Guide
Standouts From the 2024 Venice Biennale’s Foreigners Everywhere
Let’s investigate some of the hundreds of artworks on display as part of the central exhibition at this year’s Biennale.
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Guide
Hyperallergic’s Quick Guide to the 2024 Venice Biennale Pavilions
In a strong showing of national pavilions at this year’s edition, countries foregrounded diverse voices and showcased national talent.
Art
In Venice, Art Bears Witness to Chaos
What role can art play in helping us understand a time of great chaos and what role can national pavilions play in a time when nation states are ever present?
Art
The Echoes of Russian Atrocities in Two Venice Pavilions
The Venice Biennale’s Polish and Russian pavilions are both showing work by foreign countries, but their intentions and results couldn’t be more different.
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Inside the Vatican's Uncanny Venice Biennale Pavilion
Con i miei occhi (With my eyes), staged in a women’s prison, preaches visibility but operates on secrecy.
News
Indigenous Artists Win Top Prizes at Venice Biennale
Archie Moore and the Mataaho Collective took home Golden Lions for Australia and New Zealand, respectively.
Art
Bomb Shelter Posters in Venice Evoke the Reality of War in Ukraine
The maps show the location of the Ukrainian Pavilion at the Biennale and the sites of real bunkers or air-raid shelters in the city from a time not so long ago.
Art
Benin Debuts First-Ever National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Everything Precious Is Fragile is an opportunity to collapse the conventions that define the nation in the global popular imagination.
Art
Glimpse Into Jeffrey Gibson’s Historic US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
The exhibition brings resounding echoes of resistance amid an enduring struggle for Indigenous autonomy across the American continents.
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Taiwan Presents Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War at the Venice Biennale
Presented by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, the Taiwan Collateral Event takes place in a dark, home-like setting at the Palazzo delle Prigioni.
Opinion
Israeli Chutzpah at the Venice Biennale
Perfectly timed for maximum press attention, the performative closure of the country’s pavilion is opportunistic and cynical.
News
Activists Say “No to the Genocide Pavilion" in Biennale Protest Against Israel
Over 100 artists and art workers called attention to participating nations' complicity in the attacks on Gaza.