Manuel Borja-Villel

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen |Manuel Borja-Villel

THERE ARE MANY REASONS to celebrate the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, curator Adriano Pedrosa’s “Stranieri Ovunque”(Foreigners Everywhere): It is the first edition organized by a curator from South America; it celebrates artists that have been largely marginalized by the Biennale and other centers of contemporary art, including folk, outsider, and Indigenous artists; it highlights handicraft and especially textiles, which are deserving of greater critical attention; and its message of inclusivity...

Sep 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Manuel Borja-Villel |Travis Jeppesen |Charlotte Kent |Andrew Uroskie

WITH A SUGGESTIVE TITLE, “Stranieri Ovunque” (Foreigners Everywhere), and 331 artists, the vast majority from the so-called Global South, the curator of the Sixtieth Venice Biennale, Adriano Pedrosa, has tried to pay a historical debt and provide visibility for artists who have been systematically undervalued or consigned to oblivion. The work done is exhaustive.

Apr 12, 2024 | artreview.com | Manuel Borja-Villel

Manuel Borja-Villel ponders the promise of this year’s Venice Biennale to shift the discourseOperating under the title Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th Venice Biennale promises to be both inclusive and a gesture towards decolonising one of the world’s foremost largescale exhibitions. But is it possible to decolonise a biennial? Can a decolonising discourse radically transform the institution?

Mar 10, 2024 | msn.com | Manuel Borja-Villel

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Mar 9, 2024 | elpais.com | Manuel Borja-Villel

¡Don Giovanni!A cenar contigoMe invitaste, y he venido. (…)Tú me invitaste a cenar,Sabes cuál es ahora tu deber. Respóndeme:¿vendrás a cenar conmigo? Estamos en el último acto de la popular ópera de W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni. Quien habla, provocando el terror del protagonista, es una escultura que representa al comendador. Su espanto no procede del hecho de que el insigne patricio venga a cobrar sus deudas, un sujeto orgulloso y pendenciero como Don Giovanni está harto acostumbrado a ello.