50th International Venice Biennale
Adel Abdessemed » Carlos Amorales » Emmanuelle Antille » Kader Attia » Maja Bajevic » John Baldessari » Matthew Barney » Zarina Bhimji » Dara Birnbaum » Sergey Bratkov » Jean-Marc Bustamante » Boris Cvjetanovic » Jonas Dahlberg » Tacita Dean » Jeremy Deller » Thomas Demand » Trisha Donnelly » Olafur Eliasson » Sylvie Eyberg » Juan Pedro Fabra Guemberena » Rotimi Fani-Kayode » CAO Fei » Hans-Peter Feldmann » Fischli & Weiss » Ceal Floyer » Alicia Framis » YANG Fudong » Ghazel » Liam Gillick » Felix Gmelin » Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster » Dryden Goodwin » Douglas Gordon » Amit Goren » Rodney Graham » Dan Graham » Henrik Håkansson » Candida Höfer » Hans Haacke » Kevin Hanley » José Antonio Hernändez-Diez » Thomas Hirschhorn » Roni Horn » Marine Hugonnier » Pierre Huyghe » WANG Jianwei » Avish Khebrehzadeh » Eva Koch » Jakob Kolding » Surasi Kusolwong » Dinh Q. Lê » Luisa Lambri » Chris Ledochowski » Daniel Lee » Mikael Levin » Armin Linke » Liisa Lounila » Valerie Mannaerts » Bruce Mau » Steve McQueen » Jonas Mekas » Annette Messager » Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset » Michel Lasserre & Paola Yacoub » Jean-Luc Moulène » Pavel Mrkus » Sabah Naim » Deimantas Narkevicius » Rivane Neuenschwander » Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba » Carsten Nicolai » Nils Norman » Oliver Payne & Nick Relph » Yoko Ono » Ana Opalic » Roman Opalka » Gabriel Orozco » Damian Ortega » Fernando Ortega » Muyaiwa Osifuye » Tsuyoshi Ozawa » Lygia Pape » Philippe Parreno » Jennifer Pastor » ZHANG Peili » Michelangelo Pistoletto » Paola Pivi » Marjetica Potrc » Richard Prince » Florian Pumhösl » Walid Raad (The Atlas Group) » Charles Ray » Rosângela Rennó » Martha Rosler » Sara Rossi » Michal Rovner » Aïda Ruilova » Walid Sadek » Anri Sala » Bojan Sarcevic » Paul Seawright » Thasnai Sethaseree » Shirana Shahbazi » CHEN Shaoxiong » Wael Shawky » Shimabuku » Efrat Shvily » Santiago Sierra » Patti Smith » Robert Smithson » Nedko Solakov » Doron Solomons » Carola Spadoni » Svajone + Paulius Stanikas » Simon Starling » Jana Sterbak » Mladen Stilinovic » Javier Téllez » Milica Tomic » Jaan Toomik » Su-Mei Tse » Erik van Lieshout » Andy Warhol » Paul Weiner » Eyal Weizman » Stephen Willats » Paul Wong » Cerith Wyn Evans » Shizuka Yokomizo » Carey Young » LIU Zheng » YANG Zhenzhong »
Exhibition: 15 Jun – 2 Nov 2003
The Venice Biennale - Visual Arts
Ca' Giustinian San Marco 1364
30124 Venezia
The Venice Biennale
Ca' Giustinian San Marco 1364
30124 Venezia
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The Biennale di Venezia presents the 50th International Art Exhibition, directed by Francesco Bonami. Dreams and Conflicts; The Dictatorship of the Viewer. This year's Biennale di Venezia's 50th International Art Exhibition presents an "exhibition of exhibitions" throughout the spaces of the Arsenale, the historic Giardini della Biennale, the Museo Correr in San Marco, and various projects within the city of Venice to be included in the section Interludes, making it bigger than any previous Biennale Exhibitions. Francesco Bonami has strived to exploit the unique nature of the Biennale di Venezia's exhibition structure in order to organize a major international exhibition that takes into consideration the diverse characteristics of the world of contemporary art. To achieve this, the exhibition will be composed of different projects (like islands in an archipelago), each with its own identity and autonomy. The viewer-reader of this map will thus be able to build upon each of these singular contemporary artistic experiences. Indeed, there will be no beginning and no end but various locales with different visions and concepts used as tools to tackle a contemporaneous voyage. At the Museo Correr, in collaboration for the first time with the Musei Civici Veneziani and the Biennale di Venezia, Francesco Bonami will curate an exhibition dedicated to painting from 1964 to the present. Pittura/ Painting will include more than 40 works by leading proponents of contemporary art who have previously exhibited at the Biennale di Venezia, sharing a part of its vital history.