Biennale Arte Venice
Viale dei Giardini Pubblici (Giardini Biennale), 30122, Venezia
Tel. 041 5218711 Fax 041 5218704 Email
11.05 > 24.11, 2019
Open to the public from Saturday May 11th to Sunday November 24th 2019, at the Giardini and the Arsenale, the 58th International Art Exhibition, titled May You Live In Interesting Times, will be curated by Ralph Rugoff and organized by La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. The pre-opening will take place on May 8th, 9th and 10th, the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday May 11th 2019.
«The title of this Exhibition could be interpreted as a sort of curse – stated President Paolo Baratta - where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»
«Twenty years have passed since, in this same location, I presented my first Exhibition -President said - after the Biennale underwent major reform in 1998. Let me tell you, they have been very interesting times. At the beginning we were criticized for the presence of the pavilions, considered old-fashioned in times of cosmopolitanism and globalization, we live in times where some people raise the doubt that cosmopolitanism might also have been a way for the most influential cultural and political realities to exert a sort of soft power. We are an international exhibition that since those years put the word “open” and “plateau of humankind” as the subtitle for all the following biennials.»
«During these years, we have increased the number of visitors and found a new partner. Over the course of the past years, the double cost of transportation in the lagoon obliged us to ask for additional support, and our expressions of gratitude and our wall labels included many market participants. The increase in the number of our visitors has allowed us to considerably cut back on this practice, as you can see in the drastic reduction in our expressions of gratitude, both when presenting the works and in the catalogues. Our visitors have become our main partner; more than half of them are under 26 years of age. Calling notice to this result seems to me the best way to celebrate the twenty years which have passed since 1999.»
«We want to offer them an open gym - Baratta concludes - where they can feel involved in encounters with the works and the artists, in the direct discovery of the “other” which the work of art offers. To us, it is important that, when entering the exhibit, the “public” becomes “visitors,” who then become “viewers” of the works. First, the necessary disorientation, then the involvement, followed by the discovery; it is almost a fencing drill. To share this direction is one of the reasons we have asked Ralph Rugoff to collaborate with us on this twentieth anniversary.»
The Exhibition will develop from the Central Pavilion (Giardini) to the Arsenale, and will include 79 artists from all over the world.
/ Country - Exhibition - Where :/ «The title of this Exhibition could be interpreted as a sort of curse – stated President Paolo Baratta - where the expression “interesting times” evokes the idea of challenging or even “menacing” times, but it could also simply be an invitation to always see and consider the course of human events in their complexity, an invitation, thus, that appears to be particularly important in times when, too often, oversimplification seems to prevail, generated by conformism or fear. And I believe that an exhibition of art is worth our attention, first and foremost, if it intends to present us with art and artists as a decisive challenge to all oversimplifying attitudes.»
«Twenty years have passed since, in this same location, I presented my first Exhibition -President said - after the Biennale underwent major reform in 1998. Let me tell you, they have been very interesting times. At the beginning we were criticized for the presence of the pavilions, considered old-fashioned in times of cosmopolitanism and globalization, we live in times where some people raise the doubt that cosmopolitanism might also have been a way for the most influential cultural and political realities to exert a sort of soft power. We are an international exhibition that since those years put the word “open” and “plateau of humankind” as the subtitle for all the following biennials.»
«During these years, we have increased the number of visitors and found a new partner. Over the course of the past years, the double cost of transportation in the lagoon obliged us to ask for additional support, and our expressions of gratitude and our wall labels included many market participants. The increase in the number of our visitors has allowed us to considerably cut back on this practice, as you can see in the drastic reduction in our expressions of gratitude, both when presenting the works and in the catalogues. Our visitors have become our main partner; more than half of them are under 26 years of age. Calling notice to this result seems to me the best way to celebrate the twenty years which have passed since 1999.»
«We want to offer them an open gym - Baratta concludes - where they can feel involved in encounters with the works and the artists, in the direct discovery of the “other” which the work of art offers. To us, it is important that, when entering the exhibit, the “public” becomes “visitors,” who then become “viewers” of the works. First, the necessary disorientation, then the involvement, followed by the discovery; it is almost a fencing drill. To share this direction is one of the reasons we have asked Ralph Rugoff to collaborate with us on this twentieth anniversary.»
