[13] The pavilions are the property of the individual countries and are managed by their ministries of culture. The main exhibition held in Castello, in the halls of the Arsenale and Biennale Gardens, alternates every second year between art and architecture (hence the name biennale; biennial). Sales remained an intrinsic part of the biennale until 1968, when a sales ban was enacted. All the initiatives aim at actively involving the participants, and are led by professional operators, carefully trained by La Biennale di Venezia. In 1995, Jean Clair was appointed to be the Biennale's first non-Italian director of visual arts[20] while Germano Celant served as director in 1997. [53] The international jury awards the Golden Lion for best national participation, the Golden Lion for best participant in the international exhibition, and the Silver Lion for a "promising young participant" in the show. Her artistic language is built around a deep fascination with Indigenous traditions and non-Western epistemologies. [13] In 1920 the post of mayor of Venice and president of the Biennale was split. Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project: Collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) London. The areas of activity became six (Architecture, Visual arts, Cinema, Theatre, Music, Dance), in collaboration with the ASAC (the Historical Archives). The Film Festival restarted in 1946, the Music and Theatre festivals were resumed in 1947, and the Art Exhibition in 1948.[15]. Student protests hindered the opening of the Biennale. Contributors: Cecilia Alemani; Matthew Biro; Rosi Braidotti; Leonora Carrington; Mel Y. Chen; Silvia Federici, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Manuela Hansen; Jack Halberstam; Donna Haraway; N. Katherine Hayles; Jennifer Higgie; Yuk Hui and Anders Dunker; Ursula K. Le Guin; Alyce Mahon; Achille Mbembe; Marta Papini; Igiaba Scego; Azalea Seratoni; Christina Sharpe; Chiara Valerio; Marina Warner. Acqua Alta. In 1980, Achille Bonito Oliva and Harald Szeemann introduced "Aperto", a section of the exhibition designed to explore emerging art. 1956 saw the selection of films following an artistic selection and no longer based upon the designation of the participating country. La Biennale di Venezia was forced to postpone this edition by one year, an event that had only occurred during the two World Wars since 1895. A "democratic" Board was set up. Peggy Guggenheim was invited to exhibit her collection, later to be permanently housed at Ca' Venier dei Leoni. [5][6][7] The other events hosted by the Foundation - spanning theatre, music, and dance - are held annually in various parts of Venice, whereas the Venice Film Festival takes place at the Lido. In 1999 a new sector was created for live shows: DMT (Dance Music Theatre). The Board of directors consists of the President, the Mayor of Venice, and three members nominated respectively by the Regione Veneto, the Consiglio Provinciale di Venezia and private backers. The new secretary general, Vittorio Pica brought about the first presence of avant-garde art, notably Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. In 1995 there was no Aperto so a number of participating countries hired venues to show exhibitions of emerging artists. Golden Lion for the best National Participation:Great Britain Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way Artist: Sonia Boyce Curator: Emma Ridgway; Commissioner: Emma Dexter, British Council Venue: Giardini. The Secretary General, art historian Rodolfo Pallucchini, started with the Impressionists and many protagonists of contemporary art including Chagall, Klee, Braque, Delvaux, Ensor, and Magritte, as well as a retrospective of Picasso's work. An existence in which species are interdependent on each other, and which is not mediated by the coloniality of power of the human species. The exhibition The Milk of Dreams takes Leonora Carrington's otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human. [29], The Biennale has an attendance today of over 500,000 visitors. [24][25], The 2017 Biennale, titled Viva Arte Viva, was directed by French curator Christine Macel who called it an "exhibition inspired by humanism".
Lives in Paris, France), Special mentions:Lynn Hershman Leeson(1941, Cleveland, USA. Many of her installations are made with found objects or scrap materials, woven into delicate compositions where microscopic and monumental seem to find a fragile equilibrium: a precarious art that is both intimate and powerful." Between the two World Wars, many important modern artists had their work exhibited there.
