Everything you need to know about La Biennale Arte

Plan your visit Giardini: 11 am – 7 pm (last admission 6:45 pm) Arsenale: from Tuesday to Thursday and Sunday 11 am – 7 pm (last admission 6:45 pm), Fridays and Saturdays 11 am – 8 pm (last admission 7:45 pm)

Closed on Mondays

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WTF is Biennale? The history of the La Biennale di Venezia dates back from 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organised. Biennale is an Italian word meaning 'every other year'.

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What is Giardini? One of the venue. Giardini hosts 29 pavilions of foreign countries.

What is Arsenale? The Arsenale was the State Shipyard; built and documented in the 12th Century onwards. It later grew to become the world's largest shipyard at the time. This complex was so crucial for the economy and civil history of Venice that in 1509 the Senate called it the "heart of the Venetian State."

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Biennale 2024 The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.

There are 88 official national pavilions, eight more than the previous edition. The international exhibition at the Central Pavilion and the Arsenale, called “Foreigners Everywhere”, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa – the first openly queer curator in the history of the Biennale Arte – features a mind-boggling 331 artists and collectives.

Most will be unfamiliar to visitors as the purpose of the selection is to redress the marginalisation of minority voices and art forms (for example, it deliberately includes many textile works).

About the title Here, “foreign” comes to mean any form of otherness that can create boundaries and friction between groups of people. Gender, sexuality, and culture can all act as walls of exclusion, and to be a foreigner is to struggle with this alienation. We are all foreign to someone, and, sometimes, the foreigner can be within.

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Who was awarded?

Golden Lion for Best National Participation: AUSTRALIA kith and kin Commissioner: Creative Australia Curator: Ellie Buttrose Exhibitor: Archie Moore Venue: Giardini

Australia’s pavilion, which would go on to win its first Golden Lion for Best National Participation in the biennale, was among the first to get a queue, and deservedly so.

The aboriginal artist Archie Moore spent months creating a sombre, dignified memorial with chalk.

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Politics & Controversy

Israel / Russia

Artists Petition to Exclude Israel From Venice Biennale⁠

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Poland is represented by a Ukrainian collective called Open Group – a last-minute change after the previous right-wing, socially conservative government was voted out in Warsaw.

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Venice Art Biennale 2024: 8 Must-See Pavilions Venice is once again at the forefront of the global art scene, hosting the 60th International Art Exhibition, titled "Foreigners Everywhere" www.forbes.com⁠

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