Venice Biennale - Finestre sull'Arte

Is the Biennale's "Strangers Everywhere" slogan divisive? Claire Fontaine answers.

Claire Fontaine is a duo founded in Paris in 2004 by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill: one of their works, Strangers Everywhere, inspired the title of the international exhibition at this year's Venice Biennale, curated by Adrian Pedrosa. Raja El...
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Biennale, controversy over Venice Pavilion without statute: cultural figures write to city hall

A letter sent to the City of Venice to request the opening of a dialogue on the Venice Pavilion at the Biennale, or the city-owned pavilion located at the Giardini along with the other national pavilions. Several Venice cultural figures, including wr...
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The first two decades of sculpture at the Venice Biennale

For more than a decade Cristina Beltrami, like many scholars gravitating to the lagoon, has been concerned with the history of the Venice Biennale, focusing her attention on the complex and not always linear relationship of the first editions with co...
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Two museums buy the work of the Australia Pavilion that won the Golden Lion at the Biennale

Prime destination for Kith and kin, the work by Archie Moore (Toowoomba, 1970) that won the Australia Pavilion the Golden Lion for Best National Participation at the Venice Biennale 2024. The work was in fact acquired by the Tate London in collaborat...
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Julien Creuzet's France Pavilion: a total artwork for thinking about a different world

It happens very rarely to enter an immersive environment and completely abandon oneself to one's surroundings. It happened to me at the Venice Biennale, after facing a long queue (as is now customary to visit certain pavilions), entering the Pavilion...
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When the Biennale exhibited masterpieces from glassworks. What the exhibition at the Glass Rooms looks like.

On the sidelines of the LX Venice Biennale, Le Stanze del Vetro dedicate a historical exhibition to the presence of Murano glass in the Giardini Pavilion between 1912 and 1930. The exhibition is a rare opportunity to admire extraordinary masterpieces...
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Biennale award-winning artist speaks: 'Palestine and statelessness without pavilions? The Biennale's statute should be changed."

Samia Halaby (Jerusalem, 1936) is the only Palestinian artist in the main exhibition of the Venice Art Biennale. Her 1969 painting Black is Beautiful, a tube crucifix that cites Optical Art but could just as well be an enlargement of a detail of Fern...
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Beads to talk about decolonization. Canada's Pavilion at the Biennale

The Pavilion of Canada presents itself at the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale with a large female presence, artists and curators with diverse cultural backgrounds but united in conveying important messages through their art. Indeed,...
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