Exhibitions and Activities

Pioneering, adventurous, radical, iconoclastic, determined professionals: women choreographers and dancers have conquered and illustrated Venice.

Drawings, photographs, notes from his sketchbooks, storyboards, catalogues, objects: the living and constantly-growing archive of Luca Massimo Barbero.

The exhibition revisits the Biennale’s artistic activities under the four-year presidency of Carlo Ripa di Meana (1974-1978).

The original posters and playbills, still photos from the films, topical photos of the Lido in that time, the documents and correspondence, the press releases and press reviews.

Venezia, Scaparro, La Biennale. 1980, 1981, 1982, 2006

The Ismael Ivo years at the Biennale Danza (2002-2012) revisited through films, photos, posters, catalogues, publications and articles.

An exhibition curated by all Artistic Directors of La Biennale’s six Departments. Working together, they have used various archival sources to retrace key moments during the 20th century when La Biennale crossed paths with history in Venice.

A decade of activities for the young: the Educational programme for schools and the Biennale College for young artists.

Women Directors  at the Biennale Teatro: fragments of experiences and participation of women artists, in a chronological journey throughout the history of the Biennale Teatro.

A replica of the 49th International Art Exhibition (2001), titled Platea dell’Umanità and curated by Harald Szeemann, the great Swiss curator who disappeared in 2005.

The Conference, organized in the context of the 56th International Art Exhibition, was focused on the theme of Photography.

Archival material from the seminal 1999 Biennale Arte titled dapertutto (48th International Art Exhibition) and curated by Harald Szeemann.

The Conference, held in the context of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, was part of the series “Archives and Exhibitions”.

The Idea of the Body: Merce Cunningham, Steve Paxton, Julian Beck, Meredith Monk, and Simone Forti from La Biennial Archives 1960/1976. Exhibition of photos, videos, posters.

Unpublished photographic documents that build a geography of looks, bodies, postures and experiences between dance, theater and music from the 1934-1976 period.

The Conference was organized in the context of the 55th International Art Exhibition – Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, curated by Massimiliano Gioni.

From 1895 to 1999, an itinerary tells about some episodes of life, organization, participation of artists and curators at the International Art Exhibition.

350 drawings of great interest from the Artistic Fund of the ASAC: stage scenes and costumes collected over decades of productions.

A selection of posters made for the 3rd International Architecture Exhibition directed by Aldo Rossi in 1985, as well as photographs and other documents belonging to the ASAC Funds.

The conference began with a reflection on the use of archives in the 13th International Architecture Exhibition - Common Ground.

A selection of 32 art videos made by 53 artists between 1969 and 1975, as well as photographs and other documents.

In the year of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, La Biennale di Venezia has exhibited the posters of its 116-year-old history.

The exhibition featured the projects carried out by La Biennale di Venezia for its offices over the last eleven years, as well as ongoing projects.

Looking back on the famous project by Aldo Rossi for the World Theater, a floating building anchored at the Punta della Dogana and realized in 1979.

A show devoted to futurists exhibited at La Biennale from 1926 to 1942, and the retrospectives and tributes dedicated to them by La Biennale until 1995.