Biennale 2024, here we are!
The 60th International Art Exhibition of Venice curated by Adriano Pedroso, Brazilian curator and the first Latin American to ever be entrusted with the curatorship of the Biennale, will open to the public from Saturday 20 April 2024 until Sunday 24 November 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.
Biennale 2024, “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere”
The title chosen for the 2024 edition is Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, taken from a series of neon works created in the early 2000s by the Claire Fontaine collective.
The artworks consist of sculptures of various colors bearing the words “Foreigners Everywhere” in different languages.
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How is it organized?
The Biennale 2024 is divided into two main nuclei, the contemporary section and the historical one.
In the first section, 4 categories of artists often considered “foreigners” in their own communities will be better investigated: the queer artist, the outsider artist, the indigenous artist and the folk artist.
As regards the historical section, however, it will include 20th century artworks from Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Arab world. There are three rooms in the Central Pavilion: the room entitled Portraits, the room of Abstractions and a third dedicated to the Italian artistic diaspora in the world throughout the 20th century.
The Pavilions of the 2024 Biennale
There will be 88 countries in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice.
Among these, four countries will be present for the first time, namely the Republic of Benin, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste and the United Republic of Tanzania.
Nicaragua, the Republic of Panama and Senegal are participating for the first time with their own pavilion and the Municipality of Venice will also have its own Pavilion, the Venice Pavilion, in the Gardens of Sant’Elena.
The Italian Pavilion will be at the Tese delle Vergini in the Arsenale with the Due qui / To hear project by the artist Massimo Bartolini.
The Pavilion of the Holy See will be in the women’s prison in Venice on the Giudecca. The exhibition is entitled With my eyes.
In the months of the Biennale, in Venice many collateral events will also take place, to find out more click here: Biennale 2024, the collateral events: the complete list.
