Ilana Russell

Venetian Blind was a public art project featuring 23 Australian and New Zealand artists. This hybrid exhibition/public art event saw six projects commissioned (one per month) over the duration of the European Cultural Centre’s Personal Structures exhibition from 8 May until 24 November 2019, in conjunction with the 58th Venice Biennale.

Venetian Blind prefaced the importance of site-based research, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and a compressed temporal register as productive constraints in the making of public art works and their documentation and location in the Palazzo Bembo.

Each project was produced by a team of artists who worked collaboratively in situ in Venice, responding to one of six provocations. These provocations engaged with a unique aspect of Venetian history and focused on specific locations across the city, inviting teams to make a site-based or performative intervention into the city of Venice.

Artists: Cassandra Atherton, Anindita Banerjee, Jane Bartier, Rea Dennis, Sandy Gibbs, Simon Grennan, Tasha Haines, Jondi Keane, Meghan Kelly, Kari Lyon, Lyn McCredden, Shaun McLeod, Olivia Millard, Misha Myers, Sarah Neville, Antonia Pont, Martin Potter, Patrick Pound, Lienors Torre, Dario Vacirca, Paul Venzo, Anne Vickery, Anne Wilson, Rosemary Woodcock

Curated by: David Cross and Cameron Bishop

Produced by: Ilana Russell

Supported by: Deakin University and the European Cultural Centre in conjunction with the 58th Venice Biennale.