all the national pavilions, artists and curators
The Vennice Biennale, the oldest art biennial, is back after being delayed a year due to the pandemic—and it is seemingly as jam-packed with artists as ever. To help you get your head around who is showing where, we have brought together all the national pavilions and artists that have been announced so far.
• Venice Biennale: 59th International Art Exhibition, Giardini, Arsenale and various venues around Venice, 23 April-27 November 2022
Venice, the City of Water, will play host to the oldest biennial in the world © J da Silva
Albania
Artist: Lumturi Blloshmi
Organisers: Adela Demetja
Where: Arsenale
Argentina
Artist: Mónica Heller
Organiser: Alejo Ponce de León
Where: Arsenale
The curator Alexie Glass-Kantor and artist Marco Fusinato Photo: Zan Wimberley
Australia
Artist: Marco Fusinato
Organisers: Alexie Glass-Kantor; Australia Council
Where: Giardini
Website
Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl with the curator Karola Kraus
Photo: Christian Benesch
Austria
Artists: Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl
Organisers: Karola Kraus; Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
Where: Giardini
Website
Jonathas de Andrade’s O Levante (the uprising) (2014) Photo: Josimar Rodrigues and Ricardo Moura;Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna. Courtesy of the artist
Brazil
Artist: Jonathas de Andrade
Organisers: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti; José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Where: Giardini
Stan Douglas Photo: © Evaan Kheraj. Courtesy of the artist, Victoria Miro and David Zwirner
Canada
Artist: Stan Douglas
Organisers: Reid Shier; National Gallery of Canada
Where:Giardini
Website
Christina Li and Pilvi Takala Photo: Ida Enegren
Finland
Artist: Pilvi Takala
Organisers: Christina Li; Frame: Contemporary Art Finland
Where:Giardini
Website
Zineb Sedira Photo: Musthafa Aboobacker. Courtesy of Third Line gallery
France
Artist: Zineb Sedira
Organisers: Yasmina Reggad and artReoriented (Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath); Institut Français, French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, and the French Ministry of Culture
Where: Giardini
Website
Maria Eichhorn Photo: Jens Ziehe
Germany
Artist: Maria Eichhorn
Organisers: Yilmaz Dziewior
Where: Giardini
Website
Great Britain
Artist: Sonia Boyce
Organisers: British Council
Where: Giardini
Website
Hungary
Artist: Zsófia Keresztes
Organisers: Mónika Zsikla
Where: Giardini
The artist Niamh O’Malley (centre) with curators Clíodhna Shaffrey and Michael Hill Courtesy of Temple Bar Gallery+Studios
Ireland
Artist: Niamh O’Malley
Organisers: Clíodhna Shaffrey and Michael Hill, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios; Culture Ireland and the Arts Council Ireland
Where: Arsenale
Website
Dumb Type’s Trace/React Ⅱ(2020) in Actions+Reflections at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Photo: Kazuo Fukunaga
Japan
Artist: Dumb Type
Organisers: Japan Foundation
Where: Giardini
Website
Malta
Artist: Brian Schembri, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci and Arcangelo Sassolino
Organisers: Keith Sciberras and Jeffrey Uslip; Arts Council Malta
Where:Arsenale
Website
Netherlands
Artist: Melanie Bonajo
Organisers: Orlando Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth and Soraya Pol
Where: Chiesetta della Misericordia
In somewhat stereotypical liberal Dutch fashion, the Dutch pavilion’s pick Melanie Bonajo is not only an artist and film-maker, but also a “certified sexological bodyworker and somatic sex coach”. Bonajo will be creating an immersive video installation exploring the importance of touch and intimacy in an age of increasing digital-led isolation, which has only been intensified more recently by a disease that relies on proximity to propagate. After more than two years of social distancing, Bonajo’s work might be a very welcome hug that many people need (or perhaps not, depending on the severity of the pandemic at the time). Note, too, the exhibition will be outside the Giardini, with the Netherlands’s usual spot being given over to Estonia this year.
