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State Farm Supports Kids' Farm at the National Zoo by Smithsonian's National Zoo

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In this photo: Lucy.

A generous $1.4 million gift from State Farm Insurance to the Smithsonian’s National Zoological Park guarantees that the Kids’ Farm exhibit will remain open for the next five years. The State Farm donation is the largest made to the Zoo since 2007.

Earlier this year the Zoo announced plans to close the Kids’ Farm for budget reasons. The decision was one of several identified to implement cost-saving measures at the Zoo and across the Smithsonian.

The Kids’ Farm opened in 2004 and costs approximately $250,000 to operate each year. When news of the closing became public, there was an overwhelming response from the community and Friends of the National Zoo members who voiced their support for the exhibit to remain open. FONZ members organized fundraising events and launched additional efforts to find the longer term funding.

Today, the Zoo held a ceremony to announce the new sponsor. At the ceremony, Nigerian Dwarf goat Lucy, a long-time Kids’ Farm resident, unveiled the permanent donor sign on the side of the barn. Former Congressman Ralph Regula, who played a vital role in establishing the Kids’ Farm seven years ago, was on hand to offer his congratulations and talk about the importance of farms. In addition, a group of 16 FONZ campers and animal keepers led a parade of donkeys, alpacas, goats, rabbits and a chicken to the Caring Corral where participants met the animals up close.

“At State Farm we are committed to serving the communities where we work and live, which is why we are thrilled to help fund the Kids’ Farm at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo,” said Dan Krause, vice president of State Farm Agency. “As strong supporters of early childhood education, we are pleased to give this gift of support to the Kids’ Farm; a place that inspires learning in our youngsters while providing a magical experience for families to spend time together.”

Kids’ Farm Background

The Kids’ Farm is home to various farm animals—cows, donkeys, goats, alpacas, hogs, a chicken, koi fish, catfish and rabbits. Several of the animals residing in the farm are rare breeds, including the San Clemente Island goats and Ossabaw Island hogs. The Kids’ Farm provides young children with an interactive learning experience. Designed for children ages 3 to 8, the exhibit provides many urban and suburban children their first experience with animals while learning about where food comes from. Children have the opportunity to groom the animals under the supervision of keepers in the Caring Corral and are able to touch animals in various locations throughout the exhibit. The State Farm gift will cover the salaries for three full-time animal keepers over a seven-day work week, animal feed, bedding materials, medical care and tests, habitat maintenance and general operating supplies.

Photo Credit: Mehgan Murphy, Smithsonian's National Zoo

Holiday Hiking in Nepal by Holiday Hiking

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Nature's generosity by Rosmarie Wirz

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Looking up into the crown of a persimmon tree heavily hung with ripe fruit.

Gudda by G Shenoy

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Gudda meaning Doll(male) in Hindi, the female version is Guddi.

I found this precious doll all decked up in traditional Muslim attire at

a social gathering.

I just love his expression...so much curiosity in his eyes and also wondering at the same time, why mummy has made him wear such heavy clothes and who all these silly people are :-)

Please give generously by Gav Justice

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generous by miss neverbeenme~

Angel on My Shoulder - Autobiography by Natalie Cole -autographed copy by Los Toros

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Just bought this signed copy of

Angel on my Shoulder by the

late great Natalie Cole.

We lost the beautiful Natalie Cole in 2015 but

her legacy like her father's lives on.She

was a beautiful singer who blessed us with

her music,her generosity and love.Below

a song I found on YouTube which signifies

The great Natalie Cole.

Natalie Cole - I Live For Your Love ( 1989)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftWaLM8StoQ

Angel on My Shoulder: An Autobiography Hardcover – November 14, 2000

by Natalie Cole (Author), Digby Diehl (Author)

Born to legendary Nat King Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to

become a versatile singer with Grammy Award status. But that success came with a price,

where she was dragged down by depression and drugs. This is her story.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Songstress Cole's as-told-to autobiography opens with the harrowing tale of how she and

her bodyguard nearly were killed in a hotel fire. As it happens, she had just "made a

bargain with the Lord." If the deity let her take a hit of freebase as the room filled

with smoke, "then that means I'm finished. I'm going to get high, and then I'm going to

die." Fortunately, the Lord acted swiftly. As Cole readied the pipe, "the door was blown

off its hinges" by "twin angel Gabriels," who turned out to be firefighters. The singer

was saved! And her life changed. Besides that amazing grace, Cole mentions her famous

father--one of her abiding companions--early and often, so that Nat Cole, God, and the

music she considers a gift from them both could be said to dominate her life.

Thoughtfully, she recalls her childhood, recounts the legal battle between her mother and

her and her siblings over her father's estate, and relates the erratic behavior of an

aging Frank Sinatra, whom she felt had transferred his affection for her father to her.

Although she concentrates mostly on the good times, Cole isn't shy about the bad times,

which makes this intriguing, engaging, and inspirational life story worthy of attention.

Mike Tribby

Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer,

songwriter, and actress. Cole was the daughter of American singer and jazz pianist Nat

King Cole. She rose to success in the mid-1970s as an R&B singer with the hits "This Will

Be", "Inseparable" (1975), and "Our Love" (1977). She returned as a pop singer on the 1987

album Everlasting and her cover of Bruce Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". In the 1990s, she

sang traditional pop by her father, resulting in her biggest success, Unforgettable...

with Love, which sold over seven million copies and won her seven Grammy Awards. She sold

over 30 million records worldwide.[1] On December 31, 2015, Cole died at the age of 65 at

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, due to congestive heart failure.

