Artist Angelica Mesiti and curator Juliana Engberg will represent Australia at the 2019 Venice Biennale, the Australia Council announced today. Angelica Mesiti, who works across video, performance and installation, works between Paris and Sydney and currently has exhibitions in Denmark, the Adelaide Biennial and the National Gallery of Australia. Her Rapture (silent anthem) was the first video to win the Blake Prize in 2009 and in 2013 she was the inaugural recipient of the Ian Potter Moving Image Commission.

“It’s such a huge honour that I’m very grateful to accept,” said Mesiti. “I’d like to say a big thank you to the selection panel for their faith in my practice and recognition of my work.”

Angelica Mesiti. Photo © Josh Raymond

“I’m excited to be working with the brilliant Juliana Engberg as curator; someone whose intelligence and integrity I admire. With her depth of experience, humour and passion I feel assured of a wonderful partnership,” she said. “I’m looking forward to an amazing year ahead developing the project with my valued team of collaborators and the Australia Council Venice Project team to present an artwork which will challenge and engage the many...