List of Venice Biennale exhibitions explained

This is a list of Venice Biennale exhibitions.

Art

data-sort-type="number"DatesArts directorCentral exhibitionAwardsRef
2024 Foreigners Everywhere [1] [2]
2022 The Milk of Dreams [3] [4]
2019 May You Live in Interesting Times
  • Golden Lion for best artist of the exhibition: Arthur Jafa
  • Silver Lion for the most promising young artist of the exhibition: Haris Epaminonda
  • Golden Lion for lifetime achievement: Jimmie Durham
  • Golden Lion for best national participation: Lithuanian pavilion
[5] [6]
2017 Viva Arte Viva [7]
2015 All the World's Futures
  • Golden Lion for best artist of the exhibition: Adrian Piper
  • Silver Lion for the most promising young artist of the exhibition: Im Heung-soon
  • Golden Lion for lifetime achievement: El Anatsui
  • Golden Lion for best national participation: Armenian pavilion
[8]
2013 The Encyclopedic Palace -- this one needs source, or http://asac.labiennale.org/it/passpres/artivisive/annali.php?m=372&c=p --> [9]
2011 ILLUMInations [10] [11]
2009 Making Worlds [12]
2007 Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind [13] [14]
2005
2003 Dreams and Conflicts:
The Dictatorship of the Viewer
[15]
2001 Plateau of Humankind
1999
1997
1995
1993 Giovanni Carandente
1990 Giovanni Carandente
1988 Giovanni Carandente
  • International Prize/Golden Lion: Jasper Johns
    • Golden Lion for best national participation: Italian pavilion Premio 2000 (young artist): Barbara Bloom
1986 Giovanni Carandente
1984 Maurizio Calvesi None
1982 Sisto Dalla Palma None
1980 Luigi Carluccio None
1978 Luigi Scarpa None
1976 None
1972 Mario Penelope Opera o Comportamento (Work or Behavior)[16] None
1970 Umbro Apollonio None
1968 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): British painter Bridget Riley, French sculptor Nicolas Schöffer, German etcher Horst Janssen, and Italian sculptors Gianni Colombo and Pino Pascali
1966 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): Argentine painter Julio Le Parc, Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen ex aequo with Étienne Martin (France), Japanese etcher Masuo Ikeda, and Italians painter Lucio Fontana, sculptor Alberto Viani, and etcher Ezio Gribaudo
1964 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): American painter Robert Rauschenberg, Swiss sculptor Zoltan Kemeny, German draughtsman Joseph Fassbender, and Italians sculptor Andrea Cascella, sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, and etcher Angelo Savelli.
1962 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Alfred Manessier, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Argentine etcher Antonio Berni, and Italians painter Giuseppe Gapogrossi ex aequo with Ennio Morlotti, sculptor Aldo Calò ex aequo with Umberto Milani, and etcher Antonino Virduzzo
1960 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Jean Fautrier, German painter Hans Hartung, Italian painter Emilio Vedova, and Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra.
1958 Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua Gran Premi (Grand Prize): American painter Mark Tobey, Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, Brazilian etcher Fayga Ostrower, Italians painter Osvaldo Licini, sculptor Umberto Mastroianni, and etcher Luigi Spacal
1956 Rodolfo Pallucchini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Jacques Villon, British sculptor Lynn Chadwick, Japanese etcher Shiko Munakata, Brazilian draughtsman Aldemir Martins, and Italians painter Afro, sculptor Emilio Greco, etcher Zoran Music, and draughtsperson Carlo Mattioli ex aequo with Anna Salvatore
1954 Rodolfo Pallucchini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): German painter Max Ernst, French sculptor Jean Arp, Spanish etcher Joan Miró, and Italians painter Giuseppe Santomaso, sculptor Pericle Fazzini, and etcher Paolo Manaresi ex aequo with Cesco Magnolato
1952 Rodolfo Pallucchini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Raoul Dufy, American sculptor Alexander Calder, German etcher Emil Nolde, and Italians painter Bruno Cassinari ex aequo with Bruno Saetti, sculptor Marino Marini, and etcher Toni Zancanaro
1950 Rodolfo Pallucchini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Henri Matisse, French sculptor Ossip Zadkine, Belgian etcher Frans Masereel, Italians painter Carlo Carrà, sculptor Marcello Mascherini ex aequo with Luciano Minguzzi, and etcher Giuseppe Viviani
1948 Rodolfo Pallucchini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): French painter Georges Braque, British sculptor Henry Moore, French etcher Marc Chagall, and Italians painter Giorgio Morandi, sculptor Giacomo Manzù, and etcher Mino Maccari
1942 Antonio Maraini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): Hungarian painter Arthur Kampf, Swiss sculptor Charles Otto Bänninger, Swedish etcher Stif Borglind, and Italians painter Alberto Salietti, sculptor Francesco Messina, and etcher Luigi Bartolini
1940 Antonio Maraini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): Hungarian painter Vilmos Aba Novàk, German sculptor Arno Breker, Belgian etcher Maurice Brocas, and Italians painter Felice Carena, sculptor Guido Galletti, and etcher Marcello Boglione
1938 Antonio Maraini Gran Premi (Grand Prize): Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, Swiss sculptor Herman Hubacher, British etcher Blair Hughes-Stanton, and Italians painter Felice Casorati, sculptor Venanzio Crocetti, and etcher Mario Delitala
1936 Antonio Maraini
1934 Antonio Maraini
1932 Antonio Maraini
1930 Antonio Maraini
1928 Antonio Maraini
1926 Vittorio Pica
1924 Vittorio Pica
1922 Vittorio Pica
1920 Vittorio Pica
1914 Antonio Fradeletto
1912 Antonio Fradeletto
1910 Antonio Fradeletto
1909 Antonio Fradeletto
1907 Antonio Fradeletto
1905 Antonio Fradeletto
1903 Antonio Fradeletto
1901 Antonio Fradeletto
1899 Antonio Fradeletto
1897 Antonio Fradeletto
1895 Antonio Fradeletto

