BALCONISM APP VENICE

for Venice Biennale 2013

“The free Balconism App (curated by Oxana Maleeva and Steve Piccolo) is not ‘about’ art… it is a work of art in its own right. A virtual exhibition showing the responses of 11 artists to a challenge. Their task: to interpret the theme of the balcony, in Venice, through stories, sounds and images. With the App you can take a walking tour of balconies in Venice, using your iPhone or iPad to see/hear the stories invented by the artists. If you are not in Venice, you can use the App to take a virtual tour of the show.”

(The app during use with an iPad)

This was our original write-up. After the end of the Biennale the App did not have to survive as such any longer. Its content is shown on these pages.

“Balconism is an initiative of Art Apart and the curator Oxana Maleeva, released for the occasion of the 55th Venice Biennale. The project involves outstanding artists, writers, designers and architects.”

The App contained works by:

  • Tadao Ando (see project here)
  • Francesco Bonami (see project here)
  • Jota Castro (see project here)
  • Francesco Dal Co (see project here)
  • Gabriele Di Matteo (see project here)
  • Barnaba Fornasetti & Valeria Manzi (see project here)
  • Carlos Garaicoa (see project here)
  • Mark V. Kalinka (see project here)
  • Oxana Maleeva (see project here)
  • Steve Piccolo (see project here)
  • Christoph Radl (see project here)

It also contained:

  • map of the balcony tour
  • all sound and image files needed to take the tour, even if you were not online

A SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE “E IL TOPO” WAS PUBLISHED FOR THE OCCASION, NO. 14 “AL BALCONE”

In collaboration with:
The Palaces of the Russian Museum Fund, St. Petersburg
With the support of:
Vnesheconombank – Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs
and Millennium Wealth Management Ltd.