Yael Bartana / Venice Biennale 2024
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Yael Bartana presents her contribution to the German Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2024. Bartana has been invited by curator Çağla Ilk to co-represent Germany alongside artists Michael Akstaller, Robert Lippok, Ersan Mondtag, Nicole L’Huillier, and Jan St. Werner to navigate the verge, the gradation, the boundary under the title of Thresholds. Proceeding from alternative readings of history and the future, the contribution extrapolates realms of experience from the liminal.

Thresholds are liminal spaces subject to a paradoxical intermediate order. They lead from one place to the next, and are both spatial and temporal connectors. The curatorial method adopted for the presentation is to link different artistic approaches and disciplines within a pluralist overall story telling. Proceeding from the present as threshold , as transition, where past and future overlap, the artistic contributions deal with both the threshold as a place between different kinds of belonging and with the communities that inform this space of meanings.