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SPRING SEASON RELEASE 2022 
Installation view of Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, Room 6 in the British Pavilion featuring performer Tanita Tikaram, 2022 - Image Cristiano Corte © British Council
Therme Art Announces Upcoming Programmes, Symposia, and Initiatives in Venice and London
Support of Sonia Boyce’s Exhibition in the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Marks Fourth Consecutive Partnership with the British Council at Art and Architecture Biennales
 Benefit Gala to be Held on April 21 To Raise Funds for Ukrainian Humanitarian Organisations  
Venice, Italy, 20 April 2022 – Therme Art  is pleased to announce upcoming programmes and activations presented in partnership with leading institutions, governmental agencies, artists, architects, urban planners, and scientists that advance our mission of fostering individual and social wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and the resiliency of urban life. These include initiatives at the Biennale Arte 2022, Venice and the Serpentine, London. 
UPCOMING PROGRAMMES AND PARTNERSHIPS
SONIA BOYCE OBE RA
British Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia
23 April – 27 November 2022 (pre-opening on 20, 21, and 22 April)
Installation view of Sonia Boyce, Feeling Her Way, Room 1 in the British Pavilion featuring four performers - Errollyn Wallen, Tanita Tikaram, Poppy Ajudha, Jacqui Dankworth – 2022 – Image Cristiano Corte © British Council
Therme Group is proud to announce its support of Sonia Boyce's major solo exhibition Feeling Her Way at the Biennale Arte 2022, commissioned by the British Council to represent Great Britain in the British Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition. This marks Therme Group’s fourth consecutive partnership with the British Council at the Venice Art and Architecture Biennials.

Sonia Boyce’s installation in the British Pavilion immerses visitors in the collaborative dynamism of five Black female musicians brought together by the artist to improvise, interact, and play with their voices. Colour-tinted video works take centre stage among Boyce’s signature tessellating wallpapers and golden 3-D geometric structures, which bring the audience into the work through their highly reflective surfaces. The rooms of the pavilion are filled with sounds — sometimes harmonious, sometimes clashing – embodying feelings of freedom, power and vulnerability.
WELLBEING CULTURE FORUM | THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL PRACTICE
British Pavilion
21 April 2022
4:45 – 6:30 pm
In collaboration with the British Council and in partnership with the Serpentine, Therme Art is mounting the third edition of its annual Wellbeing Culture Forum. The Impact of Social Practice draws upon Boyce’s installation to explore the social components of her process, highlighting its historical context and political significance, alongside the practices of other artists whose work centres on community in order to provoke change.
 
Following opening remarks by Mikolaj Sekutowicz, CEO of Therme Art, and Emma Dexter, Commissioner of the British Pavilion, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Curator and Artistic Director of Serpentine Galleries, and Monilola Olayemi Ilupeju, Artist and Curator, co-moderate a panel in conversation with Boyce; Precious Okoyomon, Artist and Poet; and Emma Ridgway, Curator of the British Pavilion.
BENEFIT FOR UKRAINE'S PEOPLE AND CULTURE
Scuola Grande di San Rocco, San Polo
21 April 2022
8:00 pm
Scuola Grande di San Rocco
An array of international foundations and arts organisations such as The Brant Foundation and Ikona Collection, in partnership with TBA21, are joining together to co-host a benefit gala and auction to raise funds to support pressing humanitarian needs in Ukraine, including cultural workers and resources. The recipients include Maria Prymachenko Family Foundation, Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund, 100% Life, the Museum Crisis Centre, the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, Museums for Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Emergency Pavilion.
 
The benefit is being hosted by Peter Brant Jr, Ivy Getty, Cecilia Alemani, Princess Alia Al-Senussi, Klaus Biesenbach, Stefano Boeri, Roksana Ciurysek-Gedir, Simon de Pury, Larry Gagosian, Marc Glimcher and Fairfax Dorn, Robert Hanea, Maja Hoffmann, Maria Isserlis, Simon Lee, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ulla Parker, Erica Pelosini, Mikolaj Sekutowicz and Sara Farai, Tej Tadi and Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza.
 
The event also includes a dinner and auction led by Simon de Pury, followed by a special performance. Learn more and follow the live auction at ukrainebenefit.ikona.one.
SERPENTINE PAVILION 2022
Theaster Gates, Black Chapel
10 June – 16 October 2022
Serpentine Pavilion 2022 Black Chapel designed by Theaster Gates. Design render, exterior view. © 2022 Theaster Gates Studio, courtesy: Serpentine
Therme Group is supporting the realisation of Black Chapel, the 2022 Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Theaster Gates with Adjaye Associates throughout its full life cycle, marking the fourth consecutive year of its partnership with the Serpentine on its annual architectural commission. The partners’ ongoing collaboration explores the bonds that link art, architecture and forms of creative expression through channels that encourage wellbeing, such as their co-curated Wellbeing Culture Forum talks programme.
 
Therme Group previously supported Serpentine Pavilions designed by Sumayya Vally and her studio Counterspace (2021), Junya Ishigami (2019) and Frida Escobedo (2018). Therme Art partnered in the activation of each of these architectural spaces through the conceptualisation and organisation of innovative events and commissioned projects that provided platforms for cross-disciplinary exchange and innovative thinking that seeks to foster wellbeing through the arts.
 
Black Chapel, together with previous pavilions which have been realised through the support of Therme Art, are now in the stewardship of Therme Group, and will be relocated to a permanent site in the future.
RECENT PROGRAMMES
WELLBEING CULTURE SYMPOSIUM | HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
31 March – 3 April 2022
Meisenheim and Disibodenberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Wellbeing Culture Symposium | Hildegard von Bingen
Hildegard von Bingen (c. 1098-1179), is considered a forebear in the development of a scientific approach to our understanding of the natural world, as well as a healer, writer and composer. Her exploration of the dynamic relationship between the human microcosm and the mesocosm on Gaia, inspired a rich body of holistic knowledge. Drawing upon Hildegard’s interdisciplinary work, this Wellbeing Culture Symposium brought together artists, architects, designers, scientists and activists to spark creative dialogue on pressing issues concerning the wellbeing of humanity, including social inclusion, urban development and ecosystem regeneration.
 
Co-organised by Therme Art, One Health Research Centre, Serpentine, and IKEM, the conference explored themes including: secular vs religious transcendence, spiritual principles in creative fields, ancient and indigenous wisdom, food as archive, the bifurcation of the natural and human worlds and a call to symbiotic futures. Participants in the symposium co-curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Mikolaj Sekutowicz included Tino Sehgal, Sumayya Vally, Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Koo Jeong A, Es Devlin, Tatiana Bilbao, Kennedy Yanko, Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Claudia Paetzold and Jeanne de Kroon.
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