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.

Canadian Pavilion, Canada at 60th Biennale Arte of Venice

The title of the exhibition at the Canadian Pavilion is Trinket (Paccottiglia).

Artists: Kapwani Kiwanga.
Curators: Gaëtane Verna
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada.
Seat: Canadian Pavilion, Giardini - Venice

Press Release Canadian Pavilion

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC), commissioner of Canadian participation at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venice, unveiled the Kapwani Kiwanga exhibition today: Trinket [Package].

Kapwani Kiwanga transformed the Canadian Pavilion with a site-specific sculptural installation. The artist invites i visitors to enter an immersive environment obtained for means of an ambitious intervention that involves both the interior than the exterior of the building. Seen from the facade, the building becomes a gigantic tableau: three-dimensional space is compressed into a two-dimensional plane, where the distinction between internal and external dissolves through transparency, the stratification and transgression of the original boundaries of pavilion. Kiwanga's work is anything but static: when the viewer moves in the spiral architecture of the pavilion, this unfolds, thus offering a multiplicity of perspectives.

They are conteria beads, also known as daisies, to provide the main material used in the installation. Spread from Murano throughout the archipelago Venetian, the glass beads came later incorporated into the most varied material cultures throughout the world world. Historically used both as currency and as object of exchange, these very small glass units they serve Kiwanga to create, with dexterity, the monumental from the minuscule. The bead itself can be considered on a par with an archive, a witness to transactions passes that inexorably transformed the landscape socio-economic development of the 16th century and beyond.

Kiwanga's attention focuses on the manifestations of different forms of power, on the way narratives often histories suppressed by them are ignored and on daily repercussions of these power dynamics. The The artist's multidisciplinary works are like archives experiences that offer a temporary escape from pre-established conventions, allowing the public to imagine and also experience ways of interacting and being different from usual. This installation considers the side often destructive of the history of trade, but it pushes even further away, and asks the viewer to reflect on the manner in which the use of these beads for the exchange of many different materials have shaped the current world.

Other materials are integrated into the exhibition space, almost in its raw state, which Kiwanga chose after studying the transoceanic trade of beads. These materials they emerge from the floor, climb up the walls and pour out in the courtyard, then coming to meet the beads.

The intersection of these distinct elements with the beads formalizes a place of exchange, which invites reflection issues of intrinsic value, aesthetics, and complexity of global economic relations

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