Focus on Venice

TLmag spoke to artist and jewellery designer, Wallace Chan, ahead of his new exhibition, TOTEM, which opened in Venice on April 20th.

The second edition of Homo Faber opened its doors on April 10 in Venice. This 3-week event highlights the importance of craft and craftsmanship through a series of exhibitions, events, and studio visits with master artisans.

This landmark exhibition of Fondazione Berengo explores the creative idiosyncrasies of glass work produced by female artists who continue to be sidelined in the art world.

Part of the cycle of monographic shows and ‘carte blanche’ exhibitions dedicated to major contemporary artists, Palazzo Grassi presents Belgian artist Luc Tuymans’ first personal exhibition in Italy.

TLmag caught up with collector and interior designer Chahan Minassian to talk about how he invokes personal, lived-in qualities into his impeccable designs as well as his project, which unites Old Masters with modern works within the medieval setting of Venice’s Abbazia di San Gregorio.

The Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents Dysfunctional during Venice Biennale: a show that invites visitors to rethink conventional relationships.

This edition of Nomad is located in the Venetian Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel where a unique dialogue between works and personal context is explored.

In a surprising collaboration with Swatch, Joe Tilson combines colourful Venice-inspired imagery for his site-specific installation ‘The Flags’ and releases a special edition watch during this year’s Venice Biennale.

During the 50th Venice Art Biennale a retrospective on Korean artist Yun Hyong-keun is on show at Palazzo Fortuny, exploring his fascinating work & life.

Following the recent death of artist Jannis Kounellis, Fondazione Prada presents a retrospective exhibition exploring his fascinating and poetic practice.

This 58th Biennale di Venezia the initiative GLASSTRESS by Adriano Berengo returns for the sixth time to push artists and designers to explore glass.

Under the fixed static gaze of Pablo Bronstein’s ‘Grey Witch’, visitors to his site-specific installations in Turin & Venice are propelled into reflections on the constrictions of the space, time and image of the present.