The Venice Biennale has revealed a list of 332 artists participating in the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, taking place in the Central Pavilion (Giardini) and in the Arsenale from 20 April to 24 November 2024. The exhibition will be curated by Adriano Pedrosa under the title Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere.
The 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia will take place across two sections – the Nucleo Contemporaneo and the Nucleo Storico – and will explore the figure of the ‘outsider’ in all its forms, othered by nationality, race, gender, sexuality or wealth. The Nucleo Contemporaneo will feature a special section dedicated to the Disobedience Archive, a project by Marco Scotini. A video archive exploring the connections between artistic practices and activism, the Disobedience Archive consists of works by 39 artists and collectives made between 1975 and 2023. The section is divided into two parts: Diaspora activism and Gender Disobedience.
The Nucleo Storico brings together works from 20th century Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia and investigates the histories of modernisms in the Global South. This section unfolds across three rooms: Portraits, Abstractions and a room devoted to the worldwide Italian artistic diaspora in the 20th century.
This edition’s Biennale College Arte, a programme aimed at training and supporting young emerging artists, is now in its second iteration. This edition includes four selected projects by Agnes Questionmark, Joyce Joumaa, Sandra Poulson and Nazira Karimi. Each artists will receive a grant of EUR 25,000 for the realisation of the final works, which will be presented as part of the 60th International Art Exhibition.
The Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter during the Biennale Arte 2024 awards and inauguration ceremony, to be held on 20 April 2024.
Among the 332 participants announced, those from the Middle East and Arab world include:
Mariam Abdel-Aleem
Etel Adnan
Dia al-Azzawi
Rafa al-Nasiri
Dana Awartani
Ezekiel Baroukh
Baya
Aly Ben Salem
Semiha Berksoy
Huguette Caland
Mohammed Chebaa
Saloua Raouda Choucair
Chaouki Choukini
Disobedience Archive – Marco Scotini
with Ursula Biemann, Black Audio-Film Collective, Seba Calfuqueo, Simone Cangelosi, Cinéastes pour les sans-papiers, Critical Art Ensemble, Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing, Marcelo Expósito, Maria Galindo & Mujeres Creando, Barbara Hammer, mixrice, Khaled Jarrar, Sara Jordenö, Bani Khoshnoudi, Maria Kourkouta & Niki Giannari, Pedro Lemebel, LIMINAL & Border Forensics, Angela Melitopoulos, Jota Mombaça, Carlos Motta, Zanele Muholi, Pınar Öğrenci, Daniela Ortiz, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Anand Patwardhan, Pilot TV Collective, Queerocracy, Oliver Ressler and Zanny Begg, Carole Roussopoulos, Güliz Sağlam, Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina, Tejal Shah, Chi Yin Sim, Hito Steyerl, Sweatmother, Raphaël Grisey and Bouba Touré, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, James Wentzy, Želimir Žilnik
Saliba Douaihy
Inji Efflatoun
Mohammad Ehsaei
Aref El Rayess
Hamed Ewais
Marie Hadad
Samia Halaby
Nazek Hamdi
Mohamed Hamidi
Faik Nazek Hamdi
Kadhim Hayder
Mohammed Issiakhem
Nour Jaouda
Joyce Joumaa
Mohammed Kacimi
Bouchra Khalili
Mohamed Melehi
Omar Mismar
Bahman Mohasses
Ahmed Morsi
Effat Naghi
Samia Osseiran Junblatt
Lydia Ourahmane
Mahmoud Sabri
Mahmoud Saïd
Jewad Selim
Gazbia Sirry
Güneş Terkol
Nil Yalter
Ramses Younan
Fahrelnissa Zeid
Bibi Zogbé
The exhibition will also feature 90 national participations in the pavilions at the Giardini, the Arsenale and across the city centre of Venice, including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Lebanon and Turkey.
