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Portugal Pavilion at 58th Venice Biennale of Art

The Portugal Pavilion of the Venice Biennale: the artists of the pavilion, the works, the times, the periods, the cost of the tickets and the exhibition venue.

Portugal Pavilion at Venice Biennale of Art - Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi Onlus, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893 - Venice

(Photo: Leonor Antunes, the last days in Galliate, Exhibition view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2018.
Courtesy of the artist and Pirelli HangarBicocca. Photo: Nick Ash)

Exhibition in progress from 11 May to 24 November 2019

The 58th Biennale of Art will open to the public on 11 May 2019. But starting from a few days before the opening there will be the various openings and side events that always suddenly animate the Venetian artistic life. The title of the 58 edition of the Biennale d'Arte is May You Live In Interesting Times.

79 artists are invited to exhibit at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, with a prevalence of women. Among them the 2 Italians Ludovica Carbotta and Lara Favaretto. The first will make a site-specific work in Forte Marghera, inside the building known as the Austrian Powder Mill.

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Portugal Pavilion at 58th Biennale Arte of Venice

Title of the Venice Biennale's Portugal Pavilion is A seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot.

Artist: Leonor Antunes.
Curator: João Ribas.
Commissioner: Direzione Generale per le Arti.
Seat: Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi Onlus, Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, San Marco 2893

Press Release Portugal Pavilion of 58th Venice Biennale of Art

The Official Portuguese Representation at the 58th International Art Exhibitionè La Biennale di Venezia 2019 presents Leonor Antunes: a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot, a new project by the artist at the Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, curated by Jo�o Ribas. Engaging with histories of art, architecture, and design, Leonor Antunes� work reflects on the functions of everyday objects and their potential to be translated into abstract sculptures. The exhibition�s point of departure is Antunes� significant research into key figures in the cultural history of Venice, such as the architects and designers Carlo Scarpa, Franco Albini and Franca Helg, as well as the legacies of the patronage of Savina Masieri and architecture of Egle Trincanato, who were both active in the city in the post-war period.

Working with traditional makers from the region, Antunes has linked these cultural histories by looking at the intersection between Scarpa�s work and various forms of craftmanship from Italy, Japan and Portugal. The exhibition also draws attention to the lesser-known contributions of Masieri, such as her commissions for Frank Lloyd Wright and Carlo Scarpa, and Trincanato, who was not only the first female student at the Royal Institute of Architecture and an author of a pioneering study of popular Venetian architecture from the XIII to the XVIII century, but also director of Palazzo Ducale and president of Querini Stampalia. a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot explores how both these women played a pivotal role in shaping a conception of Venice as a �modern� city.

The exhibition Leonor Antunes: a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot, curated by Jo�o Ribas, was selected via an unprecedented open call competition organized by the Directorate-General of Arts in the summer of 2018. The Palazzo Giustinian Lolin, on the Grand Canal, is considered one of the first independent works of architect Baldassare Longhena, best known for the Palazzo Pesaro, the Palazzo Rezzonico, and the Church of Santa Maria Della Salute (1631/32�1687).

The Pavilion of Portugal was commissioned by the Government of Portugal - Ministry of Cultureè Directorate-General for the Arts. The exhibition runs from 11 May until 24 November 2019.

Leonor Antunes (b.1972, Lisbon) lives and works in Berlin. Her recent solo exhibitions include Leonor Antunes, the last days in Galliate, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy (2018); a thousand realities from an original mark, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK (2018); discrepancies with C.P., Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2018); the frisson of the togetherness, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2017); discrepancies with G.G., Tensta konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (2017); a spiral staircase leads down the garden, SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA (2016); the pliable plane, CAPC Mus�eD�art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (2015); I Stand Like a Mirror Before You, New Museum, New York, USA and KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium (2015); a secluded and pleasant land in this land I wish to dwell, P�rez Art Museum, Miami, USA (2014); Leonor Antunes, P�rez Art Museum, Miami, USA (2014); a linhaè t�o fina que o olho apesar de armado com uma lupa, imagina-a ao inv�s de v�-la II, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Portugal (2013); the last days in Chimalistac, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2013); le hasard est l'ennemi de tous les m�tres, Maus H�bitos, Porto, Portugal (2012); villa, how to use, Kunstvereinf�r die Rheinlande und Westfalen, D�sseldorf, Germany (2012); casa, modo de usar, Funda��o de Serralvesè Museum of Contemporary Art, Oporto, Portugal (2011); discrepancies with M.G., Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico City, Mexico (2011); walk around there. look through here, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2011).

Her work has been presented in recent group exhibitions such as: And Berlin Will Always Need You, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (2019); Space Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2018); Machinesè penser, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy (2017); Civilized Caves, Ladera Oeste, Guadalajara, Mexico (2017); Condemned to be Modern, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), USA (2017); Medusa, Mus�e d�art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2017); Sunset Decor, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA (2017); Ficciones y territorios: Arte para pensar la nueva raz�n del mundo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof�a, Madrid, Spain (2016); Function Follows Vision, Vision Follow Reality, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2015); Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy (2015); Beyond the Supersquare, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA (2014); Decorum, Mus�e d�art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (2013); Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany (2013), among others.

Antunes� work was presented at the 12th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2018); the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2017); the Sharjah Biennale 12, United Arab Emirates (2015); the 8th Berlin Biennale (2014); the Singapore Biennale (2011); the 1st and 3rd Maia Contemporary Art Biennale, Portugal (1999 and 2003). Jo�o Ribas is a writer and curator based in Porto. He was previously Director of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, where he also held the position of Deputy Director and Senior Curator (2014�2018). He was previously curator of the MIT List Visual Arts Center (2009�13) and of the Drawing Center, New York (2007�09). Ribas won four consecutive AICA awards for Best Exhibition (2008�2011) and the Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award (2010), and was Curator of the 4th Ural Biennial (2018). His texts have been published in numerous publications, such as Artforum, Afterall, Artnews, Art in America, Frieze, Mousse, The Exhibitionist, Spike, and The Guardian. His edited volume In the Holocene, published by Sternberg Press (2014), proposes art as a form of speculative science. Ribas has taught at Yale University, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has been a professor and lecturer at institutions and universities around the world. He is currently a lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University, and at the Lus�fona University, Porto.

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