Early life[edit]

Natalie Cole was born at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles, to American singer and

jazz pianist Nat King Cole and former Duke Ellington Orchestra singer Maria Hawkins

Ellington, and raised in the affluent Hancock Park district of Los Angeles.[2] Regarding

her childhood, Cole referred to her family as "the black Kennedys" and was exposed to many

great singers of jazz, soul and blues. At the age of 6, Natalie sang on her father's

Christmas album : The Magic of Christmas and later started performing at age 11.

Cole grew up with an older adopted sister, Carole "Cookie" Cole (1944–2009) (her mother

Maria's younger sister's daughter), adopted brother Nat "Kelly" Cole (1959–95), and

younger twin sisters Timolin and Casey (born 1961).[3] Through her mother, Cole was a

grandniece of educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown.[4]

Her paternal uncle Freddy Cole is a singer and pianist with numerous albums and awards.

Cole enrolled in Northfield School for Girls, an elite New England preparatory school

(since 1971 known as Northfield Mount Hermon School after merging with another school)

before her father died of lung cancer in February 1965. Soon afterwards she began having a

difficult relationship with her mother. She enrolled in the University of Massachusetts

Amherst. She transferred briefly to University of Southern California where she pledged

the Upsilon chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She later transferred back to the

University of Massachusetts, where she majored in Child Psychology and minored in German,

graduating in 1972.[5][6]

Early career[edit]

Natalie and Carole Cole at NBC studios, 1975

Cole grew up listening to a variety of music that included Aretha Franklin and Janis

Joplin. After graduation in 1972 she began singing at small clubs with her band, Black

Magic. Clubs initially welcomed her because she was Nat King Cole's daughter, only to be

disappointed when she began singing cover versions of R&B and rock songs.

With the assistance of Chuck Jackson and Marvin Yancey, a songwriting and producing duo,

she recorded some songs in a studio in Chicago that was owned by Curtis Mayfield. Her demo

tapes led to a contract with Capitol,[7] resulting in the release of Cole's debut album,

Inseparable, which included songs that reminded listeners of Aretha Franklin. Franklin

later contended that songs such as "This Will Be", "I Can't Say No", and others were

offered to her while she was recording the album You but she had turned them down.

Released in 1975, the album became an instant success thanks to "This Will Be", which

became a top ten hit and won her a Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. A

second single, "Inseparable", also became a hit. Both songs reached number-one on the R&B

chart. Cole also won Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards for her accomplishments, making

her the first African-American artist to attain that feat.[citation needed] The media's

billing of Cole as the "new Aretha Franklin" started a rivalry between the two singers.

The feud boiled over at the 1976 Grammy Awards when Cole beat Franklin in the Best Female

R&B Vocal Performance category, a category which Franklin had won eight times before

losing to Cole.

Stardom[edit]

Becoming an instant star, Cole responded to critics who predicted a sophomore slump with

Natalie, released in 1976. The album, like Inseparable, became a gold success thanks to

the funk-influenced cut "Sophisticated Lady" and the jazz-influenced "Mr. Melody".

Cole released her first platinum record with her third release, Unpredictable, mainly

thanks to the number-one R&B hit, "I've Got Love on My Mind". Originally an album track,

the album's closer, "I'm Catching Hell", nonetheless became a popular Cole song during

live concert shows. Later in 1977, Cole issued her fourth release and second platinum

album, Thankful, which included another signature Cole hit, "Our Love". Cole was the first

female artist to have two platinum albums in one year. To capitalize on her fame, Cole

starred on her own TV special, which attracted such celebrities as Earth, Wind & Fire, and

also appeared on the TV special, "Sinatra and Friends." In 1978, Cole released her first

live album, Natalie Live!

In early 1979, the singer was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. That same

year, she released two more albums, I Love You So and the Peabo Bryson duet album, We're

the Best of Friends. Both albums reached gold status in the U.S., reflecting her

continuing popularity.

Detour and resurgence[edit]

Following the release of her eighth album, 1980's Don't Look Back, Cole's career began to

take a detour. While Cole scored an adult contemporary hit with the soft rock ballad

"Someone That I Used to Love" off the album, the album itself failed to go gold. In 1981,

Cole's personal problems, including battles with drug addiction, began to attract public

notice, and her career suffered as a result. In 1983, following the release of her album

I'm Ready, released on Epic, Cole entered a rehab facility in Connecticut and stayed there

for a period of six months.

Following her release, she signed with the Atco imprint Modern Records and released

Dangerous, which started a slow resurgence for Cole in terms of record sales and chart

success. In 1987, she changed to EMI-Manhattan Records and released the album Everlasting,

which returned her to the top of the charts thanks to singles such as "Jump Start (My

Heart)", the top ten ballad, "I Live For Your Love", and her dance-pop cover of Bruce

Springsteen's "Pink Cadillac". That success helped Everlasting reach one million in sales

and become Cole's first platinum album in ten years. In 1989, she released her follow-up

to Everlasting, Good to Be Back, which produced the number two hit "Miss You Like Crazy";

it also achieved international success, reaching the top ten in the United Kingdom.

Cole released her best-selling album with 1991's Unforgettable... with Love on Elektra

Records, which saw Cole singing songs her famous father recorded, nearly 20 years after

she initially had refused to cover her father's songs during live concerts. Cole produced

vocal arrangements for the songs, with piano accompaniment by her uncle Ike Cole. Cole's

label released an interactive duet between Cole and her father on the title song,

"Unforgettable". The song eventually reached number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and

number ten on the R&B chart, going gold. Unforgettable...with Love eventually sold more

than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone and won several Grammys, including Album of the

Year, Record of the Year and Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance for the top song.

