Venice Biennale
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From Malabon to Venezia: Ronald Ventura mounts collateral show at 61st Venice Art Biennale
Four in the morning in Malabon in the Nineties, sopas at Connie’s, and a father who recognises his own town inside a drawing of Venice.
Malabon artist sets sail for Venice
Ronald Ventura transforms boat-body sculptures and lunar motifs into a meditation on water, survival, and the fragile ties between two cities.
Heart & soil
A thousand hand-made tiles of soil from Calatagan, Baybay and Tampakan, built to erode: the Philippine Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale.
Philippine Pavilion’s ‘Structures of Mutual Support’: From the Biennale to Bulacan
From an old armory in Venice to a barangay in Angat, the award-winning community library goes home to the people who helped build it.
Mountain song: PHL Pavilion brings the aura of Banahaw to the Biennale
In the Philippine Pavilion, visitors walk among fabric, fake stones and sound, following the light. Mark Salvatus brings Banahaw to Venice.
A raising of curtains: Senator Loren Legarda & the story of the PHL Pavilion in Venice
Over lunch in Venice, Senator Loren Legarda recounts how she willed the Philippines back to the Biennale after a 51-year absence.
PHL Pavilion holds roundtable discussion: A journey through the arteries of cities & ideas
Manila was once called the Venice of the East. A roundtable on estuaries and esteros closes the Philippine Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale.
Beyond the veil: Carlos Quijon Jr. & Mark Salvatus to represent PH at the Venice Biennale
Curator Carlos Quijon Jr. and artist Mark Salvatus on taking the Philippines to Venice, and the curator’s shift from shaman to jack of all trades.
People, events, dead centaurs, places
A family of dead centaurs in the Danish Pavilion, a German floor torn up to its Nazi-era joints: pavilion-hopping at the 59th Venice Biennale.
An invisible thread that binds us all
The Pavilion’s closing act reaches the Pinoys of Venice: the waiters, the healthcare workers, the household helpers, all one existential tapestry.
Nick Lizaso: 10,000 stories and one heart for the masses
After a life on stage and screen, the NCCA chairman calls himself simply an audience member now, watching people watch performances.
Heavy liquid: Milk of Dreams at the Venice Biennale
Surrealism, an emptied Russian Pavilion and a fountain smuggled out of Kyiv in a white Audi: the 59th Biennale, where the going gets weirder.
Backstage at the Biennale
Talking art with the curator and artists of the Philippine Pavilion over liters of Birra Moretti in the beautiful sinking city.
Philippines wins historic first award at Venice Architecture Biennale
Curators Khadka and Furunes take a Special Mention for “Structures of Mutual Support,” the Philippines’ first-ever Venice Biennale award.
‘David Medalla has left us to enter the dream’
Trying to encapsulate David Medalla in one article is like reducing eternity to an hour. His partner and friends attempt it anyway.
A flood of words, water & wonder at the closing ceremony of the Venice Art Biennale
As the Biennale closes, Mark Justiniani’s mirrored “Island Weather” seems to ripple out of the Philippine Pavilion into the flooding lagoon city.
Island of souls
Mark Justiniani and curator Tessa Maria Guazon on Island Weather, the glass-and-steel archipelago built for the 58th Venice Art Biennale.