A Sneak Peek into the 58th Venice Art Biennale
Here is a short list of the National Participations confirmed so far for the 58th Venice Art Biennale “May you live in interesting times” (May 11 – November 24, 2019).
AUSTRALIA
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Juliana Engberg
Commissioner: Australia Council for the Arts
Artist: Angelica Mesiti
AUSTRIA
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein
Commissioner: Federal Chancellery of Austria
Artist: Renate Bertlmann
BELGIUM
Title: Mondo Cane
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Anne-Claire Schmitz
Artists: Jos De Gruyter and Harald Thys
CANADA
Venue: Giardini
Curators: Asinnajaq, Catherine Crowston, Barbara Fischer, Candice Hopkins, Josée Drouin-Brisebois
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada
Artists: Inuit artist collective Isuma, led by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn
CHILE
Venue: Arsenale, Artiglierie
Curator: Agustín Pérez Rubio (Artistic Director Malba – Fundación Costantini)
Commissioner: Consejo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Chile
Artist: Voluspa Jarpa
DENMARK
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Nat Muller
Commissioner: Danish Arts Foundation
Artist: Larissa Sansour
ESTONIA
Venue: Spazio Punch, Giudecca island
Commissioner: Center for Contemporary Arts
Artist: Kris Lemsalu
FINLAND
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Nat Muller
Commissioner: Danish Arts Foundation
Artist: Larissa Sansour
FRANCE
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Martha Kirszenbaum
Commissioner: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Artist: Laure Prouvost
GERMANY
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Francisca Zolyon
Commissioner: ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) on behalf of the Federal Foreign Office
Artist: Natascha Süder Happelmann
GREAT BRITAIN
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Zoe Whitley
Artist: Cathy Wilkes
GRENADA
Curator: Daniele Radini Tedeschi
Commissioner: Susan Mains
HONG KONG
Venue: Campo della Tana
Curator: Christina Li
Artist: Shirley Tse
HUNGARY
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák
Commissioner: Julia Fabényi
Artist: Tamás Waliczky
ICELAND
Title: Chromo Sapiens
Venue: Spazio Punch, Giudecca
Curator: Birta Guðjónsdóttir
Artist: Shoplifter (Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir)
INDONESIA
Title: Reason and Negotiation Never Come Just Once
Venue: Arsenale
Curator: Asmudjo Jono Irianto
Co-curator: Yacobus Ari Respati
Artists: Handiwirman Saputra, Syagini Ratna Wulan
IRELAND
Venue: Arsenale, Artiglierie
Curator: Mary Cremin
Artist: Eva Rothschild
ISRAEL
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Avi Lubin
Artist: Aya Ben Ron
ITALY
Venue: Arsenale, Tese delle Vergini
Curator: Milovan Farronato
Artists: Enrico David, Chiara Fumai, Liliana Moro
JAPAN
Title: Cosmo-Eggs
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Hiroyuki Hattori
Artists: Motoyuki Shitamichi＋Taro Yasuno＋Toshiaki Ishikura＋Fuminori Nousaku
KOREA
Venue: Giardini
Commissioner: Arts Council Korea (ARKO)
Curator: Hyunjin Kim
Artists: Hwayeon Nam, Siren Eun Young Jung, Jane Jin Kaisen
LITHUANIA
Title: Sun & Sea (Marina)
Venue: Arsenale
Curator: Lucia Pietroiusti
Commissioners: Jean-Baptiste Joly and Rasa Antanavičiūtė
Artists: Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė, Rugilė Barzdžiukaite
LUXEMBOURG
Venue: Arsenale
Artist: Marco Godinho
MEXICO
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d’Armi
Curator: Magalí Arriola
Commissioner: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes
Artist: Pablo Vargas Lugo
NETHERLANDS
Title: The Measurement of Presence
Venue: Giardini
Curator by: Benno Tempel
Commissioner: the Mondriaan Fund
Artists: Remy Jungerman and Iris Kensmil
NEW ZEALAND
Venue: Palazzina Canonica, Riva Sette Martiri, Castello 1364/A
Curators: Zara Stanhope, Chris Sharp
Commissioner: Dame Jenny Gibbs
Artist: Dane Mitchell
NORDIC PAVILION
Title: Weather Report: Forecasting Future
Venue: Giardini
Curators: Piia Oksanen, Leevi Haapala
Commissioners: Katya García-Antón, Ann-Sofi Noring
Artists: Janne Nabb and Maria Teeri, Norwegian Ane Graff and Swedish Ingela Ihrman
PHILIPPINES
Venue: Arsenale
Curator: Tessa Maria Guazon
Artist: Mark Justiniani
SCOTLAND
Curator, Commissioner: Linsey Young with Cove Park
Artist: Charlotte Prodger
SINGAPORE
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d’Armi
Curator: Michelle Ho
Commissioner: National Arts Council Singapore
Artist: Song-Ming Ang
SLOVENIA
Venue: Arsenale
Curator: Igor Španjol
Commissioner: Zdenka Badovinac
Artist: Marko Peljhan
SPAIN
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Peio Aguirre
Commissioner: Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
Artists: Itziar Okariz and Sergio Prego
SWITZERLAND
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Charlotte Laubard
Commissioner: Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia
Artists: Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz
TAIWAN
Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni, San Marco
Commissioner: Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Curator: Paul B. Preciado
Artist: Shu Lea Cheang
TURKEY
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d’Armi
Curator: Zeynep Öz
Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV)
Artist: İnci Eviner
UAE
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d’Armi
Curators: Sam Bardaouil & Till Fellrath
Commissioner: The Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundatio
USA
Venue: Giardini
Curator: Brooke Kamin Rapaport
Commissioner: Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York City
Artist: Martin Puryear
WALES
Curator: Marie-Anne McQuay
Commissioner: Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
Artist: Sean Edwards
