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This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics
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The 2024 Venice Biennale, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, represents a significant moment in European cultural politics, with the author reflecting on attending what is termed the 'artworld Olympics' and examining Kouoh's posthumous legacy through her curatorial vision titled 'In Minor Keys'.
This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics
I was texting a museum director friend in Asia recently. We were discussing whether a trip to this year’s “artworld Olympics”, the Venice Biennale, justified the carbon release.
I felt ambivalent. The main exhibition is curated by Koyo Kouoh, whose 2016 edition of Ireland’s Biennale, EVA International, on the 1916 Easter Rising centennial I had admired. Kouoh died of cancer earlier this year. Her posthumously realised Venice Biennale, titled In Minor Keys, seemed a final opportunity to appreciat
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