‘Between Heaven and Earth', a Tribute to Ilya Kabakov Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Almost a year after the death of Ilya Kabakov, Fondazione Querini Stampalia and the Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Art Foundation pay tribute to him in Venice, on the occasion of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale.

The exhibition curated by Chiara Bertola remembers one of the masters of conceptual art, a brilliant experimenter of the poetry and the expressive potential of materials, celebrated as the most important USSR-born and naturalised US artist of the 20th century.

For the first time some of the Kabakovs’ historical installations will dialogue with the rooms and the collections of the Querini Stampalia Museum. Their works become site-specific interventions designed for the environment that hosts them, as is the nature of the Querini Stampalia’s contemporary art program 'Conserving the future', which implies confrontation with a past to be protected and a future to be designed, involving the institution, the public, and the artists. Ilya and Emilia Kabakov act as ferrymen between these worlds, revealing fractures, inventing connections and showing something that otherwise risked being lost or never seen.