57th Venice Biennale

57th Venice Biennale
GenreArt exhibition
BeginsMay 13, 2017
EndsNovember 26, 2017
Location(s)Venice
CountryItaly
Previous event56th Venice Biennale (2015)
Next event58th Venice Biennale (2019)

The 57th Venice Biennale was an international contemporary art exhibition held between May and November 2017. The Venice Biennale takes place biennially in Venice, Italy. Artistic director Christine Macel, the chief curator at the Centre Pompidou,[1] curated its central exhibition, "Viva Arte Viva", as a series of interconnected pavilions designed to reflect art's capacity for expanding humanism. The curator also organized a project, "Unpacking My Library", based on a Walter Benjamin essay, to list artists' favorite books.[2] Macel was the first French director since 1995 and the fourth woman to direct the Biennale.[1] A trend of presenting overlooked, rediscovered, or "emerging dead artists" was a theme of the 57th Biennale.[3]

  1. ^ a b Russeth, Andrew (January 23, 2016). "Venice Biennale Taps Christine Macel to Be Artistic Director of 2017 Edition". ARTnews. Archived from the original on April 6, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Greenberger, Alex (September 22, 2016). "Christine Macel's 2017 Venice Biennale Exhibition Gets a Title: 'Viva Arte Viva'". ARTnews. Archived from the original on September 23, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2019.
  3. ^ Pes, Javier (July 16, 2018). "'We Can All Be in Different Worlds': Ralph Rugoff's Venice Biennale Will Respond to the Rise of Fake News". Artnet News. Archived from the original on July 17, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2018.