Kapwani Kiwanga
With Millions of Glass Beads, the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Creates the Monumental Out of the Minute
BY LISA WONG MACABASCO
VOGUE
May 28, 2024

There’s a pleasing ease and sensuousness to “Trinket,” Kapwani Kiwanga’s exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. That comes from not only its primary materials—millions of tiny glass beads, made on the nearby island of Murano (where glass has been produced for at least six centuries) and then strung into sweeping curtains lining the structure—but also its soothing arrangement of colors that shift from gradient to imperceptible depending on your vantage point: pale yellow, sunset orange, white, maroon, and the rare, prized cobalt draped across the building’s exterior, quivering with the breeze off the Venetian Lagoon.

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Galerie Tanja Wagner
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FAC Museum, Colorado Springs
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Altes Rathaus Göttingen
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Symposium festival: The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish
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E-WERK Luckenwalde
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Art Encounters Biennial 2025
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Garrison Command, Timișoara
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Winner of the Joan Miró Prize 2025
Fundació Joan Miró
May 08, 2025
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Fondation Villa Datris, L’Ilse-sous-la-Sorgue
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