Cole followed that success with another album of jazz standards, titled Take a Look, in

1993, which included her recording of the title track in the same styling that her idol

Aretha Franklin had recorded nearly 30 years earlier. The album eventually went gold while

a holiday album, Holly & Ivy, also became gold. Another standards release, Stardust, went

platinum and featured another duet with her father on a modern version of "When I Fall in

Love", which helped Cole earn another Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

In 1995, Cole was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from the Berklee College of

Music.

In 1999, Cole returned to her 1980s-era urban contemporary recording style with the

release of Snowfall on the Sahara on June and second holiday album The Magic of Christmas

on October, which recorded with London Symphony Orchestra. A year later, the singer

collaborated on the production of her biopic, Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story with

Theresa Randle playing Natalie Cole. She also released the compilation Greatest Hits, Vol.

1 to fulfill her contract with Elektra.

She changed to Verve Records and released two albums. Ask a Woman Who Knows (2002)

continued her jazz aspirations, while Leavin (2006) was an album of pop, rock, and R&B

songs. Her version of "Daydreaming" by Aretha Franklin was a minor hit on the R&B chart.

In 2008, seventeen years after Unforgettable... with Love, she released Still

Unforgettable, which include songs made famous by her father and Frank Sinatra. In April

2012, she appeared on the Pennington Great Performers with the Baton Rouge Symphony

Orchestra.

Television and film career[edit]

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Cole in 2013

Cole pursued a career in acting. She appeared several times in concerts or other music

related programs, including the 1988 Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute with sidemen

Richard Campbell, Jeffrey Worrell, Eddie Cole, and Dave Joyce. In 1990, she and Al Jarreau

sang "Mr. President" on the television special Comic Relief special. After Johnny Mathis

appeared on a special of Cole's in 1980, the two kept in contact, and in 1992 he invited

her to be a part of his television special A Tribute to Nat Cole for the BBC in England.

An album of the same name was released. In 1992, following the success of the

Unforgettable: With Love album, PBS broadcast a special based on the album. Unforgettable,

With Love: Natalie Cole Sings the Songs of Nat "King" Cole received an Emmy nomination for

Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program. Cole received a nomination for Outstanding

Individual Performance but lost to Bette Midler.

In 1993, she was among the guests of honor attending Wrestlemania IX at Caesar's Palace in

Las Vegas. At the 65th Academy Awards she performed a medley of two Oscar-nominated songs:

"Run to You" and "I Have Nothing", both performed by Whitney Houston in the film The

Bodyguard. Cole made a number of dramatic appearances on television, including I'll Fly

Away, Touched by an Angel, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Grey's Anatomy.[8] She

had the lead role in the TV movie Lily in Winter. She appeared in the Cole Porter biopic

De-Lovely. In 2001, she starred as herself in Livin' for Love: the Natalie Cole Story, for

which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie,

Mini-Series or Dramatic Special. On the February 5, 2007, episode of Studio 60 on the

Sunset Strip, Cole sang "I Say a Little Prayer" at a benefit dinner. She sang the national

anthem with the Atlanta University Center Chorus at Super Bowl XXVIII. In 2013, she was a

guest on Tina Sinatra's Father's Day Special on Sirius Radio. The program included Deana

Martin, Monica Mancini, and Daisy Torme reminiscing about their famous fathers.

Personal life[edit]

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Cole was married three times. She married Marvin Yancy, songwriter, producer, and former

member of the 1970s R&B group The Independents on July 31, 1976. She had a son, Robert

Adam "Robbie" Yancy (October 14, 1977 – August 14, 2017); he was a musician who toured

with her. Marvin was her producer, and an ordained Baptist minister who helped reintroduce

her to religion. Under his influence, Cole changed from a lapsed Episcopalian to become a

devout Baptist. Cole and Yancy got divorced in 1980; Yancy died of a heart attack in 1985,

aged 34. In 1989, Cole married record producer and former drummer for the band Rufus,

Andre Fischer; they were divorced in 1995. In 2001, Cole married Bishop Kenneth Dupree;

they divorced in 2004. In 2017, son Robbie died of a heart attack, aged 39.[9]

Cole was active in the Afghan World Foundation cause, supporting Sonia Nassery Cole (no

relation).

Drug abuse and recovery[edit]

In 2000, Cole released an autobiography, Angel on My Shoulder, which described her battle

with drugs during much of her life, including heroin and crack cocaine. At one stage as an

addict, Cole worked as a prostitute's tout in order to fund her drug habit.[10] Cole said

she began recreational drug use while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

[11] She was arrested in Toronto, Canada, for possession of heroin in 1975.[12] Cole

spiraled out of control – in this phase of her life there was an incident in which she

refused to leave a burning building, and another in which her young son Robert nearly

drowned in the family swimming pool while she was on a drug binge.[13] She entered rehab

in 1983. Her autobiography was released in conjunction with a made-for-TV movie, Livin'

for Love: The Natalie Cole Story, which aired December 10, 2000 on NBC and re-aired

October 26, 2011, on Centric TV.

