Venice Art Factory
VeniceArtFactory is a Venice-based organisation specialising in the development of curatorial projects and formats. Between 2015 and 2020 it has produced more than 70 exhibitions during the Venice Biennale, including national pavilions (Angola, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Grenada, Mauritius, Pakistan, San Marino, Ukraine), official collateral events and off-Biennale shows. In recent years, VeniceArtFactory collaborated with organisations, galleries, museums and sponsors from all over the world, including: the Art Gallery of South Australia, UAL – University of Arts London, Parasol unit foundation, Arts Council England, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Art Bahrain Foundation, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Karuizawa New Art Museum, Beijing 2102 Art Center, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Millennium Foundation, Fondation Dubuffet, Fondation Valmont, University of Lisbon, Chenshia Museum, UNHCR, the High Commissioner for the Refugees of the United Nations, Whitestone Gallery, Galleria Maggiore, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Fondazione Querini Stampalia and Musei Civici di Venezia. VeniceArtFactory is also the founding platform of the Venice Design Biennial from its start in 2016.
ICF partnered with Venice Art Factory and Contemporis ets to present out Diaspora Pavilion 2: Venice performance and installation commission Zot Konn – Yeman by Shiraz Bayjoo in collaboration with Siyabonga Mthembu and Nicolas Faubert (2022).
About Diaspora Pavilion 2