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October 18, 2018

Call for New Zealand at Venice 2019 Exhibition Attendants

We are seeking Exhibition Attendants to assist with the supervision and promotion of the New Zealand exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2019. The assignments will be for periods of approximately six weeks between May and November 2019. Dane Mitchell is the New […]

August 1, 2018

New Zealand confirms Dane Mitchell’s exhibition venue and title for Biennale Arte 2019 in Venice – Media release

Dead words. Extinct species. Ghost towns. Former nations. Destroyed art works…What do these things have in common? They are a few of the countless phenomena that existed but are now no more. These disappearances are at the heart of Dane […]

April 6, 2018

Michael Stevenson chosen as a standout work at the Biennale of Sydney

An installation by Michael Stevenson, who exhibited at the Biennale Arte in 2003, has been chosen as standout work at the Biennale of Sydney by Ralph Rugoff, director of London’s Hayward Gallery and Artistic Director for the Biennale Arte 2019. […]

December 19, 2017

From the opening to closing of ‘Lisa Reihana: Emissaries’

Claire Chamberlain, one of our Exhibition Attendants for Lisa Reihana: Emissaries blogs (below) about her experience with visitors in the final weeks of the Biennale. Our pavilion in the Tese dell’Isolotto was packed to the gunwales in the closing […]

December 6, 2017

Closing thoughts from 2017 Commissioner Alastair Carruthers

The exhibition Lisa Reihana: Emissaries has now closed in Venice, but its impact will continue through presentations over the next two years in numerous major public galleries across the world. The demand to present Lisa Reihana’s work doesn’t surprise me. From the […]

November 30, 2017

Panoramania

Hannah Murray, one of our Exhibition Attendants for Lisa Reihana: Emissaries takes us back to the start, looking at panoramic wallpapers in her blog (below). Lisa Reihana’s cinematic reimaging of Dufour et Cie’s wallpaper Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique, […]