La Biennale di Venezia

59th International Art Exhibition

80 National Participations
Commissioners, Curators, Exhibitors, Venues
*** New participations: Republic of Cameroon, Namibia, Nepal, Sultanate of Oman, Uganda
*Republic of Kazakhstan, Republic of Kirghizistan and Republic of Uzbekistan participate for the first time
with their own pavilion

ALBANIA
Lumturie Blloshmi.From scratch
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture; Curator: Adela Demetja; Exhibitor: Lumturie Blloshmi
Venue: Arsenale
ARGENTINA
The Importance of the Origin Will Be Imported by the Origin of the Substance
Commissioner: Paula Vázquez; Curator: Alejo Ponce de León; Exhibitor: Mónica Heller
Venue: Arsenale
ARMENIA (Republic of)
Gharib
Commissioner: Arayik Khzmalyan, Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sport
Curators: Anne Davidian, Elena Sorokina; Exhibitor: Andrius Arutiunian
Venue: Palazzo Zenobio Dorsoduro 2596
AUSTRALIA
Marco Fusinato DESASTRES
Commissioner: Australia Council for the Arts; Curator: Alexie Glass-Kantor; Exhibitor: Marco
Fusinato
Venue: Giardini
AUSTRIA
Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts
Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil
Service and Sport; Curator: Karola Kraus; Exhibitors: Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl
Venue: Giardini
AZERBAIJAN (Republic of)
Born to Love
Commissioner: Mammad Ahmadzada, Ambassador of the Republic of Azerbaijan; Curator: Emin
Mammadov; Exhibitors: Narmin Israfilova, Infinity, Ramina Saadatkhan, Fidan Novruzova, Fidan
Akhundova, Sabiha Khankishiyeva, Agdes Baghirzade
Venue: Procuratie Vecchie San Marco 153/a/139
BANGLADESH (People's Republic of)
”TIME: MASK AND UNMASK”
Commissioner: Liaquat Ali Lucky Curator: Viviana Vannucci Exhibitors: Jamal Uddin Ahmed,
Mohammad Iqbal, Harun-Ar-Rashid, Sumon Wahed, Promity Hossain, Mohammad Eunus, Marco
Cassarà, Franco Marrocco, Giuseppe Diego Spinelli
Venue: Palazzo Rossini, San Marco 4013
BELGIUM
The Nature of the Game
Commissioner: Jan Jambon, Minister-president of the Government of Flanders and Flemish Minister
for Foreign Affairs, Culture, ICT and Facility Management; Curator: Hilde Teerlinck;
Exhibitor: Francis Alÿs
Venue: Giardini
BRAZIL
com o coração saindo pela boca /
with the heart coming out of the mouth
Commissioner: José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo; Curator: Jacopo
Crivelli Visconti; Exhibitor: Jonathas de Andrade
Venue: Giardini
BULGARIA
There You Are
Commissioner: Iara Boubnova; Curator: Irina Batkova; Exhibitor: Michail Michailov
Venue: Spazio Ravà, San Polo 1100
CAMEROON (Republic of)***
Il tempo delle Chimere/The Time of the Chimeras
Commissioner: Armand Abanda Maye; Curators: Paul Emmanuel Loga Mahop, Sandro Orlandi
Stagl; Exhibitors: Francis Nathan Abiamba (Afran), Angéle Etoundi Essamba, Justine Gaga,Salifou
Lindou, Shay Frisch, Umberto Mariani, Matteo Mezzadri, Jorge R. Pombo, NFT (Kevin Abosch,
João Angelini, Marco Bertìn (Berxit), Cryptoart Driver, Lana Denina, Alberto Echegaray Guevara,
Genesis People, Joachim Hildebrand, Meng Huang, Eduardo Kac, Giulia Kosice, Julio Le Parc,
Marina Nuñez, Miguel Soler-Roig, Miguel Ángel Vidal, Burkhard von Harder, Gabe Weis, Clark
Winter, Shavonne Wong, Wang Xing, Alessandro Zannier, ZZH)
Venue: Liceo Artistico Guggenheim San Polo 2186 and Palazzo San Bernardo San Polo 2186
CANADA
2011 ≠ 1848
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada; Curator: Reid Shier; Exhibitor: Stan Douglas
Venue: Giardini and Magazzini del Sale n5
CHILE
Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol
Commissioner: Ximena Moreno; Curator: Camila Marambio; Exhibitors: Ariel Bustamante, Carla
Macchiavello, Dominga Stomayor, Alfredo Thiermann
Venue: Arsenale
CHINA(People's Republic of)
META-SCAPE
Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group Ltd.; Curator: Zhang Zikang; Exhibitor: Liu
Jiayu, Wang Yuyang, Xu Lei, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Institute of Sci-Tech
Arts+Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (TLBI) Group Project
Venue: Arsenale
CROATIA
Untitled (Croatian Pavilion), 2022
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia; Curator: Elena Filipovic
Exhibitor: Tomo Savić-Gecan.
