20 April - 24 November 2024
www.labiennale.org, www.cyprusinvenice.org
[/P]The next Venice Art Biennale will take place between 20 April - 24 November 2024. Curator and art historian Adriano Pedrosa (Brazil), who currently directs the São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand Art Museum (Masp), has been appointed as artistic director of the 60th Biennale.
Pedrosa, the first director of Latin American origin appointed by the Biennale Organization, was assistant curator of the 24th São Paulo Biennale (1998), curator of the São Paulo Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012) and co-curator of the 12th Istanbul Biennale (2011), among others. He has published articles in major art magazines such as Artforum, Art Nexus, Exit, Flash Art, Frieze, Mousse, Parkett, etc. In 2023 he was awarded the Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence, by the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, New York.
[H] I. PARTICIPATION OF CYPRUS[/H]
Cyprus will participate in the 60th International Exhibition of Contemporary Art - Venice Biennale of Art. The Cyprus Pavilion will be hosted, as in previous participations, at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, Castello 3865, 30124 Venezia.
The representation of Cyprus will be selected through an Open Call, by the Works and Artists Selection Committee of the Ministry of Culture, which is composed of independent professionals in the field of art.
This Committee is composed of:
- Eleonora Antoniadou, architect and academic (Member)
- Gabriel Kouras, art historian and academic (Member)
- Christodoulos Panagiotou, visual artist (Member)
- Maria Petridis, writer and curator (Member)
- Loulis Michailidou, Cultural Officer A' (Chairwoman, representative of An. The Committee, at its last meeting, decided the following:
[*]This year's Open Call will be for complete participation proposals (single artistic and curatorial proposal), with a deadline of Friday, June 2, 2023. The conditions of participation are described below (Part II). [*]In order to improve the selection and preparation timetables for Cypriot participation, the Open Call for the 61st Venice Biennale (2026) will be published by November 2024.
II. OPEN CALL FOR PROPOSALS - TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION
Interested parties are invited to submit complete participation proposals, which should include a single visual and curatorial proposal.
Participation proposals should clearly express the scope and practical and theoretical scope of the visual and curatorial concept for the Cyprus Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Proposals should include. (optional). [*]Brief curricula vitae of contributors and/or collaborators. [*]Brief rationale for the proposal, up to 500 words. [*]Supporting material for the proposal, up to 20 pages (e.g. drawings, texts, visual/audio and/or other material). [*]Representative samples of previous work of the contributors, up to 20 pages (projects, exhibitions, etc.) [*]Full contact details of the contributors. [*]Proposals should be submitted no later than Friday, 2 June 2023 by email to info@cyprusinvenice.org. The total file size of each proposal submitted must not exceed 20MB. An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent. [*]The results of the Open Call will be announced in the Daily Press and online at www.cyprusinvenice.org, www.culture.gov.cy and www.facebook.com/cypruspavilion .
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