At the 61st edition of the Venice Art Biennale, Austrian performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger (Vienna, 1986) returns to the spotlight. She does so within the Austrian Pavilion curated by Nora Swantje Almes by bringing to life Sea...
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After firmly deciding not to attend either the pre-opening days of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale or the opening ceremony scheduled for May 9, Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli went to Venice this morning. Welcoming h...
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Chiara Camoni's work, or a significant part of Con te con tutto, could find a permanent location at the end of the Art Biennale, thus continuing to live beyond the exhibition period and becoming permanently available to the public. This is the hope e...
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The bell performance at the Austria Pavilion that everyone is talking about? At the Venice Biennale, Florentina Holzinger 's work Seaworld Venice attracted everyone's attention from day one, mainly because of the flashy action that, at the stroke of ...
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The Pavilion of Spain at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale presents Los restos, a project by artist Oriol Vilanova (Manresa, 1980), curated by Carles Guerra, which transforms the exhibition space into an enveloping and temp...
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That a home cannot exist without the verdant complicity of a tree, of a plant, of any plant species is a fact known from the beginning, evidence across cultures, across latitudes, across the entire history of humanity. It is worth, meanwhile, the ide...
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At the 61st Venice Biennale, the Danish Pavilion entrusts Maja Malou Lyse with one of the most controversial reflections of the 2026 edition. The Danish Arts Foundation thus presents Things To Come, an exhibition project curated by Chus Martín...
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Thirty years after Chihuly Over Venice, the project that helped redefine the relationship between contemporary art and the Venetian glassmaking tradition in the 1990s, Dale Chihuly returns to the lagoon city with a new diffuse intervention conceived ...
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illycaffè presented the new illy Art Collection In minor Keys in Venice at the 61st. International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The project is part of the event's program and interprets Koyo Kouoh's chosen theme, In Minor Keys, th...
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One can challenge anything to this Venice Biennale, except the success of Pietrangelo Buttafuoco's masterpiece of unintentional strategy, repaid by the most fragrant numbers the president could hope for: 10 thousand visitors during the first opening ...
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With the opening of the Venice Biennale 2026 to the public, voting for the Visitor Lions of the 61st International Art Exhibition, which will replace the traditional Golden Lions due to the resignation of the jury before the opening, also officially ...
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The 61st edition of the Venice Art Biennale starts today, May 9, 2026, and will run until November 22, 2026. The In Minor Keys project, conceived by director Koyo Kouoh before her passing in May 2025, has been brought to fruition by her team to honor...
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Bvlgari inaugurates its role asexclusive partner of the Biennale Arte 2026 with a double initiative aimed at strengthening the Roman fashion house's link with the world of contemporary art and international cultural production. The debut of the colla...
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There is no peace for this Biennale. Pre-opening day seems to be taking place in a climate marked by mobilizations and heated institutional and labor confrontation. A procession and a workers' strike, both linked to protests against Israel's pavilion...
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Queues of at least two hours to get in, signs warning that the work might offend public sensibilities, endless chatter, invitations not to take photos systematically disregarded by the public, and even a few tense moments caused by those who failed t...
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On the day of the pre-opening of the Venice Art Biennale 2026, the Pavilion of Russia was at the center of a protest organized by the Pussy Riot collective, which staged a demonstration action against Russian President Vladimir Putin. As reported by ...
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Every two years, Venice transforms into the gravitational center ofglobal contemporary art. The Biennale, with its kaleidoscope of national pavilions, collateral events and special projects, is an expected and celebrated ritual, but also a massive, a...
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The first images from the Venice Biennale 2026 are arriving, following the press day that preceded the three-day preview reserved for insiders. The 61st International Art Exhibition, titled In Minor Keys, will officially open to the public from May 9...
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At the Venice Biennale, after much controversy on the eve of the event, the Pavilion of Russia returns to open, marking Moscow's return to the exhibition for the first time since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The opening is one of the most controv...
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Presented today at the Italian Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale: Con te con tutto, a project by Chiara Camoni (Piacenza, 1974) curated by Cecilia Canziani. Promoted by the General Directorate for Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture...
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In the shortlist of ten Arab artists competing in the 61st Venice Art Biennale, including such well-known ones as Kader Attia and Walid Raad, only three artists are from an earlier generation, born between the 1940s and 1950s: Palestinian Vera Tamari...
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While waiting for the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled In Minor Keys and curated by Koyo Kouoh, the contemporary art system is preparing for a new exhibition cycle of wide international scope. The activity of Art Eve...
