“No matter where you find yourself, you’re always truly, and deep down inside, a foreigner,” says Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of the São Paulo Museum of Art and curator of this year’s— the show’s first from the Southern Hemisphere. Held every two years, the six-month festival champions the world’s greatest artistic talent through exhibitions and national pavilions.
Taking place in Venice’s Giardini parkland and Arsenale shipyard areas, the expo will be formed of two parts: the Nucleo Contemporaneo, focusing on marginalised groups such as Indigenous, queer and outsider artists, and the Nucleo Storico, which will showcase 20th-century works from Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as the Italian artistic diaspora.
This years edition focuses on artists that have had no or little involvement in the Venice Biennale before.Exile is a Hard Job Turkish feminist artist Nil Yalter, one of two winners of this year’s Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement, will present a new version of her ongoing project, Exile is a Hard Job, which started in 1975. The installation tackles the issue of social ostracisation afflicting those living in foreign lands, through the medium of photos and drawings. It will be the first time the octogenarian has ever shown work at the Biennale, and it’ll be displayed in the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.