The opening of the Venice Biennale has been a highly anticipated moment for over a century for all professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world. Also in its 59th edition entitled "The Milk of Dreams", the event offers an immersive experience that allows visitors to admire the works of over 200 artists from all over the world and breathe a unique cultural fervor: paintings, sculptures , videos, installations, live performances and collateral events that will animate La Serenissima until November, attracting visitors from the four corners of the earth.
If you want to know more, take note of the curiosities and advice on what to see at the Biennale Arte Venezia 2022 and which are the pavilions not to be missed.
The 59th edition of the Venice International Art Exhibition opened its doors on 23 April 2022 and will be open until Sunday 27 November 2022, postponed by one year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Only in two other sad circumstances had the dates of the Biennale Arte been postponed, that is to say in conjunction with the two World Wars. The other peculiarity of the 2022 edition is that for the first time it sees an Italian woman, Cecilia Alemani, who assumed the position of curator also with the aim of "giving voice to artists and artists to create unique projects that reflect the their visions and our society ". As explained by Alemani herself, the exhibition "The Milk of Dreams" is inspired by a storybook by Leonora Carrington, in which the artist describes a magical world where life is constantly reinvented through the imagination and in which to change and transform it is lawful. Starting with this fantastic imagery, the 2022 exhibition aims to tell "the representation of bodies and their metamorphoses; the relationship between individuals and technologies; the bonds that are intertwined between bodies and the Earth ".
For those who are preparing to visit the Venice Biennale of Art 2022, it is good to take note of the addresses of the offices. As usual, the exhibition is divided between the spaces of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, the Corderie dell’Arsenale, the Artiglierie and the outdoor spaces of the Gaggiandre and the Giardino delle Vergini in the Arsenale complex. Along the exhibition path of the Central Pavilion and the Corderie it is possible to visit five thematic exhibitions of a historical nature that allow you to explore the main themes of the exhibition in a transversal way. Also not to be missed are the numerous collateral events of the Biennale Arte 2022 that will animate the city of Venice for the duration of the exhibition. A few examples? The works of Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley, in the historic Olivetti shop, one of Carlo Scarpa's masterpieces in Piazza San Marco or the Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice 2022 at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, in Cannaregio.
The 2022 edition of the Venice Art Biennale welcomes over two hundred artists (including 180 newcomers to the International Exposition) from 61 countries. For the first time since 1895, the year of its foundation, female artists and non-binary subjects deliberately represent a preponderant majority. Among the artists and pavilions not to be missed for this 59th edition, a visit to the Italian Pavilion is almost a must, which, for the first time, hosts the work of a single artist, Gian Maria Tosatti, entitled "History of the night and destiny of comets ”, which invites us to reflect on the delicate balance between man and nature, ethics and profit, sustainable development and progress. Among the many, we suggest you not to miss the Uganda Pavilion, at its debut at the Biennale, and Piazza Ukraine, an installation created to express solidarity and give a voice to the artists who remained to fight at home in the aftermath of the Russian invasion.
Mon - Fri 9/13 - 14/18
Saturday & Sunday - By appointment