SAS_Venezia_2024 - susanalf

@SAS _ Secret Apartment Show

In Association with Gallery A, Zagreb Venue; Secret Apartment, Arsenale

Date: 16 April – 22 April 2024

Preview : 16th April 4 – 7PM

Open daytime: 10am – 7pm Daily Nightime: 10pm – 5am Nightly

Curator: Ann Grim

Co curated: by Andrea M and Vanya B

Artists: Toni Gallagher, Martin Sexton, Andrea Morucchio, Simon Foxton, Vanya Balogh, Susana Lopez Fernandez, Norman Normski Anderson, Gzillion Artist, Cedric Christie, Steve Pettengell, Nicole Farhi, Ann Grim, Gavin Turk and Marjorie Abela.

From the Gift collection: Paul Sakoilsky, Michael Croft, Esther Planas, Jim Racine, Thomas J Ridley, Patrick Colhoun, Thomas J Ridley.

SAS is a site specific exhibition, designed for 60th Venice Biennale, featuring seven international artists and their special guests.

This exhibition explores divergent plots and narratives, giving space to intimate encounters with intriguing artworks in the setting of the mysterious secret apartment.

Situated in the hub of iconic Arsenale and initiated by artists Ann Grim and Andrea Morucchio, this exhibition captures mini zeitgeist in the lives of 14 artists, the now and beyond of their universe, a post pandemic response and reflex, in ever more fragmented, schizophrenic, complex world that is evolving around us.

Exploring the themes of biology, waste, science, violence, technology, displacement, mass propaganda, otherness, control, manipulation, the unbearable sex and inevitable war, the artworks presented express and divulge an ambiguous destination for humanity, whilst simultaneously investigating tension space between real and imagined. A selection of site specific ideas horizontally collide with objects in all media, which are carefully integrated across the rooms and spaces of this secret Venetian apartment. SAS will evolve day by day with a set of informal performative events, talks, meetings and late night viewings with projections, starting on 16th April at 4pm and ending on 22nd April at 6pm. This exhibition contains sensitive content and is by Appointment Only.