The
53rd International Art Exhibition, titled
Making Worlds // Fare Mondi // Bantin Duniyan // 制造世界 // Weltenmachen // Construire des Mondes // Fazer Mundos…, directed by Daniel Birnbaum, will open to the public from 7th June to 22nd November 2009 in the Giardini and the Arsenale exhibition venues, as well as in various other locations around the city. (The press preview will take place on 4th, 5th and 6th June 2009). Two
Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to Yoko Ono and John Baldessari – two of the most important artists of our time.
Jumana Emil Abboud (Video)
Born in Shefa-Amer, Palestine, 1971
Lives and works in Jerusalem, Israel
Georges Adéagbo (Installation)
Born in Cotonou, Benin, 1942
Lives and works in Cotonou, Benin
John Baldessari (Écriture, Photographie)
Born in National City, USA, 1931
Lives and works in Santa Monica, USA
Rosa Barba (Installation)
Born in Agrigento, Italy, 1972
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Massimo Bartolini (Installation)
Born in Cecina, Italy, 1962
Lives and works in Cecina, Italy
Thomas Bayrle (Film, Video)
Born in Berlin, Germany, 1937
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Simone Berti (Photographs, Video Installation)
Born in Adria, Italy, 1966
Lives and works in Milan and Berlin, Germany
David Bestué / Marc Vives (Video Installation)
Born in Barcelona, Spain, 1980
Born in Barcelona, Spain, 1978
They live and work in Barcelona, Spain
Mike Bouchet (Installation, Painting)
Born in Castro Valley, USA, 1970
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Ulla Von Brandenburg (Installation)
Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, 1974
Lives and works in Paris, France
André Cadere (Art conceptuel)
Warsaw, Poland, 1934 - Paris, France, 1978
Paul Chan (Film, Video, New Media)
Born in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1973
Lives and works in New York, USA
Chen Zhen (Installation)
Shanghai, China, 1955 – Paris, France, 2000
Nikhil Chopra (Performance)
Born in Calcutta, India, 1974
Lives and works in Mumbai, India
Chu Yun (Installation)
Born in Jiangxi, China, 1977
Lives and works in Beijing, China
Tony Conrad
Born in Concord, USA, 1940
Lives and works in Buffalo and New York, USA
Keren Cytter (Video)
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1977
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Nathalie Djurberg (Video)
Born in Lysekil, Sweden, 1978
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Anju Dodiya (Painting)
Born in Mumbai, India, 1964
Lives and works in Mumbai, India
Gino De Dominicis (Painting)
Ancona, Italy, 1947 – Roma, Italy, 1998
Elena Elagina, Igor Makarevich (Painting & Photo-montage)
Born in Moscow,Russia, 1949
Born in Trialety, Georgia, 1943
They live and work in Moscow, Russia
Öyvind Fahlström (Painting , Installation)
São Paulo, Brazil, 1928 – Stockholm, Sweden, 1976
Lara Favaretto (Installation, Performance)
Born in Treviso, Italy, 1973
Lives and works in Turin, Italy
Hans-Peter Feldmann (Photography)
Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, 1941
Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany
Spencer Finch (Installation, Objects, Drawings)
Born in New Haven, USA, 1962
Lives and works in New York, USA
Ceal Floyer (Installation)
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, 1968
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
William Forsythe (Danse)
Born in New York, USA, 1949
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Yona Friedman (Architecture)
Born in Budapest, Hungary, 1923
Lives and works in Paris, France
Sunil Gawde (Painting)
Born in Mumbai, India, 1960
Lives and works in Mumbai, India
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Photography)
Born in Strasbourg, France, 1965
Lives and works in Paris, France
Sheela Gowda (Painting)
Born in Bhadravati, India, 1957
Lives and works in Bangalore, India
Tamara Grcic (Photography)
Born in Munich, Germany, 1964
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
GUTAI
Akira Kanayama
Nara, Japan, 1924 – Nara, Japan, 2005
Sadamasa Motonaga
Born in Iga, Japan, 1922
Lives and works in Takarazuka City, Japan
Saburo Murakami
Kobe, Japan, 1925 – Nishinomiya, Japan, 1996
Shozo Shimamoto
Born in Osaka, Japan, 1928
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
Kazuo Shiraga
Amagasaki, Japan, 1924 – Amagasaki, Japan, 2008
Atsuko Tanaka
Nara, Japan, 1932 – Nara, Japan, 2005
Tsuruko Yamazaki
Born in Ashiya, Japan, 1925
Lives and works in Ashiya, Japan
Jiro Yoshihara
Osaka, Japan, 1905 – Ashiya, Japan, 1972
Michio Yoshihara
Ashiya, Japan, 1933 – Ashiya, Japan, 1996
Wade Guyton \ Kelley Walker (Installation, Painting)
Born in Indiana, USA, 1972
Born in Georgia, USA, 1969
They live and work in New York, USA
Gonkar Gyatso (Drawing, Painting)
Born in Lhasa, Tibet, 1961
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Jan Håfström (1) (Painting)
Born in Stockholm, Sweden, 1937
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Anawana Haloba (Installation)
Born in Livingstone, Zambia,1978
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Rachel Harrison (Installation, Photography)
Born in New York, USA, 1966
Lives and works in New York, USA
Susan Hefuna (Digital works, Drawings, Installation, Photography)
Born in Cairo, Egypt, 1962
