The Iranian-born artist to create installation at the Canada Pavilion that speaks to the site’s architecture and history
The Iranian-born artist Abbas Akhavan will represent Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Canada announced Thursday.
His work, which has been shown widely in both Europe and Canada, deals precisely with that kind of layered setting as it considers how the spaces we inhabit are created, using sculpture, drawing, video and performance. For example, he includes references to the ancient ruins of buildings destroyed in wars or to the manufactured greenery of city parks and private gardens, exposing the uneasy balance between nature and human exploitation.
for an emerging artist, at which time he was living in Toronto. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is planning a mid-career retrospective of his work in November, 2026.
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