{"id":46579,"date":"2017-02-21T16:45:17","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=46579"},"modified":"2017-02-21T16:45:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:45:17","slug":"biennale-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/biennale-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Biennale: 10 Artists Everyone Will Be Talking About and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"

The participating artists of the Venice Biennale<\/a> have finally been announced! This edition’s curator Christine Macel has put together an eclectic mix of young bright stars of the industry, famous deceased post-ww2 artists and almost unknown positions we look forward to discovering. Among these 120 artists who’re showing their creations at the Arsenale and Giardini (the so-called \u201cTrans-pavilions\u201d) your author<\/a> has selected\u00a0ten special people and guessed what they are most likely to exhibit, provoke, or attract.<\/p>\n

Most likely to take over a third of the entire Arsenale with a large scale installation
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\"KADER Kader Attia – Kasbah<\/p>\n

Kader Attia<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Born in 1970 in France, lives and works in Berlin and Paris<\/em>
\nIf you enter a museum and are confronted with 200 cardboard boxes, ancient doors, or vitrines filled with twigs, chances are you\u2019re contemplating a work by this French-Algerian artist. It will be hard for Attia, a 2016 Marcel Duchamp Prize winner and avid lover of object agglutination, to hold back on scale in Venice, given how tempting Arsenale’s frame is for such endeavours. Plus Christine Macel probably won\u2019t oppose to big, big crowd and press pleasers. Expect something gigantic, lit like a Puccini opera, and possibly listing couscous<\/a> as a material (let’s hope not though as the pricey snacks at the event will have us salivating all day).
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Most likely to make you look for the closest spa<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Karla Karla Black, Practically In Shadow, 2013, installation view, (Photo: Aaron Igler, Greenhouse Media)<\/p>\n

Karla Black<\/strong> \nBorn in 1972 in the UK, lives and works in Glasgow<\/em>
\nAre you familiar with this weird and unnamable feeling between deep relaxation and existential angst? It\u2019s a strangely pleasant and disturbing sensation nestled in one\u2019s gut, and it\u2019s also something Karla Black\u2019s work conveys. In Venice, chances are you\u2019ll find yourself standing under a cloud-like pastel structure smelling of soap, and then suddenly experience a pressing need to grab some rose-scented lotion and start sensually rubbing it on yourself while humming a Lana Del Rey song.
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Most likely to terrify critics<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Kananginak Kananginak Pootoogook – Evening Shadow<\/p>\n

Kananginak Pootoogook<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>1935 \u2013 2010, lived and worked in Canada<\/em>
\nPootoogook has all the characteristics that will leave critics lost for words: he\u2019s Inuit, he\u2019s dead, and he\u2019s largely unknown. Including off-the-radar artists has become sort of a habit in biennials: it comes close to a PR move that\u2019s supposed to underline a curator\u2019s independent mind and research abilities. However, Pootoogook\u2019s drawings and etchings, mainly representing arctic fauna and scenes of everyday life in a slightly na\u00efve style, are beautiful, and might indeed provide a refreshing break from overexposed darlings of the contemporary art press. Also, never underestimate the soothing effects of peacefully gazing at a flock of eider ducks, whether they\u2019re drawn on paper or flying through the tundra sky.
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Most likely to release your inner camp diva<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"John John Waters – Badly Framed<\/p>\n

John Waters<\/strong> \nBorn in 1946 in the United States, lives and works in Baltimore<\/em>
\nAfter a certain time spent looking at hundreds of works of art, your system will inevitably get clogged with your own and others\u2019 convoluted opinions, and you will start to wish for Golden Girls and sweat pants instead of archival materials and an itchy neoprene dress. The inclusion of John Waters in this Biennale comes close to a queer god-sent. Instead of debating about \u201cagency and the activist approach to composition\u201d, let your inner drag queen unfold and claim your love or hatred loudly and abundantly. The pope of bad taste would certainly approve a bit of camp and outrageousness in a sea of well-behaved Goldsmiths graduates and stressed journalists.
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Most likely to be labelled as the outstanding 2017 discovery\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"AGNIESZKA Agnieszka Polska – Watery Rhymes<\/p>\n

