At the 55th international art biennale in Venice, Estonia is represented by the artist Dénes Farkas with the project “Evident in Advance”, curated by Adam Budak. Dénes Farkas is a Tallinn-based post-conceptual photo artist, who has been focusing on social structures since the second half of the 2000s and presenting them in a laconic artistic expression, which unites photography and the photo caption. His works have been purchased to the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, as well as by private individuals.
“Evident in Advance” deals with the elusiveness of language and the various aspects of translation and interpretation. In addition to Farkas, the project also involves an international team of architects and theorists, curated by Adam Budak, who works in Washington at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Budak and Farkas collaborated already in 2010 at KUMU’s Photography Month exhibition “Beyond”. Budak has curated several relevant international exhibitions, including “Architectures: Metastructures of Humanity, Morphic Strategies of Exposure”, which was displayed at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale in the Polish Pavilion.
Dénes Farkas was born in 1974 in Budapest, and lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. He graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts and has received the annual art prize from the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
The Venice Biennale is the oldest and largest international art forum, and Estonia has participated since 1997.