The Exhibition will develop from the Central Pavilion (Giardini) to the Arsenale, and will include 79 artists from all over the world.
/ ALBANIA - Maybe the cosmos is not so extraordinary - site / ANDORRA - The Future is Now / El futur és ara - site / ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA - Find Yourself: Carnival and Resistance - site / ARGENTINA - El nombre de un país / The Name of a Country - site / ARMENIA, REPUBLIC OF - Revolutionary Sensorium - site / AUSTRALIA - Assembly - site / AUSTRIA - Discordo Ergo Sum - site / AZERBAIJAN (REPUBLIC OF) - Virtual Reality - site / BANGLADESH (PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF) - Thirst - site / BELARUS (REPUBLIC OF) - Exit - site / BELGIUM - Mondo Cane - site / BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA - Zenica Trilogy - site / BRAZIL - Swinguerra - site / BULGARIA - How We Live - site / CANADA - ISUMA - site / CHILE - Altered Views - site / CROATIA - Traces of Disappearing (In Three Acts) - site / CUBA - A Cautionary Environment / Entorno aleccionador - site / CZECH REPUBLIC AND SLOVAK REPUBLIC - Stanislav Kolíbal. Former Uncertain Indicated - site / DENMARK - Heirloom - site / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - Naturaleza y biodiversidad en la República Dominicana - site / EGYPT - khnum across times witness - site / ESTONIA - Birth V - site / FINLAND - A Greater Miracle of Perception - site / FRANCE - Deep see blue surrounding you / Vois ce bleu profond te fondre - site / GEORGIA - REARMIRRORVIEW, Simulation is Simulation, is Simulation, is Simulation - site / GERMANY - . - site / GHANA - Ghana Freedom - site / GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG - Written by Water - site / GREAT BRITAIN - Cathy Wilkes - site / GREECE - Mr. Stigl - site / GRENADA - Epic Memory - site / GUATEMALA - Interesting State - site / HAITI - THE SPECTACLE OF TRAGEDY - site / HUNGARY - Imaginary Cameras - site / ICELAND - Chromo Sapiens – Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir / Shoplifter - site / INDIA - Our time for a future caring - site / INDONESIA - Lost Verses - site / IRAN (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF) - of being and singing - site / IRAQ - Fatherland - site / IRELAND - The Shrinking Universe - site / ISRAEL - Field Hospital X - site / ITALY - Né altra né questa: La sfida al Labirinto - site / IVORY COAST - The Open Shadows of Memory - site / JAPAN - Cosmo-Eggs - site / KIRIBATI - Pacific Time - Time Flies - site / KOSOVO (REPUBLIC OF) - Family Album - site / LATVIA - Saules Suns - site / LITHUANIA - Sun & Sea (Marina) - site / MADAGASCAR - I have forgotten the night - site / MALAYSIA - Holding Up a Mirror - site / MALTA - Maleth / Haven / Port - Heterotopias of Evocation - site / MEXICO - Actos de Dios / Acts of God - site / MONGOLIA - A Temporality - site / MONTENEGRO - Odiseja / An Odyssey - site / MOZAMBIQUE (REPUBLIC OF) - The Past, the Present and The in Between - site / NETHERLANDS (THE) - The Measurement of Presence - site / NEW ZEALAND - Post hoc - site / NORDIC COUNTRIES (FINLAND - NORWAY - SWEDEN) - Weather Report: Forecasting Future - site / NORTH MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC OF) - Subversion to Red - site / PAKISTAN - Manora Field Notes - site / PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA - Re-睿 - site / PERU - “Indios antropófagos”. A butterfly Garden in the (Urban) Jungle - site / PHILIPPINES - Island Weather - site / POLAND - Flight - site / PORTUGAL - a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot - site / REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS - Christoforos Savva: Untimely, Again - site / REPUBLIC OF KOREA - History Has Failed Us, but No Matter - site / REPUBLIC OF SAN MARINO - Friendship Project International - site / REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES - Drift - site / REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA - Here we go again... SYSTEM 317 - site / REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA - The