Venice Biennale of Art 2024 Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere

Venice Biennale of Art: artists of padillions, hours, periods, dates, cost of the tickets and expositions' seats at Arsenale and Giardini.

News on 60th Venice Art Biennale

– Golden Lion for lifetime achievement to Anna Maria Maiolino, Brazilian artist (Italian by birth), and to Nil Yalter, Turkish artist (resident in Paris).
– The awards of the 60th Biennale: Winner of the Golden Lion is AUSTRALIA friends and relatives.
– Special mentions were awarded to REPUBLIC OF KOSOVO The echoing silences of metal and skin.
– Golden Lion for the best participant in the Mataaho Collective (Founded in Aotearoa, New Zealand, 2012. Based in Aotearoa, New Zealand).
– Silver Lion for the best participant in Karimah Ashadu (London, UK, 1985. Lives in Hamburg, Germany and Lagos, Nigeria).
– Special mentions to Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, Palestine, 1936. Lives in New York, USA) La Chola Poblete (Mendoza, Argentina, 1989. Lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina)

– From Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November 2024, International Art Exhibition entitled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, organized by the Venice Biennale chaired by Roberto Cicutto. The pre-opening will take place on 17, 18 and 19 April, the awards and inauguration ceremony will take place on 20 April 2024.

– There are 4 countries present for the first time at the Art Biennale: Republic of Benin, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Timor Leste and United Republic of Tanzania. Nicaragua, the Republic of Panama and Senegal are participating for the first time with their own pavilion.

– Announced the finalist projects for the 1st edition of Biennale College Arte:

The 60 ° Biennale Arte of Venice

The 60th Biennale Arte will open to the public on April 20. But on the 17th, 18th and 19th there will be the various events and collateral events that always enliven suddenly Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place the day of opening to the public.

The title of the 60th edition of the Art Biennale is Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Everywhere.

The exhibition will be divided into between the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 88 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.

Curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

The 2024 edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

– Adriano Pedrosa (born 1965) is a Brazilian curator. He is the artistic director of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) and the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Internation Jury of 60 ° Biennale Arte of Venice

– President of the Jury: Julia Bryan-Wilson, American curator and professor at Columbia University.
– Members of the Jury: Alia Swastika, Indonesian curator and writer; Chika Okeke-Agulu, Nigerian curator and art critic; Elena Crippa, Italian curator; María Inés Rodríguez, Franco-Colombian curator.

Catalogue of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

The volumes published by La Biennale di Venezia can be purchased in the Mostra bookshops and in the main bookstores in Italy and abroad.

The Italian Pavilion of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

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Artists and Nations participating in the 60th Venice Art Biennale

The invited artists are 213 from 58 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.

In total there will be 88 nations participating in the Venice Biennale in the Pavilions in the Giardini, the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice.
 
There are 4 countries present for the first timeat the event Art Biennial: Republic of Benin, Ethiopia, Democratic Republic of Timor Leste and United Republic of Tanzania. Nicaragua, the Republic of Panama and Senegal are participating for the first time with their own pavilion.

The 60th Venice International Art Biennale will present as always the participating nations in the exhibition space of the National Pavilions at the Giardini and at the Arsenale; but also the historic center of Venice will be in the front row of an exhibition that will involve the whole city in a random order that lists more of 50 exhibition venues.

Biennale College Arte

Biennale College is the Venice Biennale project dedicated to the training and support of young peoplein all artistic sectors and cultural activities. typical of the organizational structure of the Biennale.

The finalist projects have been announcedfor the 2nd edition of Biennale College Arte 2024.
Over 150 young emerging artists under 30 from 37 countries around the world signed up to the call for participation. Among these, 12 were selected for the final phase which will promote 4.

