Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
- Artist Akomfrah sees a significant moment for artists of color at the Venice Biennale, with artists of African heritage in major pavilions.
- Akomfrah highlights the presence of artists of color in the British, French, and Canadian pavilions as a breakthrough.
- The exhibition at the Venice Biennale features a neon sign with the title "Stranieri Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere.
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At the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale, Indigenous artists received the most important prizes. The main exhibition deals with foreignness and marginalized groups.
Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
By COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press VENICE, Italy (AP) — Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. Titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the exhibition opening Saturday was curated for the first time by a Latin American: Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa. Pedrosa’s main show, which accompanies 88 national pavilions for the monthslong run, is strong on figurative painting. A bu…

Venice Biennale titled 'Foreigners Everywhere' platforms LGBTQ+, outsider and Indigenous artists
Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. Titled “Foreigners Everywhere,” the exhibition opening Saturday was curated for the first
A celebration ‘of the immigrant, the foreigner, the queer and the Indigenous’: Historically excluded take over at the Venice Biennial
The historically excluded have taken the reins at the Venice Biennial. The foremost event in the world of contemporary art opens the doors of its 60th edition on Saturday in the Italian city with a celebration of “the immigrant, the foreigner, the queer and the Indigenous,” in the words of its Brazilian artistic director Adriano Pedrosa. The curator has devised an itinerary guided by a new ideal of the imperative decolonialization of culture. Th…
The Golden Lions and a special mention awarded to indigenous creators crystallized one of the statements of the curatorship of this edition. A celebration of diversity in a politically opposed country.
The experience of foreignness is the focus of the Venice Art Biennale. Now indigenous artists have received the most important prizes of the world-famous art event.
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