Biennial 2022 will be against the idea of Renaissance man. 213 artists including 191 women

The 2022 edition of the Venice Biennale was presented this morning: the 59th. International Art Exhibition, entitled The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani and organized by the Venice Biennale chaired by Roberto Cicutto, will be open to the public from Saturday, April 23 to Sunday, November 27, 2022. The title is borrowed from a book of fairy tales by Leonora Carrington, in which the surrealist artist describes a magical world of hybrid and fantastic beings in which life is constantly reinvented through imagination and in which it is allowed to change, transform, become something else. The exhibition The Milk of Dreams chooses Carrington’s fantastical creatures (and Carrington herself), along with many other figures from the “as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human,” Alemani explains.

What the exhibition will look like

The exhibition will run between the Central Pavilion at the Giardini and theArsenale, including 213 women artists from 58 nations. Women are the overwhelming majority: 191 versus only 22 men. There are 26 Italian women artists, 180 first-time participants in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, and 80 new productions. The fifty-ninth Biennale was born out of the many conversations held with many women artists in recent months. “From these dialogues,” Alemani goes on to explain, “there have emerged with insistence so many questions born out of the historical situation we are living in and this pause, perhaps even creative, that we have experienced, which I have tried to summarize in a few questions: How is the definition of human changing? What are the differences that separate the plant, the animal, the human and the non-human? What are our responsibilities to our fellow human beings, to other life forms, and to the planet we inhabit? And what would life be like without us? These are some of the questions that agitate the exhibition, which have arisen from these conversations with the artists and serve as the guide for this edition of the Art Biennale, whose research focuses in particular around three thematic areas, which are fluidly and harmoniously interwoven throughout the exhibition: the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses; the relationship between individuals and technologies; and the ties that weave between bodies and the Earth.”

On the first theme, the exhibition is rooted in post-human thought and philosophy: many contemporary artists are imagining a vision that questions “the universal and purely Western figure of the human being and in particular of the white Western being as the measure of the world” (thus Alemani). This “Enlightenment and Renaissance model,” as the curator called it, is contrasted with fantastic and hybrid beings and permeable creatures. The second theme concerns the relationship between the human and technology, which is very complex, and if before Covid it was perhaps experienced with great optimism, now it is interpreted as a complicated relationship, as we have realized how fragile and mortal our bodies are in the face of an invisible force, and technology at this juncture has made us closer but also separated us. The third theme continues the idea of the post-human: many artists imagine a world in which they declare the end of anthropocentrism by declaring a new communion between beings, the planet and other life forms in a relationship that is not hierarchical and extractive but one of harmony and symbiosis.

Along the exhibition route at the Central Pavilion and the Corderie, the public will be able to visit five small thematic exhibits of a historical nature, constituting a series of constellations in which works of art, found objects, artifacts, and documents are brought together to address some of the exhibition’s key themes. Conceived as time capsules, these micro-exhibitions are intended to provide tools for in-depth study and introspection, weaving cross-references and correspondences between historical works, with important museum loans and unusual inclusions, and the experiences of contemporary artists exhibited in neighboring spaces. The thematic capsules enrich the Biennial with a trans-historical and transversal approach that traces similarities and legacies between similar artistic methodologies and practices, even generations apart, creating new layers of meaning and short circuits between present and past: a historiography that proceeds not by filiations and conflicts but by symbiotic relationships, sympathies and sisterhoods.

“The exhibition,” Cecilia Alemani continues, "was conceived and realized in a period of great instability and uncertainty. Its genesis and execution coincided with the onset and continued continuation of the Covid-19 pandemic that forced La Biennale di Venezia to postpone this edition by a year, an event that, since 1895, had only occurred during World War I and World War II. That the exhibition can open is in itself an extraordinary fact: not so much the symbol of a newfound normalcy, but rather the sign of a collective effort that has something miraculous about it. In these interminable months spent in front of a screen, I have repeatedly asked myself what the responsibility of the International Art Exhibition is at this moment in history, and the simplest and most honest answer I have been able to give myself is that the Biennale resembles everything we have been painfully deprived of these past two years: the freedom to meet with people from all over the world, the opportunity to travel, the joy of being together, the practice of difference, of translation, of misunderstanding, and that of communion. Milk of Dreams is not a pandemic exhibition but inevitably records the convulsions of our times. In these moments, as the history of the Venice Biennale teaches, art and artists help us imagine new forms of coexistence and new, infinite possibilities for transformation."

The artists and the works

“The Cecilia Exhibition imagines new harmonies, hitherto unthinkable coexistences and surprising solutions,” says Biennale President Roberto Cicutto, “precisely because they distance themselves from anthropocentrism. A journey at the end of which there are no losers, but new alliances are configured generated by the dialogue between different beings (some perhaps even produced by machines) with all the natural elements that our planet (and perhaps others) presents to us. The fellow travelers (the artists) who join the Curator come from very different worlds. Cecilia tells us that there is a majority of female artists and nonbinary subjects, a choice I agree with because it reflects the richness of the creative force of our day. Many works are new productions specially created for this edition. This is an important sign and evidence of a great attention to the new generation of women artists. It is no coincidence that the Curator agreed to study and implement the first Art College in the history of the Biennale, which complements those of Cinema, Dance, Theater and Music. The results of the colleges in recent years, under the direct responsibility of Art Directors assisted by tutors, have been very positive. The wish for this 59th. International Art Exhibition is that with it we can immerse ourselves in the ’re-enchantment of the world’ evoked by Cecilia in her introduction. Perhaps a dream, which is another of the constituent elements of the Exhibition.”

