60th Venice Biennale

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60th Venice Biennale
GenreArt exhibition
BeginsApril 20, 2024
EndsNovember 24, 2024
Location(s)Venice
CountryItaly
Previous event59th Venice Biennale (2022)

The 60th Venice Biennale is an upcoming international contemporary art exhibition to be held in 2024. The Venice Biennale takes place every two years in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Adriano Pedrosa will curate its central exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere.

Background[edit]

The Venice Biennale is an international art biennial exhibition held in Venice, Italy. Often described as "the Olympics of the art world", participation in the Biennale is a prestigious event for contemporary artists. The festival has become a constellation of shows: a central exhibition curated by that year's artistic director, national pavilions hosted by individual nations, and independent exhibitions throughout Venice. The Biennale parent organization also hosts regular festivals in other arts: architecture, dance, film, music, and theater.[1]

Outside of the central, international exhibition, individual nations produce their own shows, known as pavilions, as their national representation. Nations that own their pavilion buildings, such as the 30 housed on the Giardini, are responsible for their own upkeep and construction costs as well.[1] Nations without dedicated buildings create pavilions in the Venice Arsenale and palazzos throughout the city.[2]

Central exhibition[edit]

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the São Paulo Museum of Art, will serve as the 60th Venice Biennale's artistic director.[3] The central exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere, is based on outsider and marginalized figures.[4]

National pavilions[edit]

Countries began to announce their national representatives soon after the previous exhibition closed in 2022.[5] Each country selects artists to show at their pavilion, ostensibly with an eye to the Biennale's theme.[1]

Scotland withdrew from this year's biennale.[6] First-time presenters at the Biennale included Benin.[7]

This section is an excerpt from List of national pavilions at the 60th Venice Biennale § National pavilions.[edit]
Nation Location Artist(s) Curator(s) Ref
Australia Giardini Archie Moore Ellie Buttrose [8]
Austria Giardini Anna Jermolaewa Gabriele Spindler [8]
Benin Around Venice TBD Azu Nwagbogu [8]
Canada Giardini Kapwani Kiwanga Gaëtane Verna [8]
Estonia Around Venice Edith Karlson TBD [8][9]
Finland Giardini Pia Lindman, Vidha Saumya and Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen Yvonne Billimore and Jussi Koitela [8]
France Giardini Julien Creuzet [10][9]
Germany Giardini TBD Çağla Ilk [11]
Great Britain Giardini John Akomfrah Tarini Malik [8][12]
Hungary Giardini Márton Nemes Róna Kopeczky [11]
Iceland Around Venice Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir Dan Byers [11]
Japan Giardini Yuko Mohri Sook-Kyung Lee [13]
Lithuania Around Venice Pakui Hardware Valentinas Klimašauskas and João Laia [10][9]
Korea Giardini Koo Jeong A Jacob Fabricius and Lee Seol-hui [8]
The Netherlands Giardini Congolese Plantation Workers Art League and Renzo Martens Hicham Khalidi [11]
The Philippines Around Venice Mark Salvatus Carlos Quijon, Jr.
Singapore Robert Zhao Renhui Haeju Kim [14]>
Spain Giardini Sandra Gamarra Agustín Pérez Rubio [11]
Switzerland Giardini Guerreiro do Divino Amor Andrea Bellini [15]
Turkey Gülsün Karamustafa Esra Sarıgedik Öktem [14]
United States Giardini Jeffrey Gibson Abigail Winograd and Kathleen Ash-Milby [16]

Criticism[edit]

In February 2024, after Hamas’ attack on Israel and the beginning of Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, artists and activists organised ANGA (Art Not Genocide Alliance), a dedicated group calling to exclude Israel and prevent its participation in the Biennale. They circulated a petition which was signed by tens of thousands of artists and curators (including Nan Goldin, Zoë Claire Miller, Jesse Darling, Michael Rakowitz, Carolina Caycedo, Rehana Zaman, Rosalind Nashashibi, Ariella Aïsha Azoulay, Yanis Varoufakis, Tariq Ali, Sin Wai Kin and Sophia Al-Maria), but Italian Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano declared that the event would not boycott any country and the Biennale issued a statement saying that Israel would participate as usual.[17]


References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c Russeth, Andrew (April 17, 2019). "The Venice Biennale: Everything You Could Ever Want to Know". ARTnews. Archived from the original on April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
  2. ^ Herriman, Kat (May 16, 2019). "What to See at the Venice Biennale". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on June 2, 2019.
  3. ^ Farago, Jason (December 15, 2022). "Venice Biennale Names a Brazilian Trailblazer as Its New Curator". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on December 17, 2022. Retrieved December 17, 2022.
  4. ^ Harris, Gareth (June 22, 2023). "Venice Biennale curator unveils vision for next year's exhibition". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  5. ^ Greenberger, Alex (December 6, 2022). "Estonia Becomes the First Country to Reveal 2024 Venice Biennale Pavilion Plans". ARTnews.com. Archived from the original on December 9, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  6. ^ Solomon, Tessa (March 29, 2023). "Scotland Pauses Participation in Venice Biennale, Citing Financial Situation". ARTnews.com. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Voon, Claire (March 14, 2023). "Benin will have its first ever Venice Biennale pavilion in 2024". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h da Silva, José (January 25, 2023). "Venice Biennale 2024: all the national pavilions, artists and curators announced so far". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  9. ^ a b c Harris, Gareth (December 9, 2022). "And they're off—France, Estonia and Lithuania first to announce artists for 2024 Venice Biennale". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
  10. ^ a b "2024 Venice Biennale pavilions: your go-to list [updated]". ArtReview. December 7, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2022.
  11. ^ a b c d e Greenberger, Alex (March 28, 2023). "A Guide to the 2024 Venice Biennale National Pavilions". ARTnews.com. Retrieved April 23, 2023.
  12. ^ Seymour (June 8, 2023). "Curator named for John Akomfrah's British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  13. ^ "U.S. Plans to Rejoin UNESCO, Japan Makes 2024 Venice Biennale Pick, and More: Morning Links for June 13, 2023". ARTnews.com. June 13, 2023. Retrieved July 6, 2023.
  14. ^ a b https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/singapore-robert-zhao-renhui-gulsun-karamustafa-2024-venice-biennale-morning-links-1234674244/
  15. ^ Greenberger, Alex (January 12, 2023). "Guerreiro do Divino Amor Picked to Represent Switzerland at 2024 Venice Biennale". ARTnews.com. Retrieved January 15, 2023.
  16. ^ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/jeffrey-gibson-us-pavilion-2024-venice-biennale-1234675651/
  17. ^ Alex Marshall: Venice Biennale Says It Will Disregard Petition to Ban Israel New York Times; Birgit Rieger: Schreckliches Gerede vom „Genozid-Pavillon“ Tagesspiegel; Jane Prinsley: Israeli artists shutter Venice Biennale pavilion until ceasefire and hostage deal The Jewish Chronicle; Henry Broome: Thousands of Art Workers Call for Israel’s Exclusion From the Venice Biennale Hypoallergic; Thousands of artists call for Israel’s exclusion from Venice Biennale Al Jazeera; anga.live Art Not Genocide Alliance.

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