Since 1975, ICI has built an unparalleled network of collaborators – curators, artists, and art spaces of all sizes – to support independent practice locally, and encourage the sharing of independent thought across the globe. As we celebrate our 40th anniversary, we acknowledge all those who form ICI’s international network, including the 41 ICI collaborators involved in the 2015 Venice Biennale. The Venice Biennale offers a unique perspective on contemporary art from around the globe. We are thrilled to see so many who share ties with ICI involved in the exhibition and national pavilions – reflecting on ICI as a meaningful force for cultural exchange internationally.
CURATORS Okwui Enwezor, Director of the Visual Arts Sector, Venice Biennale; curator, All the World’s Futures
Recipient, 2007 Agnes Gund Curatorial Award
Panelist on ICI’s The Now Museum; featured in ICI’s forthcoming publication, Talking Contemporary Curating, by Terry Smith Defne Ayas, curator, Respiro, Turkey Pavilion
Curator, Project 35 Volume 2 Ute Meta Bauer, curator, Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word, USA Pavilion
Panelist on ICI’s The Now Museum; Speaker, The Critical Edge of Curating Raphael Chikukwa, curator, Pixels of Ubuntu/Unhu, Republic of Zimbabwe Pavilion
Faculty, Curatorial Intensive in Addis Ababa (2014) María De Corral, curator, I Will Be Your Mirror / poems and problems, Portugal Pavilion
Recipient, 1992 Leo Award Özge Ersoy, deputy curator, Respiro, Turkey Pavilion
Alumn, Curatorial Intensive in Beijing (2012); alumn, Curatorial Intensive in Istanbul (2013); curator, Project 35 Volume 2 Patrick Flores, curator, Tie a String Around the World, Philippines Pavilion
Faculty, Curatorial Intensive in Tokyo (2013) Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, curator, Sea State, Singapore Pavilion
Alumn, Curatorial Intensive in Tokyo (2013)
ARTISTS Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
do it; Performance Now, and Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) Sammy Baloji
Project 35 Patrick Bernier and Olive Martin, “Personne et les Autres”, Belgian Pavilion
Free Play Christian Boltanski
do it, and Phantasmagoria: Specters of Absence Marcel Broodthaers
Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment Keith Calhoun & Chandra McCormick
Faculty, Curatorial Intensive in New Orleans (2015) Cao Fei
do it, and The Storyteller Yane Calovski, We are all in this alone with Hristina Ivanoska, Pavilion of the Republic of Macdeonia
Project 35 Volume 2 Creative Time
Co-organizers, Living As Form (The Nomadic Version) Elena Damiani
Project 35 Volume 2 Jeremy Deller
The Storyteller Coco Fusco
Performing Franklin Furnace Charles Gaines
State of Mind Theaster Gates
do it Shilpa Gupta, The Great Game, Iran Pavilion
do it Andreas Gursky
100 Artists See God Hans Haacke
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting, and featured speaker in Looking Back: 1993 with Hans Haacke and Irving Sandler Carsten Höller
do it, and Everything Can Be Different Nancy Holt
Mapped Art, and VIDEOART U.S.A. Joan Jonas, Joan Jonas: They Come to Us Without a Word, USA Pavilion
VIDEOART U.S.A., and do it Glenn Ligon
FAX; The Paper Sculpture Show, and Transformers Sarah Lucas, Great Britain Pavilion
do it Ivana Müller
Project 35 Volume 2 Bruce Nauman
do it; State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970; Slightly Unbalanced; 100 Artists See God; Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment; Critiques of Pure Abstraction; Artists’ Books U.S.A., and VIDEOART U.S.A. Christodoulos Panayiotou, Two Days After Forever, Cyprus Pavilion
do it Philippe Parreno
do it Adrian Piper
do it, and Transformers Raqs Media Collective
do it; and Experimental Geography; faculty, Curatorial Intensive in Marrakech (2015) The Propeller Group
Project 35 Hassan Sharif, 1980–Today: Exhibitions in the United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates Pavilion
do it Rirkrit Tiravanija
do it

May 7, 2015- - May 7, 2015 @ Venice, Italy