Health problems[edit]

Cole announced in 2008 that she had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, which is a liver

disease that is spread through contact with infected blood. Cole attributed having the

disease to her past intravenous drug use. Cole explained in 2009 that hepatitis C "stayed

in my body for 25 years, and it could still happen to addicts who are fooling around with

drugs, especially needles."[14]

Four months after starting treatment for hepatitis C, Cole experienced kidney failure and

required dialysis three times a week for nine months. Following her appeal for a kidney on

the Larry King Show, she was contacted by the organ procurement agency One Legacy, in May

2009. The facilitated donation came from a family requesting that, if there were a match,

their donor's kidney be designated for Cole.[14]

Death and funeral[edit]

Cole canceled several events in December 2015 due to illness. It was reported on January

1, 2016, that she had died the day prior at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Her family stated that at the time of her death, Cole had "ongoing health issues".[15]

[16][17] According to Cole's publicist, Maureen O'Connor, the singer's death was the

result of congestive heart failure.[18] Prior to this final stage in the singer's life,

Cole's last musical performance was a short set of three songs in Manila.[19]

In official news on her cause of death, her family stated that Cole was diagnosed with

idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension after her kidney transplant in 2009.[20]

Although Cole was clean and sober at the time of her death, her past intravenous drug use

contributed to her demise.[21]

Cole's son, along with her sisters, offered the following comment. "Natalie fought a

fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived... with dignity, strength and honor. Our

beloved mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain unforgettable in our hearts

forever."[22]

Cole's funeral was held on January 11, 2016, at the West Angeles Church of God in Christ

in Los Angeles. David Foster, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie, Chaka Khan,

Eddie Levert, Mary Wilson, Gladys Knight, Ledisi, Jesse Jackson, Angela Bassett, Denise

Nicholas, Marla Gibbs, Jackée Harry and Freda Payne were among the mourners at the

funeral. After the funeral, she was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale,

California.[23][24]

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Undated letter generously translated by Hans; written to the author's sister-in-law. The author hopes she can recognise him and tells her he is well.

Looking every bit like Sturmtruppen, these salty looking characters are posing with a MG08 mounted on a standard "trench mount" (Grabenlafette).

The trench mount introduced the concept of machine-gun mobility to the German troops, and thus prompted a veritable profusion of locally-fabricated adaptations and copies which sprang up virtually overnight, only to disappear just as fast after the advent of the MG08/15.

VENICE BIENNALE @ BIENNALIST . MOBILE EMERGENCY by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel : Artist

The Mobile Emergency Room is a project by Thierry Geoffroy/Colonel, a participating artist of the Maldives Pavilion working with art formats developed around the notion of emergency.

www.emergencyrooms.org

Emergency Room is a format providing space for artists to engage in urgent debates, address societal dysfunctions and express emergencies in the now, today, before it is too late. Geoffroy’s approach allows immediate artistic intervention and displaces the contemporary to the status of delayed comment on yesterday’s world.

Taking as point of departure climate change and the Maldives, Geoffroy developed a scenario of disappearance and translated actual emergencies and hospitality needs into artistic interventions. In this context he activated his penetration format in order to transform “rigid exhibition spaces” into “elastic and generous exhibition spaces”.

An intervention facilitated by curator Christine Eyene, the Mobile Emergency Room was set up at the Zimbabwe Pavilion during the opening week of the biennale with the hospitality of commissioner Doreen Sibanda and curator Raphael Chikukwa. The first pieces presented in this room consisted in Geoffroy’s tent and an installation by Polish artist Christian Costa. Since then it has been animated online and has extended from being a space for artists expressing emergencies about climate change, to encompassing various emergency topics.

From 24 to 28 August, Geoffroy was in Venice collaborating with Danish artists Nadia Plesner, Mads Vind Ludvigsen, who created new work everyday, raising various emergencies and concerns, with a daily change of exhibition (“passage”) at 3.00 pm. For his last day in Venice, Geoffroy addressed the Syrian situation.

The work produced during this intervention is displayed until 30 September. The presentation is based on Geoffroy's concept of "Delay Museum" where art created for past emergencies is exhibited, while new work enters the Mobile Emergency Room.

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the Emergency Room Mobile at the Zimbabwe pavilion / Venice Biennale has now been completed with some work from the The Delay Museum ,Please visit the pavilion when you go the Venice Biennale this is part of the PENETRATIONS formats ( the Zimbabwe pavilion gave hopsitality for a period of several monthes ) the displayed art works in the Delay Museum are still "boiling " as they are from last week . ( Nadia Plesner / Mads Vind Ludvigsen , COLONEL ) ( this project is a convergence with BIENNALIST / Emergency Room ) more on Christine Eyene blog as she facilated and work within ....This penetration was in connection with my participation in the Maldives pavilion " CAN A NATION WELCOME ANOTHER NATION ?"CAN EMERGENCIES BE RANKED " .Thank you also for the work by David Marin , @Guillaume Dimanche and Christian Costa

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VENICE BIENNALE / VENEZIA BIENNIAL 2013 : BIENNALIST

www.emergencyrooms.org/biennalist.html

Biennalist is an Art Format by Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel debating with artistic tools on Biennales and other cultural managed events . Often those events promote them selves with thematics and press releases faking their aim . Biennalist take the thematics of the Biennales very seriously , and test their pertinance . Artists have questioned for decade the canvas , the pigment , the museum ... since 1989 we question the Biennales .Often Biennalist converge with Emergency Room providing a burning content that cannot wait ( today before it is too late )

please contact before using the images : Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel 1@colonel.dk

www.colonel.dk

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Countries( nations ) that participate at the Venice Biennale 55 th ( 2013 Biennale di Venezia ) in Italy ( at Giardini or Arsenale or ? ) , Encyclopedic Palace is curated by Massimiliano Gioni

