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Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale Launch Joint Event

In February this year, two leading French art fairs – the venerable Biennale, one of the world’s oldest art fairs (formerly known as La Biennale des Antiquaires) and the fast-growing Fine Arts Paris – announced that they had merged to create a new annual flagship event in Paris, celebrating art from the Antiquity to present day. Fine Arts Paris & La Biennale has now unveiled details of its inaugural edition which will take place at...

Sydney Biennale Announces 2020 Highlights

The Biennale of Sydney – the third oldest biennial in the world after Venice and São Paulo, and the largest exhibition of its kind in Australia – has announced the program highlights for its 2020 edition, taking place from 14th March until 8th June 2020. Free and open to the public, the 22nd edition will present a diverse range of contemporary artworks spanning from video and photography to installations and performances, across six different venues in...

Venice Biennale Golden Lion Award Goes to Lithuania for Climate Change Opera

The Jury of the 58th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has announced that the Golden Lion Award has gone to Lithuania for Sun & Sea (Marina), a performance piece about global warming in which operatic singers lie on an artificial beach. Lina Lapelyte, Vaiva Grainyte and Rugile Barzdziukaite created the piece, which debuted at Vilnius’s National Gallery of Arts in 2017 in Lithuanian and was adapted into English for the Biennale. Other...

Venice Biennale Opens With Great Britain Represented by Cathy Wilkes

The 58th Venice Biennale opens on Saturday May 11th, with Great Britain represented by Irish artist Cathy Wilkes. The biennial contemporary visual art exhibition consists of two parts, the first a huge central exhibition organised this year by invited curator Ralph Rugoff, the director of the Hayward Gallery in London. This exhibition is titled May You Live in Interesting Times – a reference to the supposed Chinese curse that entered common parlance after Sir Joseph...

Giudecca Art District Opens With Flagship Exhibition Alongside Venice Biennale

Coinciding with the opening of 58th Venice Biennale, on 9th May 2019 the Venetian island of Giudecca will see the official launch of the Giudecca Art District (GAD), founded by General Director Pier Paolo Scelsi and Artistic Director Valentina Gioia Levy. Building on the Giudecca’s significant contemporary art legacy and the island’s history as a liminal space, the newly established Giudecca Art District will be home to a permanent curatorial programme, linking new and existing...

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