The 60th Biennale Arte will open to the public on April 20. But on the 17th, 18th and 19th there will be the various events and collateral events that always enliven suddenly Venetian artistic life. The awards ceremony will take place the day of opening to the public.

The title of the 60th edition of the Art Biennale is Foreigners Everywhere - Foreigners Everywhere.

The exhibition will be divided into between the Central Pavilion in the Giardini and the Arsenale, including 213 artists from 88 nations. There are 26 Italian artists, 180 first participations in the International Exhibition, 1433 works and objects on display, 80 new productions.

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Curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

The 2024 edition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the 60th Venice Art Biennale

– Adriano Pedrosa (born 1965) is a Brazilian curator. He is the artistic director of the São Paulo Art Museum (MASP) and the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Hungarian Pavilion, Hungary at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice

The title of the exhibition at the American Pavilion is Techno Zen.

Artists: Márton Nemes.
Curator: Róna Kopeczky.
Organizer: Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art Supported by: Hungarian Ministry of Culture and Innovation.
Commissioner: Julia Fabényi; Ludwig Museum – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Budapest.
Seat: Hungarian Pavilion, Giardini - Venice.

Press Release of Hungarian Pavilion

At the upcoming Venice Biennale, the Ludwig Museum is presenting a large-scale and very spectacular exhibition of a group of works by the artist MártonNemes, created for the occasion. In the Hungarian Pavilion, the artist has designed a multimedia, multi-sensory, colour-centred total artwork that draws on contemporary experience, including techno-subculture and digital imaging, in addition to the traditions of abstract painting. His exhibition is multisensory: its visual, acoustic and interactive content unfolds through the combined effects of light and colour, object and light movement, sound, light frequency and airflow.

MártonNemes’ work is influenced by techno subcultures; the explosion and rearrangement of the pictorial field gives a psychedelic character to his paintings that evoke the visual atmosphere of today’s nightclubs. Combining painterly and sculptural elements, his multimedia installations create a hypnotic spatial dynamic that propels the viewer from the harshness of the real world into a fluid, dizzying colour field.
Julia Fabényi, the Hungarian national commissioner of the Biennale, said at the press conference that this year a record 88 countries are participating in the major event, which for the first time has a Latin American chief curator, Adriano Pedrosa. This year's central exhibition will be organised around the theme of Strangers Everywhere and promises to be, quite literally, extremely colourful. MártonNemes' total art project, which focuses on colour, fits well in this concept.

For the 60thInternational Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, the project was designed by Nemes as an immersive, painting-based Gesamtkunstwerk that emphasizes the expansion of the genre of painting, its extension to other media, a process that has become more and more characteristic of the artist’s practice. In his earlier works, Nemes approached rave culture from an escapist perspective, and formulated the idea of freeing oneself from hopeless, depressive situations by visual means. The ensemble displayed in the pavilion now marks a turning point: defiance of reality is replaced by a transcendental experience, and the vibrancy of techno is transformed into a Zen resonance.

The term techno also refers to techné and technological art; the fusion of industrial technologies and materials with a more conventional approach unfolds as a painting-object, an installation or a moving painterly environment. Laser-cut steel, car paint, enamelled steel plate, projection, DMX-lights, speakers and coloured fans are the tools Nemes integrates in his practice in order to reinterpret the palette of painting. By doing so, he creates a multisensory environment: its optical, acoustic and haptic content unfolds through the combined effects of light, colour, movement and sound.

The exhibition is structured in three main parts that are meant to be fully understood, perceived and experienced when the visitor stands in the middle of the pavilion, the courtyard that links all spaces. This position – to be in the middle – carries a symbolic meaning, it is both physical and ontological. In an era of polarized societal phenomena that lack or completely exclude nuances, the project conveys a humanistic message that advocates for openness and tolerance.

This year, MártonNemes will have another exhibition in Venice. A selection from the contemporary collection of the National Bank of Hungary will be on display at Palazzo Mora. The exhibition will showcase Nemes's painting predecessors, such as Ilona Keserü, TamásHencze and IstvánNádler, as well as some of his contemporaries' paintings with similar motifs from the MNB's collection.

MártonNemes (b. 1986, Székesfehérvár) first studied industrial design at the Budapest Technical University, then continued his cursus at the Department of Painting of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2013, and graduated in 2018 with a master’s degree from Chelsea College of Arts, London.
A year later, in 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Esterházy Art Award for emerging artists, which resulting in the acquisition of his large-scale work by the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest.His work has been exhibited in several European galleries (acb Gallery, Budapest; Fold Gallery, London; AnnkaKultys Gallery, London, 193 Gallery, Paris and Deák Erika Gallery, Budapest) as well as public institutions in Hungary (Modem, Debrecen; King St Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár; Paks Gallery, Paks; Institute of Contemporary Art, Dunaújváros). He has participated in such international exhibitions as Haunting Monumentality at MSU Zagreb (2014), Falling Out the Rythm at BWA Warsaw (2019), Abstract Hungary at Künstlerhaus – Halle fürKunst und Medien in Graz (2017), as well as Place Value – New Acquisitions at Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest (2024) and New Mediations at Modem in Debrecen (2022-2023). His works are part of numerous Hungarian and international, private and public collections. In 2024, he has founded the Kazinczy 51 Art Hub. He lives and works in New York and Budapest.

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