In 2013, eleven new participant countries developed national pavilions for the Biennale: Angola, Bosnia and Herzegowina, the Bahamas, Bahrain, the Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Paraguay, Tuvalu, and the Holy See. The Giardini includes a large exhibition hall that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director. The number of countries represented is still growing. Acaye Kerunen in her choice of sculptural materials like bark-clothed rafia illustrates sustainability as a practice and not just a policy or concept. It may also designate one special mention to national participants, and a maximum of two special mentions to artists in the international exhibition.[54]. She creates figurative works that are both hyperrealistic and fanciful: copies of objects, animals, and people, faithfully rendered in every detail, but transformed into uncanny apparitions. Participating for the first time: Republic of Camerun, Namibia, Nepal, Sultanate of Oman, and Uganda; and this year with separate pavilions: Republic of Kazakhstan, Kirghizistan and Uzbekistan. From 1999, both the international exhibition and the Aperto were held as one exhibition, held both at the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale. At the Mostra del Cinema, the awards were brought back into being (between 1969 and 1979, the editions were non-competitive). [45], As well as the national pavilions there are countless "unofficial pavilions"[46] that spring up every year. The Exhibition design is conceived by Formafantasma, a research-based design studio founded in 2009 by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin. On April 19, 1893, the Venetian City Council passed a resolution to set up an biennial exhibition of Italian Art ("Esposizione biennale artistica nazionale") to celebrate the silver anniversary of King Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy. What constitutes life, and what differentiates plant and animal, human and non-human? For Gioni, Auriti's work, "meant to house all worldly knowledge, bringing together the greatest discoveries of the human race, from the wheel to the satellite," provided an analogous figure for the "biennale model itselfbased on the impossible desire to concentrate the infinite worlds of contemporary art in a single place: a task that now seems as dizzyingly absurd as Auriti's dream. Art in the Present Tense. The exhibition space spans over 7.000 square metres, and artists from over 75 countries are represented in the collective exhibition spaces as well as in the national pavilions.[9][10]. 7 February - 11 June 2023. The 4 artists will receive a grant of 25,000 euros for the realization of the final work. [28], The 2022 edition was curated by Italian curator Cecilia Alemani entitled "The Milk of Dreams" after a book by British-born Mexican surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. The 2011 edition was curated by Swiss curator Bice Curiger entitled "ILLUMInazioni ILLUMInations". A work by Picasso "Family of Saltimbanques" was removed from the Spanish salon in the central Palazzo because it was feared that its novelty might shock the public. Cecilia Alemani about her recommendation for the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement: "The first time I saw one of Katharina Fritschs works in person was actually in Venice, at the first Biennale I ever attended, the 1999 edition curated by Harald Szeemann. For the 2013 edition, the main exhibition's budget was about $2.3 million; in addition, more than $2 million were raised mostly from private individuals and foundations and philanthropists. Starting from 1973 the Music Festival was no longer held annually. On 15 November 1977, the so-called Dissident Biennale (in reference to the dissident movement in the USSR) opened. Therefore, the financial involvement of dealers is widely regarded as indispensable;[16] as they regularly front the funding for production of ambitious projects. Lives in Kinngait, Nunavut), Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement:Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicua. Two Special Mentions are awarded to the following artists of the International Exhibition The Milk of Dreams:Shuvinai Ashoona reveals in her drawings and paintings a profundity of indigenous Inuk cosmogonies.
1962 included Arte Informale at the Art Exhibition with Jean Fautrier, Hans Hartung, Emilio Vedova, and Pietro Consagra. This volume includes the Curator's original contribution as well as a wide range of illustrations and critical essays by some of today's most cutting-edge thinkers and writers. [23] He was the first African-born curator of the biennial. Lives in San Francisco, USA)Shuvinai Ashoona(1961, Kinngait. The selection is not meant as a valuation. The massive piece filling the main room at the Central Pavilion was titled Rattenknig, the Rat King, a disquieting sculpture in which a group of giant rodents is crouched in a circle with their tails knotted together, like some strange magic ritual.