As mentioned, The Milk of Dreams is divided into small exhibitions-capsules distributed between the Giardini and the Arsenale alternating with historical productions. In the capsules are grouped works by artists of the twentieth century (with a few exceptions) on the themes of the exhibition, to give the idea of a historical development of these themes, and to question the centrality of some stories that have stood out in the history of art, as well as to tell stories considered minor. Surrounding the capsules will be the works of contemporary artists. Thus, it will be a trans-historical exhibition that will bring history and the contemporary into dialogue. The arrangements of the capsules and everything else in the exhibition was done in collaboration with the duo Formafantasma, who created very special atmospheres for the capsules that are very different from the rest of the exhibition (“it will be like entering another temporal dimension,” Alemani said). The exhibition begins with the first historical capsule, The Witch’s Cradle (from a work by Maya Deren), at the Central Pavilion, which will include works by some 30 women artists, writers, dancers and cultural figures who adopt metamorphosis, ambiguity and fragmentation of the body “to counter the idea of the unitary Renaissance man, and in opposition celebrate the domain of the marvelous and the fantastic, overcoming the dualisms between mind and body, human and nonhuman, male and female that pervaded Renaissance thought in favor of a hybridity and a fluctuating individuality” (thus Alemani). These are women artists connected to early 20th century avant-garde movements such as Futurism and Surrealism, but also Bauhaus, Négritude, and the Harlem Renaissance. Among the artists featured in the first capsule: Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini, Gertrud Arndt, Ithell Colguhoun, Carol Rama, Jane Graverol, Meta Warrick Fuller, Lois Mailou Jones, Dorothea Tanning, Baya Mahieddine. In the rooms of the pavilion, outside the capsule, among the various contemporary women artists: Christina Quarles, Andra Ursuta, Aneta Grzeszykowska, Ovartaci, Shuvinai Ashoona, Birgit Jürgenssen, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Sara Enrico, Chiara Enzo

The second capsule will be called Technologies of Enchantment and introduces the theme of the relationship between body and technology, reflecting on the idea of membrane and screen. It encloses a group of Italian women artists from the 1960s who were close to programmed art and kinetic art and who through abstract and cybernetic language reflected on the relationships between abstraction and the body, anticipating many concerns of the digital age. Among others: Grazia Varisco, Laura Grisi, Nanda Vigo, Marina Apollonio, Lucia Di Luciano, Dadamaino. In the contemporary part of the exhibition, among others: Ulla Wiggen, Agnes Denes, Lilian Schwartz, Lenora de Barros. The third capsule, Corpo orbita, will collect women artists and writers who in the 19th and 20th centuries used expanded forms of language as tools of emancipation. It is also an exhibition inspired by the exhibition Materialization of Language held at the Magazzini del Sale in Venice in 1978, curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, with 80 women artists who worked with visual poetry and concrete poetry trying to deconstruct the linearity of language by breaking traditional phrases and occupying the page in a more physical and material way. Among other capsule artists: Tomaso Binga, Mirella Bentivoglio, Ilse Garnier, Mary Ellen Solt, Linda Gazzera, Eusapia Palladino, Josefa Tolrá, Unica Zurn, Minnie Evans. Among the contemporaries: Sable Elyse Smith, Bronwyn Katz, Amy Silman, Jacqueline Humphries, Carla Accardi, Vera Molnár, Paula Rego, Cecilia Vicuña, Merikokeb Berhanu, Mrinalini Mukherjee, Simone Fattal, Alexandra Pirici.

At the Arsenale and the Corderie will be the rest of the exhibition, featuring women artists who look at the relationship between individuals and the land. Among others: Belkis Ayón, Ficre Ghebreyesus, Portia Zvavahera, Gabriel Chaile, Egle Budvytyte, Zheng Bo, Britta Marakatt-Labba, Jaider Esbell. But there will also be two other capsules: the fourth will be titled A leaf, a gourd, a shell, a net, a bag, a shoulder strap, a saddlebag, a bottle, a pot, a box, a container, a quotation from a book by Ursula Le Guin that reinterprets the story of the birth of human civilization and technology by reversing the origin story (no longer locating the first technological invention in axes or spears, but in all the objects mentioned). Among the historical artists: Ruth Asawa, Toshiko Takaetzu, Bridget Tichenor, Maria Bartuszová, Aletta Jacobs. Among contemporaries: Frantz Zéphirin, Magdalene Odundo, Pinaree Sanpitank, Saodat Ismailova, Roberto Gil de Montes, Felipe Baeza, Delcy Morelos, Prabhakar Pachpute, Ali Cherri, Ibrahim El-Salahi. The last historical capsule is titled The Seduction of a Cyborg, with works by women artists throughout the 20th century who imagined new combinations of the human and the artificial creating avatars of a post-gender and post-human future. There will be Bauhaus, Dada, and Futurist works as well as more recent works. Among the historical artists: Marianne Brandt, Marie Vassileff, Anna Colemann Ladd, Alexandra Exter, Regina Cassolo Bracchi, Anu Pöder, Kiki Kogelnik. Among contemporaries: Marguerite Humeau, Raphaela Vogel, Tetsumi Kudo, Mire Lee, Tishan Hsu, Geumhyung Jeong, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Diego Marcon, Barbara Kruger, Robert Grosvenor, Precious Okoyomon.

