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The 56th Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition entitled All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor and organised by la Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, is open to the public from 9th May to 22nd November 2015 at the Giardini della Biennale and the Arsenale.
Find out more on the Biennale and read Okwui Enwezor’s introductory essay.

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Venice Biennale 2015: in Sound and Images is one impression of the Biennale with a Venetian Walk and 3 galleries of selected images taken at the Arsenale, Giardini and National Pavilions.

The sound piece Venetian Walk is a recording of sonic traces from the Biennale by S/QU/NC/R, featuring sounds by Emeka Ogboh, Camille Norment, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Steeve McQueen, Carsten Höller and Måns Månsson, Christian Boltanski, Jeremy Deller, Isaac Julien, Julius Eastman, Sonia Boyce, Theaster Gates, Moon Kyungwon and Jeon Joonho, Vincent Meessen and a live impro by Binelde Hyrcan.

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PHOTO GALLERY
(click on images to view gallery)

ALL OF THE WORLD’S FUTURES

Gallery 1: ARSENALE

Terry Adkins, Divine Mute, 1998. Aluminum, brass, nickel, wood.

Terry Adkins, Darkwater Record, 2003-2008. Porcelain, cassette tape records with “Socialism and the American Negro” speech by W.E.B Du Bois.

Adel Abdesemmed, Also sprach Allah, 2008. Black stone on carpet and video, colour, sound.

Terry Adkins, Solemnis, 2004 (from the series Black Beethoven. Steel, feathers.

Bruce Nauman, Human Nature / Life Death / Knows Doesn’t Know, 1983. Neon, refabricated exhibition copy.

Ibrahim Mahama, Out of Bounds, 2014-2015.

Lili Reynaud Dewar, My Epidemic (Small Bad Blood Opera), 2015.

Central view with works by Melvin Edwards (walls) and Terry Adkins (background).

Ibrahim Mahama, Out of Bounds, 2014-2015. Site-specific installation, coal sacks, metal tags and jute ropes on coal sacks.

Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2014-2015. Looped double projection front and verso.

Samson Kambalu, Sanguinetti Breakout Area, 2015.

Kay Hassan, Empire Medley, 2015.

Abu Bakarr Mansaray

Adrian Piper, The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3, 2013-15. Installation and performance.

Steve McQueen, Ashes, 2014-2015.

Terry Adkins, Muffled Drums, 2003. Bass drums and mufflers.

Invisible Borders Trans-African project, A TransAfrican Worldspace, 2015. Audio, mixed media, four digital slide projections, photographic prints, video, color, sound.

Invisible Borders Trans-African project, A TransAfrican Worldspace, 2015.

Samson Kambalu, Sanguinetti Breakout Area, 2015. Detourned Sanguinetti papers, photographs and publications sources at Yale University’s Beinecke Library.

Invisible Borders Trans-African project, A TransAfrican Worldspace, 2015.

Barthélémy Toguo, Urban Requiem, 2015. Installation.

Kay Hassan, Empire Medley, 2015. Arrangements for piano by John White. Performed by pianist and improviser Nduduzo Makathini.

Adel Abdesemmed, Also sprach Allah, 2008.

Lili Reynaud Dewar, My Epidemic (Small Bad Blood Opera), 2015. Installation.

Adrian Piper, The Probable Trust Registry: The Rules of the Game #1-3, 2013-15.

Invisible Borders Trans-African project, A TransAfrican Worldspace, 2015.

Samson Kambalu, The Last Judgement, 2015. Four hundred balls plastered with pages of The Bible.

Abu Bakarr Mansaray, Nuclear Telephone Discovered in Hell, 2003. Graphite and colour pencil on paper.

Emeka Ogboh, The Song of The Germans (Deutschelandlied), 2015. Ten-channel sound installation.

Barthélémy Toguo, Urban Requiem, 2015. Detail.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sector IX B, 2015.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sector IX B, 2015. HD film, colour, sound, (40′).

Invisible Borders Trans-African project, A TransAfrican Worldspace, 2015.

Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Sector IX B, 2015.

Samson Kambalu, Sanguinetti Breakout Area, 2015.

Emeka Ogboh, The Song of The Germans (Deutschelandlied), 2015.

Emeka Ogboh, The Song of The Germans (Deutschelandlied), 2015.

Samson Kambalu, The Last Judgement, 2015.

Gallery 2: GIARDINI

Astronautalis and Elaine Mitchener performing Sonia Boyce’s Exquisite Cacophony.

Adrian Piper, Everything, 2003.

Jeremy Deller, Factory Records. Mural by Stuart Huges.

Charles Gaines, Librettos: Manuel de Fallas / Stockely Charmichael, Set 13, 2015.

Christian Boltanski, L’Homme qui tousse, 1969.

Fabio Mauri, Il muro Occidentale, 1993.

Rikrit Tiravanija, Demonstration Drawings, 2015.

Marlene Dumas, Skulls, 2013-2015.

Rikrit Tiravanija, Demonstration Drawings, 2015.

Hans Haacke, Gallery-Goers’s Birth Place and Residence Profile, Part 1, 1969.

Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Playground), 2015. Acrylic on PVC panel.

Charles Gaines, Sound Texts series, 2015. Detail.

Piano performance of Julius Eastman’s Evil Nigger (1979).

Kerry James Marshall, Untitled (Blot), 2015. Acrylic on PVC panel.

Hans Haacke, Blue Sail 1964-1965.

