Biennale Arte 2024 - Giardini - National Pavilions
United States of America - Pavilion
Jeffrey Gibson - the space in which to place me
In the U.S.A. Pavilion, Jeffrey Gibson's interdisciplinary practice merges American, Indigenous, and queer histories with global artistic traditions. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, his work reflects intertribal aesthetics and global modernism, confronting contemporary art's chromophobia. Gibson's vibrant multimedia creations critique and engage with complex histories, emphasizing Indigenous communities' realities. His transformative installations embody a radically inclusive vision for the future, integrating diverse cultural expressions into the American experience, while also highlighting his long-standing focus on written text.
Jeffrey Gibson - If You Want to Lift Yourself Up - Lift Someone Else - 2024
For both indoor and outdoor spaces of the pavilion the artist creates a series of new works - sculptures - paintings - videos - incorporating the language of American institutional documents from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
U.S.A. Pavilion
Jeffrey Gibson - The Place in Whcih to Place Me - 2024
Jeffrey Gibson is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and of Cherokee descent, he grew up in major urban centers in the United States, Germany, and Korea— experiences that inform his practice.
Jeffrey Gibson
With newly produced multimedia sculptures, mixed-media paintings, site-specific murals, a multichannel video installation, and an extensive exterior installation, the space in which to place me transforms the U.S. Pavilion into an embodiment of Gibson’s radically inclusive vision for the future: a space in which Indigenous art and a broad spectrum of cultural expressions and identities are central to the American experience.
Jeffrey Gibson - We Want To be Free + The Enforcer - 2024
Jeffrey Gibson - We Want to Be Free - detail - 2024
United States of America - Pavilion
Jeffrey Gibson - We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident - 2024
Jeffrey Gibson - Be Some Body - detail - 2024
Biennale Arte 2024 - Giardini - Belgium Pavilion
Denicolai & Provoost, Antoinette Jattiot, Nord, Spec uloos
Petticoat Government
In the Belgium Pavilion the collective - Denicolai & Provoost, Antoinette Jattiot, Nord, Speculoos - blends art, curating, architecture, typography, and cartography to redefine exhibitions. Their long-term collaborations and intermediary roles critique collective, popular, and alternative organizations. The Pavilion entitled, Petticoat Government features folkloric giants from Belgium, France, and Spain, involves performative journeys to Italy, Charleroi, and Dunkirk, creating a joyful disturbance between human and non-human, landscape and architecture, borders and transgressions.
"Unlike a closed work, the Belgian Pavilion is imagined as a place of passage, with a kaleidoscope perspective."
Petticoat Government is a multidisciplinary scenario based on existing folkloric giants from various communities in Belgium, France, Spain.The performative journeys in the direction of Italy, passing through the Resia Pass on 9 March 2024 and then returning to Charleroi and Dunkirk in 2025, inject a joyful disturbance into reality using the variety of plays of scale and tensions between the human and non-human, landscape and architecture, borders and their transgression. Unlike a closed work, the Belgian Pavilion is imagined as a place of passage, with a kaleidoscope perspective.
Belgium Pavilion - Petticoat Government
Sophie Boiron, Antoinette Jattiot, Ivo Provoost, Simona Denicolai,
Valentin Bollaert and Pierre Huyghebaert
"The Belgian Pavilion, a dynamic passage, uses orality, co-constructed stories, and staged giant figures to explore contemporary mythologies and ancient tales."
Belgium Pavilion - Petticoat Government
Biennale Arte 2024 - Giardini
Sol Calero - Pabellon Criollo - Installation
Sol Calero, a Berlin-based, Caracas-born artist, creates immersive environments with colorful patterns and textiles, exploring representation and identity. Utilizing diverse media such as painting, sculpture, textiles, video, sound, and installations, her work delves into themes of hospitality and belonging.
For the Biennale Arte, Calero has designed a vibrant, site-specific installation in the Giardini della Biennale, reinventing the concept of the national pavilion with geometric walls, sloping roofs, and curving terraces. Her project examines cultural preconceptions and self-exoticization, often seen in tourist sites.
Sol Calero
Guerriero do Divino Amor - Super Superior Civilizations
Swiss-Brazilian artist Guerreiro do Divino Amor reimagines the Switzerland Pavilion, challenging nationalistic self-representation with humor and irony. Known for his baroque, dreamlike creativity, he invites us to reflect on chauvinism and clichés, crucial in today's polarized political climate. The exhibition, entitled - Super Superior Civilizations is divided into two parts - Miracle of Helvetia and Roma Talismano - presents chapters from his 20-year Superfictional World Atlas saga. Through allegory and irony, his work critiques political power, media, finance, and religion.
Switzerland Pavilion - Roma Talismano - Installation
by an artificial and pale super-universality."
"An avalanche of columns,
nectar of architectural power, the elixir of superiority returning in endless cycles.
An aria for eternity, a decaying eternity."
Switzerland Pavilion
Guerriero do Divino Amor - Roma Talismano - Installation
"Helvetia, the two headed goddess, reigns supreme over her super-fictional Olympus. One of her faces is blind, deaf and mute, remaining insensitive to the convulsions of the world around her. Her other face is on constant alert and observes every movement of the Olympic citizens with an inexorable and
controlling gaze."
The Miracle of Helvetia, is a video that stages a grand allegory of Switzerland, represented as a miraculous and super-fictional paradise on earth, in which nature and technology, capitalism and democracy, rusticity and sophistication are in perfect and surreal balance.
Switzerland Pavilion
Guerriero do Divino Amor - Miracle of Helvetia - video installation
Switzerland Pavilion
Guerriero do Divino Amor - Miracle of Helvetia - video installation