Beads to talk about decolonization. Canada's Pavilion at the Biennale
The Pavilion of Canada presents itself at the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale with a large female presence, artists and curators with diverse cultural backgrounds but united in conveying important messages through their art. Indeed,...Read more...
Venice Biennale, here's how much the pavilions cost (but so many countries prefer not to say)
How much do the national pavilions of the Venice Biennale cost? The outlay that all countries, every two years, correspond to participate in the world's leading contemporary art exhibition is no small thing: however, very few countries are willing to...Read more...
If the Venice Biennale becomes a photo safari among outsiders. The limits of Pedrosa's exhibition.
Exactly fifty years have passed since an "Initiative Committee for Naïve Painting at the Venice Biennale" wrote to Carlo Ripa di Meana, who had just been appointed president of the recently reformed Biennale, an impassioned letter asking the ins...Read more...
Pope Francis at Venice Biennale: first time in history for a pontiff
For the first time in history, a pontiff is visiting the Venice Biennale: in fact, Pope Francis arrived this morning by helicopter in the Lagoon, where he first met with the female inmates of the Giudecca prison and then visited the Holy See Pavilion...Read more...
Venice Biennale, to Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
On Saturday, April 20, 2024 at Ca' Giustinian in Venice, the awards and opening ceremony of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale was held. During the event, Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement were awarded to artists Anna Ma...Read more...
Venice Biennale, Australia wins the Golden Lion. All the awardees
This morning, April 20, at Ca' Giustinian in Venice, the Jury of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, composed of Julia Bryan-Wilson (USA), president of the jury, Alia Swastika (Indonesia), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Nigeria), Elena ...Read more...
Biennale, at the Dutch Pavilion works by Congolese collective CATPC made with cocoa and palm oil
For the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the Congolese artist collective Cercle d'Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC) celebrates the blasphemous and the sacred within the Dutch Pavilion, displayed in the G...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2024, the top 10 best national pavilions in our opinion
La Biennale di Venezia is preparing to open its doors to the public for its 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and produced by La Biennale di Venezia. The event will take pl...Read more...
Biennale, at the French Pavilion a poetic journey into the ocean with Julien Creuzet
The title of the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, "Strangers Everywhere," proposed by Adriano Pedrosa, gave a clear political and social orientation to the 2024 event. This title makes direct reference to the work of the Pa...Read more...
Venice, the Berengo Foundation and Berengo Studio present the exhibition GLASSTRESS 8?
The Berengo Foundation and Berengo Studio present GLASSTRESS 8½, curated by Umberto Croppi at Tesa 99 of the North Arsenale in Venice and the Berengo Art Space Foundation in Murano, an exhibition open free to the public from April 20 to Novemb...Read more...
Biennale 2024, at Turkey Pavilion a project on the current world affected by wars and tragedies
For the 2004 edition of the Venice Biennale, the Pavilion of Turkey presents Hollow and Broken: A State of the World, a site-specific installation by Gülsün Karamustafa, one of Turkey's most influential artists. Located in the historic Arse...Read more...
Iceland Pavilion at the Biennale presents an ironic exhibition on our material culture
The Icelandic Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia opens to the public this week, presenting That's a Very Large Number - A Commerzbau by Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir. The exhibition, curated by American curat...Read more...
Venice Biennale, at Nigeria pavilion a project on the country's imagery
For the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, the Nigeria Pavilion presents the Nigeria Imaginary project, commissioned by Godwin Obaseki, Governor of Edo State, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture and Creat...Read more...
Illycaffè launches the new Illy Art Collection signed by 4 emerging Latin American artists.
illycaffè, global coffee company presents the new illy Art Collection dedicated to the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which bears the same name as the event "Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere". A more than 20...Read more...
Peru's pavilion for the Biennale is dedicated to thinking about the environment
The 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale Arte di Venezia runs from April 20 to November 24, 2024, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, entitled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Every where. In the Peru Pavilion at the Arsenale Hall of Arms, the proje...Read more...