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Redefining the very concept of the exhibition pavilion, removing it from the centrality of physical space and transferring it to the domestic dimension. It is on this premise that In Home Pavilion, a project by the collective led by Luca Rossi, is ba...
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More shingles on the Venice Biennale 2026. Today, just days before the official opening,Iran announced that it will not take part in the 61st International Art Exhibition, scheduled for May 9 to November 22, 2026. The news was released through a stat...
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Seven pages of a report arrived on the table of Palazzo Chigi at the center of the case involving the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale and the management of compliance with the European sanctions regime. The document, as reported by L'Espresso...
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On the occasion of the 61st Venice Biennale, Finestre sull'Arte will temporarily relocate its editorial staff to Venice from May 5 to 9, 2026, during the days of the event preview. The operational headquarters will be Palazzo Smith - Casa Art Events,...
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The Ministry of Culture has ordered inspectors to be sent to the headquarters of the Venice Biennale at Ca' Giustinian as part of a series of checks related to the staging of the Russian pavilion planned for the 2026 Art Biennale. As reported by the ...
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Minister Alessandro Giuli will not be present in Venice during the pre-opening days of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, nor will he take part in the opening ceremony scheduled for May 9. The decision was officially annou...
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The international jury of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has made it known that it will refrain from considering countries whose leaders are currently charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Co...
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The jury of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, scheduled from May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026 between the Giardini and the Arsenale in Venice, will be composed of only women. Chairing the panel will be Solange Oliveira Farkas, flank...
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From April 19 to November 22, 2026, The Glass Rooms in Venice, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, host the exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale, the third chapter of the project dedicated to the presence of Murano glass at the Bienn...
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A group of artists, cultural workers and organizations active in Somalia has released, through the Somali Arts Foundation, a collective position statement ahead of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, protesting the way in wh...
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The exhibition project Persistent Notes, with which the Venice Pavilion will participate in the Biennale Arte 2026, was presented at Ca' Farsetti, headquarters of the Venice City Council. The initiative proposes an investigation of the lagoon city un...
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For the first time in its history, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is officially participating in the Venice Art Biennale: The debut takes place as part of the 61st. International Art Exhibition, scheduled to be held in Venice from May 9 to Nov. 22...
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The mountainous landscapes of Kyrgyzstan, with their glaciers, rivers and imposing hydraulic infrastructures with a Brutalist imprint, are the starting point for BELEK, Alexey Morosov's large immersive installation presented by the Pavilion of the Ky...
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Lithuania has announced its participation in the 61st. International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2026 with a project that interweaves archaeological research, performance practice and contemporary visual languages. Representing the count...
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The Central Pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale has been completely renovated, following a major redevelopment. The project was made possible thanks to public funding made available by the Italian state through the Ministry of Culture, as...
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Since the issue of the Russian presence at the Venice Biennale has become common knowledge, the social pages of newspapers and art magazines, including the one I direct, have become a receptacle for amiable quips about the freedom of art (to which, f...
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The controversy over Russia's presence at the Venice Biennale is enriched by a new chapter. After the political and diplomatic tensions of the last few days, culminating with the request for resignation made by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli to th...
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Call me nostalgic, but I remain of the opinion that the Italian Pavilion should be, as it once was, at the Giardini, and not at the Arsenale, as the first view for entry to the event. Call me a nationalist if what I think is that, as is the case else...
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New political clash around the Venice Biennale and Russia's participation in the next edition of the event (on the subject read also the editorial by Federico Giannini, editor of Finestre sull'Arte). In fact, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli has ask...
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Russia 's participation in the next edition of the Venice Biennale ignites a new front of institutional tension between Brussels and the Foundation that organizes the historic event. In fact, the European Commission has said it could suspend or withd...
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The design of the Italian Pavilion for the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale was presented at the Ministry of Culture. The pavilion, titled Con te con tutto (With you with everything), is entrusted to artist Chiara Camoni under...
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For the first time in several years, Russia will participate in the Venice Biennale, sparking criticism and concern in the international arena. A post published on Instagram by the feminist art collective Pussy Riot, highlights how Moscow's eventual ...
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Of course, the first reaction at the end of the Venice Biennale press conference In minor keys, in a warm (and loud) voice, was surprise: "Not even an Italian artist!" But almost simultaneously, in a low voice (having reflected just enough to catch o...
