Venue:
Arsenale and
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Giardini

Fare Mondi // Making Worlds // Bantin Duniyan // 制造世界 // Weltenmachen // Construire des Mondes // Fazer Mundos…

Artistic Director, curator:
Daniel Birnbaum
Biography

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84 artists and groups

"The title of the exhibition, Fare Mondi // Making Worlds – says Director Daniel Birnbaum – expresses my wish to emphasize the process of creation. A work of art represents a vision of the world and if taken seriously it can be seen as a way of making a world. The strength of the vision is not dependent on the kind or complexity of the tools brought into play. Hence all forms of artistic expression are present: installation art, video and film, sculpture, performance, painting and drawing, and a live parade. Taking 'worldmaking' as a starting point, also allows the exhibition to highlight the fundamental importance of certain key artists for the creativity of successive generations, just as much as exploring new spaces for art to unfold outside the institutional context and beyond the expectations of the art market. Fare Mondi // Making Worlds is an exhibition driven by the aspiration to explore worlds around us as well as worlds ahead. It is about possible new beginnings—this is what I would like to share with the visitors of the Biennale."

(From a press release)

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23rd March 2009

Website: www.labiennale.org

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54th Venice Biennale, 2011
ILLUMInations. Artistic director: Bice Curiger.

52nd Venice Biennale, 2007
Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense. Artistic director, curator: Robert Storr.

51st Venice Biennale, 2005
The Experience of Art, curator: María de Corral. Always a Little Further, curator: Rosa Martínez.

50th Venice Biennale, 2003
Dreams and Conflicts, The Viewer's Dictatorship. Artistic director: Francesco Bonami. 10 exhibtions by different curators.

49th Venice Biennale, 2001
Plateau of Humankind. Curator: Harald Szeemann.