The Collateral Events admitted by the Curator and promoted by national and international nonprofit organizations and institutions are organized in numerous venues in the city of Venice and offer a wide range of contributions and participations that enrich the pluralism of voices that characterizes the Exhibition. There will also be for this edition the Forte Marghera Special Project: Elisa Giardina Papa, among the artists competing at the International Exhibition, has been invited by Cecilia Alemani for a specific intervention at Forte Marghera, inside the Austrian Powder Magazine.

The official catalog, entitled The Milk of Dreams, consists of two volumes. Volume I, edited by Cecilia Alemani, is devoted to the International Exhibition and includes, in addition to the Curator’s original contribution, a wide range of illustrations and critical essays by a group of women writers and thinkers at the forefront today. Volume II is devoted to National Participations and Collateral Events. The catalog will feature historical presentations by Matthew Biro, Jennifer Higgie, Alyce Mahon, Azalea Seratoni, Christina Sharpe, and critical essays by Cecilia Alemani, Mel Y. Chen, Silvia Federici, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Manuela Hansen, Jack Halberstam, Igiaba Scego, Chiara Valerio, Marina Warner, Rosi Braidotti, Donna Haraway, Katherine Hayles, Yuk Hui, Anders Dunker, Achille Mbembe. The Exhibition Guide is designed to accompany the visitor along the exhibition route. The graphic identity of the Biennale Arte 2022 and the design of the publications are due to the London-based studio A Practice for Everyday Life. The graphic identity explores the concepts of fluidity, identity, human and nonhuman, re-enchantment and fragmentation, putting the works of the artists at the center of the image. Although they are very different works, the details of some of the works by Belkis Ayón, Felipe Baeza, Tatsuo Ikeda and Cecilia Vicuña have in common the representation of the eye, a symbol of important themes running through the exhibition: dreams, identity, body and reflection. The three volumes are published by La Biennale di Venezia.

The 59th. International Art Exhibition is also realized with the support of Swatch, Partner of the event. Main Sponsor of the event is illycaffè. Sponsors: Bloomberg Philantropies, Vela-Venezia Unica. Thanks to Maharam and Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.

A Green Biennale

Biennale number 59 will be particularly green and attentive to anti-Covid measures. “We have gained in the past two years an extraordinary experience in being able to organize in attendance events with tens and hundreds of thousands of visitors,” said President Roberto Cicutto. “This year we will follow closely and put in place all those procedures and controls that will allow those who work for the exhibition to be able to see it safely. There will be one more aspect, which is compliance and focus on achieving carbon neutrality goals. We started with the film exhibition, continued with the Architecture Biennale, collected all the data that can allow us to monitor the emissions that our events produce. We will obviously not be able to put in place all the concrete measures that can reduce these emissions, but we have activated economic offsets by funding initiatives that are already active and developing around the world for the purpose of reducing emissions. All this work will lead us, we hope, within 2022 to arrive at some important results: the first is that we have already moved and we have already realized the fact that all the energy used by the Biennale is energy from green sources. We will provide everyone who participates, workers, visitors and artists, with behavior protocols, which will not be impositions but suggestions that we hope people will adhere to because they will be behaviors that will help us achieve this.”

The commitment of Swatch, main partner

Swatch returns, as main partner, to the Venice Biennale for the sixth consecutive time. The Swiss watch manufacturer, which has always considered its passion for artists and their work a key pillar of the brand, will present several artworks at both venues of the most important international art event. In the Arsenale’s Sale d’Armi, Swatch Faces will feature works by former residents of the Swatch Art Peace Hotel, while the Giardini will feature The Description of the World, an installation designed specifically for that venue by Thai artist Navin Rawanchaikul.

From Shanghai to Venice: Since its opening in November 2011, the Swatch Art Peace Hotel has hosted more than 450 artists from 54 countries. With the aim of encouraging creative exchange, artists from all disciplines are invited to live and work inside apartment-ateliers for a period of three to six months in one of Shanghai’s iconic buildings. Swatch Faces 2022 will present a selection of artists selected from this unique residency. Swatch has invited Navin Rawanchaikul to the Gardens, where the Thai artist, as mentioned, will create The Description of the World, an installation specifically for that location. The artwork is sure to be striking, a truly engaging pop icon with a story to tell. As has been the tradition for a few editions now, Swatch will present a Swatch Art Special edition, as well as a watch model inspired by the graphic identity of the Biennale Arte 2022.

