July 1, 2022

Biennale Gherdëina: Persones Persons at Val Gardena, Italy, through September 25, 2022

“BIENNALE GHERDËINA ∞ PERSONES PERSONS  opened on 20 May 2022 with a series of new installations, performances, sculptures, sound pieces, textile works, walks, and participatory experiences alongside existing and historical works that reverberate the Biennale’s themes, passions and lines of intensity while responding to the unique landscape and setting of the Val Gardena territory. It is the eighth edition of the biennale. This edition includes new locations in Ladinia: Ortisei, Castel Gardena, Vallunga and a range of newly commissioned works. Works range from an immersive walk to installations, performances, installations and performances, all across and in response, to the landscape.” — Biennale Gherdëina

Doris Ghetta, founder and Director of Biennale Gherdëina says: “All around the world, art biennials usually take place in large urban centres, so the Biennale Gherdëina represents the exception to the rule. Its distinctiveness gives the event a strong identity – with factors such as the mountain landscape, rurality, language and cultural history hugely influencing its structure and content – and a uniqueness impossible to find in the same form in other places. We are living in what has been described as ‘the era of living creatures’….this means that, if we are to plan a sustainable society, we can no longer incline towards an anthropocentric worldview but need to centre our way of seeing reality around all living things: from air to plants, water, snow, animals and, of course, human beings. The fact that Biennale Gherdëina ∞ has decided to focus its artistic reflection on this particular subject makes this edition of the event particularly topical.”

Alex Cecchetti, SENTIERO, 2022. Project supported by the Italian Council (10th edition, 2022) by the Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Gabriel Chaile, Brenda, 2022. View of Piazza Sant’Antonio, Ortisei. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Thaddäus Salcher, Spiedl dl’ana, 2022. View of Strada Rezia, Ortisei. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Angelo Plessas, The Hand of the Noosphere, 2022. View at Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ana Vaz and Nuno da Luz, Wolves howling – In choir – Evening snow, 2022. Exhibition view at Hotel Ladinia, Ortisei. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Martina Kyriaki Goni and Giles Round. Exhibition view at Sala Trenker, Ortisei, 2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Exhibition view at Sala Trenker, Ortisei, 2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal. Exhibition view at Sala Trenker, Ortisei, 2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Exhibition view at Sala Trenker, Ortisei, 2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Jimmie Durham. Exhibition view at Sala Trenker, Ortisei, 2022. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Bruno Walpoth, Pinocchio, 2022. View at Castel Gardena, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Chiara Camoni, Sister, 2022. View at Castel Gardena, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Ignota, Memory Garden, 2022. View at Castel Gardena, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Eduardo Navarro, Spathiphyllum Auris, 2022. View at Vallunga, Selva Gardena. Commissioned by Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo

Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti and Filipa Ramos, BIENNALE GHERDËINA ∞ PERSONES PERSONS features artists Etel Adnan, Chiara Camoni, Alex Cecchetti, Gabriel Chaile, Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen, Jimmie Durham, Simone Fattal, Barbara Gamper, Kyriaki Goni, Judith Hopf, Ignota (Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers), Karrabing Film Collective, Lina Lapelyte, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Eduardo Navarro, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Angelo Plessas, Tabita Rezaire, Sergio Rojas, Giles Round, Thaddäus Salcher, Martina Steckholzer, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin and David Soin Tappeser), Ana Vaz and Nuno da Luz, and Bruno Walpoth.

Images courtesy Biennale Gherdëina.