The 59th Venice Biennale will take place from April 23 to November 27, 2022. The original two-year rhythm, according to which the event would have been realized in 2021, could not be kept due to pandemic. In order to give due space to the International Architecture Exhibition, which has been postponed from 2020 to 2021, the Biennale has also been postponed.
For the first time in history, the Venice Biennale will be curated by a woman, Italian Cecilia Alemani. Alemani was already in charge of the Italian pavilion at the 2017 Biennale and is chief curator of High Line Art, an elevated train track in Manhattan that has been converted into a park.
Alemani has chosen The Milk of Dreams as the title of the latest edition of the Venice Biennale. This comes from the book of the same name by surrealist artist and author Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), in which she noted her dreams. Carrington's visions of deformed bodies, metamorphoses and hybrids of man and machine form the guiding theme of contemporary artworks at the Biennale this summer. Artists from around the world are addressing the reality of human life, which is increasingly dominated by technology. Many of them predict a time when people will no longer see themselves but technology as the center of the world. As of now, it's only a few weeks until the eagerly awaited Biennale finally opens.
