Round 700,000 guests attended the Venice Biennale, which closed on the weekend, throughout its seven-month run.
The organisers of the world’s most prestigious exhibition say that 699,304 individuals—3,321 guests every day—attended the sixtieth Worldwide Artwork Exhibition entitled Stranieri Ovunque-Foreigners All over the place, which was curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The 2022 version, curated by Cecilia Alemani, The Milk of Desires, drew 800,000 guests.
Thirty per cent of all guests (190,000) had been aged beneath 26, whereas 59% of attendees got here from overseas, and 41% from Italy. Guests from underrepresented teams, comparable to disabled individuals, elevated by 67%. Greater than 1,800 college teams visited, whereas 27,966 guests attended the press and VIP previews.
The Biennale organisers additionally ramped up social media exercise, with posts to the @la_Biennale X web page garnering round 16.6 million views and 498,000 interactions. In the meantime content material posted on the @labiennale Instagram web page netted 61.5 million views in comparison with 38.5 million in 2022.
Pedrosa says in a press release: “It’s all the time melancholic to see an exhibition of this magnitude come to an finish, but in some methods the journey continues, and I’m now wanting ahead to the afterlife of Foreigners All over the place, particularly relating to the understanding, reception and visibility of artists from the International South, in addition to indigenous artists, queer artists, self taught artists and Twentieth-century figures from Africa, Asia and Latin America.”
The curator of the 2026 Venice Biennale is but to be introduced. Late final yr Italy’s then tradition minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano, designated Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, a right-wing journalist and creator whose books embody a literary portrait of Silvio Berlusconi, as the subsequent president of the Venice Biennale.
