Biennale Arte 2024: Foreigners Everywhere

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.
Artists include: Pacita Abad, Etel Adnan, Baya, Monika Correa, Olga de Amaral, Dumile Deni, Uza Egonu, Aref El Rayess, Louis Fratino, Fred Graham, Mohamed Hamidi, Carmen Herrera, María Izquierdo, Frida Kahlo, Grace Salome Kwami, Wilfredo Lam, Esther Mahlangu, Tina Modotti, Ahmed Morsi, Taylor Nkomo, Pan Yuliang, Dalton Paula, Sayed Haider Raza, Emma Reyes, Jamini Roy, Mahmoud Sabri, Joshua Serafin, Amrita Sher-Gil, Yinka Shonibare, Joseph Stella, Salman Toor, Ahmed Umar, Rubem Valentim, Kay WalkingStick, Bibi Zogbé.