Day 1 - Fri Apr 22

4:00pm

Biennials and Art Interventions


Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli

Rio Terra Foscarini 999/A. 30123 Venezia

Event Type:

On-site

Richard Bell, Fernanda Olivares Molina, Brett Graham, Rachael Rakena, Nadia Myre,
Moderator: Megan Tamati-Quennell

About the Artists

Richard Bell
Richard Bell
Richard Bell (b. 1953) lives and works in Brisbane, Australia. He works across painting, installation, performance and video. Bell is one of Australia’s most significant artists and his work explores the complex artistic and political problems of Western, colonial and Indigenous art production. He grew out of a generation of Aboriginal activists and has remained committed... Read more
Fernanda Olivares Molina
Fernanda Olivares Molina
Hema’ny Molina (Santiago, Chile) is a Selk’nam writer, poet, craftswoman and grandmother. Molina is president of the Selk’nam Corporation Chile, formed in 2015, which aims to dislodge the indigenous community from the stigma of “extinction.” The Covadonga Ona indigenous community gathers families of Selk’nam descendants who have maintained oral memory through the transmission of ancestral knowledge... Read more
Brett Graham
Brett Graham
Brett Graham (Ngāti Koroki Kahukura, Tainui, b. 1967) is a sculptor who creates large scale artworks and installations that explore indigenous histories, politics and philosophies. He has work in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, and Te Papa Tongarewa.  His work has been included... Read more
Rachael Rakena
Rachael Rakena
Rakena coined the term 'Toi Rerehiko' to centre, claim and name digital space within a Māori paradigm. She describes and locates Māori digital/video/electronic-based art practice in terms of continuum, motion, and collaboration. Water is a prominent feature of her work and it is claimed as an indigenous space. Critiquing notions of fluid identity, Pacific understandings of... Read more
Nadia Myre
Nadia Myre
Nadia Myre is a visual artist from Montreal and a member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. Her interdisciplinary practice takes on conversations about identity, resilience and the politics of belonging. As exemplified by seminal works such as The Indian Act, (2002) and The Scar Project (2005-2013), her work prioritizes collaborative methods, community building, and... Read more
Megan Tamati-Quennell
Megan Tamati-Quennell
Megan Tamati-Quennell is a leading curator and writer of modern and contemporary Māori & Indigenous art, with a specialist interest in Māori modernism.  She has worked as a curator for over three decades and currently undertakes two roles, one as an external curator for the Govett Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and the other as... Read more