Exhibition
Research Pavilion - Utopia of Access
11 May 2017 – 15 Oct 2017
Sala del Camino
Address
- Campo S. Cosmo, Giudecca
- Venice
Veneto - 30133
- Italy
On May 10th, 2017, Uniarts Helsinki opened a Research Pavilion in the context of the 57th Venice Biennale.
About
During a span of five months, the Pavilion will host three contemporary art exhibitions and over forty multidisciplinary events. Under the theme Utopia of Access, the Pavilion calls for a variety of interpretations on urgent topics of debate using experimental methods. Over a hundred artist-researchers from European art universities will introduce their own contribution to the Pavilion in the field of contemporary art, music, performing arts, and curating.
Vaporetto stop Palanca, Giudecca
“The purpose of the Research Pavilion is to increase the dialogue between contemporary art and research and to bring about new kinds of multidisciplinary exhibition practices. During the summer of 2017, the Pavilion will present a remarkably skilled and diverse community of European experts in contemporary art, which will bring an outstanding addition to the programme of the Venice Biennale”, says Professor Anita Seppä, the Research Pavilion’s commissioner.
The Research Pavilion is a follow-up to the pilot project that took place in Venice in 2015, and thanks to the enthusiastic reactions from the international art and research field, the university was encouraged to develop the concept further. Uniarts Helsinki has invited Konstex and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (NARP) as its main partners for the Research Pavilion. The networks represent a large number of Norwegian and Swedish art institutions of higher education. In addition, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Zurich University of the Arts will also produce one exhibition each for the Research Pavilion.
The programme of the Research Pavilion consists of three 6-week contemporary art exhibitions and 46 multidisciplinary art events activities called Camino Events.
