The 59th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between April and November 2022.[1] The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy, and participating nations select artists to show at their pavilions,[2] hosted in the Venice Giardini, Arsenale, and palazzos throughout the city.[3] The 2019 Venice Biennale's 90 national pavilions was a record for national participation.[2]
National pavilions
editNation/ region |
Location | Artist(s) | Curator(s) | Ref |
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Albania | Arsenale | Lumturi Blloshmi | Adela Demetja | [4] |
Argentina | Arsenale | Mónica Heller | Alejo Ponce de León | [4] |
Australia | Giardini | Marco Fusinato | Alexie Glass-Kantor | [1][5] |
Austria | Giardini | Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl | Karola Kraus | [6][7] |
Belgium | Giardini | Francis Alÿs | Hilde Teerlinck | [8] |
Bolivia | Around Venice | Warmichacha Collective | Roberto Aguilar Quisbert - Mamani Mamani, Judith Cuba | |
Brazil | Giardini | Jonathas de Andrade | Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, José Olympio da Veiga Pereira | [4] |
Canada | Giardini | Stan Douglas | Reid Shier | [9][4] |
Catalonia | Around Venice | Lara Fluxà | Oriol Fondevila | [4] |
Croatia | Around Venice | Tomo Savić-Gecan | Elena Filipović | |
Denmark | Giardini | Uffe Isolotto | Jacob Lillemose | [4] |
Estonia | Giardini (Dutch pavilion) | Kristina Norman and Bita Razavi | Corina Apostol, Maria Arusoo | [4] |
Finland | Giardini | Pilvi Takala | Christina Li | [10] |
France | Giardini | Zineb Sedira | [11][12] | |
Germany | Giardini | Maria Eichhorn | Yilmaz Dziewior | [13] |
Great Britain | Giardini | Sonia Boyce | TBD | [14] |
Hong Kong | Around Venice | Angela Su | Freya Chou | [15] |
Iceland | Around Venice | Sigurður Guðjónsson | Mónica Bello | [1] |
Ireland | Arsenale | Niamh O'Malley | Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Curatorial Team | [16] |
Israel | Giardini | Ilit Azoulay | Dr. Shelley Harten | [17] |
Italy | Arsenale | Gian Maria Tosatti | Eugenio Viola | [18] |
Kosovo | Arsenale | Jakup Ferri | Inke Arns | |
Luxembourg | Around Venice | Tina Gillen | [1] | |
Malta | Arsenale | Arcangelo Sassolino, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, Brian Schembri | Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip | [1] |
Namibia | La Certosa | Renn (namibian artist) | Marco Furio Ferrario | [19] |
Netherlands | Around Venice | Melanie Bonajo | Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth, Soraya Pol | [20] |
Nepal | Around Venice | Tsherin Sherpa | Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung | [21][22] |
New Zealand | Around Venice | Yuki Kihara | Natalie King | [1][23] |
Nordic Pavilion | Giardini | Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna | [24] | |
North Macedonia | Around Venice | Robert Jankuloski and Monika Moteska | Ana Frangovska, Sanja Kojić Mladenov | |
Poland | Giardini | Małgorzata Mirga-Tas | Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Wojciech Szymański, Joanna Warsza | [25] |
Serbia | Giardini | Vladimir Nikolić | Biljana Ćirić | [26] |
Slovenia | Around Venice | Marko Jakše | Robert Simonišek | |
Spain | Giardini | Ignasi Aballí | Beatriz Espejo | [1] |
Switzerland | Giardini | Latifa Echakhch | Francesco Stocchi | [27] |
Taiwan | Around Venice | Sakuliu Pavavaljung | Patrick Flores | [1] |
Turkey | Around Venice | Füsun Onur | Bige Örer | [28] |
Ukraine | Arsenale | Pavlo Makov | Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys Filonenko | [22] |
United Arab Emirates | Around Venice | Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim | Maya Allison | [29] |
United States | Giardini | Simone Leigh | Eva Respini | [30] |
Venezuela | Giardini | Palmira Correa, César Vázquez, Mila Quast, Jorge Recio | Zacarías García | [31] |
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Further reading
edit- Greenberger, Alex (March 3, 2022). "A Guide to the 2022 Venice Biennale National Pavilions, From Futuristic Gardens to AI-Influenced Performance Art". ARTnews.com. Archived from the original on April 23, 2022. Retrieved April 23, 2022.