Exhibition // Top 6 at the Venice Biennale

The iconic canals of Venice are once again flooded with visitors for the Venice Biennale, a major international contemporary art exhibition. This year we celebrate the 56th festival, which brings an expected 370 000 visitors to see the 89 national pavilions and 44 collateral events in addition to the All The World’s Futures exhibition. After visiting many of the pavilions and collateral events and having seen many impressive installations, we have chosen our top 6 most memorable ones.

In the grandiose but noticeably crooked space of the Palazzo Barbaro, visitors can find a Collateral Event titled ‘The Union of Fire and Water.’ The beautiful historic building now houses the multiple channel video and sculpture installation by Amagul Menlibayeva and Rashad Alakbarov. The artists explore how architecture withstands, sustains and traces major cultural conflicts, exchanges, and transformations of history though the example of the Mukhtarov’s Palace in Azerbaijan.

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