Venice Biennale, at the Mexico pavilion an installation by Erick Meyenberg
The Mexican Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia scheduled from April 20 to Nov. 24, 2024 presents "Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre," "We left, we always came back," a video installation by mu...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2024, here are the first photos of the international exhibition
First images from the Venice Biennale after press day, the day reserved for the press that anticipates the three-day preview before the major international exhibition finally opens its doors to the public (this year it will do so from April 20 to Nov...Read more...
Venice Biennale, at Kazakhstan pavilion an exhibition chronicling the country's contemporary art
The Republic of Kazakhstan presents its second pavilion with the exhibition "Jerūiyq: Journey Beyond the Horizon" at the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale scheduled from April 20 to November 24, 2024. Commissioned by Aida Bala...Read more...
Biennale, at Malta Pavilion for the first time a single show by a Maltese artist
A solo show by Maltese artist Matthew Attard will be the project for the Malta Pavilion at this year's 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia scheduled from April 20 to November 24, 2024, commissioned by theArts Council of Malta. ...Read more...
Venice Biennale, Oman presents its pavilion: showcasing the country's cultural heritage
The Sultanate of Oman, positioned on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, has unveiled its national pavilion for the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, scheduled from April 20 to November 24, 2024. Oman is in its ...Read more...
Poland brings tragedy of Ukraine war to Venice Biennale
Poland brings the tragedy of the war in Ukraine to the Venice Biennale. Indeed, the project that the Polish Pavilion is presenting to the public is all about the conflict that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine in February 2022 and consists of an a...Read more...
Migration connections are the theme of the Germany Pavilion at Biennale 2024
Under the title Thresholds, the German Pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale 2024 visitable from April 20 to November 24, 2024, tells the story and the future from different artistic positions. Curated by architect ÇaÄŸla Ilk for the 60th Inte...Read more...
Vatican brings Maurizio Cattelan and Claire Fontaine to Venice Biennale
Maurizio Cattelan, Bintou Dembélé, Simone Fattal, Claire Fontaine, Sonia Gomes, Corita Kent, Marco Perego & Zoe Saldana, and Claire Tabouret. They are the artists who will make up the Holy See Pavilion at the 60th International Art ...Read more...
Strangers in their own country: Aleksandar Denić's project for the Serbian Pavilion at the Biennale
Entitled Exposition Coloniale , Serbia 's exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024: representing the Balkan country is Aleksandar Denić (Belgrade, 1963), who is exhibiting his project in the Serbia Pavilion exhibition curated by Ksenija Samardija. ...Read more...
Venice Biennale does not accept appeals against Israel and Iran: we exclude no one
The Venice Biennale will not exclude Israel and Iran from the 2024 edition of the major international exhibition. Falling on deaf ears, then, are the appeals launched against the two countries that have come to the attention of the news in recent hou...Read more...
Venice Biennale, Valeria Montti Colque will represent Chile
Cosmonación is an invitation to reflect on the concepts of nationality, exile, migration and diaspora. This is the project by artist Valeria Montti Colque curated by Andrea Pacheco González for La 60. International Art Exhibition of the Ven...Read more...
Venice Biennale, appeal launched calling for Iran's exclusion
After the letter urging the exclusion of Israel from the Venice Biennale, there is now also an appeal calling forIran not to participate in the major international exhibition. The appeal for Iran out of the Biennale was launched by Woman Life Freedom...Read more...
Sangiuliano: Israel has the right to express its art. No to exclusion from the Biennale
"It is unacceptable, as well as shameful, the diktat of those who think they are the repository of truth and with arrogance and hatred think they are threatening freedom of thought and creative expression in a democratic and free nation like Italy. I...Read more...
An exhibition on listening. What the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Biennale will look like.
Presented this morning the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024: the exhibition by Massimo Bartolini, the only artist representing our country, curated by Luca Cerizza, is titled Due qui / To Hear and aims to explore the theme of the internat...Read more...
