start on our wanderings in the shade afforded by the day-after.
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by Thomas Wagner
"Fare Mondi - Welten machen" was the title Daniel Birnbaum chose for his major Biennale show at the Arsenale and in the Biennial Pavilion.
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by Thomas Wagner
Our era tends to be more backward-looking than future-led. Nonetheless Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's technofacist, imaginative awakening haunts Giardini. Only Tamara Grcic's life rafts help with this.
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by Georg-Christof Bertsch
It would not let me go. I had to go back there two, three, four times. Back to this work from the glisteningly bright City of Water: "Orbite Rosse", a double video projection in Venice's pitch black Arsenale hall.
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by Georg-Christof Bertsch
Architectural models usually depict buildings which have not yet been built, in a smaller form. In the Turkish pavilion it is a different story. Here, Ahmet Ögüt displays a model city of houses which no longer exist.
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by Thomas Wagner
An Italian bar is at times often more than simply a bar. Sometimes those who enter it get quite drunk without having drunk anything, as Tobias Rehberger demonstrates impressively.
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by Thomas Wagner
Not only those who wander through Venice always return to the point where they started from. Art likewise stage endless loops and thus irritates our customary ways of seeing. Roman Ondák shows how in the Czech and Slovak Pavilion.
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