My Best of Venice 2015

These two posts went up on Dazed but i'm putting links here too for a bit of archival action. I

The top artists at this year’s Venice Biennale and Top Ten things to search out at Venice Biannale

Top 10 shows to see this month

I miss the old Time Out. I would occassionally get it to tick all the shows I had seen and circle the ones I had not. Now there is only artupdate et al to keep me entertained (thank god that exists) in non digital form.

I think I might try to make up for this with regular top 10 lists of shows to go to each month (as well as tweets which you can view at the bottom right of this blog)

1 Converse/Dazed Emerging Artist Award (opening Oct 25)

2 Ed Atkins @ Chisenhale (pictured above)

3 Rashid Johnson @ South London Gallery

4 Theaster Gates @ Whitecube Bermondsey (esp for the library piece)

5 After/Hours/Drop/Box @ AND/OR

6 Jesse Wine @ Limoncello

7 Bronze @ Royal Academy of Arts

8 Guy Rusha @ The Sunday Painter

9 Klein/Moriyama @ Tate Modern

10 Jack Strange @ Project Number (opens Oct 25)

Top Ten: Venice Biennale 2011

1 Ho Tzu Nyen - Singapore Pavillion
The cloud of the unknowing was the most exhilerating, beautifully shot moment of total cinema I have ever experienced.

2 Thomas Hirschhorn - Swizterland Pavillion
Cuetips, mobile phones, tinfoil, crystals, videos of politics and revolution on ipads, masking tape - overwhelming in every sense.

3 Mike Nelson - British Pavillion
A Turkish ghetto created immaculately within the pavillion. Less over the top that his best known work but equally as emotive.

4 Pippilotti Rist
A trio of kitsch as hell video collage pieces fusing stock footage, psych colours and Canaletto prints - all in tacky gold frames.

5 Sharon Haynes at Danish Pavillion
A history of political records and speeches in the 20th century stood out in a fascinating show on the freedom of speech.

6 Haiti Pavillion
Who knew there was so much good talent here? Really inventive use of foam, nails and any materials going. And of course a touch of voodoo.

7 Cashpoint at US Pavillion
As your put your card in music plays from the giant organ attached. Even better was at first noone knew the Allora and Calzadilla piece was interactive. (Great Hugo Boss party to celebrate too).

8 Anish Kapoor's Ascension
A surprisingly sprititual tornedo of smoke in an empty basilica.

9 Loris Greaud at Pinault's Palazzo Grassi
A fat round moon at night with a wood of black fake trees.

10 Palazzo Fortuny
3rd year of sheer and utter genius. Veervordt scores a hattrick.

and obviously Christian Marclay's The Clock - which is so great and iconic that it surpasses placement in any top ten. And I cant believe i was lucky enough to be one of the first people to see some of these when I interviewed him in his studio for AnOther.

Best in Show 2010

After a spending a year on a plane between London, Berlin, Miami, New York, Tokyo, Basel, Paris and Shanghai - here's my top ten exhibitions:

1 Rashid Johnson at Guido W Baudach


2 Mike Nelson's Coral Reef (recreated) at Tate Britain


3 Videodrome curated by Aaron Moulton at Autocenter, Berlin


4 Wolfgang Tillmans at The Serpentine


5 The Island from Los Angeles Nomadic Division in Miami


6 Oliver Laric's curated basement with work by Aleksandra Domanovic, Seth Price and Samuel Beckett at Seventeen



7 Aids-3D at A Gentili Apri


8 Ben Sansbury at Space Studios


9 No New Thing Under the Sun curated by Gabriel Coxhead at the Royal Academy


10 High Society at the Wellcome Collection

Top Ten

At dinner at Oliver Laric and Aleksandra Domanovic's place in Berlin last night we attempted to list our favourite artists. Bloody hard thing to do, so here's my attempt.

1 Cameron Jamie


2 Andro Wekua


3 Mike Kelley


4 Christoph Buchel


5 David Altmejd


6 Douglas Gordon


7 Seb Patane


8 David Noonan


9 Kerry James Marshall


10 Seth Price



I know I havent included any girls, though there are many I like. Just not as much as these above.