The 58th International Art Exhibition entitled “May You Live In Interesting Times”, curated by Ralph Rugoff, organized by the Venice Biennale, chaired by Paolo Baratta, will be open to the public from Saturday 11 May to Sunday 24 November 2019, at the Giardini and the Arsenale.
The exhibition program will include 79 artists from all over the world and will present works of art that reflect on the precarious aspects of our current existence, including the many threats to the founding traditions, institutions and relations of the “post-war order”, highlighting a general approach to making art and a vision of the social function of art that includes both pleasure and critical thinking.
The exhibition will then be flanked by 90 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the historic center of Venice, of which 4 countries present for the first time at the Art Biennale, Algeria, Ghana, Madagascar and Pakistan and 2 participating for the first time at the Art Biennale with its own pavilion, the Dominican Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan.
There are 21 collateral events promoted by national and international bodies and institutions. Organized in numerous venues in the city of Venice, they will offer a wide range of contributions and participations that will enrich the pluralism of voices that characterizes the exhibition.
Finally the exhibition will present 2 special projects:
– Special Project Forte Marghera, Mestre with a specific intervention inside the building called Austrian Polveriera by Ludovica Carbotta
– Special Project at the Pavilion of Applied Arts, Arsenale, Arms Hall, result of the collaboration between La Biennale and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London which is renewed for the fourth consecutive year with the intervention this year by Marysia Lewandowska.
Website: www.labiennale.org
Location: Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
Opening: from May 11 to November 24, 2019
Hours: 10 am – 6 pm / Closed on Mondays
Ticket: up to € 35