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria,

Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech , Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Chile, China, Congo,

Slovak Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia,

Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore

Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zimbabwe

the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay

Eight countries will also participate for the first time in next year's biennale: the Bahamas, the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Republic of Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria and Paraguay. In 2011, 89 international pavilions, the most ever, were accessible in the Giardini and across the city.

please contact before using the images : Thierry Geoffroy / Colonel 1@colonel.dk

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lists of artists participating at the Venice Biennale

Hilma af Klint, Victor Alimpiev, Ellen Altfest, Paweł Althamer, Levi Fisher Ames, Yuri Ancarani, Carl Andre, Uri Aran, Yüksel Arslan, Ed Atkins, Marino Auriti, Enrico Baj, Mirosław Bałka, Phyllida Barlow, Morton Bartlett, Gianfranco Baruchello, Hans Bellmer, Neïl Beloufa, Graphic Works of Southeast Asia and Melanesia, Hugo A. Bernatzik Collection, Ștefan Bertalan, Rossella Biscotti, Arthur Bispo do Rosário, John Bock, Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Geta Brătescu, KP Brehmer, James Lee Byars, Roger Caillois, Varda Caivano, Vlassis Caniaris, James Castle, Alice Channer, George Condo, Aleister Crowley & Frieda Harris, Robert Crumb, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David, Tacita Dean, John De Andrea, Thierry De Cordier, Jos De Gruyter e Harald Thys, Walter De Maria, Simon Denny, Trisha Donnelly, Jimmie Durham, Harun Farocki, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Linda Fregni Nagler, Peter Fritz, Aurélien Froment, Phyllis Galembo, Norbert Ghisoland, Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi, Domenico Gnoli, Robert Gober, Tamar Guimarães and Kasper Akhøj, Guo Fengyi, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Wade Guyton, Haitian Vodou Flags, Duane Hanson, Sharon Hayes, Camille Henrot, Daniel Hesidence, Roger Hiorns, Channa Horwitz, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, René Iché, Hans Josephsoh, Kan Xuan, Bouchra Khalili, Ragnar Kjartansson, Eva Kotátková, Evgenij Kozlov, Emma Kunz, Maria Lassnig, Mark Leckey, Augustin Lesage, Lin Xue, Herbert List, José Antonio Suárez Londoño, Sarah Lucas, Helen Marten, Paul McCarthy, Steve McQueen, Prabhavathi Meppayil, Marisa Merz, Pierre Molinier, Matthew Monahan, Laurent Montaron, Melvin Moti, Matt Mullican, Ron Nagle, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Shinro Ohtake, J.D. ‘Okhai Ojeikere, Henrik Olesen, John Outterbridg, Paño Drawings, Marco Paolini, Diego Perrone, Walter Pichler, Otto Piene, Eliot Porter, Imran Qureshi, Carol Rama, Charles Ray, James Richards, Achilles G. Rizzoli, Pamela Rosenkranz, Dieter Roth, Viviane Sassen, Shinichi Sawada, Hans Schärer, Karl Schenker, Michael Schmidt, Jean-Frédéric Schnyder, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Tino Sehgal, Richard Serra, Shaker Gift Drawings, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons e Allan McCollum, Drossos P. Skyllas, Harry Smith, Xul Solar, Christiana Soulou, Eduard Spelterini, Rudolf Steiner, Hito Steyerl, Papa Ibra Tall, Dorothea Tanning, Anonymous Tantric Paintings, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Trockel, Andra Ursuta, Patrick Van Caeckenbergh, Stan VanDerBeek, Erik van Lieshout, Danh Vo, Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Günter Weseler, Jack Whitten, Cathy Wilkes, Christopher Williams, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Kohei YoshiyUKi, Sergey Zarva, Anna Zemánková, Jakub Julian Ziółkowski ,Artur Żmijewski.

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other pavilions at Venice Biennale

Andorra

Artists: Javier Balmaseda, Samantha Bosque, Fiona Morrison

Commissioner: Henry Périer

Deputy Commissioners: Francesc Rodríguez, Ermengol Puig, Ruth Casabella

Curators: Josep M. Ubach, Paolo De Grandis

Venue: Arsenale di Venezia, Nappa 90

Angola

Artist: Edson Chagas

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Curators: Beyond Entropy (Paula Nascimento, Stefano Rabolli Pansera), Jorge Gumbe, Feliciano dos Santos

Venue: Palazzo Cini, San Vio, Dorsoduro 864

Argentina

Artist: Nicola Costantino

Commissioner: Magdalena Faillace

Curator: Fernando Farina

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Armenia

Artist: Ararat Sarkissian

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Curator: Arman Grogoryan

Venue: Isola di San Lazzaro degli Armeni, everyday from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Australia

Artist: Simryn Gill

Commissioner: Simon Mordant

Deputy Commissioner: Penelope Seidler

Curator: Catherine de Zegher

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Austria

Artist: Mathias Poledna

Commissioner/Curator: Jasper Sharp

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Azerbaijan

Artists: Rashad Alakbarov, Sanan Aleskerov, Chingiz Babayev, Butunay Hagverdiyev, Fakhriyya Mammadova, Farid Rasulov

Commissioner: Heydar Aliyev Foundation

Curator: Hervé Mikaeloff

Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S. Stefano, San Marco 2949

Bahamas

Artist: Tavares Strachan

Commissioner: Nalini Bethel, Ministry of Tourism

Curators: Jean Crutchfield, Robert Hobbs

Deputy Curator: Stamatina Gregory

Venue: Arsenale, Tese Cinquecentesche

Bangladesh

Chhakka Artists’ Group: Mokhlesur Rahman, Mahbub Zamal, A. K. M. Zahidul Mustafa, Ashok Karmaker, Lala Rukh Selim, Uttam Kumar Karmaker. Dhali Al Mamoon, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Gavin Rain, Gianfranco Meggiato, Charupit School

Commissioner/Curator: Francesco Elisei.

