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Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere
Curator: Adriano Pedrosa
Golden Lions, Lifetime Achievement
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Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere is the title and theme of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2024, curated by Adriano Pedrosa.
The International Exhibition will take place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale. With a total of 332 participants, it will feature two sections: the Nucleo Contemporaneo and the Nucleo Storico.
The Biennale also includes 87 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city centre of Venice.
Roberto Cicutto, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Adriano Pedrosa, Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition. Press conference, 31 Jan. 2024 (video still)
The title is drawn from a series of works started in 2004 by the Paris-born and Palermo-based collective Claire Fontaine. The works consist of neon sculptures in different colours that render in a growing number of languages the words 'Foreigners Everywhere'. The phrase comes, in turn, from the name of a Turin collective who fought racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s: Stranieri Ovunque.
Claire Fontaine: Foreigners Everywhere – Spanish. 2007
Suspended, wall or window mounted neon, framework, electronic transformer and cables - installation view, 98 × 2.16 × 45 cm.
The Traveling Show, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, La Colección Jumex, Mexico.
© Photo: Studio Claire Fontaine, Courtesy Claire Fontaine and Mennour, Paris
Adriano Pedrosa explains: "The backdrop for the work is a world rife with multiple crises concerning the movement and existence of people across countries, nations, territories and borders, which reflect the perils and pitfalls of language, translation and ethnicity, expressing differences and disparities conditioned by identity, nationality, race, gender, sexuality, wealth, and freedom. In this landscape, the phrase Foreigners Everywhere has (at least) a dual meaning. First of all, that wherever you go and wherever you are you will always encounter foreigners—they/we are everywhere. Secondly, that no matter where you find yourself, you are always, truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner."
"The Biennale Arte 2024's primary focus is thus artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, émigrés, exiled, or refugees — particularly those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North. Migration and decolonization are key themes here."
(From press information, La Biennale di Venezia)
Austrian armoury (Polveriera austriaca)
Forte Marghera, Mestre
Ten works by Nedda Guidi (* 1927 Gubbio, + 2015 Rome), a sculptor fundamental to the evolution of contemporary ceramics
Applied Arts Pavilion
Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes (* 1960), known for her work that overlays the Brazilian cultural imagination with references to western modernist painting, will present seven paintings and seven collages, all large-scale works. The project for the Pavilion, curated this year by Adriano Pedrosa, is a collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London.
The selected projects for the 2nd edition of Biennale College Arte 2023/24 are by Agnes Questionmark, Joyce Joumaa, Sandra Poulson, Nazira Karimi. The 4 artists will receive a grant of 25,000 euros for the realization of the final work. The artworks will be presented, out of competition, as part of the 60th International Art Exhibition. Over 150 young emerging artists under 30 from 37 countries around the world have joined the call for participation.
La Biennale dedicates the Biennale Sessions project to institutions that develop research and training programmes in architecture, the arts and related fields, and to Universities and Fine Arts Academies. The aim is to facilitate self-organised three-day visits for groups of at least 50 students and teachers, with the possibility of holding seminars in the exhibition venues offered free of charge and assistance in coordinating travel and accommodation.
A broad Educational Programme has been again scheduled for 2024, addressed to individuals and groups of students, children, adults, families, professionals, companies, and universities. All the initiatives aim at actively involving the participants, and are led by professional operators, carefully trained by La Biennale di Venezia. They are divided into two categories: Guided Tours and Workshop Activities.
The official catalogue, titled Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, consists of two volumes:
Volume I is dedicated to the International Exhibition, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The first pages of the book open with two short introductions by President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco and President Roberto Cicutto, followed by an interview with the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Department Adriano Pedrosa by Julieta Gonzales. Part One of the book is dedicated to the critical essays and a number of "Conversations", including interviews with Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter. Part Two is dedicated to the presentation of the artists on exhibit and is divided into two main sections: Nucleo Storico and Nucleo Contemporaneo. Each artist is introduced by a critical essay that explores their work, and is illustrated with a rich iconographic apparatus.
Volume II is focused on the National Participations and the Collateral Events.
The Exhibition Guide is conceived to accompany the visitor through the Exhibition.
The Graphic Identity of Biennale Arte 2024 and the publication's design are by Estudio Campo (Paula Tinoco, Roderico Souza, Carolina Aboarrage) from São Paulo, Brazil.
The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino (biography) and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter (biography) are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere
The Curator Adriano Pedrosa declared:
“This decision is particularly meaningful given the title and framework of my Exhibition, focused as it is on artists who have traveled and migrated between North and South, Europe and beyond, and vice versa. In this sense, my choice rests upon two extraordinary, pioneering women artists who are also migrants and who embody in many ways the spirit of Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere: Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, Italy, 1942, lives in São Paulo, Brazil), who migrated from Italy to South America, first to Venezuela and later to Brazil, where she lives today; Nil Yalter (Cairo, Egypt, 1938, lives in Paris, France), a Turkish who migrated from Cairo to Istanbul and finally to Paris, where she is based.”
The artists will be both participating at the Biennale Arte for the first time in 2024: Maiolino will present a new large-scale work that continues and unfolds her series of sculptures and installations in clay; Yalter will showcase a new reconfiguration of her innovative installation Exile is a hard job in conjunction with her iconic Topak Ev work, placed in the first room of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.
(From press information)
Like for all Venice Biennials since 2001, we will publish an extensive Special about the 60th International Art Exhibition in 2024. In the meantime, see:
Venice Biennale Special 2022
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