Roberto Cuoghi

An essential guide to the 57th edition of the event that has the whole art world talking, featuring new work by Mark Bradford and an exhibition curated by trolls

“Art is not the way to change the world, not the place to change the world, otherwise we would know it.”

Highlights of the National Pavilions in the Arsenale.

Timing isn’t everything, but it’s a lot. If the bland, soft-power 2017 Venice Biennale, called “Viva Arte Viva,” had arrived two, or four, or six years ago, it might have passed muster, even made sense.

Each year, the Venice Biennale’s national pavilions provide a platform for countries around the world to showcase their most relevant and influential art.

This afternoon, I was at a modest coffee shop around the corner from my rented pad in Venice and saw everyone reading the same daily paper.

The most important global art event of the year is upon us, as thousands descend upon the slowly submerging islands in the Venetian Lagoon to view the microcosm of the art world that is the 57th Venice Biennale. In keeping with the theme of the exhibition by this year’s curator, Christine Macel, Viva Arte Viva, in which she “orientate[s] the Biennale toward the art and the artists,” we are looking at the most sensational National Pavilions through the artists whose art will activate them.

10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

Looted art and ancient works from Iraq that have never been exhibited outside that country will appear in its pavilion at the Venice Biennale this yea

As curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, Cecilia Alemani has chosen the artists Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey to represent the country, the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced yesterday.

The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism announced today that Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Roberto Cuoghi, and Adelita Husni-Bey will represent Italy at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

'Ether' a group exhibition, is on view at the Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris from October 15, through November 19, 2016.

From Christo's Floating Piers on Italy's Lake Iseo, to Roberto Cuoghi’s Putiferio installation/performance in Hydra at Projectspace Slaughterhouse, and Katharina Grosse's Rockaway!

You'd think an art-besotted industrialist whose construction company helped build the modern Middle East, North Africa, Cyprus, and Greece would have a lust for power.

“Putiferio” at the DESTE Foundation’s Project Space in the former Slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra is a major exhibition by Italian artist Roberto Cuoghi who works in painting, drawing, digital animation, and sound to explore issues surrounding transformation, identity, death, memory, and time – what he describes as facing “complex ideas iconographically”.

There’s something of the twisted genius at work in 'Ametria', the fascinating exhibition currently on show at the Benaki Museum in Athens.

The Italian curator Francesco Bonami is organising an auction of Italian art at Phillips New York on 28 April

It’s been more than four years since Phillips handed over their auction rooms to Philippe Ségalot to organize his own sale, one of the largest and most successful Contemporary Evening sales in the auction house’s history. Although the firm has been sold since then and is now on its second CEO, Phillips seems to be returning to that strategy.

Sometimes art is most meaningful when you least expect. If you'd told me a month ago that the most engaging encounters I would soon

The exhibition glories a bit much in the “intensities” of its artists, striving for a feverish atmosphere that’s both amusing and a little irritating. In both the selected artworks and the exhibition materials, Gioni vacillates between a hyped-up end-of-the-world scenario ("after nature" as post-nature) and a more subtle interrogation of the art-nature relationship (‘after nature’ as a mode of descriptive art-making). The real meat of the show lies in those pieces that probe the latter...

The 2014 season has begun. While popular shows of artists like Magritte, Hopper, and Carrie Mae Weems continue their travels, dozens of new exhibition devoted to modern and contemporary art are opening across the country. Here are some observations.

Sometimes art is most meaningful when you least expect. If you'd told me a month ago that the most engaging encounters I would soon

In general, major museums avoid exhibiting private collections as such, unless they are promised as gifts to the institution. In these recessionary

The art world is peculiarly suited to dramatize a problem, or at least a syndrome, of the present day: that of abominable wealth, by which I mean the

Ah, "body modification" art — that sub-sub-genre of performance art that features artists disfiguring, warping, implanting devices into, or otherwise

It’s hard to imagine a more effective transition towards the Hammer’s exhibition galleries from the museum’s parking garage or the cacophony of sights