Agnieszka<\/strong>\u00a0Polska<\/strong><\/a>
\n<\/strong>Born in 1985 in Poland, lives and works in Berlin<\/em>
\nShe\u2019s young. She does video art. She studied under Hito Steyerl. She\u2019s from Poland. That combination is simply too cool for school, and too cool not to be noticed. Praise is assured, and probably also deserved.
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Most likely to ravish people who found inner peace while backpacking through South East Asia<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Sopheap Sopheap Pich – Cycle 2 Version 3<\/p>\n

Sopheap<\/strong>\u00a0Pich<\/strong> \nBorn in 1971 in Cambodia, lives and works in Phnom Penh<\/em>
\nSopheap Pich uses traditional basket weaving techniques from his native Cambodia to create sculptures inspired by nature and organisms. The visitors’ Namaste faction will clutch their pearls at the look of his pieces, and tell you about how when they backpacked through Laos\/Thailand\/Cambodia a couple of years ago, a wise and very poor woman thought them the same technique Pich employs, and that although the woman didn\u2019t speak English, they were still able to communicate, on an emotional level, sitting on the dirt floor in a remote village where no tourist had previously never been. Counter this shower of proto-Buddhist gibberish by taking a break: get yourself a drink and enjoy the latest episode of Rupaul\u2019s drag race on your smartphone sitting by a canal. It will clean your chakras.
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Most likely to show the most Instagrammed work<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"Soft Sheila Hicks – Soft Stone<\/p>\n

Sheila Hicks<\/strong> \nBorn in 1934 in the United States, lives and works in Paris<\/em>
\nWhen looking at Sheila Hick\u2019s big, bright textile works, you may feel like you were just force-fed Angel\u2019s dust in an ephemeral haberdashery at Burning Man. Very probably her piece will serve as the most popular photo background of the biennale, and it wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if some people dressed to fit with it, Instagram fame\u00a0oblige<\/em>. I\u2019m not making this up: a fair amount of art world jet-setters dress in order to match with whatever art work will serve as a background for self-promotion and validation. But Hicks\u2019 creation might also become that one piece tourists who don\u2019t give a damn about art and ended in the Giardini by mistake will love and photograph to death. As long as the inspiration it triggers doesn\u2019t translate into a wave of acid-colored chunky knitwear this fall, that\u2019s fine with me.
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Most likely to be unfairly overlooked<\/h2>\n

\"Ciprian Ciprian Muresan – Palimpsest<\/p>\n

Ciprian Muresan<\/strong> \nBorn in 1977 in Romania, lives and works in Cluj<\/em>
\nNext to a Sheila Hicks extravaganza or an army of sculptures by Kader Attia, it\u2019s going to be hard to even notice Muresan\u2019s pencil on paper works, even if sometimes, they reach colossal proportions. From afar they can look monotonous; at a closer look though, you will realize that what you thought were doodles and scribbles are mind-blowing, overlapping copies of artforum covers or Agnes Martin canvases. Those are just examples of two impressive works by the Romanian artist, and his practice isn\u2019t limited to drawing; but if by chance Macel decides to show his works on paper, jump on the occasion to lose yourself in their intricate details and bask in the glory of this encyclopedic form of understatement.
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Most likely to spend the preview on the phone with the Albanian Minister of Infrastructure<\/h2>\n

\"Rama Rama Sala Inversion – Creating Space Where There is None<\/p>\n

Edi Rama<\/strong> \nBorn in 1964 in Albania, lives and works in Tirana<\/em>
\nNext to being a successful and talented artist, Edi Rama also casually holds the office of Prime Minister of Albania. One must wonder how he still finds time to create art in between cabinet meetings and briefings on the industrial growth in Elbasan County; maybe, like Angela Merkel or a young giraffe, he only needs very little sleep and spends the hours between one and four in the morning creating poetic drawings on his desk in the presidential palace.
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Most likely to recycle successful previous patterns<\/h2>\n

\"Alicja Alicja Kwade – Used and Tired<\/p>\n

Alicia Kwade<\/strong> \nBorn in 1979 in Poland, lives and works in Berlin<\/em>
\nNo tremendous suspense here: you’re bound to see a mirror. You will probably see stones and austere branches; you might also see ordinary objects whose original forms have been slightly twisted to look surreal or unusable, or ordinary objects that have been pulverized and neatly separated in containers. Kwade has a limited array of recipes, but she knows how to slightly alter them every time to enchant viewers and collectors alike. If indeed a mirror is included in the piece she\u2019ll present, wherever her work is placed will be the #1 selfie magnet of this biennale.
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\nFeature image: Sarah Lucas at Venice in 2015<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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