The Biennale of Venice 2024 warms up the engines with the Biennale Arte, now in its 60th edition, from 20 April at the Arsenale. Since its foundation in 1895, the Venice Biennale has always been an avant-garde event aimed at promoting new artistic trends.
Since its debut, with the first International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale reaches its sixtieth edition characterized by its usual cultural offer, composed of Cinema, Music, Theatre, Architecture and Dance.
Being able to see everything is punctually impossible, but anyone who wishes can live a truly extraordinary experience between April 20 and November 24, 2024 in the beautiful lagoon city.
This year, the title of the event is “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere”, as wanted by the curator Adriano Pedrosa with the aim of celebrating the foreigner, the outsider, the queer and the indigenous. The theme of this edition, in fact, will revolve around foreign artists, immigrants, expatriates, diasporics, exiles and refugees, with particular attention to those who have moved between the south and the north of the world.
A very topical topic, the one chosen by Pedrosa, especially in a historical context that is reliving the horrors of the past dictated by the rejection of the stranger and that would need to understand that, basically, we are all equal.
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How will the Venice Biennale 2024
In the name of tradition, the main venues of the Venice Biennale will remain the Arsenale and the Giardini; however, the exhibition curated by Pedrosa and the 90 national pavilions will be surrounded by a series of side events scattered throughout the city, with a special section in Forte Margherita entirely dedicated to the Italian artist Nedda Guidi.
Specifically, the exhibition Stranieri Ovunque will be divided into two macro-sections, namely the contemporary core and the historical core, which will propose a wide selection of artists who can be defined as foreigners as marginalized immigrants, refugees, exiles, indigenous or queer.
Most of the spaces set up in the Arsenale and in the Central Pavilion of the Gardens will be dedicated to those artists who, because of the current socio-political dynamics, live on their skin the condition of foreigners. To the historical nucleus, however, will be dedicated only three rooms that, however, welcome the greatest number of artists; here you can reread the twentieth century with another interpretation, for example through the investigation of forms of modernism considered non-Western, or deepening the historical-artistic landscapes of Africa, Asia, Central and South America and Oceania. This section will also be characterized mainly by painting, drawing and sculpture, with works divided into three sections: Abstractions, Portraits and Italian Diaspora.
And it is precisely to this last section, that is to the Italian Diaspora, that the Venice Biennale wants to devote particular attention, as an artistic tradition very little analyzed: these are Italian artists or of Italian origin who have decided to move abroad (and not only in Europe or the United States, but in any continent of the world) taking their culture elsewhere and mixing it with the indigenous traditions, creating something unique and special. As a tribute, the works of 40 artists will be exhibited with a display of glass panels, another idea of the curator Adriano Pedrosa.
Biennale Session, the project for Universities
Also this year, after 13 years, the Venice Biennale confirms the Biennale Session project dedicated to the Universities, the Academy and all the institutions operating in the field of research and training in the artistic and architectural fields.
Students and teachers, in groups of up to 50 people, can then book 3-day visits organized directly by them, taking advantage of the possibility of organizing seminars in exhibition venues made available to them entirely free of charge.
Venice Biennale and environmental sustainability
Not only art, but also attention to the environment: the Venice Biennale has always been committed to the fight against climate change by proposing and promoting a more sustainable model for design, the setting up and running of all the events proposed.
In particular, the goal of the Venice Biennale is to zero the carbon impact of its events and, to do so, will work in two directions: reducing emissions under its control and offsetting residual emissions through the purchase of certified carbon credits, achieved through renewable energy projects in Colombia and India.
At the same time, throughout the event, the entire Exhibition will strive to raise as much awareness as possible on the subject, choosing appropriate communication and organizing meetings involving.
How to buy tickets for the Venice Biennale 2024
The 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa and entitled “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere” will take place from Saturday 20 April to Sunday 24 November 2024 between the Gardens, the Arsenale and other places characteristic of the city of Venice.
The exhibition will boast 88 National Participations and will focus on the contemporary core, flanked by the historical core, which will propose a wide range of works of the twentieth century from Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Arab world. The protagonists, as already mentioned, will be all the artists who, as immigrants, expatriates, diasporics, emigrants, exiles, queers and refugees, can be considered foreigners.
To discover all the events scheduled and buy tickets you can visit the website https://www.labilabiennale.org/it/biglietti.
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