Venue:via Garibaldi
CUBA
TERRA IGNOTA, (proposals for a New World)
Commissioner: Norma Rodriguez Derivet; Curator: Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conde; Exhibitors:
Rafael Villares, Kcho,Giuseppe Stampone
Venue: Isola di San Servolo
DENMARK
We Walked the Earth
Commissioner: Danish Arts Foundation; Curator: Jacob Lillemose; Exhibitor: Uffe Isolotto
Venue: Giardini
EGYPT
EDEN-LIKE GARDEN
Commissioner: Ministero della Cultura-Accademia d'Egitto; Curators: Heba Youssef and Mohamed
Shoukry; Exhibitors: Mohamed Shoukry, Weaam El Masry, Ahmed El Shaer
Venue: Giardini
ESTONIA
Orchidelirium: An Appetite for Abundance
Commissioner: Maria Arusoo, Estonian Center for Contemporary Art; Curator: Corina L
Apostol; Exhibitors: Kristina Norman, Bita Ravazi
Venue: Giardini
FINLAND (Aalto)
Close Watch
Commissioner: Raija Koli, Frame Finland; Curator: Christina Li; Exhibitor: Pilvi Takala
Venue: Giardini
FRANCE
Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles
Commissioner: Institut Francais; Curators: Yasmina Reggad, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath
Exhibitor: Zineb Sedira
Venue: Giardini
GEORGIA
"Mi fa Pena il Giardino"
Commissioner: Magda Guruli; Curators: Vato Urushadze, Khatia Tchokhonelidze, Giorgi
Spanderashvili; Exhibitors: Mariam Natroshvili, Detu Jincharadze
Venue: Spazio Punch, Fondamenta S. Biagio, 800/o
GERMANY
Commissioner: ifa - Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen; Curator: Yilmaz Dziewior; Exhibitors: Maria
Eichorn
Venue: Giardini
GHANA
Black Star - The Museum as Freedom
Commissioner: Akwasi Agyeman, CEO, Ghana Tourism Authority Ministry of Tourism, Arts And
Culture; Curator: Nana Oforiatta Ayim; Exhibitors: Na Chainkua Reindorf, Diego Araúja, Afroscope
Venue: Arsenale
GREAT BRITAIN
Sonia Boyce: Feeling Her Way
Commissioner: Emma Dexter, British Council; Curator: Emma Ridgway; Exhibitor: Sonia Boyce
Venue: Giardini
GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBOURG
Faraway So Close
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture; Curator: Christophe Gallois, Mudam Luxembourg – Musée
d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean; Exhibitor: Tina Gillen
Venue: Arsenale
GREECE
Oedipus In Search of Colonus
Commissioner: National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum (represented by the Director,
Professor Marina Lambraki Plaka); Curator: Heinz Peter Schwerfel; Exhibitor: Loukia Alavanou
Venue: Giardini
GRENADA
An Unknown that Does Not Terrify
Commissioner: Susan Mains; Curator: Daniele Radini Tedeschi; Exhibitors: Cypher Art Collective of
Grenada: Oliver Benoit, Billy Gerard Frank, Ian Friday, Asher Mains, Susan Mains, Angus Martin,
Samuel Ogilvie, Giancarlo Flati, Identity Collective, Anna Maria Li Gotti, Nino Perrone, Rossella
Pezzino de Geronimo, Marialuisa Tadei
Venue: Il Giardino Bianco Art SpaceVia Giuseppe Garibaldi, 1814
GUATEMALA
INCLUSION
Commissioner: Felipe Amado Aguilar Marroquin, Minister of Culture; Curator/Exhibitor: Christian
Escobar “Chrispapita”
Venue: SPUMA - Space For The Arts Giudecca 800/R
HUNGARY
Dopo i sogni: ho il coraggio di sfidare i danni / After Dreams: I Dare to Defy the Damage
Commissioner: Julia Fabényi; Curator: Mónika Zsikla; Exhibitor: Zsófia Keresztes
Venue: Giardini
ICELAND
“Perpetual MOTION”
Commissioner: Auður Jörundsdóttir, Icelandic Art Center; Curator: Mónica Bello;
Exhibitor: Sigurdur Gudjonsson
Venue: Arsenale
IRELAND
Gather
Commissioner: Culture Ireland; Curator: Temple Bar Gallery + Studios; Exhibitor: Niamh O'Malley
Venue: Arsenale
ISRAEL
QUEENDOM
