La Biennale di Venezia è da oltre un secolo una delle istituzioni culturali più prestigiose al mondo e più all'avanguardia nella promozione delle nuove tendenze artistiche e nell’organizzazione di  manifestazioni internazionali delle arti contemporanee, secondo un modello pluridisciplinare che ne caratterizza l'unicità.

The 52nd International Art Exhibition will run in Venice from June 10 to November 21 in the Arsenale and in the Italian Pavilion at the Giardini, presenting about a hundred artists from all over the world. The fever is rising for the inauguration with over 200 events...

In the Biennial designed by Robert Storr, it would be impossible not to perceive the existence of two generic groupings of artists which reflect the peculiar characteristics of contemporary art language...

Think with the senses, Feel with the mind: art at present. A title such as this, serving also as a theme, induces us to think, perhaps with too much facility, that this is such a wide proposal, such a totalizing panorama, that nothing could in any way remain alien to it.

Among the main novelties at the 52nd International Art Exposition of the Biennial of Venice, there is the reopening, after 8 years of absence, of the Italian Pavilion at Tese delle Vergine dell'Arsenale.

The core of the exposition at the Venice Pavilion is a cultural project promoted by Regione Veneto, the Province of Venice and the Venice Municipality. Its aim is to give back this exposition space to Veneto's culture, in an international context, conceived as a meeting place for ideas, persons, and languages which encounter each other beyond the geographical boundaries of the region.

A great touching-screen, a net-art project, technology which links up the users of a site with the physical space of the Biennial: Click I hope welcomes the visitors to the Russian Pavilion and proposes itself, ingenuously perhaps, as being able to transform the first person singular, that is, all of us, at the same time and in dislocation, into enjoyers of art/members of a virtual community/active subjects of hope.

A guided visit beyond the boundaries of contemporary art at the Venice Biennale 2007, walking in the shade of the lofty trees at Giardini di Castello...

Felix Gonzales-Torres' refined evocative force at the United States of America pavilion of the Venice Biennale...

by Claudia Brisotto | :venews

After the golden lions, Croff certainly deserves a golden medal because, apart from the small problems, he has managed to make of the Venice Biennale the most visited exhibition in Italy.
Important information: the 52nd Biennale will close on the 21st.