Arriving in Venice at a moment when the art world stages its most visible circuits of exchange, ‘ArtWorld Passport’ resists the conventions of exhibition-making. Conceived by Zimbabwean artist Richard Mudariki, it is not so much an exhibition as it is an artwork in motion. Part document, part performance, part social sculpture, the passport transforms the bureaucratic apparatus of travel into a speculative tool for reimagining access and authorship. Operating as a living syst

artworld passport artistic creator Richard Mudariki with Ibrahim Muhama in London (image courtsey of artHARARE) The Government of Ghana...

by Stephan Rheeder Conceived by Zimbabwean artist and artHARARE founder Richard Mudariki, the Art World Passport is a poetic act of resistance: a symbolic document that reimagines the global art world as a borderless space of movement, connection, and exchange. First launched during Frieze Week New York and recently featured at the inaugural Africa Basel, the project invites artists, curators, and collectors to record their journeys through the art world – stamping their pas