The 12 artists selected for the first phase of the Biennale College Arte are the following:

– Bayo Hassan Bello (Born in Ibadan, Nigeria, lives in West Africa)
– Raul Jorge Gourgel (Born in Luanda, Angola, lives in South Africa)
– Joyce Joumaa (Born in Zgharta, Lebanon, lives in Canada)
– Nazira Karimi (Born in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, lives in Vienna)
– Rooy Charlie Lana (Born in Piazza Armerina, Enna, lives in Italy)
– Shuai Peng (Born in Hunan, China, lives in Italy)
– Sandra Poulson (Born in Lisbon, Portugal, lives in London)
– Agnes Questionmark (Born in Rome, lives between Italy and the UK)
– Salome Rojas Silva (Born in San Cristobal, Venezuela, lives in Colombia)
– Omnia Sabry (Born in Abu Dhabi, UAE, lives in Egypt)
– Sayantan Samanta (Born in Barijhatti, India, lives in India)
– Ihsan Saad Ihsan Tahir (Born in Cambridge, UK, lives in Denmark)

The four finalist projects were presented by the following artists:

– They will be able to access a contribution of 25,000 euros for the completion of the final work.

The works created will be presented, out of competition, as part of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

Biennale Sessions Venice

The Biennale Sessions project returns again this year, designed for universities, academies and institutions operating in research and training in the fields of arts and architecture.
The project aims to facilitate visits togroups of at least 50 students and teachersproviding assistance in organizing the trip and stay in Venice; but also to organize free seminars at the Biennale.

Catalogue of the Art Biennale

The official catalogue, entitledStranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, and̀ composed of two volumes. TheVolume I and̀ dedicated to the International Exhibition curated by Adriano Pedrosa. TheVolume II and̀ dedicated to National Participations and Collateral Events.

Graphics and design byEstudio Campo (Paula Tinoco, Roderico Souza, Carolina Aboarrage) from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Partners and Sponsors

Partner: Swatch.
Main Sponsor: Illy Caffè.
Sponsors: American Express, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Vela-Venezia Unica.
Acknowledgments:Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

All the foreign pavilions of the 60th Venice Art Biennale 2024 Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere

All the national pavilions of the Venice Art Biennale 2024: the exhibitions and the artists of the pavilions, the timetables, the periods, the cost of the tickets and the exhibition locations.

Pavilions of 60th Biennale Arte of Venice

– Albanian Pavilion Love as a Glass of Water
– Argentinian Pavilion Ojalá se derrumben las puertas
– Australian Pavilion kith and kin
– Austrian Pavilion Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts
– Azerbaijani Pavilion From Caspian To Pink Planet: I Am Here
– Benin Pavilion Everything Precious Is Fragile
– Brazilian Pavilion Hãhãwpuá
– British Pavilion Listening All Night To The Rain
– Bulgarian Pavilion The Neighbours
– Canadian Pavilion Trinket
– Chilean Pavilion Cosmonación
– Danish Pavilion Rise of the Sunken Sun
– Deutsch Pavilion Relocating a Structure
– Dutch Pavilion The International Celebration of Blasphemy and The Sacred
– Estonian Pavilion Hora lupi
– Finnish Pavilion The pleasures we choo
– French Pavilion Dreams Have No Titles
– Ghanian Pavilion is Black Star — The Museum as Freedom
– Greek Pavilion Xirómero/Dryland
– Guatemalan Pavilion Inclusion
– Hungarian Pavilion Techno Zen
– Icelandic Pavilion That’s a Very Large Number - A Commerzbau
– Irish Pavilion Romantic Ireland
– Italian Pavilion History of the Night and Destiny of Comets
– Japanese Pavilion Compose
– Latvia Pavilion O day and night, but this is wondrous strange… and therefore as a stranger give it welcome
– Luxemburgish Pavilion Faraway So Close
– Mexican Pavilion As we marched away, we were always coming backn
– Mongolian Pavilion A Journey Through Vulnerability
– Nordic Countries Pavilion The Altersea Opera
– Oman Pavilion Malath-Haven
– Peruvian Pavilion Tracce Cosmiche – Cosmic Traces – Huellas Cósmicas
– Philippines Pavilion Sa Kabila Ng Tabing Lamang Sa Panahong Ito / Waiting Just Behind The Curtain Of This Age
– Polish Pavilion Repeat after Me II
– Saudi Arabia Pavilion After Illusion  بعد   توهم
– Syrian Arab Republic Pavilion The Syrians People: a common Destiny
– Spanish Pavilion Correción
– Swiss Pavilion Super Superior Civilizations
– Ugandam Pavilion Radiance, They Dream in Time
– Ukrainian Pavilion is Wan Acel
– Us Pavilion Jeffrey Gibson: the space in which to place me
– Uzbekistan Pavilion Dixit Algorizmi. Il Giardino della Conoscenza
– Venezuelan Pavilion Esperienza partecipativa. Juvenal Ravelo

Collateral events of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

The Venice Biennale also includes a catalog of events, proposed by international bodies and institutions, which will set up their exhibitions and their initiatives in Venice at the same time as the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice.