Commissioners: Michael Gov, Arad Turgeman; Curator: Shelley Harten; Exhibitor: Ilit Azoulay
Venue: Giardini
ITALY
Commissioner: Onofrio Cutaia, Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea, Ministero della
Cultura; Curator: Eugenio Viola; Exhibitor: Gian Maria Tosatti
Venue: Arsenale
IVORY COAST
The dreams of a story
Commissioner: Henri Koffissé N'koumo; Curators: Massimo Scaringella, Alessandro Romanini
Exhibitors: Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Abdoulaye Diarrassouba dit Aboudia, Armand Boua, Saint-
Etienne Yéanzi dit Yeanzi, Laetitia Ky, Aron Demetz; Venue: Magazzino del Sale 3, Dorsoduro 264
JAPAN
Dumb Type
Commissioner: The Japan Foundation; Exhibitors: Dumb Type (Shiro Takatani, Ryuichi Sakamoto,
Ken Furudate, Satoshi Hama, Ryo Shiraki, Marihiko Hara, Hiromasa Tomari, Takuya Minami,
Yoko Takatani)
Venue: Giardini
*KAZAKHSTAN (Republic of)
LAI-PHI-CHU-PLEE-LAPA
Commissioner: Meruyert Kaliyeva; Curators/Exhibitors: ORTA collective (Alexandra Morozova,
Rusten Begenov, Darya Jumelya, Alexander Bakanov, Sabina Kuangali)
Venue: Spazio Arco, Dorsoduro 1485
KENYA
Exercises in Conversation
Commissioner: Kiprop Lagat; Curator: Jimmy Ogonga
Venue: Zattere Gallery, Dorsoduro 46-48
KYRGYZSTAN (Republic of)*
Gates of Turan
Commissioner: Saltanat Abdyldaevna Amanova; Curator: Janet Rady; Exhibitor: Firouz Farman
Farmaaian
Venue: Hydro Space, Giudecca Art Center ,Giudecca 211/C
KOREA (Republic of)
Gyre
Commissioner: Arts Council Korea; Curator: Youngchul Lee; Exhibitor: Yunchul Kim
Venue: Giardini
KOSOVO (Republic of)
The Monumentality of the Everyday
Commissioner: Alisa Gojani-Berisha; Curator: Inke Arns; Exhibitor: Jakup Ferri
Venue: Arsenale
LATVIA
Selling Water by the River
Commissioner: Solvita Krese; Curators: Solvita Krese and Andra Silapētere; Exhibitors: Skuja Braden
(Ingūna Skuja and Melissa D. Braden)
Venue: Arsenale
LEBANON
The World in the Image of Man
Commissioner/Curator: Nada Ghandour; Exhibitors: Ayman Baalbaki, Danielle Arbid
Venue: Arsenale
LITHUANIA
Gut Feeling
Commissioner: Kęstutis Kuizinas; Curator: Neringa Bumblienė; Exhibitors: Robertas Narkus
Venue: Castello 3200 and 3206, Campo de le Gate
NORTH MACEDONIA (Republic of)
“Landscape experience”
Commissioner: Dita Starova Qerimi, National Gallery of the Republic of North Macedonia; Curator:
Ana Frangovska; Exhibitor: Robert Jankuloski
MALTA
Diplomazija Astuta
Commissioner: Arts Council Malta; Curators: Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip; Exhibitors: Arcangelo
Sassolino, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, Brian Schembri
Venue: Arsenale
MEXICO
Hasta que los cantos broten (Until The Songs Spring)
Commissioner: Diego Sapién; Curators: Catalina Lozano and Mauricio Marcin; Exhibitors: Mariana
Castillo Deball, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Fernando Palma Rodríguez and Santiago Borja Charles
Venue: Arsenale
MONGOLIA
A Journey Through Vulnerability
Commissioner: Nomin Chinbat, Minister of Culture of Mongolia; Curator: Gantuya Badamgarav
Exhibitors: Munkhtsetseg Jalkhaajav
Venue: Castello 2131
MONTENEGRO
"The Art Of Holding Hands as we break through the sedimentary cloud"
Commissioner: Jelena Božović; Curator: Natalija Vujošević; Exhibitors: Dante Buu, Lidija Delić & Ivan
Šuković, Darko Vučković, Jelena Tomašević, Art Collection of Non-Aligned Countries (Zuzana
Chalupova, Rene Portocarrero, unknown author from Iraq and Bernard Matemera
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero
NAMIBIA***
A Bridge to the Desert
Commissioner: Marcellinus Swartbooi, Senior Art Education Officer of the Directorate of Arts:
Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture; Curator: Marco Furio Ferrario; Exhibitor: “RENN”
Venue: Isola della Certosa
NEPAL***
Tales of Muted Spirits-Dispersed Threads-Twisted Shangri-La
Commissioner: Chancellor Kancha Kumar Karmacharya (Nepal Academy of Fine Arts), Sangeeta
Thapa (Founder Director Siddhartha Arts Foundation); Curators: Hit Man Gurung, Sheelasha Raj
Bhandari; Exhibitor: Ang Tsherin Sherpa (also known as) Tsherin Sherpa
Venue: Castello 994
NETHERLANDS (The)
When the body says Yes
Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund; Curators: Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth, Soraya
Pol; Exhibitor: melanie bonajo
Venue: Chiesetta della Misericordia of Art Events, Cannaregio
NEW ZELAND
Paradise Camp
Commissioner: Caren Rangi, Creative New Zealand; Curator: Natalie King; Exhibitor: Yuki Kihara
Venue: Arsenale
NORDIC COUNTRIES (NORWAY-SWEDEN-FINLAND)
The Sámi Pavilion
Commissioner: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA); Curators: Katya García-Antón, Liisa-
Rávná Finborg and Beaska Niillas; Exhibitors: Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna
Venue: Giardini
PHILIPPINES
Andi taku e sana, Amung taku di sana / All of us present,This is our gathering
Commissioner: National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), Arsenio "Nick" J. Lizaso, in
partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Office of Deputy Speaker and
Congresswoman Legarda; Curators: Yael Buencamino Borromeo and Arvin Flores; Exhibitors:
Gerardo Tan, Felicidad A.Prudente and Sammy N. Buhle
Venue: Arsenale
OMAN (Sultanate of) ***
Commissioner : Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth, His Excellency Sayyid Saeed bin Sultan bin
Yarub Al Busaidi Curator: Aisha Stoby Exhibitors: Anwar Sonja, Hassan Meer, Budoor Al Riyami,
Radhika Al Khimji, Raiya Al Rawahi
Venue: Arsenale
PERU
Peace is a Corrosive Promise
Commissioner: Armando Andrade; Curator: Jorge Villarcorta; Exhibitor: Herbert Rodriguez
Venue: Arsenale
POLAND
“Re-enchanting the World”
Commissioner: Janusz Janowski (from 2022), Hanna Wróblewska (till 2021) / Zachęta — National
Gallery of Art; Curators: Wojciech Szymański and Joanna Warsza; Exhibitor: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Venue: Giardini
PORTUGAL
“Vampires in Space”
Commissioner: Direção-Geral Das Artes; Curators: João Mourão/ Luís Silva; Exhibitor: Pedro Neves
Marques
Venue: Palazzo Franchetti San Marco 2847
ROMANIA
You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body
Commissioner: Attila Kim; Curators: Cosmin Costinas and Viktor Neumann; Exhibitor: Adina Pintilie
Venue: Romanian Pavilion, Giardini and New Gallery of the Romanian Institute for Culture and
Humanistic Research (Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannareggio 2214 )
RUSSIA
914
Commissioner: Anastasia Karneeva; Curator: Raimundas Malasauskas; Exhibitors: Kirill Savchenkov,
Alexandra Sukhareva
Venue: Giardini

SAN MARINO (Republic of)

Postumano Metamorfico
Commissioner: Riccardo Varini; Curators: Vincenzo Rotondo; Scientific Commitee: Alessandro
Bianchini, Roberto Felicetti, Cristian Contini, Fulvio Granocchia, Pasquale Lettieri, Angela Vettese,
Ami Barak, Riccardo Varini; Exhibitors: Elisa Cantarelli, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Roberto Paci
Dalò, Endless, Michelangelo Galliani, Rosa Mundi, Mouna Rebeiz, Anne-Cécile Surga, Michele
Tombolini
Venue: Palazzo Donà Dalle Rose, Fondamenta Nove Cannaregio 5038 and Chiesa anglicana di San
