59th Venice Biennale

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59th Venice Biennale
GenreArt exhibition
BeginsApril 23, 2022
EndsNovember 27, 2022
Location(s)Venice
CountryItaly
Previous event58th Venice Biennale (2019)

The 59th Venice Biennale is an upcoming international contemporary art exhibition to be held between April and November 2022. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Cecilia Alemani will curate its central exhibition.

Background[]

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]

The 59th Biennale will run from April 23, 2022, through November 27.[3] Originally scheduled for the year prior, the COVID-19 pandemic postponed the 2020 architecture biennale into 2021 and the art biennale into 2022. As a result of the displacement, the art biennale will coincide with Documenta 15, another major contemporary art exhibition.[4]

Central exhibition[]

Cecilia Alemani, chief curator of High Line Art, will serve as the 59th Venice Biennale's artistic director. Her central exhibition is titled "The Milk of Dreams", after a book by the surrealist Leonora Carrington filled with magical tales in which everything can be transformed through imagination. The exhibition follows three themes: body representation and metamorphosis, human relationships with technology, and the relationship between the body and Earth. Alemani developed the concept from conversations with artists and questions following the COVID-19 pandemic.[3] After the exhibition was postponed one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Alemani hoped to use the extra year to prepare new projects and use the opening, which now precedes the Italian Liberation Day, to mark an occasion of togetherness.[4] Alemani is the first Italian woman to serve as the Biennale's artistic director. She previously curated the 2017 Biennale's Italian pavilion. Her husband, Massimiliano Gioni, curated the 2013 Biennale.[5]

National pavilions[]

Countries began to announce their national representatives following the 58th Biennale exhibition,[6] in which 90 national pavilions participated. Each country selects artists to show at their pavilion, ostensibly with an eye to the Biennale's theme.[1]

Nation Location Artist(s) Curator(s) Ref
Australia Giardini  [Wikidata] Alexie Glass-Kantor [6][7]
Austria Giardini  [de] and Ashley Hans Scheirl  [de] [8][9]
Belgium Giardini Francis Alÿs Hilde Teerlinck [10]
Canada Giardini Stan Douglas TBD [11]
Estonia Giardini (Dutch pavilion) and Corina Apostol [6]
Finland Giardini Pilvi Takala Christina Li [12]
France Giardini Zineb Sedira [13][14]
Germany Giardini Maria Eichhorn Yilmaz Dziewior [15]
Great Britain Giardini Sonia Boyce TBD [16]
Hong Kong Around Venice Angela Su Freya Chou [17]
Iceland Around Venice Sigurður Guðjónsson Mónica Bello [6]
Luxembourg Around Venice [6]
Netherlands Around Venice Melanie Bonajo Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth, Soraya Pol [18]
Nordic Pavilion Giardini Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara,  [sv] [19]
New Zealand Around Venice Yuki Kihara Natalie King [6][20]
Spain Giardini Ignasi Aballí Beatriz Espejo [6]
Switzerland Giardini Latifa Echakhch Francesco Stocchi [21]
Taiwan Around Venice  [Wikidata] Patrick Flores [6]
Turkey Around Venice Füsun Onur Bige Örer [22]
United Arab Emirates Around Venice Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Maya Allison [23]
United States Giardini Simone Leigh Eva Respini [24]

References[]

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  11. ^ Greenberger, Alex (January 15, 2020). "Stan Douglas, Leading Video Artist with an Eye Toward the Marginalized, Will Represent Canada at 2021 Venice Biennale". ARTnews.com. Archived from the original on January 15, 2020. Retrieved January 16, 2020.
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  13. ^ Selvin, Claire (January 27, 2020). "Zineb Sedira Becomes First Algerian Artist to Represent France at Venice Biennale". ARTnews.com. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
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  17. ^ Tsui, Enid (June 17, 2021). "Artist Angela Su to represent Hong Kong at 2022 Venice Biennale". South China Morning Post. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
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  24. ^ Sheets, Hilarie (October 14, 2020). "Simone Leigh Is First Black Woman to Represent U.S. at Venice Biennale". New York Times. Retrieved April 3, 2021.

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