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After more than a year of recovery and restoration work, the main floor of Ca' Giustinian Faccanon, a historic building located in the sestiere of San Marco, reopens in Venice. The palace is once again accessible thanks to the purchase of the propert...
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We could hardly have imagined, even a couple of weeks ago, that we would be forced to see a Venice Biennale this year that reopens its doors to Russia. A legitimization, a rehabilitation in all respects. Let's start immediately with an observation: t...
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The Ministry of Culture intervenes on the issue of Russia's participation in the next edition of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale: the department headed by Alessandro Giuli in particular has distanced itself from the Bien...
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I reached out via Instagram to Rory Tsapayi, a member of the Venice Biennale curatorial team who, since May 2025, has been overseeing the implementation of this year's international exhibition . After the death on May 10, 2025, of artistic director K...
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The news of Russia 's participation in the Venice Biennale 2026, which was officially confirmed this morning when the Biennale organization released the list of national participations, is already arousing, for now on social media, outrage among Ukra...
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After two consecutive editions marked by absence, Russia will reopen its national pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Confirmation came this morning from the Biennale organization itself, which included Russia among the official national participat...
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Perhaps the spirit of the Biennale is destined to change. The world in which we live has changed, the so-called "art system" is showing cracks that were once unsuspected, and the figures animating it-artists, critics, curators, public and private ins...
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The 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, titled In Minor Keys, which will open to the public on Saturday, May 9, and remain open to the public until Sunday, Nov. 22, 2026, was presented this morning, spreading across the Giardini...
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South Africa will not participate in the 61st Venice Art Biennale in 2026. The national pavilion will remain empty, breaking an uninterrupted presence that lasted since 2011. The decision, confirmed by South Africa's Ministry of Culture to The Art Ne...
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Henrike Naumann, the artist who, together with Vietnamese artist Sung Tieu, is representing Germany at the Venice Art Biennale 2026, curated by Kathleen Reinhardt, passed away at just 41 years old following a cancer diagnosis that came too late.
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Poland has announced the artists who will represent the country at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, scheduled for 2026. The Polish Pavilion will host Liquid Tongues, a project signed by Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski...
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Until April 12, 2026, the Bishop's Palace in Portogruaro (Venice), Via del Seminario 19, is hosting the exhibition Artists at the Biennales 1900-1960. Dialogues and Silences in Painting between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. The initiative i...
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The Glass Rooms, a project of the Giorgio Cini Foundation onlus and Pentagram Stiftung on theIsland of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, announce the exhibition 1948-1958 Murano Glass and the Venice Biennale, scheduled from April 19 to November 22, 202...
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At the 61st. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, the Republic of Slovenia presents Soundtrack for an Invisible House, an installation project developed by the Nonument Group and curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez, wi...
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In the end, Israel has broken the deadlock: the country will participate in the sixty-first edition of the Venice Biennale, scheduled to run from May 9 to November 22, 2026, although its participation can hardly be said to have started in the most fa...
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South Africa's Minister of Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie, is questioning South Africa 's participation in the 61st Venice Biennale, scheduled to take place this spring, justifying the choice by the content of Gabrielle Goliath 's work selected to...
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The official announcement has finally arrived after rumors in recent days: the sculptor Alma Allen (Salt Lake City, 1970) will represent the United States at the Venice Biennale 2026 . He will be the star of the U.S. Pavilion. The 2026 U.S. Pavilion ...
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Saudi Arabian artist Dana Awartani (Jeddah, 1987), an ethnic Palestinian, will representSaudi Arabia at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, scheduled from May 9 to November 22, 2026. The news, announced by the Visual Arts Co...
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It will be Northern Irish painter Mark Francis (Newotwnards, 1962), an exponent of contemporary abstract painting, who will represent the Republic of San Marino at the 61. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, scheduled from May 9 to...
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Representing Italy at the 2026 Venice Biennale will be Chiara Camoni: she is the artist chosen for the Italian Pavilion, which will be curated by Cecilia Canziani and will feature her in an exhibition entitled Con te, con tutto. Born in Piacenza in 1...
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Cecilia Canziani will be the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026, scheduled from May 9 to November 22, 2026. The choice was announced by Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, who selected the proposal "Con te con tutto" by artist...
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WillIsrael participate in the 2026 Venice Biennale? The question resurfaced after, day before yesterday, the group "ANGA" (Art Not Genocide Alliance), a collection of artists, curators, writers and cultural workers who formed in 2024 to call on the B...
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The 82nd Venice International Film Festival closed with the awarding of the official prizes, which once again confirmed the festival's role as a showcase of excellence for world cinema. The main jury, chaired by U.S. director Alexander Payne and comp...