stronger we become - site / ROMANIA - Unfinished Conversations on the Weight of Absence - site / RUSSIA - Lc 15:11-32 - site / SAUDI ARABIA - After Illusion بعد توهم - site / SERBIA - Regaining Memory Loss - site / SINGAPORE - Music For Everyone: Variations on a Theme - site / SPAIN - Perforated by Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego - site / SWITZERLAND - Moving Backwards - site / SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC - Syrian Civilization is still alive - site / THAILAND - The Revolving World - site / TURKEY - We, Elsewhere - site / UKRAINE - The Shadow of Dream cast upon Giardini della Biennale - site / UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Nujoom Alghanem: Passage - site / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Martin Puryear: Liberty - site / URUGUAY - La casa empática - site / VENEZUELA - Metáfora de las tres ventanas - site / ZIMBABWE (REPUBLIC OF) - Soko Risina Musoro (The Tale without a Head) - site /
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ITALY fair art press release
OPENING HOURS AND VENUES :
May You Live In Interesting Times
11 May > 24 November 2019
Closed on Mondays (except 13 May, 2 September, 18 November)
Giardini: open 10 am to 6 pm
Arsenale: open 10 am to 6 pm
Arsenale: on Fridays and Saturdays, until 5 October, open 10 am to 8 pm
TICKETS AND ACCREDITATION
Plus tickets entitle to multiple visits for 3 consecutive days to each exhibition venue (Giardini and Arsenale; closing days excluded).
Regular tickets are valid for one admission to each exhibition venue.
Accreditation grants unrestricted admission to each exhibition venue.
Plus TICKETS *
Full price € 35
Students and/or under 26 € 25
* a valid ID is required to buy and use these tickets.
Regular TICKETS
Full price € 25
Reduced price € 22 (Aci, Coop, CTS, Fai, Touring Club, CinemaPiù, VeneziaUnica City pass (services purchase order), Rolling Venice Card, Carta Giovani, CartaFRECCIA members with Trenitalia Frecciargento / Frecciabianca / Frecciarossa tickets destination Venice (earlier 3 days max), holders of regional Trenitalia subscriptions Veneto or Friuli Venezia Giulia (monthly and annual)
Reduced price € 20 (over 65, military officers, Venice residents, visitors holding a ticket of Biennale Dance, Theatre or Music Festivals and 76th Venice Film Festival subscriptions holders)
Students and/or Under 26 € 16 (with a valid student ID or student card)
Formula 3 € 48 (3 visitors, at least 1 of them under 16) + € 16 for any additional visitor under 16 years of age
May You Live In Interesting Times
11 May > 24 November 2019
Closed on Mondays (except 13 May, 2 September, 18 November)
Giardini: open 10 am to 6 pm
Arsenale: open 10 am to 6 pm
Arsenale: on Fridays and Saturdays, until 5 October, open 10 am to 8 pm
TICKETS AND ACCREDITATION
Plus tickets entitle to multiple visits for 3 consecutive days to each exhibition venue (Giardini and Arsenale; closing days excluded).
Regular tickets are valid for one admission to each exhibition venue.
Accreditation grants unrestricted admission to each exhibition venue.
Plus TICKETS *
Full price € 35
Students and/or under 26 € 25
* a valid ID is required to buy and use these tickets.
Regular TICKETS
Full price € 25
Reduced price € 22 (Aci, Coop, CTS, Fai, Touring Club, CinemaPiù, VeneziaUnica City pass (services purchase order), Rolling Venice Card, Carta Giovani, CartaFRECCIA members with Trenitalia Frecciargento / Frecciabianca / Frecciarossa tickets destination Venice (earlier 3 days max), holders of regional Trenitalia subscriptions Veneto or Friuli Venezia Giulia (monthly and annual)
Reduced price € 20 (over 65, military officers, Venice residents, visitors holding a ticket of Biennale Dance, Theatre or Music Festivals and 76th Venice Film Festival subscriptions holders)
Students and/or Under 26 € 16 (with a valid student ID or student card)
Formula 3 € 48 (3 visitors, at least 1 of them under 16) + € 16 for any additional visitor under 16 years of age
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