Jun 21

Jun 21 60th Art Biennale 2024, Venice

Titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the Venice Biennale edition leans heavily on textiles and paintings, sticking to a familiar curation approach.

Unlike the country’s right-wing government, the exhibition celebrates migration beyond clichés, recognizing it as a centuries-old exchange of ideas, cultures, and traditions across the globe.

Massimo Bartolini, Italian Pavilion

“Due qui/To Hear” at the Italian Pavilion explores sound’s relational nature across three spaces, inviting contemplation and meditation through sculptures, organ music, and performative storytelling in a garden setting.

Italian Pavilion
Massimo Bartolini curated by Luca Cerizza

Iva Lulashi, Albanian Pavilion

Iva Lulashi’s exhibition revolves around universal themes of love, sex, and desire, transcending geographic boundaries through her paintings inspired by film stills, housed in a stylized representation of her studio.

Albanian Pavilion @albanianpavillion2024
Iva Lulashi @ivalulashi
Curated by Antonio Grulli @antonio_grulli

EMET, Greek Pavilion

“Xirómero/Dryland” is a hybrid audiovisual installation exploring the political potential of sound, music, and technology on rural landscapes and cultural diversity, drawing from local Greek traditions.

Greek Pavilion
EMET curated by Panos Giannikopoulus @panosgnk

Monte di Pietà, Fondazione Prada

Christoph Büchel’s “Monte di Pietà” transforms Ca’ Corner della Regina into an immersive bankrupt pawnshop, incorporating diverse objects, documents, and artworks related to property history and finance.

Fondazione Prada
Monte di Pietà
By Christoph Büchel

Pierre Huyghe, Punta della Dogana

At Punta della Dogana, Pierre Huyghe’s “Liminal” invites visitors to cross a sensitive threshold between spaces or worlds, blurring the lines between space and human form.

Punta della Dogana @palazzo_grassi
Pierre Huyghe
With curator Anna Stenne

Yael Bartana German Pavilion

Titled “Thresholds,” the German Pavilion explores migration’s multidimensional experience, challenging territorial and national perspectives through Yael Bartana’s scenarios of a perceived catastrophic present.