All the featured artists

1. Noor Abuarafeh
1986, Jerusalem. Lives in Jerusalem and Maastricht, Netherlands

2. Carla Accardi
1924, Trapani, Italy - 2014, Rome, Italy

3. Igshaan Adams
1982, Cape Town. Lives in Cape Town, South Africa

4. Eileen Agar
1899, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1991, London, UK

5. Monira Al Qadiri
1983, Dakar, Senegal. Lives in Berlin, Germany

6. Sophia Al-Maria*
1983, Tacoma, USA. Lives in London, UK
Pavilion of Applied Arts

7. Özlem Altın
1977, Goch, Germany. Lives in Berlin, Germany

8. Marina Apollonio
1940, Trieste, Italy. Lives in Padua, Italy

9. Gertrud Arndt
1903, Ratibor (Racibórz), German Empire (present-day Poland) - 2000, Darmstadt, Germany

10. Ruth Asawa
1926, Norwalk, USA - 2013, San Francisco, USA

11. Shuvinai Ashoona
1961, Kinngait. Lives in Kinngait, Nunavut

12. Belkis Ayón
1967 - 1999, Havana, Cuba

13. Firelei Báez
1981, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. Lives in New York City, USA

14. Felipe Baeza
1987, Guanajuato, Mexico. Lives in New York City, USA

15. Josephine Baker
1906, Saint Louis, USA - 1975, Paris, France

16. Djuna Barnes
1892 - 1982, New York City, USA

17. Mária Bartuszová
1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) - 1996, Košice, Slovakia

18. Benedetta
1897, Rome, Italy - 1977, Venice, Italy

19. Mirella Bentivoglio
1922, Klagenfurt, Austria - 2017, Rome, Italy
In collaboration with Annalisa Alloatti
1926 - 2000, Turin, Italy

20. Merikokeb Berhanu
1977, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Lives in Silver Spring, USA

21. Tomaso Binga
1931, Salerno, Italy. Lives in Rome, Italy

22. Cosima von Bonin
1962, Mombasa, Kenya. Lives in Cologne, Germany

23. Louise Bonnet
1970, Geneva, Switzerland. Lives in Los Angeles, USA

24. Marianne Brandt
1893, Chemnitz, Germany - 1983, Kirchberg, Germany

25. Kerstin Brätsch
1979, Hamburg, Germany. Lives in New York City, USA and Berlin, Germany

26. Dora Budor
1984, Zagreb, Croatia. Lives in New York City, USA

27. Eglė Budvytytė
1981, Kaunas, Lithuania. Lives in Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands
In collaboration with Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Steponaitytė
1989, Vilnius. Lives in Vilnius, Lithuania and New York City, USA
1992, Vilnius. Lives in Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands

28. Liv Bugge
1974, Oslo. Lives in Oslo, Norway

29. Simnikiwe Buhlungu*
1995, Johannesburg. Lives in Johannesburg, South Africa and Amsterdam, Netherlands
Biennial College Art

30. Miriam Cahn
1949, Basel, Switzerland. Lives in Print, Switzerland

31. Claude Cahun
1894, Nantes, France - 1954, Saint Helier, Jersey, UK

32. Elaine Cameron-Weir
1985, Red Deer, Canada. Lives in New York City, USA

33. Milly Canavero
1920 - 2010, Genoa, Italy

34. Leonora Carrington
1917, Clayton-le-Woods, UK - 2011, Mexico City, Mexico

35. Regina Cassolo Bracchi
1894, Mede, Italy - 1974, Milan, Italy

36. Ambra Castagnetti*
1993, Genoa, Italy. Lives in Milan, Italy
Biennial College Art

37. Giulia Cenci
1988, Cortona. Lives in Cortona, Italy and Amsterdam, Netherlands

38. Giannina Censi
1913, Milan, Italy - 1995, Voghera, Italy

39. Gabriel Chaile
1985, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lisbon, Portugal

40. Ali Cherri
1976, Beirut, Lebanon. Lives in Paris, France

41. Anna Coleman Ladd
1878, Bryn Mawr, USA - 1939, Santa Barbara, USA

42. Ithell Colquhoun
1906, Shillong, India - 1988, Lamorna, UK

43. Myrlande Constant
1968, Port-au-Prince. Lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

44. June Crespo
1982, Pamplona, Spain. Lives in Bilbao, Spain

45. Dadamaino
1930 - 2004, Milan, Italy

46. Noah Davis
1983, Seattle, USA - 2015, Ojai, USA

47. Lenora de Barros
1953, São Paulo. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil

48. Valentine de Saint-Point
1875, Lyon, France - 1953, Cairo, Egypt

49. Lise Deharme
1898, Paris, France - 1980, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

50. Sonia Delaunay
1885, Odessa, Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) - 1979, Paris, France

51. Agnes Denes
1931, Budapest, Hungary. Lives in New York City, USA

52. Maya Deren
1917, Kiev, Ukraine - 1961, New York City, USA

53. Lucia Di Luciano
1933, Syracuse, Italy. Lives in Formello, Italy

54. Ibrahim El-Salahi
1930, Omdurman, Sudan. Lives in Oxford, UK
55. Sara Enrico
1979, Biella, Italy. Lives in Turin, Italy

