Riccardo Wolfgang, Venice 2013
WHAT TO SEE
- Venice Biennale Arsenalle and Giardini
The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled ‘The Milk of Dreams’, will open to the public from Saturday April 23 to Sunday November 27, 2022, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.
The Milk of Dreams takes its title from a book by Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in which the Surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. It is a world where everyone can change, be transformed, become something or someone else; a world set free, brimming with possibilities. But it is also the allegory of a century that imposed intolerable pressure on the very definition of the self, forcing Carrington into a life of exile: locked up in mental hospitals, an eternal object of fascination and desire, yet also a figure of startling power and mystery, always fleeing the strictures of a fixed, coherent identity. When asked about her birth, Carrington would say she was the product of her mother’s encounter with a machine, suggesting the same bizarre union of human, animal, and mechanical that marks much of her work.
The exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human.
- Palazzo Ducale: Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer, “Questi scritti, quando verranno bruciati, daranno finalmente un po’ di luce (Andrea Emo)”
Palazzo Ducale, Piazza San Marco, 1, 30124
March 26–October 29
Monday–Sunday, 9 a.m.–6 p.m.
- Palazzo Grassi: Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas, “open-end”
Palazzo Grassi, Campo San Samuele, 3231
March 27, 2022–January 8, 2023
Wednesday–Monday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
- Peggy Guggenheim Museum Venice: Permanent Collection and Surrealism Exhibition
“Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity”
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, Dorsoduro 701, I-30123
April 9–September 26
Wednesday–Monday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
- CHUN KWANG YOUNG: Times Reimagined
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, Dorsoduro 874
April 23 – November 27, 2022
Organizing institution: Boghossian Foundation
- Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh
Palazzo Cavanis, Dorsoduro 920
April 23 – November 27, 2022
Organizing institution: FABA Fundación Almine Y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte
- Louise Nevelson, “Persistence”
Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco, 118 b
April 23–September 11
Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
- Mary Weatherford, “The Flaying of Marsyas”
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Castello Ramo Grimani, 4858
April 20–November 27
Tuesday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.
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RESTAURANT &DRINKS
- Aqua pasta, Campo Sant Angelo S. Marco
- Alla Madonna
- Harry's Bar
- Bauer Terrace for a drink
- Caffe Florian for a Coffee
- Il Nuovo Galeon after closure Giardini
Photograph: Riccardo Wolfgang, Venice 2013