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Jack Goldstein, Canada: Untitled, 1985. Acrylic on canvas (©Gerhard Born/ Ringier Collection, Switzerland) -
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) -
Giulia Piscitelli, Italy: Molteni, 2010, bleach on cloth (Courtesy galleria Fonti, Napoli) -
Katharina Fritsch. Germany: 6. Stillleben (still life), 2011, Photo Composition for Venice Art Biennale 2011 (©VG BILD-KUNST, Bonn) -
Nicholas Hlobo, South Africa: Ngubani na lo?, 2009, installation view (Courtesy extraspazio gallery, Rome) -
Monica Bonvicini, Italy: Light Me Black, 2009, 147 fluorescent lights (def images) -
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.
This content was published on June 1, 2011
This gallery shows some of the works selected for the 2011 Biennnale, whose director is the Swiss Bice Curiger.
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