Detail of exhibition.

View of "Pump Room", a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005.

The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia) is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it, as is the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is held in even years. Image File history File links Venezzia_biennial_jn_3. ... Image File history File links Venezzia_biennial_jn_3. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Summary View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005g. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1024x768, 183 KB) Summary View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005g. ... Contemporary art refers to recently produced visual art. ... Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venezsia) is the capital of region Veneto, and has a population of 271,663 (census estimate January 1, 2004). ... The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ... This article needs to be wikified. ...

History

The very first Biennale was held in 1895; during the first editions, decorative arts played an important role. The event became more and more international in the first decades of the 20th century: from 1907 on, several countries started installing national pavilions at the exhibition. After World War I, the Biennale showed increasing interest in innovative traditions in modern art. Between the two World Wars, many important modern artists had their work exhibited there. The name Biennale is Italian and means every other year, describing an event that happens every 2 years. ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... This is a list of modern artists: important artists who have played a role in the history of modern art, dating from the late 19th century until (approximately) the 1970s. ...

In 1930, control of the Biennale passed from the Venice city council to the national Fascist government. In the 1930s, several new sections of the event were established: the Music Festival in 1930, the International Film Festival in 1932 and the Theatre Festival in 1934. From 1938, Grand Prizes were awarded in the art exhibition section. Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology and mass movement that seeks to place the nation, defined in exclusive biological, cultural, and historical terms, above all other loyalties, and to create a mobilized national community. ... Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link is to a full 1930 calendar). ... Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

After a six-year break during World War II, the Biennale was resumed in 1948 with renewed attention to avant-garde movements in European, and later worldwide, movements in contemporary art. Abstract expressionism was introduced in the 1950s, pop art in the 1960s. From 1948 to 1972, Italian architect Carlo Scarpa did a series of remarkable interventions in the Biennales exhibition spaces. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... This USPS stamp illustrates Pollocks drip technique. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Brion-Vega Cemetery, 1968-1978. ...

The protests of 1968 marked a crisis for the Biennale; the Grand Prizes were abandoned and more emphasis went to thematic exhibitions instead of monographic ones. The 1974 edition was entirely dedicated to Chile, as a major cultural protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. New prizes - Golden Lions, like the awards for the Venice Film Festival - were installed; postmodern art entered the scene with increasingly varied and popular exhibitions. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (November 25, 1915–December 10, 2006) was a general and President of Chile. ... The Golden Lion (it: Leone dOro) is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Biennale Venice Film Festival. ... The Venice Film Festival (it: Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) is the oldest Film Festival in the World (began in the 1932) and takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ... Postmodernism (sometimes abbreviated as Pomo or PoMo) is a term used in a variety of contexts to describe social conditions, movements in the arts, economic and social conditions and scholarship from the perspective that there is a definable and differentiable period after the modern, or that the 20th century can...

During the later 1990s Harald Szeeman was chief curator bringing in a larger representation of artists from Asia.

The 51st edition of the Biennale opened in June 2005, curated, for the first time by two women, Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez. A former director of Madrid's Reina Sofia Museum, de Corral organized "The Experience of Art" which included 41 artists, from past masters like Francis Bacon (painter), Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman and Dan Graham, to younger figures like Tania Bruguera, Tacita Dean, and Leandro Erlich. Meanwhile, Rosa Martinez -- having curated Manifesta, the Istanbul Biennale, and SITE Santa Fe -- took over the Arsenale with "Always a Little Further." Drawing on "the myth of the romantic traveler" her exhibition involved 49 artists, ranging from the elegant (Ghada Amer) to the profane (Oleg Kulik) and including interesting collaborations like Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Christoph Buchel and Gianni Motti, Blue Noses, and the Centre of Attention. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rosa Martinez is the Spanish curator of the Vienna, Santa Fe, Moscow, Istanbul Biennales and in 2005 co-curator of the Venice Biennale, as well as of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. ... The main entrance The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) is the official name Spains national museum of 20th century art (informally shortened to the Museo Reina Sofía, Queen Sofia Museum, or simply The Sofia). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require restructuring. ... Philip Guston ([Montreal, Canada [July 27]], 1913 - [Woodstock, N.Y.[June 7]], 1980) was one of the most important painters of the New York School, which also numbered many of the Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning. ... Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941, in Fort Wayne, Indiana) is a contemporary American artist. ... Dan Graham (born 1942) is a U.S. artist He is based in New York, is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and a well-versed art critic and theorist. ... Tacita Dean (b. ... Rosa Martinez is the Spanish curator of the Vienna, Santa Fe, Moscow, Istanbul Biennales and in 2005 co-curator of the Venice Biennale, as well as of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art. ... Istanbul (Turkish: , Greek: , historically known in English as Constantinople; see other names) is Turkeys most populous city, and its cultural and financial center. ... Ghada Amer (born 1963) is an Egyptian-born artist. ... The Centre of Attention is a London-based contemporary art organisation set up in 1999. ...

At the 51st Biennale, American artist Barbara Kruger was awarded with the "Golden Lion" award for life time achievement. I Shop, Therefore I Am Barbara Kruger (b. ...

Robert Storr will direct the 52nd edition of the Biennale in 2007. Robert Storr is an American curator, academic, critic, and painter. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ...

Format

The formal Biennale is based at a park the Giardini that houses 30 permanent national pavilions. The assignment of the permanent pavilions was largely dictated by the international politics of the 1930s and the Cold War. As a result a number of nationalities are represented who do not have a strong visual arts tradition. There is no single format to how each country manages their pavilion though in most cases they are dedicated to a presentation of a single artists work. The pavilion for Great Britain is always managed by the British Council while the United States assigns the responsibility to a public gallery. The Giardini includes a large exhibition hall that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director. Logo of the British Council British Council building in London The British Council is a non-departmental public body and registered charity for cultural relations in the United Kingdom. ...

The Aperto began as a fringe event for younger artists and artists of a national origin not represented by the permanent national pavilions. This is usually staged in the Arsenale and has become part of the formal biennale programme. In 1995 there was no Aperto so a number of participating countries hired venues to show exhibitions of emerging artists.

See also

• Triennale
• Triennial
• Art exhibition
• Biennial
• Biennale
• Iowa Biennial
• Istanbul Biennial
• Liverpool Biennial
• Oregon Biennial
• São Paulo Art Biennial
• Whitney Biennial

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External links

• Official website
• Satellite image of the Biennale buildings from Google Maps