Past Event

From Venice to Sydney: A Biennale Conversation


ARTSPACE, 43–51 Cowper Wharf Roadway Woolloomooloo 

Artwork by Khaled Sabsabi, Knowing Beyond,2024. Photo by Saul Steed. Courtesy the artist and MIlani Gallery, Brisbane

Presented by Arts & Cultural Exchange in partnership with ARTSPACE.

Returning from the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, acclaimed artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino invite you into a timely and celebratory conversation. 

As the artistic team behind the Australia Pavilion, they will share reflections on Venice — tracing the ideas, influences, and lived experience behind the work, and exploring Sabsabi’s enduring engagement with identity, spirituality, and cultural memory. 

Moderated by ACE Executive Director Anne Loxley, with Publisher Artist Profile, Kon Gouriotis OAM, this discussion offers a rare opportunity to hear from one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists at a pivotal moment. 

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Meet The Team

 

Anne Loxley
Award-Winning curator and Executive Director of ACE, Anne Loxley is recognised for her collaborative work with artists and communities across Australia. Previously Anne was Senior Curator, C3West, for Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, (2011-2019) where she developed innovative ways for artists to collaborate with communities, businesses and non-arts organisations, to address important concerns. She has led major public art and cultural initiatives focused on social impact and community engagement.

 

Kon Gouriotis
Kon Gouriotis OAM is a curator, publisher, and editor of Artist Profile magazine. He has held senior leadership roles across Australia’s visual arts sector, including the Australia Council for the Arts, and continues to champion contemporary Australia artists. He is also the co-editor of Jasper Knight: 50 Portraits and Khaled Sabsabi monograph, both fine art edition books.

 

Khaled Sabsabi
Khaled Sabsabi is an acclaimed, award-winning Australian multidisciplinary artist whose work explores human collectiveness, the complexities of identity politics, and the impact of ideology through a continual transfer between the material and the philosophical. For over 35 years, he has worked across mediums and borders, collaborating with communities locally and internationally. Sabsabi’s work centers on social justice and lived experience informed by his migration from Lebanon in 1976 to escape the civil war.  

 

Michael Dagostino
Michael Dagostino is Director of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney and an award-winning curator known for developing artist-led and community driven cultural programs. Notable projects include With Secrecy and Despatch (2016), co-curated with Tess Allas and David Garneau, exploring colonial impacts through the Appin Massacre, and Another Day in Paradise (2017), showcasing Myuran Sukumaran’s work co-curated by Ben Quilty.

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