As the opening of this year’s 55th Venice Biennale approaches, many countries have already released the names of the artists who will be featured in their national pavilions. The Biennale, which runs from June 1st to Nov. 24th, 2013, takes place at the Giardini and at the Arsenale, as well as other venues around Venice.
At least eight countries, including the Bahamas, Bahrain, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Kuwait, the Maldives, Nigeria and Paraguay, will be welcomed as first time exhibitors. Here are the countries and their representative artists that have been announced thus far:
Argentina, Nicola Constantino
Australia, Simryn Gill
Austria, Mathias Poledna
Bahamas, Tavares Strachan
Belgium, Berlinde De Bruyckere
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mladen Miljanovic
Britain, Jeremy Deller
Canada, Shary Boyle
Central Asia, Vyacheslav Akhunov, Sergey Chutkov, Saodat Ismailova, Kamilla Kurmanbekova, Ikuru Kuwajima, Anton Rodin, Aza Shade, Erlan Tuyakov
Chile, Alfredo Jaar
Denmark, Jesper Just
Estonia, Denes Farkas
Finland, Terike Haapoja, Antti Laitinen
France, Anri Sala
Germany, Ai Weiwei, Dayanita Singh, Santu Mofokeng, Romauld Karmakar
Greece, Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Hong Kong, Lee Kit
Iceland, Katrin Sigurdardottir
Indonesia, Albert Yohan, Sri Astari, Eko Nugroho, Entang Witarso, Titarubi
Iraq, group exhibition
Ireland, Richard Mosse
Israel, Gilad Ratman
Italy, Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa
Japan, Koki Tanaka
Korea, Republic of, group exhibition
Kosovo, Petrit Halilaj
Latvia, Kaspars Podnieks, Krišs Salmanis
Lebanon, Akram Zaatari
Lithuania, Raimundas Malašauskas
Netherlands, Mark Manders
New Zealand, Bill Culbert
Norway, Edward Munch and Lene Berg
Palestine, Bashir Makhoul, Aissa Deebi
Portugal, Joana Vasconcelos
Russia, Vadim Zakharov
Scotland, Duncan Campbell, Corin Sworn, Hayley Tompkins
South Korea, group exhibition
Spain, Lara Almarcegui
Switzerland, Valentin Carron
Taiwan, Bernd Behr, Hsu Chia-wei, Katerina Seda
Turkey, Ali Kazma
United Arab Emirates, Mohammed Kazem
United Kingdom, Jeremy Deller
United States, Sarah Sze
Uruguay, Wifredo Diaz Valdez
Wales, Bedwyr Williams
