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Venice Art Biennale 2015; A day in Arsenale

Impressions from our last day at the Biennale Arte in Venice. This time we spend the day at Arsenale, where we checked out the big common exhibition; “All the World’s Futures“ and the rest of the national pavilions.

Not our best day at the biennale, but we found of course splendid and interesting exhibitions and pieces of art; the always interesting William Kentridge, Georg Baselitz‘s series of eight new large-scale paintings titled Fällt von der Wand nicht (Doesn’t Fall From the Wall), the amazing The Phoenix by Xu Bing, Ibrahim Mahama, who created for the biennale a 300 meter-long, 3,000 kg patchwork installation entirely made of old jute sacks, titled Out of Bounds, the very fine Tuvalu National Pavilion, and Liisa Roberts’ photographs of elderly Russian workers, once models for heroic Soviet art.

Over and out from Venice. Ready for new adventures!

Work by Katharina Grosse, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Xu Bing: The Phoenix, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Work by William Kentridge, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Istituto Italo-Latino, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Work by Ibrahim Mahama, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Tuvalu National Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Work by Georg Baselitz, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Work by Meriç Algün Ringborg, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige – Diary of a Photographer (2009-2015) © photo Lower East

Work by Liisa Roberts, Venice Art Biennale 2015 © photo Lower East

Ai Weiwei “Evidence“ at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin

Art is in the air. In Berlin. Right now.

Among many other exhibitions, right now worth traveling or leaving the sunbed for is: The fantastic “David Bowie“ exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau (until August 10th), the Berlin Biennale (until August 3th) and the Ai Weiwei, “Evidence“ also at Martin-Gropius-Bau (until July 13th).

Go there if you can – in the meantime check out our impressions from our Ai Weiwei visit.

Martin-Gropius-Bau (link)
Berlin Biennale (link)

Ai Weiwei, Evidence ©lowereast