Thousands sign to ask Venice Biennale to exclude Israel
A letter asking the Venice Biennale to exclude Israel from national participation: thousands of artists, curators, professors and people more or less connected to the art world have signed it. The basic thesis of the group, which has renamed itself "...Read more...
A. "Pink planet" for the Azerbaijan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
It is titled From Caspian to Pink Planet: I Am Here the exhibition thatAzerbaijan is presenting at the 60th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, in the spaces of the Arsenale, from April 20 to November 24, 2024, organized by the Heyda...Read more...
Berlinde De Bruyckere will be featured in a major Biennale collateral
Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere (Ghent, 1964), one of the big names in international art, is featured in a collateral event of the 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale. It is an exhibition entitled City of Refuge III, conceived specifically for t...Read more...
In Venice a major exhibition on Robert Indiana during the Venice Biennale
One of the great names in Pop Art, Robert Indiana (Robert Clark; New Castle, 1928 - Vinalhaven, 2018), is featured in an exhibition running April 17 through Nov. 24 at the Procuratie Vecchie in Venice. The exhibition is presented by the Yorkshire Scu...Read more...
Iva Lulashi will represent Albania at the 2024 Biennale. Her project will be about sex and love
It will be the young Iva Lulashi (Tirana, 1988) who will representAlbania at the Venice Biennale 2024. The painter, who was born in Albania and moved to Italy as a child, did all her training here and works in our country: in fact, she graduated in 2...Read more...
Pope Francis will visit the Venice Biennale
Pope Francis will visit the Venice Biennale. The pontiff will visit the exhibition on Sunday, April 28 , during one of his visits to Venice. According to Vatican News, the organ of the Holy See's Dicastery of Communication, Francis will be the fourth...Read more...
Can the Venice Biennale claim to have decolonialist intentions?
Biennial out of control. Curators have to choose from a given menu, and if that menu is mediocre, the Biennale will be no different. Contemporary art has gone through two crises (2001 and 2009) that have caused it to lose its ability to read the pres...Read more...
Eddie Martinez will represent the Republic of San Marino at the Venice Biennale 2024
Eddie Martinez (Gordon Naval Base, Connecticut, 1977) will represent the Republic of San Marino at the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia with the project Nomader, curated by Alison M. Gingeras. New works by the American artis...Read more...
War at the center of the Ukraine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Here's what it will look like
It will be titled Net Making , the exhibition that the Ukrainian Pavilion will present at the 60th Venice Biennale.It was not easy to curate the participation in the Biennale, for the second time since Russia invaded the country in 2022, but in the e...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2024, there will be 332 artists. Here's who they are
Presented today in detail the next edition of the Venice Biennale , which will open from Saturday, April 20 to Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, at the Giardini andArsenale. The 60th International Art Exhibition entitled Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Every...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2024, here are who the artists of the national pavilions are (for now)
We are only a few months away from the opening of the Biennale, and we can now know almost all the artists featured in the national pavilions. The 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will run from April 20 to November 14, 2024, u...Read more...
Slaves, amazons and voodoo rites: Benin's first time at the Venice Biennale
For the first time in history, Benin is participating in the Venice Biennale: the African country unveiled the terms of its participation today. The Republic of Benin will thus be at the 60th International Art Exhibition, scheduled from Saturday, Apr...Read more...
New Zealand gives up pavilion at Venice Biennale 2024
New Zealand is giving up its national pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale . The decision had been in the air for some time (there was already talk of it after the last edition), but it was made official only a few days ago by the Creative New Zealan...Read more...
Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa will curate the 2024 Venice Biennale
Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa (Rio de Janeiro, 1965) will curate the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale to be held in 2024. Pedrosa's name was announced today after the Biennale's Board of Directors met this morning and, at the prop...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2022 closes with more than 800,000 visitors
The 2022 edition of the Venice Art Biennale closes today, Sunday, Nov. 27, with more than 800,000 tickets sold, marking a 35 percent increase in visitors over the 197 days of opening, to which must be added the 22,498 attendance during the pre-openin...Read more...
