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Venice Art Biennale awards Australia and New Zealand project

The 60th edition of the Venice Art Biennale awarded the Golden Lion awards today to Australia, for its national participation, and to a New Zealand project, with Kosovo receiving a special mention, it announced.

Venice Art Biennale awards Australia and New Zealand project
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23:55 - 20/04/24 por Lusa

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In a statement, the Biennale announced that Australia won the Golden Lion for its national pavilion, and that the Maori entity Mataaho Collective won an equal prize in the category of best participation. Kosovo received a special mention and the Silver Lion for the most promising young participant went to Karimah Ashadu.

The jury also awarded two more special mentions, to the artists Samia Halaby and La Chola Poblete.

The 60th edition of the Venice Art Biennale begins today, under the theme "Foreigners Everywhere", curated by the Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, in a year marked by present wars and memories of past violence.

This year, the main focus is on "artists who are themselves foreigners, immigrants, expatriates, diasporic, emigrated, exiled or refugees - particularly those who have moved between the global south and the global north", and that "migration and decolonization will be key themes", according to Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of the São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

In this edition, the Portuguese Pavilion, installed in the Palazzo Franchetti, on the Grand Canal of Venice, hosts the project "Greenhouse", by the curators and artists Mónica de Miranda, Sónia Vaz Borges and Vânia Gala, which features a Creole Garden with installations that are stages for choreographies, assemblies and militant education.

The Official Portuguese Representation is not the only Portuguese presence at the Biennale. The official pavilion of the Holy See, installed in the women's prison Venezia Giudecca, hosts the exhibition "With my eyes", curated by the Portuguese cardinal Tolentino de Mendonça, prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education.

The Lithuanian pavilion, installed in the Church of Sant'Antonin, has the Portuguese curator João Laia, currently artistic director of the Department of Contemporary Art of the Municipality of Porto, on the list of commissioners.

Read Also: Migrations and decolonization. Venice Art Biennale starts a new edition (Portuguese version)

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