56th Venice Biennale

How Hans Haacke took on the Rockefellers with his MoMA Poll

Installations / 2 minutes of reading

Who is Hans Haacke? Hans Haacke: Fighting the establishment 3 min 37 sec Hans Haacke was born in 1936 in Cologne, Germany. He studied at Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel and later on worked as a guard and tour guide on the second documenta in 1959 in the same city. All this …

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What is Xu Bing’s gigantic Phoenix project?

Sculptures / 4 minutes of reading

Xu Bing is an internationally celebrated Chinese artist. He works in a couple of disciplines and materials but the most common is ink painting, printmaking, and calligraphy. Xu has worked with pigs and silkworms. Though, one of his well-known installations is a gigantic flying dragon titled Phoenix. How was Phoenix created? The installation features …

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56th Venice Biennale

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