Lives and works in Egypt and Germany
Carsten Höller (Installation)
Born in Brussels, Belgium, 1961
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Huang Yong Ping (Installation)
Born in Quanzhou, China, 1954
Lives and works in Paris, France
Joan Jonas (Performance, Video)
Born in New York, USA, 1936
Lives and works in New York, USA
Miranda July (Multimedia, Performance)
Born in Barre, USA, 1974
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Rachel Khedoori (Installation)
Born in Sydney, Australia, 1964
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Toba Khedoori (Painting)
Born in Sydney, Australia, 1964
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Koo Jeong A. (Installation)
Born in Seoul, Korea, 1967
Lives and works in Paris, France
Moshekwa Langa (Painting)
Born in Bakenburg, South Africa, 1975
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arto Lindsay (Music)
Born in Richmond, USA, 1953
Lives and works in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Renata Lucas (Installation)
Born in Ribeirao Preto, Brazil, 1971
Lives and works in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Goshka Macuga (Installation)
Born in Warsaw, Poland, 1967
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Gordon Matta-Clark (Installation, Photographie)
New York, USA, 1943 – New York, USA, 1978
Cildo Meireles (Installation)
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1948
Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aleksandra Mir (Installation)
Born in Lubin, Poland, 1967
Lives and works in Palermo, Italy
Moscow Poetry Club (led by Zhenya Nikitin)
Yoko Ono
Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1933
Lives and works in New York, USA
Jorge Otero-Pailos (1)(Preservation Advocacy)
Born in Madrid, Spain, 1971
Lives and works in New York, USA
Blinky Palermo (Painting)
Leipzig, Germany, 1943 - Kurumba, Maldives, 1977
Lygia Pape (Installation)
Novo Friburgo, Brazil, 1927 – Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 2004
Anna Parkina (Installation, Painting, Performance)
Born in Moscow, Russia, 1979
Lives and works in Moscow, Russia
Philippe Parreno (Installation, Performance)
Born in Oran, Algeria, 1964
Lives and works in Paris, France
Pavel Pepperstein (Painting)
Born in Moscow, Russia, 1966
Lives and works in Moscow, Russia
Alessandro Pessoli (Installation, Painting)
Born in Cervia, Italy, 1963
Lives and works in Milan, Italy
Falke Pisano (Installation, Sculpture)
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1978
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Michelangelo Pistoletto (Installation, Painting, Photography)
Born in Biella, Italy, 1933
Lives and works in Biella, Italy
Att Poomtangon (Installation)
Born in Bangkok, Thailand, 1973
Lives and works in Frankfurt and Chiangmai, Thailand
Marjetica Potrč (Architecture, Sculpture)
Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1953
Lives and works in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Sara Ramo (Photographie, Video)
Born in Madrid, Spain, 1975
Lives and works in Paris, France
Tobias Rehberger (All)
Born in Esslingen, Germany, 1966
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Pietro Roccasalva (Installation)
Born in Modica, Italy, 1970
Lives and works in Milan, Italy
Tomas Saraceno (Installation)
Born in Tucuman, Argentina, 1973
Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Amy Simon (Painting)
Born in New York, USA, 1957
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Simon Starling (Installation)
Born in Epsom, Great Britain, 1967
Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark
Pascale Marthine Tayou (Sculpture)
Born in Kamerun, Africa, 1967
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium
Wolfgang Tillmans (Installation)
Born in Remscheid, Germany, 1968
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Rirkrit Tiravanija (Plasticien)
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961
Lives and works in New York, USA
Grazia Toderi (Dessin, Video)
Born in Padua, Italy, 1963
Lives and works in Milan, Italy
Madelon Vriesendorp
Born in Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 1945
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Tian Tian Wang (Painting)
Born in Qingdao, China, 1980
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Richard Wentworth (Sculpture)
Born in Samoa, Oceania, 1947
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Pae White (Design, Sculpture, painting)
Born in Pasadena, USA, 1963
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Cerith Wyn Evans & Florian Hecker (Audio-visual)
Born in Llanelli, Wales, 1958
Born in Augsburg, Germany, 1975
Lives and works in London, Great Britain
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria
Xu Tan (Installation, Multimedia)
Born in Wuhan, China, 1957
Lives and works in Shanghai and Guangzhou, China
Haegue Yang (Installation)
Born in Seoul, Korea, 1971
Lives and works in Berlin and Seoul, Korea
Héctor Zamora (architecture and visual arts)
Born in Mexico City, Mexico, 1974
Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil
Anya Zholud (Iron Sculptures)
Born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1981
Lives and works in Moscow, Russia
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