Curator: Fabio Anselmi.

Venue: Officina delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 947

Bahrain

Artists: Mariam Haji, Waheeda Malullah, Camille Zakharia

Commissioner: Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Culture

Curator: Melissa Enders-Bhatiaa

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Belgium

Artist: Berlinde De Bruyckere

Commissioner: Joke Schauvliege, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture

Curator: J. M. Coetzee

Deputy Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Artist: Mladen Miljanovic

Commissioners: Sarita Vujković, Irfan Hošić

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco

Brazil

Artists: Hélio Fervenza, Odires Mlászho, Lygia Clark, Max Bill, Bruno Munari

Commissioner: Luis Terepins, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Curator: Luis Pérez-Oramas

Deputy Curator: André Severo

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Canada

Artist: Shary Boyle

Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada

Curator: Josée Drouin-Brisebois

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Central Asia

Artists: Vyacheslav Akhunov, Sergey Chutkov, Saodat Ismailova, Kamilla Kurmanbekova, Ikuru Kuwajima, Anton Rodin, Aza Shade, Erlan Tuyakov

Commissioner: HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation)

Deputy Commissioner: Dean Vanessa Ohlraun (Oslo National Academy of the Arts/The Academy of Fine Art)

Curators: Ayatgali Tuleubek, Tiago Bom

Scientific Committee: Susanne M. Winterling

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3199-3201

Chile

Artist: Alfredo Jaar

Commissioner: CNCA, National Council of Culture and the Arts

Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

China

Artists: He Yunchang, Hu Yaolin, Miao Xiaochun, Shu Yong, Tong Hongsheng, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Xiaotao

Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG)

Curator: Wang Chunchen

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Costa Rica

Artists: Priscilla Monge, Esteban Piedra, Rafael Ottón Solís, Cinthya Soto

Commissioner: Francesco Elisei

Curator: Francisco Córdoba, Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (Fiorella Resenterra)

Venue: Ca’ Bonvicini, Santa Croce

Croatia

Artist: Kata Mijatovic

Commissioner/Curator: Branko Franceschi.

Venue: Sala Tiziano, Opera don Orione Artigianelli, Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Gesuati 919

Cuba

Artists: Liudmila and Nelson, Maria Magdalena Campos & Neil Leonard, Sandra Ramos, Glenda León, Lázaro Saavedra, Tonel, Hermann Nitsch, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du, H.H.Lim, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Francesca Leone

Commissioner: Miria Vicini

Curators: Jorge Fernández Torres, Giacomo Zaza

Venue: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Palazzo Reale, Piazza San Marco 17

Cyprus

Artists: Lia Haraki, Maria Hassabi, Phanos Kyriacou, Constantinos Taliotis, Natalie Yiaxi, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister

Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou

Deputy Commissioners: Angela Skordi, Marika Ioannou

Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

Czech Republic & Slovak Republic

Artists: Petra Feriancova, Zbynek Baladran

Commissioner: Monika Palcova

Curator: Marek Pokorny

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Denmark

Artist: Jesper Just in collaboration with Project Projects

Commissioners: The Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts: Jette Gejl Kristensen (chairman), Lise Harlev, Jesper Elg, Mads Gamdrup, Anna Krogh

Curator: Lotte S. Lederballe Pedersen

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Egypt

Artists: Mohamed Banawy, Khaled Zaki

Commissioner: Ministry of Culture

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Estonia

Artist: Dénes Farkas

Commissioner: Maria Arusoo

Curator: Adam Budak

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3199, San Samuele

Finland

Artist: Antti Laitinen

Commissioner: Raija Koli

Curators: Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

France

Artist: Anri Sala

Commissioner: Institut français

Curator: Christine Macel

Venue: Pavilion of Germany at the Giardini

Georgia

Artists: Bouillon Group,Thea Djordjadze, Nikoloz Lutidze, Gela Patashuri with Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, Gio Sumbadze

Commissioner: Marine Mizandari, First Deputy Minister of Culture

Curator: Joanna Warsza

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Germany

Artists: Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh

Commissioner/Curator: Susanne Gaensheimer

Venue: Pavilion of France at Giardini

Great Britain

Artist: Jeremy Deller

Commissioner: Andrea Rose

Curator: Emma Gifford-Mead

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Greece

Artist: Stefanos Tsivopoulos

Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports

Curator: Syrago Tsiara

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Holy See

Artists: Lawrence Carroll, Josef Koudelka, Studio Azzurro

Curator: Antonio Paolucci

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Hungary

Artist: Zsolt Asztalos

Commissioner: Kunstahalle (Art Hall)

Curator: Gabriella Uhl

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Iceland

Artist: Katrín Sigurðardóttir

Commissioner: Dorotheé Kirch

Curators: Mary Ceruti , Ilaria Bonacossa

Venue: Lavanderia, Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Fondamenta del Soccorso, Dorsoduro 2596

