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Venice Biennale 2022: all the official collateral events

A full list of the official collateral events taking place during this year's Venice Biennale

Lee Cheshire
6 April 2022
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The exhibition Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello includes Si On's Doomsday, 2020 Installation view at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

The exhibition Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained at Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello includes Si On's Doomsday, 2020 Installation view at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Photograph courtesy of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Alongside the main exhibition and the national pavilions at Venice Biennale are 30 official collateral events which have been admitted by the curator. They are all organised by non-profit international and national institutions. There are also other exhibitions planned to run at the same time as the Biennale.

Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice

Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-27 November

Angels Listening

Loggia del Temanza, 23 April-27 November

Apollo, Apollo

Calle del Ridotto, 23 April-27 November

Bosco Sodi Photo: Alex Krotkov

Bosco Sodi: What Goes Around Comes Around

Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, 23 April-27 November

The Mexican artist Bosco Sodi has been in Venice since February, turning part of the ground floor of the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani into a temporary studio. He has been producing his characteristic paintings using wood dust, cellulose pulp, glue and pigment, which will be exhibited in the imposing rooms of the piano nobile. Downstairs will be 195 spheres of red Mexican clay.

Catalonia in Venice_Llim

Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November

Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh

Palazzo Cavanis, 23 April-27 November

Alberta Whittle Photo: Matthew A Williams

Scotland + Venice
Alberta Whittle: deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory

Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November

The Barbados-born Scottish artist's work will address oceanic histories and the city’s traumatising images of enslaved Black people hidden in plain sight.

Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance

Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 23 April-27 November

Ewa Kuryluk: I, White Kangaroo / Io, il Canguro Bianco

Palazzo Querini, 23 April-27 November

From Palestine With Art

Palazzo Mora, 23 April-27 November

This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom @Venice 2022

Scuola Grande della Misericordia, 23 April-7 August

Ha Chong-Hyun

Palazzetto Tito, 23 April-24 August

A retrospective of the Korean painter Ha Chong-Hyn, a leading artist of the postwar reconstruction in Korea, including more than 20 works from the 1960 to the present day.

Heinz Mack: Vibration of Light

Sale Monumentali della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 23 April-17 July

Impossible Dreams

Palazzo delle Prigioni, 23 April-27 November

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence

Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 23 April-24 July

Artist of the moment Kehinde Wiley comes to Venice with new monumental paintings and sculptures which expand on his DOWN series from 2008. Inspired by Hans Holbein's painting of a dead Christ in his tomb and classical sculptures of fallen soldiers, Wiley's work shows young Black men and women in prone positions, alluding to the "spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.”

Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light

Olivolo, San Pietro di Castello, 23 April-27 November

Louise Nevelson: Persistence

Procuratie Vecchie, 23 April-11 September

Artists (from left) Lucio Fontana and Antony Gormley, with curator Luca Massimo Barbero

Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley

Negozio Olivetti, 23 April-27 November

A rare 20th century gem in Venice, the former Olivetti showroom on St Mark's Square is a perfect setting for two artists whose work concerns themselves with space and light. The show will concentrate on drawings, sculptures and graphic works.

Pera + Flora + Fauna: The Story of Indigenousness and the Ownership of History

Archivi della Misericordia, 23 April-27 November

Road of Faith

Palazzo Zen, 23 April-27 November

Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings

Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, 23 April-27 November

Thirty years of the US artist’s ‘Italian paintings’, many made in his studio near Parma.

Take Your Time

Salone Verde, 23 April-27 November

Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined

Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 23 April-27 November

Made from glowing uranium glass using a new casting technique, this large sculpture by Czech artist Rony Plesl sits in front of the altar of Venice's Santa Maria della Visitazione © Rony Plesl Photo: Petr Krejci

Rony Plesl: Trees Grow from the Sky

Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, 23 April-27 November

Czech artist Rony Plesl has used a new technique for casting glass as if it were bronze to create four large-scale glass sculptures for the church of Santa Maria della Visitazione. The work placed in front the altar is made from glowing uranium glass and covered with bas-reliefs of the body of Christ.

Tue Greenfort: Medusa Alga Laguna

Castello 1228 (Ca' Sarasina), 23 April-1 November

Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained

Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, 23 April-27 November

The former London contemporary art gallery Parasol unit presents work by 11 artists including Darren Almond, Rana Begum, Bharti Kher and Teresa Margolles. The work, in many different media, responds to the “various unfavourable phenomena” taking over our lives.

Vera Molnár: Icône 2020

Atelier Muranese, New Murano Gallery, 23 April-27 November

With hands signs grow

Palazzo Donà Brusa, 23 April-27 November

Zinaida: Without Women

Spiazzi, 23 April-27 November

YiiMa Art Group: Allegory of Dreams

Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-20 October

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