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Here, in alphabetical order, is the full list of artists choose by Bice Curiger to participate in the ILLUMInations exhibition, at the International Pavilion, in the 54th Venice Biennale, set for next June 4th to November 27th 2011. ILLUMInations is meant to stress the power of art in a global context.

Questions of identity and heritage have long been crucial to contemporary art and the intensity of artistic inquiry into these issues is unlikely to diminish in the near future. Art is a seedbed for experimentation with new forms of “community” and for studies in differences and affinities that will serve as models for the future.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Meris Angioletti, Nairy Baghramian, Yto Barrada, Elisabetta Benassi, Birdhead, Monica Bonvicini, Mohamed Bourouissa, Carol Bove, Gerard Byrne, Mariana Castillo Deball, Gianni Colombo, Martin Creed, DAS INSTITUT and Kerstin Brätsch, Guy de Cointet, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Song Dong, Trisha Donnelly, Shannon Ebner, Latífa Echakhch, Ida Ekblad, Omer Fast, Urs Fischer, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Llyn Foulkes, Luca Francesconi, Katharina Fritsch, Cyprien Gaillard, Dani Gal, Ryan Gander, Gedewon, GELITIN, Luigi Ghirri, David Goldblatt, Jack Goldstein, Loris Gréaud, Nicholas Hlobo, Karl Holmqvist, Bruno Jakob, Norma Jeane, Rashid Johnson, Annette Kelm, Gabriel Kuri, Elad Lassry, Klara Lidén, Christian Marclay, Fabian Marti, Nathaniel Mellors, Asier Mendizabal, Haroon Mirza, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Shahryar Nashat, Navid Nuur, Romen Ondak, Nicolás Paris, Philippe Parreno, Mai-Thu Perret, Amalia Pica, Giulia Piscitelli, Sigmar Polke, Seth Price, R.H. Quaytman, Nick Relph, Pipilotti Rist, Marinella Senatore, Cindy Sherman, Dayanita Singh, Monika Sosnowska, Frances Stark, Sturtevant, Anya Titova, Rosemarie Trockel, Oscar Tuazon, James Turrell, Emily Wardill, Rebecca Warren, Corinne Wasmuht, Andro Wekua, Franz West, Jeanne (Johanna) Natalie Wintsch, and Christopher Wool.

Monika Sosnowska, Franz West, Song Dong and Oscar Tuazon would create a so called “parapavilions” to host other artists’ works.

...and guess what! no Portuguese!?! Let me say that, derived from the great and astonishing work done by the national art dealers internationally promoting their livelihood, we can see that the outcome is nowhere to be found - it is not that those have less quality and do their work, it is more that these, who should promote them, don't do. Besides, how many autochthonous curators (or even critics) have an international role, or any kind of power outside the Portuguese institutional framework? (N)One!