Indonesia

Artists: Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Eko Nugroho, Entang Wiharso, Rahayu Supanggah, Sri Astari, Titarubi

Commissioner: Soedarmadji JH Damais

Deputy Commissioner: Achille Bonito Oliva

Assistant Commissioner: Mirah M. Sjarif

Curators: Carla Bianpoen, Rifky Effendy

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Iraq

Artists: Abdul Raheem Yassir, Akeel Khreef, Ali Samiaa, Bassim Al-Shaker, Cheeman Ismaeel, Furat al Jamil, Hareth Alhomaam, Jamal Penjweny, Kadhim Nwir, WAMI (Yaseen Wami, Hashim Taeeh)

Commissioner: Tamara Chalabi (Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture)

Deputy Commissioner: Vittorio Urbani

Curator: Jonathan Watkins.

Venue: Ca' Dandolo, San Tomà, Venezia

Ireland

Artist: Richard Mosse

Commissioner, Curator: Anna O’Sullivan

Venue: Fondaco Marcello, San Marco 3415

Israel

Artist: Gilad Ratman

Commissioners: Arad Turgeman, Michael Gov

Curator: Sergio Edelstein

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Italy

Artists: Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa

Commissioner: Maddalena Ragni

Curator: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi

Venue: Italian Pavilion, Tese delle Vergini at Arsenale

Ivory Coast

Artists: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Tamsir Dia, Jems Koko Bi, Franck Fanny

Commissioner: Paolo De Grandis

Curator: Yacouba Konaté

Venue: Spiazzi, Arsenale, Castello 3865

Japan

Artist: Koki Tanaka

Commissioner: The Japan Foundation

Curator: Mika Kuraya

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Kenya

Artists: Kivuthi Mbuno, Armando Tanzini, Chrispus Wangombe Wachira, Fan Bo, Luo Ling & Liu Ke, Lu Peng, Li Wei, He Weiming, Chen Wenling, Feng Zhengjie, César Meneghetti

Commissioner: Paola Poponi

Curators: Sandro Orlandi, Paola Poponi

Venue: Caserma Cornoldi, Castello 4142 and San Servolo island

Korea (Republic of)

Artist: Kimsooja

Commissioner/Curator: Seungduk Kim

Deputy Commissioner: Kyungyun Ho

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Kosovo

Artist: Petrit Halilaj

Commissioner: Erzen Shkololli

Curator: Kathrin Rhomberg

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Kuwait

Artists: Sami Mohammad, Tarek Al-Ghoussein

Commissioner: Mohammed Al-Asoussi (National Council of Culture, Arts and Letters)

Curator: Ala Younis

Venue: Palazzo Michiel, Sestriere Cannaregio, Strada Nuova

Latin America

Istituto Italo-Latino Americano

Artists:

Marcos Agudelo, Miguel Alvear & Patricio Andrade, Susana Arwas, François Bucher, Fredi Casco, Colectivo Quintapata (Pascal Meccariello, Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda, Belkis Ramírez), Humberto Díaz, Sonia Falcone, León & Cociña, Lucía Madriz, Jhafis Quintero, Martín Sastre, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Juliana Stein, Simón Vega, Luca Vitone, David Zink Yi.

Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann. In collaboration with: Cristián Silva-Avária, Anna Azevedo, Paola Barreto, Fred Benevides, Anna Bentes, Hermano Callou, Renata Catharino, Patrick Sonni Cavalier, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Luiz Garcia, André Herique, Bruna Mastrogiovanni, Cezar Migliorin, Felipe Ribeiro, Roberto Robalinho, Bruno Vianna, Beny Wagner, Christian Jankowski

Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal

Curator: Alfons Hug

Deputy Curator: Paz Guevara

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Latvia

Artists: Kaspars Podnieks, Krišs Salmanis

Commissioners: Zane Culkstena, Zane Onckule

Curators: Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Alise Tifentale

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Lebanon

Artist: Akram Zaatari

Commissioner: Association for the Promotion and Exhibition of the Arts in Lebanon (APEAL)

Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Lithuania

Artist: Gintaras Didžiapetris, Elena Narbutaite, Liudvikas Buklys, Kazys Varnelis, Vytaute Žilinskaite, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister

Commissioners: Jonas Žokaitis, Aurime Aleksandraviciute

Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas

Venue: Palasport Arsenale, Calle San Biagio 2132, Castello

Luxembourg

Artist: Catherine Lorent

Commissioner: Clément Minighetti

Curator: Anna Loporcaro

Venue: Ca’ del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052

Macedonia

Artist: Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva

Commissioner: Halide Paloshi

Curator: Ana Frangovska

Venue: Scuola dei Laneri, Santa Croce 113/A

Maldives

Participants: Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky), Thierry Geoffrey (aka Colonel), Gregory Niemeyer, Stefano Cagol, Hanna Husberg, Laura McLean & Kalliopi, Tsipni-Kolaza, Khaled Ramadan, Moomin Fouad, Mohamed Ali, Sama Alshaibi, Patrizio Travagli, Achilleas Kentonis & Maria Papacaharalambous, Wooloo, Khaled Hafez in collaboration with Wael Darwesh, Ursula Biemann, Heidrun Holzfeind & Christoph Draeger, Klaus Schafler

Commissioner: Ministry of Tourism, Arts & Culture

Curators: CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets (Alfredo Cramerotti, Aida Eltorie, Khaled

Ramadan)

