Venice, Vide, Vici
Along with the national pavilions and scores of international shows, the Venice Biennale is home to a massive and well-curated trove of parties. Jessica Craig-Martin photographed a few that conquered this year’s opening week.
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Zhukova’s Moscow-based Garage Center for Contemporary Culture feted its video-art project for the Biennale, curated by Wakefield, on the Bauer terrace, on June 2.
From left: Riccardo Tisci, Marcelo Burlon, Cyprien Gaillard, and Jack Donoghue
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Orlan
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Amy Sacco and Olympia Scarry
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Klaus Biesenbach, Marina Abramovi´c, and Tisci at Terence Koh’s performance
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Koh at the Palazzo di Malta
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Stacy Engman
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André Balazs
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Dasha Zhukova, Derek Blasberg, and Peter Brant II
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The establishment of the art and fashion worlds showed up for Pinault’s dinner in a monastery on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, on June 1.
Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Phillips, and Josephine Meckseper
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Jeff Koons, François Pinault, François-Henri Pinault, Salma Hayek, and Justine Wheeler Koons
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Amalia Dayan and Adam Lindemann
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Margherita and Teresa Missoni
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Maryvonne Pinault and Francesco Vezzoli
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Water taxis ferried guests to Prada’s new exhibition space in an 18th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal for cocktails, followed by a more intimate dinner, on June 2.
On the piano nobile, the crowd gathers behind Pino Pasquale’s sculpture, Confluenze.
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Miuccia Prada en route to the party
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The wide-open space immediately adjacent to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection on the Grand Canal was the location for a bash celebrating Doug and Mike Starn’s enormous bamboo-centric installation, on June 2.
Elizabeth Von Guttman, Charlotte Casiraghi, Stefano Tonchi, Andrea Della Valle, and Alexia Niedzielski
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Doug and Mike Starn
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Eugenie Niarchos
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Shala Monroque, Larry Gagosian, Martina Mondadori, and Frisoni
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Marie, Coco, and Bianca Brandolini d’Adda with Bruno Frisoni at the Roger Vivier/TAR magazine party
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Thomas Dozol and Michael Stipe
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Donoghue and Fabiola Beracasa
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Jean Pigozzi and Anne McNally
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Yvonne Force Villareal and Sam Keller
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Jefferson Hack and Courtney Love
