Ascension, Anish Kapoor

Indian-British artist Anish Kappor’s raising smoke installation Ascension was shown at the dome of the basilica di San Giorgio during the 54th Venice Art Biennale.

Track and Field, Allora and Calzadilla

“Track and Field” by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla features an inverted 52-ton tank and a treadmill. The installation is temporarily on show outside the United States of America Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2011. The connotations to war, heroism, competition and endurance are obvious.

54 Venice Art Biennale (Giardini)

A panoramic view at the Giardini pavilions of the 54th Venice Art Biennale (June-November 2011) which is about to finish.

54 Venice Art Biennale (Arsenale)

A panoramic view of the Arsenale exhibit at the 54th Venice Art Biennale (June-November 2011) which is about to finish.

The End, Ragnar Kjartansson

Ragnar Kjartansson is an Icelandic artist who represented his country in the 2009 Venice Art Biennale.

The Collector, Elmgreen and Dragset

Michael Elmgreen (Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (Norway) are two installation artists who have worked together since 1995. For the first time at the Venice Biennale, two national pavilions are collaborating on a single project.

Making Worlds, Venice Biennale

Waldemar Januszczak takes us through the “Making Worlds” exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale. It features the work of Mexican artist Hector Zamora, and Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso.

Sciame di Dirigibili, Hector Zamora

The young Mexican artist Hector Zamora has an obsession with flying and floating objects. “Sciame di diribili” is a video installation that creates a fiction about a festival of zepelline dirigibles over Venice and infiltrates the city as an event that never happened.

What else could we talk about?, Teresa Margolles

Mexican artist Teresa Margolles’ work deals with violence as raw matter. “What else could we talk about?” at the Mexican Pavilion in the 2009 Venice Biennale, chronicled the violence provoked by the battles of drug traffic organizations and their prosecution in Mexico at the present.

Wave UFO, Mariko Mori

Japanese contemporary installation artist Mariko Mori often works with quasi-esoteric motifs. At the 2005 Venice Biennale her “Wave UFO” installation invited visitors to take part in a psychodelic trip.