Giorgio, Campo San Voi, Dorsoduro 729/A
SAUDI ARABIA
The Teaching Tree
Commissioner: Visual Arts Commission, Ministry of Culture; Curator: Reem Fadda; Exhibitor:
Muhannad Shono
Venue: Arsenale
SERBIA
Walking with Water
Commissioner: Marijana Kolarić; Curator: Biljana Ćirić; Exhibitor: Vladimir Nikolić
Venue: Giardini
SINGAPORE
Pulp III: A Short Biography of the Banished Book
Commissioner: Rosa Daniel, Chief Executive Officer National Arts Council Singapore; Curator: Ute
Meta Bauer; Exhibitor: Shubigi Rao
Venue: Arsenale
SLOVENIA (Republic of)
Senza Padrone/Without a Master
Commissioner: Aleš Vaupotič; Curator: Robert Simonišek; Exhibitor: Marko Jakše
Venue: Arsenale
SPAIN
Correction
Commissioner : Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación de España. AECID
Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo; Curator: Beatriz Espejo
Exhibitor: Ignasi Aballí
Venue:Giardini
SOUTH AFRICA (Republic of)
‘Into the Light’
Commissioner: Nosipho Nausca-Jean Ngcaba Ambasciatore della Repubblica del Sudafrica in Italia;
Curator: Amé Bell; Exhibitors: Roger Ballen,Lebohang Kganye, Phumulani Ntuli
Venue: Arsenale
SWITZERLAND
The Concert
Commissioners: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (Madeleine Schuppli, Sandi Paucic, Rachele
Giudici Legittimo); Curators: Alexandre Babel, Francesco Stocchi; Exhibitor: Latifa Echakhch
Venue: Giardini
SYRIAN ARAB (Republic)
"The Syrians People: a common Destiny"
Commissioner/Curator: Emad Kashout; Exhibitors: Saousan Al Zubi, Ismael Nasra, Adnan Hamideh,
Omran Younis, Aksam Tallaa, Giuseppe Amadio, Marcello Lo Giudice, Lorenzo Puglisi
Venue: Isola di San Servolo
TURKEY
Once upon a time...
Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV); Curator: Bige Örer; Exhibitor:
Füsun Onur; Venue: Arsenale
UKRAINE
The Fountain of Exhaustion. Acqua alta
Commissioner: Kateryna Chuyeva, Deputy Minister for European Integration of the Ministry of
Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine; Curators: Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys
Filonenko; Exhibitor: Pavlo Makov
Venue: Arsenale
UGANDA
RADIANCE: They dream In Time
Commissioner: Naumo Juliana Akoryo; Curator: Shaheen Merali; Exhibitors: Acaye Elizabeth Pamala
Kerunen and Collin Sekajugo
Venue: Palazzo Palumbo Fossati San Marco 2597
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset
Commissioner: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation; Curator: Maya Allison; Exhibitor:
Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
Venue: Arsenale
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Simone Leigh: Sovereignty
Commissioner: Jill Medvedow, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston; Curator: Eva Respini, Institute
of Contemporary Art/Boston; Exhibitor: Simone Leigh
Venue: Giardini
URUGUAY
"Persona"
Commissioner: Silvana Bergson; Curator: Laura Malosetti Costa and Pablo Uribe; Exhibitor: Gerardo
Goldwasser
Venue: Giardini
UZBEKISTAN* (Republic of)
Dixit Algorizmi: Garden of Knowledge
Commissioner: Art and Culture Development Foundation; Curators: Studio Space Caviar (Joseph
Grima, Camilo Oliveira, Sheida Gomashchi); Exhbitors: Saodat Ismailova, Vyacheslav Useionov,
Space Caviar
Venue: Arsenale
VENEZUELA (Bolivarian Republic of)
Tierra, País, Casa, Cuerpo
Commissioner: Paola Claudia Posani Urdaneta; Curators: Zacarías García; Exhibitors: Palmira Correa,
César Vázquez, Mila Quast,Jorge Recio
Venue: Giardini
ZIMBABWE (Republic of)
Commissioner: National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Venue: Chiesa Santa Maria della Pietà, Calle della Pietà