Biennale de Venise — 2024 — 60e édition — Jardins de la Biennale de Venise — Exhibition — Slash Paris

In 7 months: April 20 → November 24, 2024

STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT ROBERTO CICUTTO :

“The choice of Adriano Pedrosa as curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia is the result of a process that grew out of our experience of working with Cecilia Alemani.

I believe it is essential to build on what emerged from the previous Exhibition (this was also the case with the appointment of Lesley Lokko, following the International Architecture Exhibition curated by Hashim Sarkis) to direct our next choice.
Pedrosa, an esteemed curator and the director of the important Museu de Arte de São Paulo in Brazil (designed by Italian architect Lina Bo Bardi), is known for the competence and originality he has shown in conceiving his exhibitions with a vision open to the contemporary, working from an observation point of the world that cannot disregard the nature of its place of origin.

Rather than restricting his vision, this has extended it to an indispensable debate so that now more than ever La Biennale might address contemporary art not to provide a catalogue of the existing, but to give form to the contradictions, dialogues and kinships without which art would remain an enclave devoid of vital sap.

I would like to thank the Board of Directors of La Biennale for having accompanied me in this choice”.

Participating artists :

Australia : Archie Moore

Austria: Anna Jermolaewa

Canada: Kapwani Kiwanga

Estonia: Edith Karlson

Finland: Pia Lindman, Vidha Saumya, and Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen

France: Julien Creuzet

Hungary: Marton Nemes

Iceland: Hildigunnur Birgisdottir

Lithuania: Pakui Hardware collective with works by Marija Teresė Rozanskaitė

Netherlands: Renzo Martens

Switzerland: Guerreiro do Divino Amor

South Korea: Koo Jeong A

United Kingdom: John Akomfrah

USA: Jeffrey Gibson