56. Chiara Enzo
1989, Venice, Italy. Lives in Venice, Italy

57. Andro Eradze*
1993, Tbilisi. Lives in Tbilisi, Georgia
Biennale College Art

58. Jaider Esbell
1979, Normandy, Brazil - 2021, São Sebastião, Brazil

59. Jana Euler
1982, Friedberg, Germany. Lives in Frankfurt, Germany and Brussels, Belgium

60. Minnie Evans
1892, Long Creek, USA - 1987, Wilmington, USA

61. Alexandra Exter
1882, Białystok, Russian Empire (present-day Poland) - 1949, Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

62. Jadé Fadojutimi
1993, London. Lives in London, UK

63. Jes Fan
1990, Scarborough, Canada. Lives in New York City, USA and Hong Kong.

64. Safia Farhat
1924 - 2004, Radès, Tunisia

65. Simone Fattal
1942, Damascus, Syria. Lives in Paris and Erquy, France

66. Célestin Faustin
1948, Lafond, Haiti - 1981, Pétion-Ville, Haiti

67. Leonor Fini
1907, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1996, Paris, France

68. Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
1874, Swinemünde (Świnoujście), German Empire (present-day Poland) - 1927, Paris, France

69. Katharina Fritsch
1956, Essen, Germany. Lives in Wuppertal and Düsseldorf, Germany

70. Ilse Garnier
1927, Kaiserslautern, Germany - 2020, Saisseval, France

71. Aage Gaup
1943, Børselv, Sápmi/Northern Norway - 2021, Karasjok, Sápmi/Northern Norway

72. Linda Gazzera
1890, Rome, Italy - 1942, São Paulo, Brazil

73. Ficre Ghebreyesus
1962, Asmara, Eritrea - 2012, New Haven, USA

74. Elisa Giardina Papa
1979, Medicine, Italy. Lives in New York City, USA and Palermo, Italy

75. Roberto Gil de Montes
1950, Guadalajara, Mexico. Lives in La Peñita de Jaltemba, Mexico.

76. Nan Goldin
1953, Washington, D.C., USA. Lives in New York City, USA.

77. Jane Graverol
1905, Ixelles, Belgium - 1984, Fontainebleau, France

78. Laura Grisi
1939, Rhodes, Greece - 2017, Rome, Italy

79. Karla Grosch
1904, Weimar, Germany - 1933, Tel Aviv, Mandated Palestine (present-day Israel)

80. Robert Grosvenor
1937, New York City, USA. Lives in East Patchogue, USA

81. Aneta Grzeszykowska
1974, Warsaw. Lives in Warsaw, Poland

82. Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
1971, Sheroana, Venezuela. Lives in Mahekototeri and Caracas, Venezuela

83. Florence Henri
1893, New York City, USA - 1982, Compiègne, France

84. Lynn Hershman Leeson
1941, Cleveland, USA. Lives in San Francisco, USA

85. Charline von Heyl
1960, Mainz, Germany. Lives in New York City and Marfa, USA

86. Hannah Höch
1889, Gotha, Germany - 1978, Berlin, Germany

87. Jessie Homer French
1940, New York City, USA. Lives in Mountain Center, USA

88. Rebecca Horn
1944, Michelstadt, Germany. Lives in Odenwald, Germany

89. Georgiana Houghton
1814, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain - 1884, London, UK

90. Sheree Hovsepian
1974, Esfahan, Iran. Lives in New York City, USA

91. Tishan Hsu
1951, Boston, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

92. Marguerite Humeau
1986, Cholet, France. Lives in London, UK

93. Jacqueline Humphries
1960, New Orleans, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

94. Kudzanai-Violet Hwami*.
1993, Gutu, Zimbabwe. Lives in London, UK
Biennial College Art

95. Tatsuo Ikeda
1928, Saga, Japan - 2020, Tokyo, Japan

96. Saodat Ismailova
1981, Tashkent. Lives in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Paris, France

97. Aletta Jacobs
1854, Sappemeer, Netherlands - 1929, Baarn, Netherlands

98. Geumhyung Jeong
1980, Seoul. Lives in Seoul, South Korea

99. Charlotte Johannesson
1943, Malmö, Sweden. Lives in Skanör, Sweden

100. Loïs Mailou Jones
1905, Boston, USA - 1998, Washington, D.C., USA

101. Jamian Juliano-Villani
1987, Newark, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

102. Birgit Jürgenssen
1949 - 2003, Vienna, Austria

103. Ida Kar
1908, Tambov, Russia - 1974, London, UK

104. Allison Katz
1980, Montréal, Canada. Lives in London, UK

105. Bronwyn Katz
1993, Kimberley, South Africa. Lives in Johannesburg, South Africa

106. Kapwani Kiwanga
1978, Hamilton, Canada. Lives in Paris, France

107. Kiki Kogelnik
1935, Graz, Austria - 1997, Vienna, Austria

108. Barbara Kruger
1945, Newark, USA. Lives in Los Angeles, USA

109. Tetsumi Kudo
1935, Osaka, Japan - 1990, Tokyo, Japan

110. Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill
1979, Comox, Canada. Lives in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations.

