Notes related to Bienal

The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere.

The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere –curated by Adriano Pedrosa–, opens to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.

La Biennale di Venezia is working concretely towards the crucial goal of fighting climate change, by promoting a more sustainable model for the design, installation and operation of all its events.

For the 60^th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia – curator Çağla Ilk has invited artists Michael Akstaller, Yael Bartana, Robert Lippok, Ersan Mondtag, Nicole L’Huillier, and Jan St. Werner to participate in the German pavilion’s proposal, titled Thresholds. Proceeding from alternative readings of history and the future, the contribution extrapolates realms of experience from the liminal.

Peruvian photographer Roberto Huarcaya will represent his country at the Venice Biennale 2024 with his project Cosmic Traces.

Public Forum: “Thinking Like an Island” linked to the Taiwan Collateral Event Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan, presents public programs focusing on “island-thinking” during the opening week of the 60th International Venice Biennale.

The National Pavilion UAE (United Arab Emirates) at the Venice Biennale 2024 announces its upcoming exhibition titled Abdullah Al Saadi: Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia, curated by Tarek Abou El Fetouh. 

Greenhouse, the collective project by artist-curators Mónica de Miranda, Sónia Vaz Borges and Vânia Gala, will represent Portugal at the 60th International Venice Biennale.

Edith Karlson will present Hora lupi for the Estonian Pavilion at the 60th International Venice Biennale from April 20 until November 24, 2024. Presented at the church of Chiesa di Santa Maria delle Penitenti, the exhibition explores primitive human urges in their banality and solemnity and questions the possibility of redemption in a world that is never worthy of it. 

Archie Moore will transform the Australia Pavilion with his artwork that immerses the viewer in personal and universal stories by reflecting on Australia’s 254-year history within the 65,000+ year context of his Aboriginal family heritage.

Ireland at Venice will present ROMANTIC IRELAND, an exhibition by Eimear Walshe, for the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Sara Greavu and Project Arts Centre.

The collective Denicolai & Provoost / Antoinette Jattiot / Nord / Spec uloos, selected by the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and Wallonie-Bruxelles International, presents Petticoat Government to occupy the Belgian Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

The 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale –to be held from April 20 to November 24, 2024– presents 332 participants, including Argentine artists, in the international exhibition Foreigners Everywhere.

The Biennale di Venezia’s 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will open to the public from Saturday April 20 to Sunday November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale; it will be curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

Ka’a Pûera: we are walking birds, Brazil’s participation at the 60th International Venice Biennale, features the resistance and artistic production of Brazil’s native peoples, updating the problematic issues of colonization.

The Berlin Biennale opens applications for the Director’s position. Deadline to apply: February 24, 2024.

US Pavilion selected queer and indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson for the Venice Biennale 2024. Presented by Portland Art Museum and SITE Santa Fe. 

The Biennale of Sydney announced the curatorial vision and first 39 artists for the 24th edition, titled Ten Thousand Suns. This major international contemporary art festival will be open to the public from 9 March to 10 June 2024, presented in various locations across Sydney. 

The fifth edition of the Kyiv Biennial is taking place across Europe: in Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Uzhhorod, Berlin, Vienna as the main exhibition venue, and Warsaw.

Visual artist Luciana Lamothe, who works in different disciplines, was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent the country at the 2024 artistic event.

The 35th São Paulo Biennale, Choreographies of the Impossible, gathered more than 1100 works by 121 participants focused on exploring new perspectives of the world.

The São Paulo Biennale opened its doors for its 35th edition. Choreographies of the Impossible focuses on exploring new perspectives of the world from the urgency of the present times.

The Portland Biennale, organized by Converge 45 together with Chilean writer and curator Christian Viveros-Fauné, centers on the idea of art-as-a-social-form: contemporary and historical artworks that take the measure of their era in order to respond directly to the challenges of their time.

Manuel Borja-Villel, a Spanish art historian and former director of the Reina Sofia for the past 15 years, is going through a special moment personally and professionally with a new challenge in his career.

Under the title Nature of Hope, the eleventh edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) examines nature, culture and hope from the perspective of architectural thought and action, as a driving force for social change.

The international call for Biennale College Arte opened for young emerging artists. Deadline to apply: July 24th, 2023.

The 12th edition of Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The sacred Return of Lost Things’ addresses the history and temperament of the city of Liverpool and is a call for ancestral and indigenous forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing. In the isiZulu language, ‘uMoya’ means spirit, breath, air, climate and wind.

The President of La Biennale di Venezia, Roberto Cicutto, and the Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition, Adriano Pedrosa announced the title and theme of the Venice Biennale Arte 2024, which will take place from 20^th April to 24^th November 2024.

Everlasting Plastics is the United States Pavilion’s proposal at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The Luxembourg Pavilion presented Down to Earth, a project by Francelle Cane and Marija Marić at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale. Down to Earth critically unpacks the project of space mining through the perspective of resources.