Tag Archives: Taysir Batniji

  1. Istanbul Biennial Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial)

        The 12th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Jens Hoffman and Adriana Pedrosa offered art that created intersections of aesthetics and politics, both historically and in contemporary art.  The curators chose to distance the exhibition from  immediate political reality, but the same issues such as pursuit of oil in the Middle East, government oppression and […]

  2. Venice Biennale Part 4: The Future of a Promise Contemporary Art from the Arab World

    The Future of a Promise Contemporary Art from the Arab world is aesthetically seductive and only occasionally engaged with social issues.