Your guide to all the shows, performances, and pop-ups at the Venice Biennale.
. Outside that main stage, which twists its way through the main buildings of the Arsenale and the Giardini, there are the national pavilions, where artists are invited to represent their countries in a bid for the Golden Lion Prize. Usually a time for name-brand, spectacle artists to go buck wild, this year’s iteration, with its emphasis on previously untold stories and subtler practices, has a somewhat more sober feeling that aligns with the global mood.
The Korean Pavilion eschewed its typical group presentation in favor of something a little more animated. They’ve handed over the keys to Yunchul Kim, an artist whose kinetic, cyber-punk-looking sculptures transform the space into a mechanical beast composed of parts old and new. Pumping through the veins of Kim’s sculptures is water from the Venetian lagoon.
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