111. Louise Lawler
1947, Bronxville, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

112. Carolyn Lazard
1987, Upland, USA. Lives in New York City and Philadelphia, USA.

113. Mire Lee
1988, Seoul, South Korea. Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands

114. Simone Leigh
1967, Chicago, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

115. Hannah Levy
1991, New York City. Lives in New York City, USA.

116. Tau Lewis
1993, Toronto, Canada. Lives in New York City, USA

117. Shuang Li
1990, Wuyi Mountains, China. Lives in Berlin, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland

118. Liliane Lijn
1939, New York City, USA. Lives in London, UK

119. Candice Lin
1979, Concord, USA. Lives in Los Angeles, USA

120. Mina Loy
1882, London, UK - 1966, Aspen, USA

121. Antoinette Lubaki
1895, Bukama, Congo Free State (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) - ?

122. LuYang
1984, Shanghai. Lives in Shanghai, China

123. Zhenya Machneva
1988, Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg), Russia. Lives in St. Petersburg, Russia

124. Baya Mahieddine
1931, Fort de l’Eau (present-day Bordj El Kiffan), Algeria - 1998, Blida, Algeria

125. Maruja Mallo
1902, Viveiro, Spain - 1995, Madrid, Spain

126. Joyce Mansour
1928, Bowden, UK - 1986, Paris, France

127. Britta Marakatt-Labba
1951, Idivuoma, Sápmi/Northern Sweden. Lives in Övre Soppero, Sápmi/Northern Sweden.

128. Diego Marcon
1985, Busto Arsizio, Italy. Lives in Milan, Italy.

129. Sidsel Meineche Hansen
1981, Ry, Denmark. Lives in London, UK.

130. Maria Sibylla Merian
1647, Frankfurt am Main, Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire (present-day Germany) - 1717, Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (present-day Netherlands)

131. Vera Molnár
1924, Budapest, Hungary. Lives in Paris, France

132. Delcy Morelos
1967, Tierralta, Colombia. Lives in Bogotá, Colombia

133. Sister Gertrude Morgan
1900, LaFayette, USA - 1980, New Orleans, USA

134. Sandra Mujinga
1989, Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lives in Oslo, Norway and Berlin, Germany

135. Mrinalini Mukherjee
1949, Bombay (present-day Mumbai), India - 2015, New Delhi, India

136. Nadja
1902, Saint-André-lez-Lille, France - 1941, Bailleul, France

137. Louise Nevelson
1899, Perejaslav, Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire (present-day Ukraine) - 1988, New York City, USA

138. Amy Nimr
1898, Cairo, Egypt - 1974, Paris, France

139. Magdalene Odundo
1950, Nairobi, Kenya. Lives in Farnham, UK

140. Precious Okoyomon
1993, London, UK. Lives in New York City, USA

141. Meret Oppenheim
1913, Berlin, Germany - 1985, Basel, Switzerland

142. Ovartaci
1894, Ebeltoft, Denmark - 1985, Risskov, Denmark

143. Virginia Overton
1971, Nashville, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

144. Akosua Adoma Owusu
1984, Alexandria, USA. Lives in New York City and Cambridge, USA

145. Prabhakar Pachpute
1986, Sasti, India. Lives in Pune, India

146. Eusapia Palladino
1854, Minervino Murge, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies (present-day Italy) - 1918, Naples, Italy

147. Violeta Parra
1917, San Fabián de Alico, Chile - 1967, Santiago, Chile

148. Rosana Paulino
1967, São Paulo. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil

149. Valentine Penrose
1898, Mont-de-Marsan, France - 1978, Chiddingly, UK

150. Elle Pérez
1989, New York City. Lives in New York City, USA

151. Sondra Perry
1986, Perth Amboy, USA. Lives in Newark, USA

152. Solange Pessoa
1961, Ferros, Brazil. Lives in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

153. Thao Nguyen Phan
1987, Ho Chi Minh. Lives in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

154. Julia Phillips
1985, Hamburg, Germany. Lives in Chicago, USA and Berlin, Germany.

155. Joanna Piotrowska
1985, Warsaw. Lives in Warsaw, Poland and London, UK

156. Alexandra Pirici
1982, Bucharest. Lives in Bucharest, Romania

157. Anu Põder
1947, Kanepi, Estonia - 2013, Tallinn, Estonia

158. Gisèle Prassinos
1920, Constantinople (present-day Istanbul), Ottoman Empire (present-day Turkey) - 2015, Paris, France

