The Visual Arts are amongst the most powerful and influential areas within the arts in Britain today. Covering a vast range of disciplines, from the fine arts through to the very latest in digital art, UK artists are pushing the boundaries of their practice to the limit and looking to the future.
Since 1938 the British Council has been responsible for the British Pavilion in Venice, showing British artists at the longest-running, at the most prestigious international art biennial in the world: the Venice Biennale of Art. From 1991 the British Pavilion has also been home to Architecture exhibitions in the alternate years to the Visual Arts.
The British Council possesses the British Council Arts Collection, one of the largest private art collections in the world. Following the phenomenal success of our Passports exhibition in 2010, we would be happy to discuss with partners the creation of a public or private art exhibition using our own artworks.
COMING SOON:
Jeremy Deller has been selected to represent Britain at the 55th Venice Biennale. He will present a solo exhibition in the British Pavilion, which will run from 1 June to November 2013.
Born in London in 1966, Deller is an artist of a different stripe from most of his contemporaries. Often working in collaboration with others (among them artists, makers, musicians and other members of the public), he brings together elements from traditional and contemporary culture to create new types of work: films, installations, performances and events which are often humorous, but which don't seek to satirise the people or subjects involved. His works display an engagement with all sorts of communities that exist in today's society, and whose interests are brought to our attention by Deller with wit and clarity.
READY FOR THE VENICE BIENNALE 2013
WALES AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2013
PAST EVENTS:
Auto Italia South East, an artist-run organisation that commissions and produces new work, co-run by Kate Cooper, Amanda Dennis and Richard John Jones, presented a brand new film at the Artissima Lido
Internationally-acclaimed artist Alice Anderson showed her work at the Galleria Artopia, Milan. This Anglo-French artist has shown at important institutions such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Tate Modern in London, as well as having participated at the Frieze Artfair earlier this year with an installation piece called From dance to sculpture.
one of the most renown British artists (who represented Britain at the Biennale of Arts in Venice, in 2001) shows Labyrinth, his 270 black and white enamel works, that will hang in each of London's Underground stations to commemorate the network’s 150th anniversary. Watch the video
Watch a video by our Art team in the UK which shows the range of artists, countries, partners and projects that we are involved in.
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