There are 31 collateral events in the city of the 2024 Art Biennale.

Biennale Sessions

Also this year the Biennale Sessions project designed for Universities, Academies and institutions operating in research and education in the field of arts and architecture. The project aims to facilitate visits to groups of at least 50 students and teachers by providing assistance in organizing travel and accommodation in Venice; but also to organize free seminars at the Biennale.

Collateral events of the 2024 Art Biennale Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere

All the Collateral events of the 2024 Art Biennale: the exhibitions and the artists, the exhibition venues.

Sono 30 gli eventi collaterali in città della Biennale d'Arte 2024: promossi da enti e istituzioni nazionali e internazionali senza fini di lucro hanno luogo in diverse sedi della città di Venezia.

Progetti:

Above Zobeide (titolo provvisorio)
Macao Museum of Art (Istituzione organizzatrice), Macao

All African Peoples' Consulate (titolo provvisorio)
The Africa Center e Open Society Foundations (Istituzione organizzatrice), New York

Anchor in the Landscape (titolo provvisorio)
Artists and Allies of Hebron (Istituzione organizzatrice), Hebron/Berlino

Andrzej Wróblewski. In First Person (titolo provvisorio)
Starak Family Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Varsavia

Berlinde De Bruyckere: City of Refuge III (titolo provvisorio)
Abbazia di San Giorgio Maggiore - Benedicti Claustra Onlus (Istituzione organizzatrice), Venezia

Borincano Lament (titolo provvisorio)
Consolato REM Brega (Istituzione organizzatrice), San Juan

Catalonia in Venice_ Bestiari (titolo provvisorio)
Institut Ramon Llull (Istituzione organizzatrice), Barcellona

Cosmic Garden (titolo provvisorio)
Chanakya Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Mumbai

Daring to Dream in the World of Constant Fear (titolo provvisorio)
Victor Pinchuk Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Kyiv

Dichotomy ፊት አና jerba (titolo provvisorio)
Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Istituzione organizzatrice), Düsseldorf

Ernest Pignon-Ernest – untitled (titolo provvisorio)
Fondation Louis Vuitton (Istituzione organizzatrice), Parigi

Ewa Juszkiewicz. Un ballo in maschera (titolo provvisorio)
Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso – FABA (Istituzione organizzatrice), Madrid

Futuring Global Asias (titolo provvisorio)
Asymmetry Art Foundation e Asia Forum (Istituzione organizzatrice), Londra

Grand Hotel (titolo provvisorio)
Art Museum at the University of Toronto (Istituzione organizzatrice), Toronto

Jim Dine - Dog on the Forge (titolo provvisorio)
Kunsthaus Goettingen (Istituzione organizzatrice), Gottinga

Josèfa Ntjam: swell of spæc(i)es (titolo provvisorio)
LAS Art Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Berlino

La Maison de la Lune Brûlée (titolo provvisorio)
Fondation d'Entreprise Wilmotte e Hansol Foundation of Culture (Istituzioni organizzatrici), Parigi, Wonju-Si

Madang, 30th Anniversary Archive Exhibition of the Gwangju Biennale (titolo provvisorio)
Gwangju Biennale Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Gwangju

Mirror Stage (titolo provvisorio)
Kestner Gesellschaft (Istituzione organizzatrice), Hannover

Passengers in transit (titolo provvisorio)
Centre of Contemporary Art Lagos – CCA (Istituzione organizzatrice), Lagos

Peter Hujar: Portraits in Life and Death (titolo provvisorio)
The Ukrainian Museum (Istituzione organizzatrice), New York

