Ugandan Pavilion, Uganda at Venice Biennale of Art - Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, San Marco 2597 - City of Venice
Exhibition in progress from April 23rd to November 27th 2022
The 59th Biennale Arte will open to the public on 23 April. But on the 20th, 21st and 22nd there will be the various openings and collateral events that always suddenly animate the Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place on the day of the opening to the public.
The title of the 59th edition of the Biennale d'Arte is Il Latte dei Sogni that means The Milk of Dreams.
The invited artists are 213 from 58 countries. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 the first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 the works and objects on display, 80 new productions.
In all, 80 nations will participate in the Venice Biennale in the pavilions at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice.
Go to the page of the 59th Venice Art Biennale
Curator of the 59th Venice Art Biennale
The 2022 edition is curated by Cecilia Alemani.
Ugandan Pavilion at 59th Biennale Arte of Venice
The title of the exhibition at the Ugandan Pavilion is Radiance, They Dream in Time.
Artists: Acaye Kerunen, Collin Sekajugo..
Curators: Shaheen Merali.
Seat: Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, San Marco 2597 - Venice
Press Release Albanian Pavilion
The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social
Development announces the Uganda National Pavilion in the forthcoming 59th International Art
Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022. The Commissioner of the Uganda National Pavilion
is Mme Juliana Naumo. This opportunity was made possible through a partnership between
Stjarna.art and the Uganda National Cultural Centre (UNCC). The Tanzanian-born, British
curator, Mr. Shaheen Merali, will present the works of the Kampala-based artists Ms. Acaye
Kerunen and Mr. Collin Sekajugo in Uganda�s first appearance as a national pavilion at the
International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Says curator Shaheen Merali: �We are looking forward to presenting the works of Ms.
Kerunen and Mr. Sekajugo, whose dual approaches to art making, while diverse in their
respective aesthetic approach, finds a common ground in their respective imaginations on
materiality and form. �Radiance - They Dream in Time� refers to the essential knowledge and
lived experiences of Kerunen and Sekajugo in speaking to the many different territories of
Uganda, as well as to urban trade and living conditions in its urban centres. Both artists have
been actively working with formal and informal archives of Uganda�s dynamic visual culture.�
Acaye Kerunen�s process as a socially engaged artist foregrounds the work of local and
regional Ugandan craftswomen, celebrating them as integral collaborators and elevating the
artistic practices of local artisans who are the gatekeepers of their local wetlands, drawing
upon a sacred and unspoken knowledge of ecological stewardship. By deconstructing
utilitarian materials and artisan crafts, Kerunen repositions the work in order to tell new stories
and posit new meaning. The act of re-installing these deconstructed materials is a response to
the agency of women�s work in Africa and an acknowledgment of the role that this artistic labor
plays in the climate ecosystem.
Collin Sekajugo approaches his work from a distinct, aesthetic departure point that resides in
his repeated return to pop culture and the omnipresent influence exuded by the global
mainstream, conversing and critiquing its many biases across visual, oral and digital cultures.
Since 2012, Sekajugo has worked with the manipulation of the common stock image to reveal
its inherent biases of entitlement and privilege largely modelled on the Western self. Sekajugo�s
artistic practice highlights a contemporaneous anthropological reversal of this mainstream
culture through the lens of a decidedly African sense for irreverence and play on the ad-hoc.
Conceptually, the works of Sekajugo become pure theatre, a hacking of identity that exposes
some truths behind these stock images that quietly continue to colonise the entire globe by the
weight of their own popularity.
Useful information for the visit
Hours:
Gardens from 10.00 to 19.00. Arsenale from 10.00 to 19.00 (from 10.00 to 20.00 on Friday and Saturday until September 30th). Closed on Mondays (except May 13, September 2, November 18).
Tickets: please visit the official website.
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