VENIZE BIENNALE
Category: Performance art/International art exhibition / multi-media art
Concept and Plan: Tan Tan
2015-2017
Official Website: www.venizebiennale.org (offline in 2021)
On 23rd, November 2015, one day after the closing day of the 56th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale, the artist group TanBo(Tan Tan and Eric Bribosia) announced to the world that they won the first "Super Lion Award" of “Venize Biennale” in the art history! Following, they spread an “online exhibition” with their awarded works in several editions of web news. Soon, they received plenty of congratulations from friends and strangers all around the world... Nearly no one noticed that it was "Venize" but not "Venice".
Since 2016, Tan Tan has been working on "Venize Biennale World Tour" all around the world. Every exhibition of the tour is composed of photographs, videos, installations, and performances, accompanied by online interactions with the audience throughout the whole course. The First stop was held in China, at Chongqing Changjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, in June 2016.
In 2017, Tan Tan set up a new project"Venize Biennale 2017-Special program "TRANS-BORDERING-ART: Everyone’s 5 min Solo Exhibition". In brief, this special program is a group exhibition parallel to the 57th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale (13th of May – 26th of November 2017). Meanwhile, it is also an entire artwork, which can be regarded as “relational art”, “socially engaged art”, or an “art intervention”. It is a "jury-free" exhibition, which means that everyone who submits is selected.
*** Please click the links below to see the works ***
IMPORTANT REVIEWS
“ ‘Venize Biennale’is like a marathon, I’m very curious about towards where it will run, I will follow the news… Tan Tan is an artist who is making art crazily, and running in big steps.”
--Wu Wenguang ( famous Chinese filmmaker and scholar, director of “CCD Work Station”, regarded as the most important pioneer of Chinese independent documentary, his works were shown in 56th Venice Biennale)
“ Congratulations to TanBo for they won the big award, congratulations to them that they didn’t won the big award, congratulations to them for they went to Venice, congratulations to them for their works on computer!”
--Li Zhenhua (one of the most important curator of media art/intermedia art exhibitions in China. Currently he is one of the curators of Art Basel HK)
“Congratulations for your major art event ! Wonderful idea on Chinese (or European) ‘social validation’ !”
-- Claire D'Harsany (the Cultural Attache of General Consulate of France in Wuhan, China)
clich here to see WEB NEWS & FEEDBACK of VENIZE BIENNALE
***If you want to be the sponsor of one stop of the tour of "Venize Biennale", please contact us: tantanart@yeah.net**