Quartetto/suivre le fil (titolo provvisorio)
Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro (Istituzione organizzatrice), Venezia

Seundja Rhee: Towards the Antipodes (titolo provvisorio)
Korean Research Institute of Contemporary Art – KoRICA (Istituzione organizzatrice), Gangneung-si

Shahzia Sikander: Collective Behavior (titolo provvisorio)
Cincinnati Art Museum e Cleveland Museum of Art (Istituzioni organizzatrici), Cincinnati, Cleveland

The Endless Spiral (titolo provvisorio)
Museum of Latin American Art – MOLAA (Istituzione organizzatrice), Long Beach

The Spirits of Maritime Crossing (titolo provvisorio)
Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Bangkok

The Sweet Mistery (titolo provvisorio)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park (Istituzione organizzatrice), Wakefield

Trevor Yeung: I wish I were irreplaceable. Hong Kong in Venice (titolo provvisorio)
Hong Kong Arts Development Council e M+ West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (Istituzioni organizzatrici), Hong Kong

Yoo Youngkuk (titolo provvisorio)
Yoo Youngkuk Art Foundation (Istituzione organizzatrice), Seul

Yuan Goang-Ming Everyday War (titolo provvisorio)
Taipei Fine Arts Musuem of Taiwan (Istituzione organizzatrice), Taipei

Exhibition seat at Giardini Art Biennale

The headquarters of the Gardens represents the core of the Biennale Exhibition since the first edition that was held in 1985. The Biennale Gardens are part of the Napoleonic Gardens - the other part is intended for public green - made between 1807 and 1812 on a project of the neoclassical architect Giannantonio Selva (1751 - 1819) demolishing the churches of San Domenico and Sant'Antonio.
The first construction of the Central Pavilion was followed by the National Pavilions built starting in 1907 and the quai were signed by internationally recognized artists and architects. Inside the Gardens, apart from the numerous national pavilions, there are also monuments dedicated to Italian and 20th century figures of culture and politics.

Exhibition Pavillions of the Giardini

- Italian Pavilion
- 29 National Halls
- Stirling Pavilion or Book
- Biennale Library with over 150 thousand volumes

The National Pavilions were all built on the initiative of the individual nations of the Biennale according to the following order:

1907: Belgium (L�on Sneyers)
1909: Hungary (G�za Rintel Mar�ti), restored by Benkhard August in 1958
1909: Germany (Daniele Donghi), demolished and rebuilt in 1938 (Ernst Haiger)
1909: Great Britain (Edwin Alfred Rickards)
1912: France (Umberto Bellotto)
1912: Holland (Gustav Ferdinand Boberg), demolished and rebuilt in 1953 (Gerrit Thomas Rietveld)
1914: Russia (Aleksej V. Scusev)
1922: Spain (Javier De Luque) with a fa�ade renovated in 1952 by Joaquin Vaquero Palacios
1926: Czech Republic and Slovak Republic (Otakar Novotny)
1930: United States of America (Chester Holmes Aldrich and William Adams Delano)
1932: Denmark (Carl Brummer) expanded in 1958 by Peter Koch
1932: Venice Pavilion (Brenno Del Giudice), enlarged in 1938
1934: Austria (Josef Hoffmann)
1934: Greece (M. Papandr�ou - B. Del Giudice)
1952: Israel (Zeev Rechter)
1952: Switzerland (Bruno Giacometti)
1954: Venezuela (Carlo Scarpa)
1956: Japan (Takamasa Yoshizaka)
1956: Finland (Alvar Aalto Pavilion)
1958: Canada (BBPR Group, Gian Luigi Banfi, Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers)
1960: Ex-warehouse of the Biennale awarded to Uruguay
1962: Nordic countries: Sweden, Norway, Finland (Sverre Fehn)
1964: Brazil (Amerigo Marchesin)
1987: Australia (Philip Cox), rebuilt in 2015 (J.Denton, B.Corker, B.Marshall)
1995: Korea (Seok Chul Kim and Franco Mancuso)

Services of the exhibition seat of the Biennale Giardini

- Bar
- Restaurant
- Bookshop
- Info point
- Free cloakroom service
- Free stroller rental
- Changing table
- Pets are allowed on a small leash in the green area of the Giardini

How to reach the Venice Biennale Giardini

From Piazzale Roma and the Ferrovia the Gardens of the South Biennale can be reached by vaporetto with lines 4.1, 5.1, 6 (the fastest), 1 with Giardini Stop.
From Rialto you can arrive by vaporetto with lines 1 with Giardini stop or 2 to San Marco and then change lines from San Marco (see below).
From Piazza San Marco you can reach the vaporetto with lines 4.1, 5.1, 1 with Giardini stop or walk along Riva degli Schiavoni in 15 minutes or by bus.

