Photo by Giorgio Zucchiatti, courtesy Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia

Daniel Birnbaum

Andy Warhol John Baldessari Wolfgang Tillmans Rirkrit Tiravanija Paul Cezanne Aleksandra Mir Thomas Bayrle Gordon Matta Clark

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Are you bracing yourself for the critical reception?

I’ve never experienced a love situation. I’ve written about many Venice Biennales, and I can say in retrospect that some of them were fantastic, now that I see how difficult it is to do something. Biennales are never loved, and that’s OK, because they are not there to be loved. They are there to be discussed.

So you’re prepared?

I shouldn’t say I don’t care if people write bad things. I will be happy if someone sees something I’ve managed to communicate, but I’m prepared that, with 5,000 accredited journalists, it will not be a love affair.

"Conversation with Daniel Birnbaum" originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of Art+Auction. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Art+Auction's June 2009 Table of Contents.