The 10 Art Shows That You Can Only See in Venice
Every two years during the Biennale, it’s art overload in the canal city. Here’s what not to miss.
A piece by Byars at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
Source: Michael Werner Gallery, New York, London, Berlin
You can take Venice’s version of a bus, a boat called a vaporetto, to visit the city’s Biennale, the massive art exhibition headquartered in the Giardini park. But it’s better to walk.
On foot you’ll stumble across one of the many pop-up exhibitions that have been organized throughout the city alongside the official Biennale, running until Nov. 24. Some are from superstar artists, including South African William Kentridge, who’s showing a new video series, Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot; the American Sarah Sze, who installed a mosaic of panels in a tiny gallery, onto which dozens of separate videos are projected; and the figurative Chinese painter Yu Hong, who’s done a massive installation in a former church, featuring 11 large gold panels that (mostly) depict women and children in states of anguish.