Dates:
10 May 2017 - 26 Nov 2017
People:
Larry Achiampong, Barby Asante, Sokari Douglas Camp, Kimathi Donkor, Michael Forbes, Ellen Gallagher, Joy Gregory, Isaac Julien, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Paul Maheke, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Khadija Saye, Libita Sibungu, Erika Tan, Barbara Walker, Abbas Zahedi, susan pui san lok.
Location:
Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice
Project:
Diaspora Pavilion was a major exhibition curated by David Bailey and Jessica Taylor, which was conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of the Venice Biennale. It took its form from the coming-together of nineteen artists whose practices in many ways expand, complicate and even destabilise diaspora as a term, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.
The pavilion formed part of the 22-month professional development programme designed to deliver support and opportunities for career advancement and international showcasing for 12 emering, UK-based artists from diasporic backgrounds who were selected from a nation-wide open call. As part of the programme, the artists also engaged in mentoring from ten selected artists who had become leaders in their fields . During the length of the project, the emerging practitioners took part in group forum, field-trips, one-on-one mentoring sessions and group masterclasses. The 12 emerging artists and 8 of the mentors showcased their work in the Diaspora Pavilion exhibition in Venice in 2017 during the 57th Venice Biennale, a re-configuration of which was installed at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2018 with a combination of new works and those shown in Venice by seven of the artists. The exhibition in Venice featured 33 new and existing artworks, many of which responded directly to the architecture of the Palazzo it was installed within. During the exhibition’s 7-month run, we welcomed over 50,000 visitors from around the world.
The discourse of the exhibition was expanded upon through a performance by Barby Asante during the opening event on the 10th of May 2017, titled ‘As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence’, and a robust closing programme.
People:
Larry Achiampong, Barby Asante, Sokari Douglas Camp, Kimathi Donkor, Michael Forbes, Ellen Gallagher, Joy Gregory, Isaac Julien, Dave Lewis, Hew Locke, Paul Maheke, Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Khadija Saye, Libita Sibungu, Erika Tan, Barbara Walker, Abbas Zahedi, susan pui san lok.
Project:
Diaspora Pavilion was a major exhibition curated by David Bailey and Jessica Taylor, which was conceived as a challenge to the prevalence of national pavilions within the structure of the Venice Biennale. It took its form from the coming-together of nineteen artists whose practices in many ways expand, complicate and even destabilise diaspora as a term, whilst highlighting the continued relevance that diaspora as a lived reality holds today.
The pavilion formed part of the 22-month professional development programme designed to deliver support and opportunities for career advancement and international showcasing for 12 emering, UK-based artists from diasporic backgrounds who were selected from a nation-wide open call. As part of the programme, the artists also engaged in mentoring from ten selected artists who had become leaders in their fields . During the length of the project, the emerging practitioners took part in group forum, field-trips, one-on-one mentoring sessions and group masterclasses. The 12 emerging artists and 8 of the mentors showcased their work in the Diaspora Pavilion exhibition in Venice in 2017 during the 57th Venice Biennale, a re-configuration of which was installed at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery in 2018 with a combination of new works and those shown in Venice by seven of the artists. The exhibition in Venice featured 33 new and existing artworks, many of which responded directly to the architecture of the Palazzo it was installed within. During the exhibition’s 7-month run, we welcomed over 50,000 visitors from around the world.
The discourse of the exhibition was expanded upon through a performance by Barby Asante during the opening event on the 10th of May 2017, titled ‘As Always a Painful Declaration of Independence’, and a robust closing programme.
Dates:
10 May 2017 - 26 Nov 2017
Location:
Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice
