ArtReview's April 2022 Issue Highlights Artists Defying Venice Biennale Spectacle

The April 2022 edition of ArtReview, published just before the Venice Biennale's opening on April 23, highlights artists who challenge the event's spectacle-driven culture. Germany's Maria Eichhorn and Croatia's Tomo Savić-Gecan are both involved but on their own terms. Eichhorn is recognized for leveraging art infrastructure to promote social change, exemplified by her closure of a gallery for a symposium on labor conditions in the art world and her establishment of the Rose Valland Institute, which first appeared at Documenta 14 in 2017 to document Jewish property confiscations. Savić-Gecan's Biennale work may be unexpectedly placed in various pavilions, potentially leaving the Croatian Pavilion vacant. Additionally, the issue features Kerima Tariman, a revolutionary poet and New People's Army leader who was killed in August 2021 during a confrontation with the Philippine military amid a wave of extrajudicial killings under Rodrigo Duterte. Harry Gould Harvey IV, who founded the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts, shares insights on faith and mysticism. Columns delve into the theme of absence in colonial perspectives through archival photography and Marine Serre's sustainable fashion. The issue also presents exhibition and book critiques from international reviewers.