Two Faʻafafine (After Gauguin) (2020] from the Paradise Camp series by Yuki Kihara Image courtesy of Yuki Kihara and Milford Galleries, Aotearoa New Zealand
New Zealand
Artist: Yuki Kihara
Organisers: Caren Rangi and
Natalie King
Where: Arsenale
Themes of ecology, queer rights and decolonisation will be explored by the Pasifika artist Yuki Kihara in New Zealand’s pavilion. Kihara, who identifies as Fa’afafine, a third gender in Samoan culture, says that the presentation “is intended to camp the notion of paradise”. The show, playfully called Paradise Camp, will be made up of archival material coupled with photography and film shot on the paradisal Samoan island of Upolu.
Hassan Meer, one of the five artists representing Oman Image courtesy of the National Pavilion of the Sultanate of Oman
Oman
Artists: Anwar Sonya, Hassan Meer, Budoor Al Riyami, Radhika Khimji and Raiya Al Rawahi
Organisers: Sayyid Saeed Al Busaidi and Aisha Stoby
Where: Arsenale
Making its Venice Biennale debut, the Sultanate of Oman will be presenting the works of five artists covering the past 50 years of Omani contemporary art. The selection of artists is centred on a local collective called Circle Group, established in the late 1990s by Hassan Meer, and its subsequent series of group exhibitions.
Philippines
Artist: Gerardo Tan, Felicidad A. Prudente and Sammy Buhle
Organisers: Yael Buencamino Borromeo and Arvin Jason Flores
Where: Arsenale
Website
Poland
Artist: Małgorzata Mirga-Tas
Organisers: Wojciech Szymański and Joanna Warsza; National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Where: Giardini
Website
The Russian pavilion in the Giardini, Venice
Russia
Artists: Kirill Savchenkov and Alexandra Sukhareva
Organisers: Raimundas Malašauskas
Where: Giardini
Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna and Pauliina Feodoroff Photo: Marta Buso, OCA
Sápmi (formerly Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, and Finland)
Artists: Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara and Anders Sunna
Organisers: Katya García-Antón, Liisa-Rávná Finbog and Beaska Niillas; Office for Contemporary Art Norway
Where: Giardini
Website
The Nordic pavilion has been renamed the Sámi pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale and will show works by three artists from Sápmi, a region in northernmost Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia predating current national borders. The selection of artists and name change is “a symbolic reversal of colonial claims that have sought to erase Sámi land and culture,” according to statement from the organisers, the Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Vladimir Nikolic and Biljana Ciric
Serbia
Artist: Vladimir Nikolic
Organiser: Biljana Ciric
Where: Giardini
Singapore
Artist: Shubigi Rao
Organisers: Ute Meta Bauer; Rosa Daniel, National Arts Council Singapore
Where: Arsenale
Website
Spain
Artist: Ignasi Aballí
Organiser: Beatriz Espejo
Where: Giardini
Latifa Echakhch Photo: Pro Helvetia/Keystone/Christian Beutler
Switzerland
Artist: Latifa Echakhch with Alexandre Babel
Organisers: Francesco Stocchi; Pro Helvetia
Where: Giardini
Website
Turkey
Artist: Füsun Onur
Organisers: Bige Örer; Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts
Where: Arsenale
Website
United Arab Emirates
Artist: Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim
Organisers: Maya Allison; Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation
Where: Arsenale
Website
Simone Leigh in the studio © Simone Leigh. Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo: Shaniqwa Jarvis
United States
Artist: Simone Leigh
Organisers: Jill Medvedow and Eva Respini
Where: Giardini
The American sculptor Simone Leigh will be dedicating her exhibition at the US pavilion entirely “to the experiences and contributions of Black women,” says the pavilion’s co-curator Jill Medvedow. As well as the Chicagoan’s signature figurative sculptures of Black women—sculpted full size in clay before being cast in bronze—the commission will also include a three-day symposium about their overlooked histories and achievements. After the biennial, the presentation will travel to the ICA in Boston for Leigh’s first major US exhibition.
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