The Venice Biennale is a crossroads of gazes and questions
If the specific phenomenology of Museum fatigue, an "admitted evil" for which Benjamin Ives Gilman tried to find some remedy as early as 1916, has been recognized for more than a century, not as much attention has been paid to the fatigue, centripeta...Read more...
A Biennial to ask where our world is going and what we are responsible for
"I open myself against my will by dreaming of other planets. I dream of other ways of seeing this life." This phrase by Mexican, U.S.-transplanted Felipe Baeza, placed in the exergue of the brief synopsis of one of the works on display at the Arsenal...Read more...
Children's games from around the world. Francis Alÿs' poetry at the Venice Biennale
Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Aug. 21, 2021. On the shore of a mound formed by the waste materials of a cobalt mine, a child, dressed in a yellow and green soccer shirt and a pair of red shorts, climbs up pushing the dusty tire of a truck...Read more...
Visiting the Venice Biennale is no easy feat
Visiting the Venice Biennale is no easy feat. Visiting the Venice Biennale is a commitment, for body and mind. Visiting the Venice Biennale is an adventure, and like all adventures, it can be rewarding and frustrating at the same time. We are gratif...Read more...
Does the average Venice Biennale audience want to learn or do they want to have fun?
In 2008 an expert on Biennales who did not want to be considered an art historian, Gillo Dorfles, noted that exhibitions were already occupying the "free time" of Italians as an alternative to visits to shopping malls, restaurants, and gambling halls...Read more...
The suitcase for the Venice Biennale
How to visit the Venice Biennale? Leave preconceptions and expectations at home - to see it all, to understand it all, to grasp its intimate meaning. Pack a willingness to stumble upon the unexpected, to get lost and to waste time. Above all, ta...Read more...
"Maisons du Monde" art goes on stage at the Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale and the Italian Pavilion are litmus tests of a crisis in contemporary art that has been dragging on for at least ten to fifteen years. As I have motivated many times in recent years, the contemporary art system (market and events)...Read more...
Rogue Nostalgia. The archaeology of the present on display at the Italian Pavilion
Not even Cecilia Alemani, the current artistic director of the 59th Venice Biennale, at the time of her curatorship for the Italian Pavilion in 2017, risked the choice of the sole artist for one of the largest and most conspicuous department...Read more...
The self-righteous Venice Biennale. A milk of dreams that looks to the past
Among the more than four hundred works that give body to The Milk of Dreams, the international exhibition of the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, there is one that sums up all its contradictions: one encounters it shortly after the halfway poin...Read more...
Tosatti and Viola's Italian Pavilion, perfect merry-go-round of fake fireflies and high fashion
A frequent, continuous and melancholy sense of the sublime pervades the pages of Ermanno Rea's Dismissione, the novel that narrates the dismantling of Ilva di Bagnoli from the point of view of the technician in charge of waiting for the succe...Read more...
Black music and a sense of community. This is what the Golden Lion-winning British Pavilion looks like.
The Pavilion of Great Britain is certainly one of the most visited pavilions at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale, along with perhaps neighboring France.The long queue that you usually have to face should not frighten you and above all shou...Read more...
In Venice, Rachel Lee Hovnanian presents her mute angels in an immersive installation
From April 23 to November 27, 2022, the Study and Documentation Center of Armenian Culture will host Rachel Lee Hovnanian's immersive installation entitled Angels Listening, a collateral event of the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di...Read more...
Promos and failures of the Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2022. The report card
For the 2022 edition of the Venice Biennale, we came up with the report card of the national pavilions to communicate our hot impressions. In the style of the report cards of sports newspapers, with the pretension of not being complete but ...Read more...
Biennale 2022: lifetime achievement gold lions to artists Fritsch and Vicuña
The Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 59th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale - The Milk of Dreams have been awarded to German artist Katharina Fritsch and Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña, upon the proposal of curator...Read more...
