Foreigners everywhere: Stranieri ovunque : Biennale Arte 2024

Abstract

The blockbuster two-volume guide to the Venice Biennale, with over 1,000 illustrations. The 60th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, curated by Adriano Pedrosa (artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo), is titled Foreigners Everywhere. It takes its name from a series of artworks made in 2004 by the collective Claire Fontaine, and is, as Pedrosa explains, "a celebration of the foreign, the distant, the outsider, the queer as well as the Indigenous." It "will focus on artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, emigres, exiled and refugees--especially those who have moved between the Global South and the Global North." Pedrosa divides the exhibition into two parts: "Nucleo Contemporaneo," for contemporary artists, and "Nucleo Storico," for historical ones. The former expands upon the concept of the "foreigner" or "outsider" artist, while the latter examines artworks created in the Global South between 1905 and 1990. The catalog, copublished by Silvana Editoriale and Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, is, as with the 2022 publication, printed in two volumes, and follows the exhibition route to accompany visitors and art lovers through the exhibition spaces of the Giardini and the Arsenale. It also presents the other projects on display in various locations around the city of Venice and at Forte Marghera in Mestre.

Contents

Table of contents transcribed from pages 24-25: Introductions: Foreword / Pietrangelo Buttafuoco ; About the 60th International Art Exhibition / Robert Cicutto ; Foreigners everywhere / Stranieri Ovunque, Adriano Pedrosa ; Acknowledgements. -- Interviews: Adriano Pedrosa / interviewed by Julieta González ; Claire Fontaine / interviewed by Adriano Pedrosa ; Anna Maria Maiolino / interviewed by Amanda Carneiro ; Nil Yalter / interviewed by Sofia Gotti. -- Essays: Foreigners everywhere / Claire Fontaine ; The migrant's time / by Ranajit Guha ; Art history after globalization: formations of the colonial modern / Kobena Mercer ; Crafts and the Indigenous social body / Naine Terena de Jesus ; Contemporary Indigenous art as a trap for traps / Jaider Esbell ; Beyond representational justice / Luce deLire ; Issues in popular art / Tico Escobar ; Coloniality: the dark side of modernity / Walter D. Mignolo. -- International Exhibition: Nucleo contemporaneo, Nucleo storico ; Portraits ; Italians everywhere ; Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project. -- List of works. -- Biennale College Arte. vol. 1. [Exhibition] / editor, Adriano Pedrosa ; managing editors, Amanda Carneiro, Sofia Gotti ; Foreword Pietrangelo Buttafuoco ; translated by John Francis Phillimore ; texts [by] Carla Acevedo Yates, Michela Alessanfrini, Saira Ansari [and many more] -- vol. 2. [Participating countries, collateral events] / editorial coordination, Maddalena Pietragnoli ; text editing, Anna Amanda Albano, Federico Sanna ; translations, Salvatore Mele and Giuliana Schiavi.