With their art delayed by war in Ukraine, Kazakhstan pavilion artists cobble together an improvised presentation:
As the Venice Biennale opens to the public this week, at least one pavilion will remain incomplete.
Kazakhstan, participating in the world’s biggest art event for the first time in its 31-year history as a sovereign state, has had its widely anticipated debut deterred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Due to the war, vehicles carrying artworks and other materials planned for display were rerouted through Georgia, where they have been stalled at the border.
“Understandably, there is a large queue at the Georgian border, which is why a significant amount of our cargo has been delayed,” said the art collective ORTA, Kazakhstan’s representatives in the Biennale, in a joint statement with pavilion commissioner Meruyert Kaliyeva.LAI-PI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA Centre for the New GeniusBut that doesn’t mean the Kazakhstan pavilion will remain art-less until then.
“In the meantime,” ORTA’s members said in the statement, “we have built a set for our performances—”Spectacular Experiments”—with locally sourced materials so that the schedule of performances will run as planned.” The ad-hoc set will form the “foundation for… the finished project.
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