Exhibition seat of the Arsenale Art Biennale

The Arsenale, following an important recovery project, began hosting the Biennale of Art from 1980; over the years, moreover, the Arsenale space has been enlarged adding more spaces: the Teatro alle Tese and the Piccolo Arsenale Theater (2000), the Giardino delle Vergini (2009), the Sale d'Armi (2015).

Arsenal exhibition spaces

- Italian Pavilion
- National Pensions
- Corderie
- Teatro alle Tese
- Piccolo Arsenale Theater
- Giardino delle Vergini
- Sale d'Armi
- Artillery
- Ponte dei Pensieri
- Isolotto
- Gaggiandre
- Fonderie and Bombarde

Arsenal exhibition space services

How to reach the Venice Arsenale

From Piazzale Roma and the Ferrovia the south Arsenale can be reached by vaporetto with lines 4.1, 1 and Arsenale stop or on foot from Riva degli Schiavoni and Giardini (line 6) in a few minutes on foot.
From Rialto you can arrive by vaporetto with lines 1 with Arsenale stop or 2 to San Marco and then change lines from San Marco (see below).
From Piazza San Marco you can reach the vaporetto with lines 4.1, 1 with Arsenale stop or walk along Riva degli Schiavoni in 15 minutes or by bus.

History of the Art Biennale

In 1890 Riccardo Selvatico (1849 - 1901), Italian playwright and poet, then just elected mayor of Venice (1890 - 1895), in synergy with other cultural figures such as the politician Antonio Fradeletto, the painter Mario de Maria (1852 - 1924), he began to define the project of a contemporary biennial art exhibition that could give Venice a centrality in the world and in the world art market.

With the former mayor Lorenzo Tiepolo, thanks to the activism of the Fradelettto and the councilor for the public education Giovanni Bordiga, future founder of the IUAV (1926) and first president of the Art Biennale not to be mayor of the city (1849 - 1901), the first National Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was organized in 1887; this event was the detonator for the creation of the future Venice Art Biennale.

The Municipal Council, chaired by the Selvatico, in 1893 decided to set up the National Biennial Art Exhibition to be inaugurated on 22 April 1894. However, the exhibition venue was decided for the Napoleonic Gardens where the Exposition Palace was erected on the project of the architect Enrico Trevisanato, and intervention in the neoclassical fa�ade of the Venetian painter Marius De Maria. The Palace was first called "Pro Arte", then Palazzo Italia.
The doors of the I International Exhibition of Art in the city of Venice, in the presence of the sovereigns Umberto I and Margherita di Savoia, finally opened on April 30, 1895 to an audience that immediately proved to be voracious of art so much that the first edition came to score the incredible number of 224 thousand visitors.

During the first editions, and then partly until the nineties of the twentieth century, foreign participants were hosted at Palazzo Italia. The first to build their pavilion were the Belgians with the architect Léon Sneyers in 1907. They followed Hungary (1909), Germany (1909), Great Britain (1909), France (1912), Russia (1914) ) before the forced break during the First World War that blew up the two editions of '16 and '18. But first the Fradeletto had time to remove a Picasso from the Italian Pavilion (1914), in the Spanish Salon, to avoid - according to him - to disturb the public.

Useful information for the visit

Hours: Gardens from 10.00 to 19.00. Arsenale from 10.00 to 19.00 (from 10.00 to 20.00 on Friday and Saturday until September 30th). Closed on Mondays (except April 22, June 17, July 22, September 2, September 30, October 31, November 18).
Tickets: please visit the official website.
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