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.

Kapwani Kiwanga
Flowers Forever. Flowers in art and culture
Group exhibition curated by Kathrin Baumstark
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
Oct 12, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
Frieze London 2024
With works by Annabel Daou, Elisa Giardina Papa, Šejla Kamerić, Kapwani Kiwanga, Grit Richter, Anna Steinert & Angelika J. Trojnarski
Booth: D22
The Regent's Park
Oct 9 – 13, 2024
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Mode d’emploi
Group exhibition curated by Anna Millers and Pihilippe Bettinelli
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourge
Sep 27, 2024 – Jun 1, 2025
Kapwani Kiwanga
Correspondances. Lire Angela Davis, Audre Lorde et Toni Morrison
Group exhibition curated by Elvan Zabunyan et Claire le Restif
CRÉDAC, Ivry sur Seine Paris
Sep 21 – Dec 15, 2024
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Dear Mazie
Group exhibition curated by Amber Esseiva
ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art, Virginia
Sep 6, 2024 – Mar 9, 2025
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Future Is Now : 50 ans / 50 artistes
Group exhibition
Le Parvis, Ibos
Jun 15 – Oct 5, 2024
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Tia più voci
Group exhibition curated by Ilaria Gianni and Camille Coschieri with Giulia Gaibisso
Villa Médicis, Rome
Jun 8 – Sep 24, 2024
Kapwani Kiwanga
SYMPOSIUM: A COINCIDENCE OF WANTS, THE SHAPE OF VALUE
Hosted by National Gallery of Canada and the Wexner Center for the Arts
Ocean Space, Venice, Italy
Jun 13 – 14, 2024