The Top 12 Art Shows During the 2019 Venice Biennale
The 58th International Art Exhibition is titled May You Live In Interesting Times. It is named after a phrase that has been invoked in speeches by Western politicians for over a hundred years as an ‘ancient Chinese curse’, even though such a curse never actually existed. Curator Ralph Rugoff describes this ‘counterfeit curse’ as an ‘uncertain artefact… at once suspect and rich in meaning’, noting that it suggests ‘potential lines of exploration that are worth pursuing at present, especially when the “interesting times” it evokes seem to be with us once again.’
The Venice Biennale has been for over 120 years and is one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world. The Biennale has an attendance today of over 500,000 visitors at the Art Exhibition. The history of the La Biennale di Venezia dates back from 1895, when the first International Art Exhibition was organized. It open to the public on the 11th of May and will continue all over the summer until the 24th of November 2019.
We have run Venice up and down, so you do not have to. Here it is our selection of the 12 more interesting exhibitions. They are all in geographical order. You just need to visit one after the other, starting in Arsenale, following by Giardini, Dorsoduro, Santa Croce and ending up watching a beautiful sunset, and a well-deserved bellini cocktail, at the Island of San Clemente.
