LA BIENNALE DE VENISE - VENISE

Biennale Art

The 53rd International Art Exhibition opens on 7th June 2009

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