La Biennale di Venezia awards Golden Lions to Calvesi, Celant, Enwezor, and Gregotti

The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia has decided to award the Special Golden Lions 2020 to Maurizio Calvesi, Germano Celant, Okwui Enwezor and Vittorio Gregotti, on the occasion of the exhibition Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). When La Biennale di Venezia Meets History (Central Pavilion Giardini, August 29th to December 8th, 2020).

The acknowledgment will be awarded to the late artistic directors of the visual arts department of La Biennale di Venezia, emblems of significant moments in the history of  La Biennale.

The President of La Biennale di Venezia Roberto Cicutto stated: “La Biennale di Venezia’s international standing must also be credited to the work and the originality of its artistic directors, who have marked some of the most significant changes in contemporary culture. La Biennale was the laboratory where Calvesi, Celant, Enwezor and Gregotti expressed their original and visionary critical thinking which looked to the future, often anticipating it. The Disquieted Muses highlights them as the protagonists of an exhibition about the history of the Institution, which marks the beginning of a permanent dialogue among the contemporary arts in the spirit of common research.”

The Special Golden Lions will be awarded at a ceremony on Tuesday September 1st at the Giardini della Biennale, three days after the opening of Le muse inquiete (The Disquieted Muses). When La Biennale di Venezia Meets History, which La Biennale presents on the 125th anniversary of its foundation. The exhibition is curated for the first time by all the artistic directors of the six departments, who worked together to review, through the unique sources of the Historic Archives – ASAC and other national and international archives, the moments in which La Biennale met the history of the twentieth century in Venice.