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The first phase of the analysis of the 46 applications submitted in response to the public notice for the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2026, as part of the 61ᵃ International Art Exhibition, scheduled from May 9 to November 22, 2026, has be...
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It will be titled In Minor Keys ("In Minor Key"), the Venice Biennale's 2026 international exhibition, which will run from May 9 to Nov. 22, 2026. Curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, who passed away only a few days ago, it was unveiled this morning in V...
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Farewell to Koyo Kouoh: The African curator who was to curate the Venice Biennale 2026 has died at the age of just 57. Last December, Kouoh had in fact been appointed curator of the next edition's international art exhibition. News of her passing was...
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It's just art, or rather architecture, in the case of the Venice Biennale 2025, some will say. But in the international exposition, which opens this year on May 10, as in a bit of all spaces that tell the story of the world, from the Expo to the Olym...
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Make America Great Again... also at the Venice Biennale. Will the next U.S. Pavilion at the 2026 Art Biennale be a celebration of Trump's America? It's likely, given the guidelines just issued by the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational andC...
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From the heart of the Japanese art scene, anonymous art project arrives in Europe for the first time, choosing Venice as an iconic city in which to launch its international activities. On the occasion of the 19th. International Architecture Exhibitio...
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It will be a high-profile Jury that will award the official prizes of the 19th. International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, scheduled from May 10 to November 23, 2025. Announced by the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale today...
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Architect Lina Ghotmeh (Beirut, 1980) is the artist selected to shape the new Qatar Pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale. The announcement was made on April 8, 2025 by Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of Qatar M...
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The Ministry of Culture has officially started the selection process for the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 61. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, scheduled for 2026 and directed by Koyo Kouoh. The public notice, released ...
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It will be Lubaina Himid (Zanzibar, 1954), winner of the Turner Prize in 2017, who will represent the United Kingdom at the 2026 Venice Biennale. The British Council announced last night the name of the artist who will represent the country at the Bi...
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Qatar will have its own permanent pavilion at the Giardini of the Venice Biennale: it will be centrally located, straddling Finland's pavilion, Denmark's central pavilion, and Stirling's book pavilion. He announced this on February 12, in a statement...
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Qatar will build a permanent national pavilion within the historic Giardini at the Venice Biennale, which first opened to the public in 1895. The new structure will rise in a central location within the Giardini, next to the Stirling Pavilion, and wi...
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The curator of the Venice Biennale 2026 has been appointed: she is Koyo Kouoh (Cameroon, 1967). Indeed, the new Director of the Visual Arts Sector, appointed at the proposal of Biennale President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, will be in charge of curating...
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It closed on Sunday, November 24, 2024, the 60th Venice Biennale, entitled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere (our review here). Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the edition recorded 700,000 tickets sold, marking an 18 percent increase over 2019 an...
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Claire Fontaine is a duo founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill: one of their works, Strangers Everywhere, inspired the title of the international exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Adrian Pedrosa. Raja El...
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A letter sent to the City of Venice to request the opening of a dialogue on the Venice Pavilion at the Biennale, or the city-owned pavilion located at the Giardini along with the other national pavilions. Several Venice cultural figures, including wr...
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For more than a decade Cristina Beltrami, like many scholars gravitating to the lagoon, has been concerned with the history of the Venice Biennale, focusing her attention on the complex and not always linear relationship of the first editions with co...
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Prime destination for Kith and kin, the work by Archie Moore (Toowoomba, 1970) that won the Australia Pavilion the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale 2024. The work was in fact acquired by the Tate London in collaborat...
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It happens very rarely to enter an immersive environment and completely abandon oneself to one's surroundings. It happened to me at the Venice Biennale, after facing a long queue (as is now customary to visit certain pavilions), entering the Pavilion...
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On the sidelines of the LX Venice Biennale, Le Stanze del Vetro dedicate a historical exhibition to the presence of Murano glass in the Giardini Pavilion between 1912 and 1930. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to admire extraordinary masterpieces...
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Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, 1936) is the only Palestinian artist in the main exhibition of the Venice Art Biennale. Her 1969 painting Black is Beautiful, a tube crucifix that cites Optical Art but could just as well be an enlargement of a detail of Fern...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Balay...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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 Intern...
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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 ...
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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. The...
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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...
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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 Venic...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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 "...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 V...
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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...
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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). ...
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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...
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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...
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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(...
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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...
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