159. Christina Quarles
1985, Chicago, USA. Lives in Los Angeles, USA

160. Rachilde
1860, Cros, France - 1953, Paris, France

161. Janis Rafa
1984, Athens. Lives in Athens, Greece and Amsterdam, Netherlands

162. Alice Rahon
1904, Chenecey-Buillon, France - 1987, Mexico City, Mexico

163. Carol Rama
1918 - 2015, Turin, Italy

164. Paula Rego
1935, Lisbon, Portugal. Lives in London, UK

165. Edith Rimmington
1902, Leicester, UK - 1986, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK

166. Enif Robert
1886, Prato, Italy - 1974, Bologna, Italy

167. Luiz Roque
1979, Cachoeira do Sul, Brazil. Lives in São Paulo, Brazil

168. Rosa Rosà
1884, Vienna, Austria - 1978, Rome, Italy

169. Niki de Saint Phalle
1930, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France - 2002, La Jolla, USA

170. Giovanna Sandri
1923 - 2002, Rome, Italy

171. Pinaree Sanpitak
1961, Bangkok. Lives in Bangkok, Thailand

172. Aki Sasamoto
1980, Kanagawa, Japan. Lives in New York City, USA

173. Augusta Savage
1892, Green Cove Springs, USA - 1962, New York City, USA

174. Lavinia Schulz and Walter Holdt
1896, Lübben (Spreewald), Germany - 1924, Hamburg, Germany
1899 - 1924, Hamburg, Germany

175. Lillian Schwartz
1927, Cincinnati, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

176. Amy Sillman
1955, Detroit, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

177. Elias Sime
1968, Addis Ababa. Lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

178. Marianna Simnett
1986, London, UK. Lives in Berlin, Germany

179. Hélène Smith
1861, Martigny, Switzerland - 1929, Geneva, Switzerland

180. Sable Elyse Smith
1986, Los Angeles, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

181. Teresa Solar
1985, Madrid. Lives in Madrid, Spain

182. Mary Ellen Solt
1920, Gilmore City, USA - 2007, Santa Clarita, USA

183. P. Staff
1987, Bognor Regis, UK. Lives in London, UK and Los Angeles, USA

184. Sophie Taeuber-Arp
1889, Davos, Switzerland - 1943, Zurich, Switzerland

185. Toshiko Takaezu
1922, Pepeekeo, USA - 2011, Honolulu, USA

186. Emma Talbot
1969, Stourbridge, UK. Lives in London, UK

187. Dorothea Tanning
1910, Galesburg, USA - 2012, New York City, USA

188. Bridget Tichenor
1917, Paris, France - 1990, Mexico City, Mexico

189. Tecla Tofano
1927, Naples, Italy - 1995, Caracas, Venezuela

190. Josefa Tolrà
1880 - 1959, Cabrils, Spain

191. Tourmaline
1983, Boston, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

192. Toyen
1902, Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Czech Republic) - 1980, Paris, France

193. Rosemarie Trockel
1952, Schwerte, Germany. Lives in Berlin, Germany

194. Wu Tsang
1982, Worcester, USA. Lives in Zurich, Switzerland

195. Kaari Upson
1970, San Bernardino, USA - 2021, New York City, USA

196. Andra Ursuţa
1979, Salonta, Romania. Lives in New York City, USA

197. Grazia Varisco
1937, Milan, Italy. Lives in Milan, Italy

198. Remedios Varo
1908, Anglès, Spain - 1963, Mexico City, Mexico

199. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra
1967, Viña del Mar, Chile. Lives in Berlin, Germany

200. Marie Vassilieff
1884, Smolensk, Russia - 1957, Nogent-sur-Marne, France

201. Cecilia Vicuña
1948, Santiago, Chile. Lives in New York City, USA

202. Nanda Vigo
1936 - 2020, Milan, Italy

203. Marianne Vitale
1973, East Rockaway, USA. Lives in New York City, USA

204. Raphaela Vogel
1988, Nuremberg, Germany. Lives in Berlin, Germany

205. Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller
1877, Philadelphia, USA - 1968, Framingham, USA

206. Laura Wheeler Waring
1887, Hartford, USA - 1948, Philadelphia, USA

207. Ulla Wiggen
1942, Stockholm. Lives in Stockholm, Sweden

208. Mary Wigman
1886, Hanover, Germany - 1973, Berlin, Germany

209. Müge Yilmaz
1985, Istanbul, Turkey. Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands

210. Frantz Zéphirin
1968, Cap-Haïtien, Haiti. Lives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

211. Zheng Bo
1974, Beijing, China. Lives on Lantau Island, Hong Kong

212. Unica Zürn
1916, Berlin, Germany - 1970, Paris, France

213. Portia Zvavahera
1985, Harare. Lives in Harare, Zimbabwe

The national pavilions

The following are the national pavilions that have already been announced.

