Liechtenstein’s appearance at the 58th Venice Biennale
May 11, 2019
We cordially invite you to Liechtenstein’s appearance at the 58th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Ca’ Zenobio degli Armeni. The well-established Liechtenstein Brunch will be followed by a high-level Symposium with contributions from international experts:
Symposium
Art in Dataspace
Inside the Data Room. A Digitology of the Art Space
Digitalization is increasingly encroaching on reality. And it is also having an impact on the art space. The old game of object and space, artwork and viewer, presence and absence in the exhibition space—and even seeing itself—must face up to new challenges. Machines and algorithms are beginning to take control of images and objects and, to an increasing extent, of their form. We are at an epochal turning point, and the debate between the defenders of the analog and the apologists of the digital is being waged with growing ferocity, particularly in the art world.
So what does this mean for the work of artists and curators? How is it influencing the exhibition space, the form taken by what is performed in it and how it is perceived? And how is it influencing the relationship of its visitors to both? How can we counter the technological regimes of the digital with a practice that is productive? What new understanding of the museum as a place of active reflection and participation do we need in order to create conditions that enable an enlightened dialogue between the world of knowledge of art and society’s hope of gaining knowledge through art? How can we shape this new agora?
Prominent experts from the world of art and theory will discuss these and other pressing questions in a series of dialogues at Palazzo Ca’ Zenobio in Venice. The afternoon will be accompanied by interventions and questions from the artists of visarte.liechtenstein.
Saturday, May 11, 2019
Liechtenstein Brunch
11am–12:30pm
Symposium
12:30–5pm
Palazzo Ca’ Zenobio degli Armeni
Sestiere Dorsoduro 2596
30123 Venice, Italy
Vaporetto Stop: Ca Rezzonico / San Basilio
Please RSVP, limited seats available
info [at] kunstmuseum.li
Commissioned by Government of the Principality of Liechtenstein
Project Management Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Curated by Georg Schöllhammer
In collaboration with visarte.liechtenstein
Supported by Kulturstiftung Liechtenstein
Special thanks to Armenian Mekhitarist Congregation
Further information
www.kunstmuseum.li
