List of national pavilions at the 59th Venice Biennale

The 59th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between April and November 2022.[1] The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy, and participating nations select artists to show at their pavilions,[2] hosted in the Venice Giardini, Arsenale, and palazzos throughout the city.[3] The 2019 Venice Biennale's 90 national pavilions was a record for national participation.[2]

National pavilions

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Nation/
region
Location Artist(s) Curator(s) Ref
Albania Arsenale Lumturi Blloshmi Adela Demetja [4]
Argentina Arsenale Mónica Heller Alejo Ponce de León [4]
Australia Giardini Marco Fusinato [Wikidata] Alexie Glass-Kantor [1][5]
Austria Giardini Jakob Lena Knebl [de] and Ashley Hans Scheirl Karola Kraus [de] [6][7]
Belgium Giardini Francis Alÿs Hilde Teerlinck [8]
Bolivia Around Venice Warmichacha Collective Roberto Aguilar Quisbert - Mamani Mamani, Judith Cuba
Brazil Giardini Jonathas de Andrade Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, José Olympio da Veiga Pereira [4]
Canada Giardini Stan Douglas Reid Shier [9][4]
Catalonia Around Venice Lara Fluxà Oriol Fondevila [4]
Croatia Around Venice Tomo Savić-Gecan Elena Filipović
Denmark Giardini Uffe Isolotto Jacob Lillemose [4]
Estonia Giardini (Dutch pavilion) Kristina Norman and Bita Razavi Corina Apostol, Maria Arusoo [4]
Finland Giardini Pilvi Takala Christina Li [10]
France Giardini Zineb Sedira [11][12]
Germany Giardini Maria Eichhorn Yilmaz Dziewior [13]
Great Britain Giardini Sonia Boyce TBD [14]
Hong Kong Around Venice Angela Su Freya Chou [15]
Iceland Around Venice Sigurður Guðjónsson Mónica Bello [1]
Ireland Arsenale Niamh O'Malley Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Curatorial Team [16]
Israel Giardini Ilit Azoulay Dr. Shelley Harten [17]
Italy Arsenale Gian Maria Tosatti Eugenio Viola [18]
Kosovo Arsenale Jakup Ferri Inke Arns
Luxembourg Around Venice Tina Gillen [1]
Malta Arsenale Arcangelo Sassolino, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci, Brian Schembri Keith Sciberras, Jeffrey Uslip [1]
Namibia La Certosa Renn (namibian artist) Marco Furio Ferrario [19]
Netherlands Around Venice Melanie Bonajo Maaike Gouwenberg, Geir Haraldseth, Soraya Pol [20]
Nepal Around Venice Tsherin Sherpa Sheelasha Rajbhandari, Hit Man Gurung [21][22]
New Zealand Around Venice Yuki Kihara Natalie King [1][23]
Nordic Pavilion Giardini Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara, Anders Sunna [24]
North Macedonia Around Venice Robert Jankuloski and Monika Moteska Ana Frangovska, Sanja Kojić Mladenov
Poland Giardini Małgorzata Mirga-Tas Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Wojciech Szymański, Joanna Warsza [25]
Serbia Giardini Vladimir Nikolić Biljana Ćirić [26]
Slovenia Around Venice Marko Jakše Robert Simonišek
Spain Giardini Ignasi Aballí Beatriz Espejo [1]
Switzerland Giardini Latifa Echakhch Francesco Stocchi [27]
Taiwan Around Venice Sakuliu Pavavaljung Patrick Flores [1]
Turkey Around Venice Füsun Onur Bige Örer [28]
Ukraine Arsenale Pavlo Makov Lizaveta German, Maria Lanko, Borys Filonenko [22]
United Arab Emirates Around Venice Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim Maya Allison [29]
United States Giardini Simone Leigh Eva Respini [30]
Venezuela Giardini Palmira Correa, César Vázquez, Mila Quast, Jorge Recio Zacarías García [31]

References

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