Archive
2024
From Caspian To Pink Planet: I Am Here.
Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 20 April - 24 November, 2024
Preview: 18 - 19 April, 2024
Venue: Arsenale, Campo della Tana, Castello 2126A-30122, Venezia
Participants: Vusala Agharaziyeva, Rashad Alakbarov and Irina Eldarova
Curator: Amina Melikova, Luca Beatrice
The three artists represented in the Azerbaijan Pavilion this year are from different generations and apply different means of expression and technique. However, their works selected for display at the Biennale touch, in one way or another, upon situations intertwining reality with a fantasy in which an individual must overcome alienation and achieve a sense of belonging within the observed/imagined space.
2022
Born to Love. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 23 April – 27 November, 2022
Preview: 21 - 22 April, 2022
Venue: Piazza San Marco, Procuratie Vecchie, 139-153, Venice, Italy
Participants: Agdes Baghirzade, Fidan Akhundova, Fidan Kim,
Ramina Saadatkhan, Sabina Khankishiyeva, Zhuk
Curator: Emin Mammadov
For the Biennale Arte 2022, the Azerbaijan Pavilion is proud to present Born to Love, which marks Azerbaijan’s fifth participation in the International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, realized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
2019
Virtual Reality. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 11 May – 24 November 2019
Preview: 9 - 10 May 2019
Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S.Stefano, San Marco 2949, Venice, Italy
Participants: Zeigam Azizov, Orkhan Mammadov, Zarnishan Yusif, Kanan Aliyev, Ulviyya Aliyeva
Curators: Gianni Mercurio, Emin Mammadov
The year 2019 for the 58th Biennale of contemporary art, the Azerbaijan Pavilion is proud to present Virtual Reality, an exhibition of works by contemporary artists that draws on the phenomenon of fake news now seen as one of the greatest threats to democracy, free debate, and progress. It examines the ideas and dangers of living in a post-truth era.
2017
Under the Sun. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 13 May – 26 November 2017
Preview: 10 - 12 May 2019
Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S.Stefano, San Marco 2949, Venice, Italy
Participants: HYPNOTICA Visual Performance Group, Elvin Nabizade
Curators: Martin Roth, Emin Mammadov
The art of living together, has symbolic significance. Ensuring peace and stability in a modern era with complex geopolitical processes is one of humanity’s most important issues. Today we witness negative trends taking place around the world.
2015
Beyond the Line. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 9 May – 22 November 2015
Preview: 7-8 May 2015
Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S.Stefano, San Marco 2949, Venice, Italy
Participants: Ashraf Murad, Javad Mirjavadov, Tofik Javadov, Rasim Babayev, Fazil Najafov, Huseyn Hagverdi, Shamil Najafzada
Curators: Simon de Pury, Emin Mammadov
At the end of the 1950s, innovative Azerbaijani art that contradicted Soviet art ideology developed on the periphery of official art. In the 1960s, artists who deviated from the Communist Party line were no longer arrested. They weren’t banished to Siberia and shot as they were in the terrible 1930s. Instead, they were punished differently.
2015
Vita Vitale. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 9 May – 22 November 2015
Preview: 7-8 May 2015
Venue: Ca’ Garzoni, Calle del Traghetto Garzoni, San Marco 3416, 30124, Venice, Italy
Participants: Edward Burtynsky, Mircea Cantor, Loris Cecchini, Gordon Cheung, Khalil Chishtee, Tony Cragg, Laura Ford, Noémie Goudal, Siobhán Hapaska, Paul Huxley, IDEA Laboratory and Leyla Aliyeva, Chris Jordan with Rebecca Clark and Helena S.Eitel, Tania Kovats, Aida Mahmudova, Sayyora Muin, Jacco Olivier, Julian Opie, Julian Perry, Mike Perry, Bas Princen, Stephanie Quayle, Ugo Rondinone, Graham Stevens, Diana Thater, Andy Warhol, Bill Woodrow, Erwin Wurm, Rose Wylie.
Curators: Artwise, Susie Allen, Laura Culpan, Dea Vanagan
Scientific curator: Professor Rachel Armstrong
Vita Vitale unites an international group of contemporary artists galvanised by this threat. From the grandly-proportioned rooms of a 13th century palazzo overlooking Venice’s Grand Canal – itself the bearer of the human footprint’s heavy weight – their multimedia works and installations explore the consequences of plastic pollutants, consumerism, climate change, dwindling resources, deteriorating land and seascapes, rising sea levels, and endangered species.
2013
Ornamentation. Pavilion of Azerbaijan
Dates: 1 June – 24 November 2013
Preview: 29-31 May, 2013
Venue: Palazzo Lezze, Campo S. Stefano, San Marco 2949, Venice
Participants: Butunay Hagverdiyev, CHINGIZ, Fakhriyya Mammadova, Farid Rasulov, Rashad Alakbarov, Sanan Aleskerov
Curator: Hervé Mikaeloff
From Baku to Venice: six contemporary artists from the land of fire. At the crossroads of Orient and Occident, Azerbaijan is surrounded by many countries and different cultures.