Deputy Curators: Maren Richter, Camilla Boemio

Venue: Gervasuti Foundation, Via Garibaldi

Mexico

Artist: Ariel Guzik

Commissioner: Gastón Ramírez Feltrín

Curator: Itala Schmelz

Venue: Ex Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Campo San Lorenzo

Montenegro

Artist: Irena Lagator Pejovic

Commissioner/Curator: Nataša Nikcevic

Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero Venezia – Ground Floor

The Netherlands

Artist: Mark Manders

Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund

Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

New Zealand

Artist: Bill Culbert

Commissioner: Jenny Harper

Deputy Commissioner: Heather Galbraith

Curator: Justin Paton

Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà, Castello

Nordic Pavilion (Finland, Norway)

Finland:

Artist: Terike Haapoja

Commissioner: Raija Koli

Curators: Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Norway:

Artists: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg

Commissioner: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA)

Curators: Marta Kuzma, Pablo Lafuente, Angela Vettese

Venue: Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa

Paraguay

Artists: Pedro Barrail, Felix Toranzos, Diana Rossi, Daniel Milessi

Commissioner: Elisa Victoria Aquino Laterza

Deputy Commissioner: Nori Vaccari Starck

Curator: Osvaldo González Real

Venue: Palazzo Carminati, Santa Croce 1882

Poland

Artist: Konrad Smolenski

Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska

Curators: Agnieszka Pindera, Daniel Muzyczuk

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Portugal

Artist: Joana Vasconcelos

Commissioner: Direção-Geral das Artes/Secretário de Estado da Cultura, Governo de Portugal

Curator: Miguel Amado

Venue: Riva dei Partigiani

Romania

Artists: Maria Alexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmus

Commissioner: Monica Morariu

Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian

Curator: Raluca Voinea

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Artists: Anca Mihulet, Apparatus 22 (Dragos Olea, Maria Farcas,Erika Olea), Irina Botea, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matei, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan

Commissioner: Monica Morariu

Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian

Curator: Anca Mihulet

Venue: Nuova Galleria dell'Istituto Romeno di Venezia, Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannaregio 2214

Russia

Artist: Vadim Zakharov

Commissioner: Stella Kasaeva

Curator: Udo Kittelmann

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Serbia

Artists: Vladimir Peric, Miloš Tomic

Commissioner: Maja Ciric

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Singapore

Cancelled the participation

Slovenia

Artist: Jasmina Cibic

Commissioner: Blaž Peršin

Curator: Tevž Logar

Venue: Galleria A+A, San Marco 3073

South Africa

Contemporary South African Art and the Archive

Commissioner: Saul Molobi

Curator: Brenton Maart

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Spain

Artist: Lara Almarcegui

Commissioner/Curator: Octavio Zaya

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Switzerland

Artist: Valentin Carron

Commissioners: Pro Helvetia - Sandi Paucic and Marianne Burki

Deputy Commissioner: Pro Helvetia - Rachele Giudici Legittimo

Curator: Giovanni Carmine

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Syrian Arab Republic

Artists: Giorgio De Chirico, Miro George, Makhowl Moffak, Al Samman Nabil, Echtai Shaffik, Giulio Durini, Dario Arcidiacono, Massimiliano Alioto, Felipe Cardena, Roberto Paolini, Concetto Pozzati, Sergio Lombardo, Camilla Ancilotto, Lucio Micheletti, Lidia Bachis, Cracking Art Group, Hannu Palosuo

Commissioner: Christian Maretti

Curator: Duccio Trombadori

Venue: Isola di San Servolo

Taiwan

Artists: Bernd Behr, Chia-Wei Hsu, Kateřina Šedá + BATEŽO MIKILU

Curator: Esther Lu

Organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum

Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni, Castello 4209, San Marco

Thailand

Artists: Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch, Arin Rungjang

Commissioner: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture

Curators: Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Worathep Akkabootara

Venue: Santa Croce 556

Turkey

Artist: Ali Kazma

Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Curator: Emre Baykal

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

Tuvalu

Artist: Vincent J.F.Huang

Commissioners: Apisai Ielemia, Minister of Foreign Affair, Trade, Tourism, Environment & Labour; Tapugao Falefou, Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, Environment & Labour

Curators: An-Yi Pan, Szu Hsien Li, Shu Ping Shih

Venue: Forte Marghera, via Forte Marghera, 30

Ukraine

Artists: Ridnyi Mykola, Zinkovskyi Hamlet, Kadyrova Zhanna

Commissioner: Victor Sydorenko

Curators: Soloviov Oleksandr, Burlaka Victoria

Venue: Palazzo Loredan, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Campo Santo Stefano

United Arab Emirates

Artist: Mohammed Kazem

Commissioner: Dr. Lamees Hamdan

Curator: Reem Fadda

Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale, Sale d'Armi

Uruguay

Artist: Wifredo Díaz Valdéz

Commissioner: Ricardo Pascale

Curators: Carlos Capelán, Verónica Cordeiro

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

USA

Artist: Sarah Sze

Commissioners/Curators: Carey Lovelace, Holly Block

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Venezuela

Colectivo de Artistas Urbanos Venezolanos

Commissioner: Edgar Ernesto González

Curator: Juan Calzadilla

Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Zimbabwe

Artists: Portia Zvavahera, Michele Mathison, Rashid Jogee, Voti Thebe, Virginia Chihota

Commissioner: Doreen Sibanda

Curator: Raphael Chikukwa

Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà, Castello 3701

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