33 of 13-1-1930. [27], The 2019 Biennale, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, was directed by American-born curator Ralph Rugoff. [38], In 2011, the countries were Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechia and Slovakia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wales and Zimbabwe. Arsenale, Sale d'Armi. The offices of the Biennale are at Ca' Giustinian in the sestiere San Marco. Numerous galleries with artists on show in Venice usually bring work by the same artists to Basel.[35]. Over 250 young emerging artists under 30 from 58 countries around the world have joined the call for participation. The official catalogue, titled "The Milk of Dreams", consists of two volumes: Volume I is dedicated to the International Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani. Curator: Maya Allison. Forte Marghera Special Project, Mestre: Italian artist Elisa Giardina Papa will make a special work in the building called Polveriera austriaca. [8], The Art Biennale (La Biennale d'Arte di Venezia), is one of the largest and most important contemporary visual art exhibitions in the world. And what would life look like without us? The 1964 Art Exhibition introduced continental Europe to Pop Art (The Independent Group had been founded in Britain in 1952). Curators: Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys Filonenko. The 1957 Golden Lion went to Satyajit Ray's Aparajito which introduced Indian cinema to the West. What are our responsibilities towards the planet, other people, and other life forms? Lives in New York City, USA), Silver Lion for a promising young participant in the International Exhibition The Milk of DreamsAli Cherri(1976, Beirut, Lebanon. Photo tours show the fascination of the city in less crowded areas. 1922 saw an exhibition of sculpture by African artists. In 2017 The Diaspora Pavilion bought together 19 artists from complex, multinational backgrounds to challenge the prevalence of the nation state at the Biennale. The 50th edition, 2003, directed by Francesco Bonami, had a record number of seven co-curators involved, including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Catherine David, Igor Zabel, Hou Hanru and Massimiliano Gioni. The 1993 edition was directed by Achille Bonito Oliva. On 26 July 1973, the Parliament approved the Organization's new statute for the Biennale. Auriti's work, The Encyclopedic Palace of the World was lent by the American Folk Art Museum and exhibited in the first room of the Arsenale for the duration of the biennale. Lives in San Francisco, USA), (1961, Kinngait. Abstract expressionism was introduced in the 1950s, and the Biennale is credited with importing Pop Art into the canon of art history by awarding the top prize to Robert Rauschenberg in 1964. [56] In 2015, the budget for the international exhibition was at 13 million euros (about $14.2 million). 2 special mentions for National Participations: France Les rves nont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles Artist: Zineb Sedira Curators: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath Commissioner: Institut Francais with the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Culture Venue: Giardini, Uganda (New participation) RADIANCE: They dream In Time Artists: Acaye Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo Curator: Shaheen Merali Commissioner: Naumo Juliana Akoryo Venue: Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, San Marco 2597, Golden Lion for best participant in the International Exhibition The Milk of DreamsSimone Leigh(1967, Chicago, USA. In the visual arts, her work has ranged from painting, to performance, all the way to complex assemblages. [13] Alongside the Central Pavilion, built in 1894 and later restructured and extended several times, the Giardini are occupied by a further 29 pavilions built at different periods by the various countries participating in the Biennale. Grand Prizes were established in 1938 and ran until 1968 when they were abolished due to the protest movement. [47], The Internet Pavilion (Italian: Padiglione Internet) was founded in 2009 as a platform for activists and artists working in new media. In 2007, Robert Storr became the first director from the United States to curate the Biennale (the 52nd), with a show entitled Think with the Senses Feel with the Mind. For looking at complex history of cinema beyond the west and the multiple histories of resistance in her work.Uganda: in acknowledgement of their vision, ambition and commitment to art and working in their country. The American Robert Rauschenberg was the first American artist to win the Gran Premio, and the youngest to date.