Venice Biennale

For the past 15 years, Cultureshock has created films documenting the Venice biennales of art and architecture, including artist interviews, exhibition walk-throughs, filmed performances and short-form social content, for clients such as Sotheby’s, the British Council and Qatar Museums.

La Biennale di Venezia was founded in 1895 and is now one of most significant cultural organisations in the world. Its annual, alternating exhibitions of contemporary art and architecture comprise national pavilions, each with its own curator and project, an International Art Exhibition and Collateral Events. In recent years, the Biennale Arte has attracted up to 800,000 visitors.

We produced two films for Jeffrey Gibson’s groundbreaking 2024 US Pavilion show, one with Gibson taking viewers on a guided tour of the exhibition and being interviewed by Jane Morris, Cultureshock’s editor-at-large, and one showing performances by indigenous American dance groups.

Coverage of the 2024 Korean Pavilion, for client Hyundai Artlab, brought viewers into Koo Jeong A’s scent-based exhibition, ODORAMA CITIES, enriched with interviews from the artist and curators. This was accompanied by a film celebrating Every Island is a Mountain, a 30th anniversary show that featured works by some of the 38 artists who have exhibited at the Korean Pavilion since 1995.

In 2022, we captured Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion-winning Biennale show for the British Pavilion, Feeling Her Way. The suite of digital content included a mini documentary film, a Pavilion fly-through, Instagram reels and an original soundtrack to complement the videos.

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