The sixth edition of the biennial contemporary art exhibition Personal Structures presents a wide selection of more than 200 works by emerging and internationally renowned artists, photographers and sculptors, as well as projects by academic institutions. With a strong presence of female participants and a total contribution from 51 countries, the European Cultural Centre presents a never-before-seen edition, which this year revolves around the idea of reflections.

Got Umbrella

17:00 - 18:00 | Campo S.S. Giovanni e Paolo

Performance curated by Professor Petra Kempf revolving around the creation of a common ground.

Professor Petra Kempf from the University of Washington in St. Louis, presents, for the second time in Venice, the performance GOT UMBRELLA. By playing different roles and wearing diverse masks, the urban inhabitants re-configure the condition by which they live and interact. As individuals interact with one another new connections arise while others fade away, creating a common ground informed and imagined by many people at a time. Within this context, urban inhabitants create provisional counter-configurations through which different social constellations emerge. Situated in a field of changing relations, the emergent configurations are not just a form or a product through which social interactions unfold, but a perpetual generator for emerging configurations-configurations that are also conflicting in nature.

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Leading us to Tbilisi, Georgia, Glory to the Queen reveals the interwoven biographies of the world chess heroes Nona Gaprindashvili, Nana Alexandria, Maia Chiburdanidze and Nana Loseliani. It offers rare insight into their recent lives while at the same time exploring their lasting legacy. Today they are ageing women, ordinary and extreme, pedantic and free. The city, indeed the whole country, is still marked by them – even if these marks are slowly fading.