From June 12 to November 6, 2005, the 51st International Art Exhibition will explore the state of contemporary art from two points of view: a look at the relationship between the present and the most significant past; and a second look on the relationship between the present and the most innovative trends. The two sections will be proposed in two separate spaces and will each be curated by one of the two Directors. María de Corral will be responsible for the exhibition offering a retrospective approach, to be held in the Italian Pavilion. Rosa Martínez will produce the exhibition dedicated to a greater extent to the latest forms, to be held in the Arsenale di Venezia. Both will certainly make bold and trend-setting selections with an eye to creating exhibitions that the Biennale wishes to be strongly characterised. With his symposium in the autumn, Robert Storr will co-ordinate a project of analysis and study of the state of contemporary art (its codes, languages, new and old paradigms) inviting the greatest figures in the world of contemporary art to Venice for a meeting between artists, theoreticians, critics and experts. The Experience of Art - Italian Pavilion Curated by Maria de Corral Selected artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila Born in Hameenlinna, Finland, 1959 Lives and works in Helsinki, Finland Vasco Araújo Born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1975 Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal Candice Breitz Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1972 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany Tania Bruguera Born in Havana, Cuba, 1968 Lives and works in Havana, Cuba Chen Chieh-jen Born in Taipei, Taiwan, 1960 Lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan José Damasceno Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1968 Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Tacita Dean Born in Canterbury, UK, 1965 Lives and works in London, UK, and in Berlin, Germany Willie Doherty Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1959 Lives and works in Derry, Northern Ireland Stan Douglas Born in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, 1960 Lives and works in Vancouver, B.C., Canada Dan Graham Born in Urbana, IL, USA, 1942 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA William Kentridge Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955 Lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa Barbara Kruger Born in Newark, NJ, USA, 1945 Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY, USA Zwelethu Mthethwa Born in Durban, Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, 1960 Lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa Bruce Nauman Born in Fort Wayne, IN, USA, 1941 Lives and works in Galisteo, NM, USA Perejaume Born in Sant Pol de Mar, Barcelona, Spain, 1957 Lives and works in San Pol de Mar, Barcelona, Spain Thomas Ruff Born in Zell am Harmersbach, Germany, 1958 Lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany Francesco Vezzoli Born in Brescia, Italy, 1971 Lives and works in Milan, Italy Mark Wallinger Born in Chigwell, UK, 1959 Lives and works in London, UK Jun Yang Born in Qingtian, China, 1975 Lives and works in Vienna, Austria "Sempre un po' pi˘ lontano" - Arsenale Curated by Rosa MartÌnez Artists using photography or videoart Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla Jennifer Allora, born in Philadelphia, USA, 1974 Guillermo Calzadilla, born in Havana, Cuba, 1972 Live and work in Puerto Rico Blue Noses Viacheslav Mizin Born in Novosibirsk, Russia, 1962 Lives and works in Moscow and Novosibirsk, Russia Alexander Shaburov Born in Sverdlovsk, Russia, 1965 Lives and works in Moscow and Yekaterinburg, Russia John Bock Born in Itzehoe, Gribbohm, Germany, 1965 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany Christoph Büchel & Gianni Motti Christoph Büchel Born in Basel, Switzerland, 1966 Lives and works in Basel Gianni Motti Born in Sondrio, Italy, 1958 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Geneva, Switzerland Stephen Dean Born in Paris, France, 1968 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA and Paris, France Carlos Garaicoa Born in Havana, Cuba, 1967 Lives and works in Havana Cristina García Rodero Born in Puertollano, Spain, 1949 Lives and works in Madrid, Spain Subodh Gupta Lives and works Khagoul, Bihar, India, 1964 Lives and works in New Delhi, India Mona Hatoum Born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1952 