Electra is the media partner of the Portuguese Official Representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024, whose theme is ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
© Raul Betti
The ‘Greenhouse’ project, selected to represent Portugal at the Biennale, was developed by a collective made up of visual artist Mónica de Miranda, historian Sónia Vaz Borges, and choreographer Vânia Gala, and will be presented at Palazzo Franchetti between 20 April and 24 November 2024.
This project was featured in the ‘Scoop’ section of Electra 24 (published in April 2024 and distributed at the opening of the exhibition), with a series of texts and images by the three artist-curators (On crossing, On land, On walking), revealing the main themes and motivations behind the project, a Creole garden, from which the themes of colonialism, war, liberation struggles and ecology are considered.
As part of the Portuguese representation at the Art Biennale, a public programme of talks and performance actions has been organised. Last September, this programme featured, among others, the artist Ângela Ferreira, who represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 2007 and is the author of the portfolio of Issue 15, and the environmental activist Vandana Shiva, with whom Electra spoke in 2020, in an interview that can be read in Electra 9.
The new issue of Electra will be presented at the seventh edition of Drawing Room, the art fair dedicated to contemporary drawing held at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes in Lisbon.
Electra is the media partner of the Portuguese Official Representation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024, whose theme is ‘Foreigners Everywhere’.
Electra will be present at the first edition of the Lisbon Art Book Fair, to be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art - MAC/CCB in Lisbon on the weekend of 21 and 22 September.
The Italian sociologist Vania Baldi, author of the essay Between Artificial Unconsciousness and Machina Sapiens published in issue 25 of Electra, was interviewed for the Público newspaper.