52ND INTERNATIONAL VENICE BIENNALE ARTIST LIST ANNOUNCED (2024)

At a press conference in New York yesterday, La Biennale di Venezia foundation president Davide Croff and 52nd International Art Exhibition artistic director Robert Storr announced the artist’s for this summer’s Biennale. Artforum’s Brian Sholis attended the conference; read his commentary on The artists are:

Ignasi Aballi, Adel Abdessemed, Alterazioni Video (Paololuca Barbieri Marchi, Andrea Masu, Alberto Caffarelli, Giacomo Porfiri, and Matteo Erenbourg), Francis Alÿs, El Anatsui, Giovanni Anselmo, Yto Barrada, Gabriele Basilico, Louise Bourgeois, Jan Christiaan Braun, Daniel Buren, Luca Buvoli, Waltercio Caldas, Sophie Calle, Paolo Canevari, Christian Capurro, Manon De Boer, Raoul De Keyser, Iran Do Espirito Santo, James Drake, Valie Export, Leòn Ferrari, Angelo Filomeno, Yang Fudong, Yukio Fujimoto, Charles Gaines, Rainer Ganahl, Tomer Ganihar, Felix Gmelin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Dimitri Gutov, Neil Hamon, Lyle Ashton Harris, Christine Hill, Jenny Holzer, Marine Hugonnier, Pierre Huyghe, Emily Jacir, Kim Jones, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Y. Z. Kami, Izumi Kato, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin Kippenberger, Riyas Komu, Guillermo Kuitca, Rosemary Laing, Leonilson, Sol LeWitt, Rosario Lopez, Nalini Malani, Steve McQueen, Andrei Monastyrski, Hiroharu Mori, Morrinho Group, Joshua Mosley, Oscar Muñoz, Elizabeth Murray, Zoran Naskovski, Bruce Nauman, Eyoung Nganguè and Faustin Titi, Thomas Nozkowski, Donald Odita Odili, Melik Ohanian, Philippe Parreno, Dan Perjovschi, Raymond Pettibon, Sigmar Polke, Emily Prince, José Alejando Restrepo, Jason Rhoades, Gerhard Richter, David Riff, Susan Rothenberg, Robert Ryman, Margareth Salmon, Cheri Samba, Fred Sandback, Nedko Solakov, Nancy Spero, Tabaimo, Elaine Tedesco, Philippe Thomas, Paula Trope, Tatiana Trouvé, Kara Walker, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Sophie Whettnall, Pavl Wolberg, Tomoko Yoneda, and Yang Zhenzhong.

This year, seventy-seven countries will sponsor national pavilions throughout the city. The artists include Abdul Shoukour Khasrawi (Afghanistan); Elidon Gjergji, Gent Gjokola, Alban Hajdinaj, Armando Lulaj, and Heldi Pema (Albania); Guillermo Kuitca (Argentina); Susan Norrie, Callum Morton, and Daniel von Sturmer (Australia); Herbert Brandl (Austria); Eric Duyckaerts (Belgium); José Damasceno and Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain (Brazil); Pravdoliub Ivanov, Ivan Moudov, and Stefan Nikolaev (Bulgaria); David Altmejd (Canada); David Maljkovic (Croatia); Irena Juzová (Czech Republic and Slovakia); Troels Wörsel (Denmark); Haiam Abd El-Baky, Aiman El-Semary, Tarek El-Komy, Sahar Dergham, George Fikry, and Hazil Nazmy (Egypt); Marko Mäetamm (Estonia); Blagoja Manevski (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia); Sophie Calle (France); Eteri Chkadua, Tamara Kvesitadze, Zura Gugulashvili, Paata Sanaia, and Sophia Tabatadze (Georgia); Isa Genzken (Germany); Jill Mercedes (Grand Duchy of Luxembourg); Nikos Alexiou (Greece); Andreas Fogarasi (Hungary); Steingrimur Eyfjörd (Iceland); Gerard Byrne (Ireland); Yehudit Sasportas (Israel); Guiseppe Pennone and Francesco Vezzoli (Italy); Masao Okabe (Japan); Gints Gabrans (Latvia); Fouad Elkoury, Lamia Joreige, Walid Sadek, Mounira El-Solh, and Akram Zaatari (Lebanon); Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas (Lithuania); Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico); Aeronaut Mik (the Netherlands); Shen Yuan, Yin Xiuzhen, Kan Xuan, and Cao Fei (People’s Republic of China); Monika Sosnowska (Poland); Angela Ferreira (Portugal); Tora Aghabeyova, Faig Ahmed, Rashad Alakbarov, Orkhan Aslanov, Chingiz Babayev, Rena Effendi, Ali Hasanov, Orkhan Huseynov, Elshan Ibrahimov, Tamilla Ibrahimova, Rauf Khalilov, and the Labirint Art Group (Republic of Azerbaijan), Haris Epaminonda and Mustafa Hulusi (Republic of Cyprus); Hyungkoo Lee (Republic of Korea); Svetlana Ostapovici (Republic of Moldova); Tobias Putrih (Republic of Slovenia); Victor Man, Cristi Pogacean, and Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor (Romania); AES+F (Arzamasova Tatiana, Evzovich Lev, Svyatsky Evgeny, and Fridkes Vladimir), Andrey Bartenev, Arseny Mescheryakov, Julia Milner, and Alexander Ponomarev (Russia); Mrdjan Bajic (Serbia), Vincent Leow, Jason Lim, Dawu Tang, and Mahmod Zulkifle (Singapore); Rubén Ramos Balsa, Rafael Lamata, José Luis Guerín, Jaime Vallaure, and Manuel Vilariño (Spain); Yves Netzhammer, Christine Streuli, Urs Fischer, and Ugo Rondinone (Switzerland); Bassem Dahdouh, Nasser Naassan Agha, Dario Arcidiaconon, Stefano Bombardieri, Renato Mambour, Philippe Pastor, Donato Piccolo, Concetto Pozzati, and Alfredo Rapetti (Syrian Arab Republic); Amrit Chusuwan and Nipan Oranniwesna (Thailand); Hüseyin Alptekin and Aydan Murtezaoglu (Turkey), Serhiy Bratkov, Dzine, Alexandre Hnlitsky / Lesia Zaiats, Boris Mikhailov, Juergen Teller, Mark Titchner, and Sam Taylor-Wood (Ukraine); Tracey Emin (United Kingdom); Felix Gonzalez-Torres (United States of America); Antonio Briceño and Vincent + Feria (Venezuela); Adel Abidin, Jacob Dahlgren, Toril Goksøyr, Camilla Martens, Sirous Namazi, Lars Ramberg, and Maaria Wirkkala (Finland, Norway, and Sweden); Natalya Dyu, Gaukhar Kiyekbayeva, Alexander Ugay, Roman Maskalev, Jamshed Kholikov, Aleksei Rumyantsev, Alexander Nikoleav, and Vyacheslav (Yura) Useinov (Central Asian Pavilion); and Narda Alvarado, Mónica Bengoa, Cinthya Soto, René Francisco, Wilfredo Prieto, Jorge Pineta, Pablo Cardoso, María Verónica León, Manuela Ribadeneira, Ronald Morán, María Dolores Castellanos, Andre Juste, Vladimir Cybil, Xenía Mejía, Ernesto Salmerón, Jonathan Harker, William Paats, Paola Parcerisa, Patricia Bueno, Moico Yaker, and Omaggio a Jorge Eielson (Istituto Italo-Latino Americano).

The artists representing India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Mongolia, Morocco, the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of South Africa, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Uruguay have yet to be confirmed.