Argentina
Artist: Mónica Heller
Curated by: Alejo Ponce de León
Location: Arsenal

Australia
Artist: Marco Fusitano
Curated by: Alexie Glass-Kantor

Austria
Artists: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Jakob Lena Knebl
Curated by: Alexie Glass-Kantor
Location: Gardens

Belgium
Artist: Francis Alÿs
Curated by: Hilde Teerlinck
Place: Gardens

Brazil
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade
Curated by: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, José Olympio da Veiga Pereira
Place: Gardens

Canada
Artist: Stan Douglas
Curated by: Reid Shier
Place: Gardens

Catalonia
Artist: Lara Fluxà
Curated by: Oriol Fondevila
Place: encore non connu

Chile
Artists: Ariel Bustamante, Carla Macchiavello, Alfredo Thiermann, Dominga Sotomayor
Curated by: Camila Marambio
Place: Arsenal

Croatia
Artist: Tomo Savic-Gecan
Curated by: Elena Filipovic
Place: Différents Luogox

Denmark
Artist: Uffe Isolotto
Curated by: Jacon Lillemose
Place: Gardens

United Arab Emirates
Artist: Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
Curated by: Maya Allison
Location: Arsenal

Estonia
Artists: Kristina Norman, Bita Razavi
Curated by: Corina L. Apostol, Maria Arusoo
Place: Gardens

Philippines
Artists: Gerardo Tan, Felicidad A. Prudente, Sammy Buhle
Curated by: Yael Buencamino Borromeo, Arvin Jason Flores
Location: Arsenal

Finland
Artist: Pilvi Takala
Curated by: Christina Li
Place: Gardens

France
Artist: Zineb Sedira
Curated by: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil Till Fellrath
Place: Gardens

Germany
Artist: Maria Eichhorn
Curated by: Yilmaz Dziewior
Location: Gardens

Japan
Artist: Dumb Type
Edited by: nc
Place: Gardens

Ghana
Artists: Na Chainkua Reindorf, Afroscope, Diego Araúja
Curated by: Nana Oforiatta Ayim
Place: TBD

Great Britain
Artist: Sonia Boyce
Curated by: nb
Location: Gardens

Hong Kong
Artist: Angela Su
Curated by: Freya Chou
Location: Lair Field, Castle

Ireland
Artist: Niamh O’Malley
Curated by: Clíodhna Shaffrey, Michael Hill
Place: Arsenal

Iceland
Artist: Sigurdur Gudjonsson
Curated by: Mónica Bello
Location: Arsenal

Israel
Artist: Ilit Azoulay
Curated by: Shelley Harten
Location: Gardens

Italy
Artist: Gian Maria Tosatti
Edited by: Eugenio Viola
Place: Arsenal

Luxembourg
Artist: Tina Gillen
Curated by: Christophe Gallois
Location: Arsenal

Malta
Artists: Brian Schembri, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, Arcangelo Sassolino
Curated by: Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip
Location: Arsenal

New Zealand
Artist: Yuki Kihara
Curated by: Caren Rangi, Natalie King
Location: Arsenal

Oman
Artists: Anwar Sonya, Hassen Meer, Budoor Al Riyami, Radhika Khimji, Raiya Al Rawahi
Curated by: Sayyid Saeed Al Busaidi, Aisha Stoby
Location: Arsenal

Netherlands
Artist: Melanie Bonajo
Curated by: Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth, Soraya Pol
Place: Misericordia Church

Nordic Countries (Norway, Sweden and Finland)
Artists: Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna
Curated by: Katya García-Antón, Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Beaska Niillas
Location: Gardens

Poland
Artist: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Curated by: Wojciech Szymański, Joanna Warsza
Place: Gardens

Portugal
Artist: Pedro Neves Marques
Curated by: João Mourão, Luís Silva
Place: Palais Franchetti

Russia
Artists: Kirill Savchenkov, Alexandra Sukhareva
Curated by: Raimundas Malašauskas
Place: Gardens

Scotland
Artist: Alberta Whittle
Curated by: non connu
Location: Arsenal Docks Cucchini Shipyards

Serbia
Artist: Vladimir Nikolic
Curated by: Biljana Ciric
Place: Gardens

Spain
Artist: Ignasi Aballí
Curated by: Beatriz Espejo
Location: Gardens

United States
Artist: Simone Leigh
Curated by: Jill Medvedow, Eva Respini
Location: Gardens

Singapore
Artist: Shubigi Rao
Curated by: Ute Meta Bauer, Rosa Daniel
Place: Arsenal

Switzerland
Artist: Latifa Echakhch
Curated by: Alexandre Babel, Francesco Stocchi
Place: Gardens

Taiwan
Artist: Sakuliu
Curated by: Patrick Flores
Place: Palace of Prisons

Turkey
Artist: Füsun Onur
Curated by: Bige örer
Place: Arsenal

Hungary
Artist: Zsófia Keresztes
Curated by: Mónika Zsikla
Place: Gardens

Zimbabwe
Artists: Wallen Mapondera, Ronald Muchatuta, Kresiah Mukwazhi, Terrence Musekiwa
Curated by: Fadzai Muchemwa

Biennial 2022 will be against the idea of Renaissance man. 213 artists including 191 women

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