After another lovely breakfast served to us by our equally lovely B&B host, we set out to catch the Vaporetto to the Venice Biennale 2015: All The World’s Futures. Elise was super excited for this as it’s a total art dream. She’d seen the Architecture Biennale in 2012 and it was great, so this would be another level amaze. There are two main venues; Giardini and Arsenale, but there are also pavilions scattered around the city for countries not represented in the main venues.
The day was rainy but it made for an interesting view of the city from the Vaporetto. We got to Giardini, bought our tickets and began the begin.
We won’t bore you too much by going into the details of our favourite pavilions as we know that it probably more of an ‘in the moment’ experience, but believe us, it was a pretty fun adventure. Anyway, we have some photos to give you an idea of the feels.
Also, the Australian Pavilion is new and pretty great. This year we were represented by Fiona Hall, which made Elise happy. Her work ‘Wrong Way Time’ is a wunderkammer style installation which if anyone saw Elise’s work in her final year of uni, would understand that this is exactly what she’s into. The work locates and focuses on the meeting point between concerns with global politics, world finances and the environment.
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| SPAIN. The Subjects. Pepo Salazar, Cabello/Carceller, Francesc Ruiz and Salvador Dalí |
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| NETHERLANDS. herman de vries - to be all ways to be. herman de vries |
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| NETHERLANDS |
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| NETHERLANDS |
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| HUNGARY. Sustainable Identities. Szilárd Cseke |
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| HUNGARY |
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| ROMANIA. Adrian Ghenie: Darwin’s Room. Adrian Ghenie |
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| ROMANIA |
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| NORWAY. Rapture. Camille Norment |
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| NORWAY |
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| CZECH Republic and SLOVAC Republic. Apotheosis. Jiri David |
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| URUGUAY. Global Myopia II (Pencil & Paper). Marco Maggi |
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| AUSTRALIA. Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time. Fiona Hall |
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| FRANCE. rêvolutions. Céleste Boursier-Mougenot |
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| GREAT BRITAIN. Sarah Lucas |
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| GERMANY. Fabrik. Jasmina Metwaly / Philip Rizk, Olaf Nicolai, Hito Steyerl, Tobias Zielony |
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| KOREA. The Ways of Folding Space & Flying. MOON Kyungwon & JEON Joonho |
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| JAPAN. The Key in the Hand. Chiharu Shiota |
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| SWITZERLAND. Our Product. Pamela Rosenkranz |
On our walk to the Arsenale venue we found a place to get a slice of pizza and didn’t even stop to eat it, lots of art to see and very little time! We were separated within the first 10 minutes as Elise took a while to get past the first room, which also meant that unfortunately at 6pm, the Biennale closed before she had reached the end! She was even more devastated by this when Ash told her about some of the cool installations inside. Luckily she got photos!
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| Bruce Nauman |
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| Katharina Grosse, Untitled Trumpet |
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| Ernesto Ballesteros, Indoor Flights Reminded Elise of her Pa) |
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| Georg Baselitz |
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| Kutlug Ataman, The Portrait of Sakip Sabanci |
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| TUVALU. Crossing the Tide. Vincent J.F. Huang |
For dinner we got pizza from a very non-looking pizzeria, and it was amazing. It even had potato chips on it! Not what we expected but very tasty. Of course, we also got some gelato from GROM, which we would later learn is a chain, and for good reason. It’s too delicious to even tell you how much.
We made it back to our lovely B&B just in time to miss the next burst of storms and rain, and cozied up.
Love A&E
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