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PREVIEW DAYS: 6, 7 AND 8 MAY 2015
PRESS VIEW: 10-1PM TUESDAY 5 MAY 2015, AT MARCIANA LIBRARY

Berlin-based artist Simon Denny (b.1982, Auckland) will represent New Zealand at the 56th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, with a pavilion divided between two highly symbolic sites: Marco Polo Airport and the historic Marciana Library in Piazza San Marco, with paintings by Titian and Tintoretto.
The two venues are closely related to Denny’s project, entitled Secret Power, which will address the intersection of knowledge and geography in our « post-Snowden world ». It will investigate new and obsolete languages for describing geo-political space, focusing on the roles played by technology and innovation.
In 2013 and 2014, Denny presented All You Need Is Data: The DLD 2012 Conference Redux at the Kunstverein Munich, and exhibited The Personal Effects of Kim Dotcom at MUMOK in Vienna. From 3 April to 31 August 2015, MoMA PS1 in New York will present The Innovator’s Dilemma, the first significant US museum solo show of Simon Denny.