Lives and works in London, UK Runa Islam Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1970 Lives and works in London, UK Emily Jacir Born in Bethlehem, Palestine, 1970 Lives and works in Ramallah, Palestine and New York, NY, USA Guerrilla Girls Founded in New York, NY, USA, 1985 Kimsooja Born in Taegu, Korea, 1957 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA Oleg Kulik Born in Kiev, Russia, 1961 Lives and works in Moscow, Russia Mariko Mori Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1967 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA and Tokyo, Japan Nikos Navridis Born in Athens, Greece, 1958 Lives and works in Athens Rivane Neuenschwander Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1967 Lives and works in Belo Horizonte Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Born in Tokyo, Japan, 1968 Lives and works in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Olaf Nicolai Born in Halle/Saale, Germany, 1962 Lives and works in Berlin, Germany Adrian Paci Born in Shkoder , Albania, 1969 Lives and works in Milan, Italy Bülent Sangar Born in Eskisehir, Turkey, 1965 Lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey Gregor Schneider Born in Rheydt, Germany, 1969 Lives and works in Rheydt Berni Searle Born in Cape Town, South Africa, 1964 Lives and works in Cape Town Santiago Sierra Born in Madrid, Spain, 1966 Lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico Shazia Sikander Born in Lahore, Pakistan, 1969 Lives and works in New York, NY, USA National Pavilions with Photography or Videoart ALBANIA Sislej Xhafa Commissari: Andi Tepelena, Cecilia Tirelli. Sede: area esterna ai Giardini AUSTRIA Hans Schabus Commissario: Max Hollein. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini BRASILE (Chelpa Ferro,) Caio Reisewitz Commissario: Manoel Francisco Pires da Costa. Curatore: Alfons Hug. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini DANIMARCA Eva Koch, Joachim Koester, Peter Land, Ann Lislegaard, Gitte Villesen Commissario: Danish Arts Council, Committee of International Visual Art Curatore: Sanne Kofod Olsen. Curatore aggiunto: Jacob Fabricius. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini EGITTO Ahmed Askalany, Sherif Mohamed El-Azma, (Adel Siwi) Commissario: Sarwat El-Bahar. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini ESTONIA Isolator Mark Raidpere Commissario: Sirje Helme. Curatore: Hanno Soans. Sede: Palazzo Malipero, San Marco 3079, San Samuele FRANCIA Annette Messager Commissari: Suzanne PagÈ, BÈatrice Parent. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini GIAPPONE Mother's 2000-2005 - Traces of the Future Miyako Ishiuchi Commissario: Michiko Kasahara Commissari aggiunti: Hiroshi Omori, Jun Takeshita. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini GRAN BRETAGNA Gilbert & George Commissario: Andrea Rose. Curatore: Richard Riley. Commissario aggiunto: Brendan Griggs Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini ISLANDA Versations/Tetralogia GabrÌela FridriksdÛttir Commissario: Laufey HelgadÛttir. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini ISRAELE Guy Ben Ner Commissario: Sergio Edelsztein. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini LITUANIA Celebrations of the Small and Personal in the Times of Bignes Jonas Mekas Commissari: Lolita Jablonskiene, Liutauras P
aibilskis. Sede: in via di definizione OLANDA Jeroen de Rijke e Willem de Rooij Commissario: Martijn van Nieuwenhuyzen. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini POLONIA Repetition Artur Zmijewski Commissario: Agnieszka Morawinska. Curatore: Joanna Mytkowska. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini PORTOGALLO Intus Helena Almeida Commissario: Isabel Carlos. Sede: Scoletta dei Tiraoro e Battiloro, Santa Croce, 1980 (San Stae) SPAGNA Antoni Muntadas Commissario: Bartomeu MarÏ. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini STATI UNITI D'AMERICA Ed Ruscha Commissario: Linda Norden. Commissario aggiunto: Donna De Salvo. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini SVIZZERA Gianni Motti, Shahryar Nashat, Marco Poloni, Ingrid Wildi Pipilotti Rist (Chiesa di San Stae) Commissario: Urs Staub. Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini PAESI NORDICI FINLANDIA Laura Horelli NORVEGIA Matias Faldbakken SVEZIA Miriam Baeckstroem, Carsten Hoeller Commissari: Ute Meta Bauer, Ann-Sofi Noring, Marketta Seppaelae. Curatore: Asa Nacking Sede: Padiglione ai Giardini TAIWAN Kuang-yu TSUI , Ichen KUO