Venice Biennale 2007
52nd International Art
Exhibition
10 June - 21 November 2007
Central International
Exhibition:
"Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind
Art in the Present
Tense"
National and regional pavilions and presentations.
Parallel exhibitions
and projects.
The appointment of Robert Storr (Dean of the Yale School of Art in New Haven,
Connecticut, USA, since 2006) as the artistic director of the 52nd international
art exhibition of 2007 was announced during the preparations of the last Venice
Biennial, in 2005. As one of his first official acts in this function, he
chaired the symposium about biennials "Where art worlds meet: multiple
modernities and the global salon," organized by the Venice Biennial from
December 9 - 12, 2005.
The number of national and regional pavilions and presentations has increased
to 77 this year, a figure higher than ever before. The 2007 Venice Biennial's
Central International Exhibition curated by Storr has the title: "Think with the
Senses - Feel with the Mind. Art in the Present Tense." Works by about 100
artists and groups will be shown at the Arsenale and the Italian Pavilion in the
Giardini, among them several site-specific installations. The show of
contemporary African art and the Pavilion of Turkey, both in the Arsenale as
well, are considered by Storr as an integral part of his curatorial project.