The Procuratie Vecchie opens to the public with a major exhibition on Louise Nevelson
From April 23 to September 11, 2022, the Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark's Square in Venice will partially open to the public for a major exhibition dedicated to Louise Nevelson, an official collateral event of the 59th Venice Biennale's International...Read more...
Biennale, France Pavilion will be an immersive film installation
The Pavilion of France was unveiled this morning at the 59th. International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, which will take place from April 23 to November 27, 2022. France will be represented by Zineb Sedira (Gennevilliers, 1963), who will tr...Read more...
Three myths to dispel about the Renaissance (of the trivializations of Cecilia Alemani and Chiara Valerio)
It will be a Venice Biennale "against the Renaissance," anticipates Chiara Valerio, who will sign one of the essays in the catalog of the international exhibition curated by Cecilia Alemani. That is, it will try to propose to the visitor a ...Read more...
After six months of construction, Palazzo Grassi reopens with an exhibition on Venice in black and white
In Venice, Palazzo Grassi reopens its doors, after six months of maintenance work, with the exhibition HYPERVENEZIA, entirely dedicated to the city on the occasion of the 1,600th anniversary of its founding: for the first time, the ambitious Venice U...Read more...
Major exhibitions in 2022: the 10 most anticipated events, from Renoir to Jeff Koons
Now that we have begun, a few weeks ago, to visit exhibitions and museums again after the long months of closures due to the restrictive measures imposed by the government, there is an eagerness to return to our cultural venues, and above all...Read more...
The Venice Biennale is 125 years old. And it celebrates with an exhibition on its history
La Biennale di Venezia, on the 125th anniversary of its founding, presents the exhibition The Restless Muses. La Biennale di Venezia Facing History, which will be held at the Central Pavilion of the Giardini della Biennale from Saturday, August 29 un...Read more...
Biennale, the Italian Pavilion is weak and superficial, and the real artist is the curator
The multifarious conglomeration of articles, short articles, editorials, reviews, elzeviri, and rinses of communiqués that have been accompanying the Italian Pavilion 's exhibition(Neither Other Nor This. The Challenge to the Labyrinth) at the...Read more...
Biennale yes, Biennale no: in Venice, the value is in the conversation
You can visit or return to explore the Venice Art Biennale 2019 again for the next month and a half, except on Mondays, every day until Nov. 24. In the first five of the opening of this fifty-eighth edition, there have been numerous insights that p...Read more...
Flop 10: the worst national pavilions at the 2019 Venice Biennale
A few days after the opening of the fifty-eighth Venice Biennale, we had published our top 10 of the best national pavilions (as well as commentary on the winner of the Golden Lion for the best national participation, the pavilion of Lithuania). ...Read more...
Venice Biennale 2019, the ten best national pavilions according to Windows on Art
The fifty-eighth Venice Biennale proved to be very rich, and there are not a few interesting topics emerging from this 2019 edition of the world's most important contemporary art exhibition. We have already had a chance to comment on the winner o...Read more...
How should we interpret the faux-beach victory of Lithuania's pavilion at the Venice Biennale?
It was not difficult to predict that Lithuania's pavilion would win the almost unanimous appreciation of the public at the Venice Biennale, as well as many insiders, although, perhaps, it was not so obvious to imagine that the performance curated b...Read more...
Venice Biennale, Milovan Farronato imagined an exhibition-labyrinth for his Italian Pavilion
The presentation of the Italian Pavilion of the 58th edition of the Venice Biennale was held yesterday at the Sala Spadolini of the Collegio Romano, headquarters of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, in the presence of the curator, Milovan Farronato(...Read more...
Here is the 2019 Venice Biennale. It will be titled May you live in interesting times.
May youlive in interesting times: that is what the title of the 2019 Venice Biennale, curated by Ralph Rugoff and titled May you live in interesting times, hopes for. The 58th edition of the most important international art exhibition, unveiled in th...Read more...
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