Navid Nuur, Iran: Tentacle thought Nr. 10, 2004-2010. Neon fixture, wires and Tl neons
(Photo by Gert Jan van Rooij/Courtesy the artist, Plan B, Cluj/Berlin and Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam)
Jean-Luc Mylayne, France: N°c 334, 2005
(Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York-Brussels)
Song Dong, China: Intelligence of the Poor: Living with the Tree, Installation, 2005
(Courtesy Pace Beijing)
Karl Holmqvis, Swedent: Untitled (Yantra), 2010
(Courtesy the artist)
Haroon Mirza, Great Britain: Backfade 5, 2011, mixed media
(Courtesy the artist and Lisson Gallery)
Omer Fast, Israel: The Tunnel, 2010, film still by Yon Thomas
(Courtesy the artist)
Elad Lassry, Israel: Giraffe, 2011
(Courtesy the artist)
Christian Marclay, USA: The Clock, 2010, Edition of 6 Single-channel video. Duration: 24 hours
(Courtesy White Cube, London and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York)
The 54th Venice Biennale sheds light on what's going on in art.
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This gallery shows some of the works selected for the 2011 Biennnale, whose director is the Swiss Bice Curiger.
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