The Russian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale will be occupied by artists from Bolivia and other Latin American countries, the Italian edition Il Giornale dell'ARTE reported.
The curator of the South American pavilion in the Giardini Gardens will be the Minister of Culture, Decolonization and Depatriarchalization of Bolivia, Esperanza Guevara, and the commissioner will be Deputy Minister Juan Carlos Cordero Nina. The winners of the President's Award for young cultural figures have been named
As the newspaper il Sole 24 Ore notes, Russia has missed participation in the Venice Biennale for the second year in a row, this time its exhibition space, one of the largest at the exhibition, would have remained empty. It will be occupied free of charge by 25 artists from South America, which became possible thanks to the warm relations between Russia and Bolivia. The exhibition project was called "Looking into the future past, we are moving forward."
The Venice Biennale is one of the most famous art forums, an international art exhibition that is held every two years with the participation of an international jury. The Venice Biennale was established in 1895. This year it will be held from April 20 to November 24.
The Pavilion of Russia in the gardens of the Biennale appeared in 1914, designed by architect Alexei Shchusev. Since then, the works of more than 800 Soviet and Russian artists have been presented there, among them Ilya Repin, Kazimir Malevich, Ilya Kabakov and others. In 2021, the pavilion was completely renovated.The Tretyakov Gallery commented on the cancellation of the Moscow International Biennale
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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