This week: Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of the 60th Venice Biennale, on his exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere.
As he announces the themes, concepts and the list of artists in the show, we speak to the Brazilian curator about his plans.
Outernet in central London is one of several major immersive institutions to crop up in recent years
© Eamonn Wang
Hugely popular immersive art experiences are popping up across the world from London to Las Vegas, Tokyo and Abu Dhabi, and we discuss this phenomenon and its implications for museums and galleries with Chris Michaels—an art and technology consultant and former director of digital, communications and technology at the National Gallery, London.
Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Forever) is on view at the artist's newly opened solo show art Serpentine South gallery in London (1988/2020)
Photo: Timo Ohler; Courtesy of the artist and Sprüth Magers
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Barbara Kruger’s Untitled (Forever), an installation first made in 2017 and now on view in the Serpentine South gallery in London, where Kruger’s career survey arrived this week after spells in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. Hans Ulrich Obrist, the Serpentine Galleries’ artistic director, explores the installation.
- The 60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere, Giardini and Arsenale, Venice, Italy, 20 April-24 November
- Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, Serpentine South, London, until 17 March.