Charles Gaines, Sound Texts series, 2015.

Marlene Dumas, Skulls series, 2013-2015. Detail.

Jeremy Deller, Factory Records. Mural by Stuart Huges.

Isaac Julien, Kapital, 2013. Double-HD monitor installation, colour, sound, 31′.

Adrian Piper, Everything 2.9, 2003. Detail.

John Akomfrah, Vertigo Sea, 2015. 3-channel, HD video installation, 38′.

Gallery 3: NATIONAL PAVILIONS
(selected images)

Camille Norment: Rapture, 2015. Nordic Pavilion.

Camille Norment: Rapture, 2015. Nordic Pavilion.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, transHumUs / projet rêvolutions, 2015. French Pavilion.

Sarah Lucas, Deep Cream Maradona, 2015. British Pavilion.

Sarah Lucas, I Scream Daddio, installation detail. British Pavilion.

Sarah Lucas, I Scream Daddio, installation detail. British Pavilion.

Tobias Zielony, The Citizen, 2015. German Pavilion.

Tobias Zielony, The Citizen, 2015. German Pavilion.

Tobias Zielony, The Citizen, 2015. German Pavilion.

Hito Steyerl, The Factory of the Sun, 2015. German Pavilion.

Hito Steyerl, The Factory of the Sun, 2015. German Pavilion.

Joan Jonas, They Come to Us Without a Word, 2015. United States Pavilion.

Joan Jonas, They Come to Us Without a Word, 2015. United States Pavilion.

Chiharu Shiota, How did you come into the World?, 2015. Japan Pavilion.

Chiharu Shiota, The key in the hand, 2015. Japan Pavilion.

Chiharu Shiota, The key in the hand, 2015. Japan Pavilion.

C.T. Jasper and Joanna Malinowska, Halka/Haiti 18°48’05”N 72°23’01”W, 2015. Multichannel video projection. Polish Pavilion.

Mario Macilau. Holy See Pavilion.

Mario Macilau. Holy See Pavilion.

Mario Macilau. Holy See Pavilion.

Adam Pendleton, Black Dada Flag (Black Lives Matter), 2015. Part of Vincent Meessen and Guests. Personne et les Autres. Belgian Pavilion.

Mathieu Klebeye Abonnenc, Forever without you, 2015. Detail of installation. Plaster cast. Belgian Pavilion.

Mathieu Klebeye Abonnenc, Forever Weak and Ungrateful. 1 in a series of 8 photo-etchings. Belgian Pavilion.

Elisabetta Benassi, M’FUMU, 2015. Belgian Pavilion.

Elisabetta Benassi, M’FUMU, 2015. Detail. Belgian Pavilion.

Elisabetta Benassi, M’FUMU, 2015. Installation detail. Belgian Pavilion.

Vincent Meessen, One Two Three, 2015. Three-channel digital video installation (looped), sound, 35′. Surround sound, acoustic panels, coloured textiles, wooden frames, stools, carpet. Belgian Pavilion.

Vincent Meessen, One Two Three, 2015. Belgian Pavilion.

Vincent Meessen, One Two Three, 2015. Belgian Pavilion.

Sammy Baloji, Sociétés Secrètes, 2015. Belgian Pavilion.

Sammy Baloji, Essay on Urban Planning, 2013. 12 colour photographs. Belgian Pavilion.

Sammy Baloji, Essay on Urban Planning, 2013. Detail. Belgian Pavilion.

Sammy Baloji, Essay on Urban Planning, 2013. Detail. Belgian Pavilion.

Adam Pendleton. Detail of installation. Belgian Pavilion.

Adam Pendleton. Detail of installation. Belgian Pavilion.

Willem Boschoff, Racist in South Africa, 2011. Anodised aluminium panel, engraved and filled with ink. South African Pavilion.

Mohau Modisakeng, Inzilo, 2013. Single channel video. South African Pavilion.

Haroon Gunn-Salie, Soft Vengeance, 2015. Reinforced urethane. South African Pavilion.

Gerald Machona, People From Far Away Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut), 2012. South African Pavilion.

Gerald Machona, People From Far Away Ndiri Afronaut (I am an Afronaut), 2012. Decommissioned Zimbabwean dollar, foam padding, fabric, wood, perspex, rubber, plastic tubing, nylon thread, gold leaf. South African Pavilion.

Robin Rhode, Blackness Blooms. C-prints. South African Pavilion.

Nandipha Mntambo, Conversation: The Beginning of Forever, 2015. Cowhide, resin, polyester mesh. South African Pavilion.

Brett Murray, Triumph. Dual-channel digital video installation. South African Pavilion.

Jo Ractliffe, The Borderlands, 2012-2013. Hand-printed silver gelatin prints. South African Pavilion.

Angus Gibson, Telling the Truth?, 2015. Three-channel video. South African Pavilion.

Mark Lewis, Wake Up, This is Joburg, 2014. Video from still photographs. South African Pavilion.

Serge-Alain Nitegeka, Black Subjects, 2012. Single-channel digital video. South African Pavilion.

Masimba Hwati, Urban Totems 2, 2015. Screen print on denim. Zimbabwe Pavilion.

Zimbabwe Pavilion

Chikonzero Chazunguza, Presence of the Past 1, 2015. Print on fabriano. Zimbabwe Pavilion.

Chikonzero Chazunguza, Matutura, 2015. Print on fabriano. Zimbabwe Pavilion.

Exhibition opening at the Zimbabwe Pavilion.

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