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Biennale Arte 2024 Awards . . Biennale Foundation . 7 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240518003638/https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-arte-2024-official-awards . 18 May 2024 . live.
  2. Web site: Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the Biennale Arte 2024 . . Biennale Foundation . 7 June 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240425174210/https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/anna-maria-maiolino-and-nil-yalter-golden-lions-lifetime-achievement-biennale-arte-2024 . 25 April 2024 . live.
  3. Web site: Rea . Naomi . Cecilia Alemani's 2022 Venice Biennale Will Explore the Power of the Human Imagination to Adapt to a Changing Planet . . 2021-06-09 . en-US . 2021-06-19 . mdy-all .
  4. Web site: BIENNALE ARTE 2022: OFFICIAL AWARDS. . 23 April 2022. en-US . 26 April 2022.
  5. News: Nayeri . Farah . Venice Biennale's Top Prize Goes to Lithuania . . 15 May 2019 . en-US . 0362-4331 .
  6. Web site: Halperin . Julia . Arthur Jafa and the Lithuanian Pavilion Win the Venice Biennale's 2019 Golden Lions, Casting a Spotlight on Racism and Climate Change . . 11 May 2019 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  7. Web site: Russeth . Andrew . Golden Lions in Venice for Anne Imhof and Franz Erhard Walther, Silver for Hassan Khan . . 13 May 2017 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  8. Web site: Armenia, Adrian Piper Win Venice Biennales Golden Lions . . 9 May 2015 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  9. Web site: Cascone . Sarah . Tino Sehgal, Sharon Hayes, Angolan Pavilion Among Venice Biennale Prizewinners . . 6 June 2013 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  10. Web site: Christoph Schlingensief and Christian Marclay Awarded Golden Lions at the Venice Biennale . . 4 June 2011 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  11. Web site: Freedman . Alex . VeniceЯUs . . 9 June 2011 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  12. Web site: Crow . Kelly . Venice Biennial: Hear the U.S. Roar . . 6 June 2009 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  13. Web site: Venice Biennale Golden Lion Awards Announced . . 17 October 2007 . en-US . 19 May 2019 .
  14. News: Vogel . Carol . Art in the Present Tense: Politics, Loss and Beauty . . 11 June 2007 . en-US . 0362-4331 .
  15. News: Kimmelman . Michael . Critic's Notebook: Cramming It All in at the Biennale . . 26 June 2003 . en-US . 0362-4331 .
  16. Web site: Morris . Jane . Why is the Venice Biennale still so important? . . 1 May 2019 . 4 May 2019 .