It is one of the world's most prestigious film festivals and is part of the Venice Biennale, for over a century one of the most prestigious cultural institutions in the world ( founded in 1895 ).

It is the seat of exhibition of the Venice Biennale in southern Italy.

The day after the performance, the group received considerable media coverage for a concert at the Zagreb Biennale entitled " Mi kujemo bodočnost " (" We Forge the Future "), during which the group used simultaneous projections of a pornographic movie and the film Revolucija još traje ( The Revolution is Still Going On ).

The Biennale of Sydney is an important festival dedicated to the contemporary visual arts, held bi-annually at the MCA and at various other venues around the city and often spilling into the streets.

Greek, first performed in 1988 at the Munich Biennale, is based on Steven Berkoff's adaptation of Oedipus the King.

Douglas Gordon ( born 20 September, 1966 ) is a Scottish artist ; he won the Turner Prize in 1996 and the following year he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale.

Venice Lockjaw is a phrase Johnson incorporated in pins that he gave away at the Venice Biennale.

Loota is a female chimpanzee whose paintings are to be exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Arts.

In March 2000, after alternative art spaces such as Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana, Forte Prenestino in Rome, and major art venues such as the Venice Biennale have dedicated retrospectives and paid tribute to the artist, the Luther Blissett Project, along with the newborn net art collective 0100101110101101. org, announce that Darko Maver is himself a work of art.

The Venice Biennale (; also called in English the " Venice Biennial ") is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years ( in odd years ) in Venice, Italy.

So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years.

Abstract expressionism was introduced in the 1950s, and the Biennale is credited with importing Pop Art into the canon of art history by awarding the top prize to Robert Rauschenberg in 1964.

The formal Biennale is based at a park, the Giardini, that houses 30 permanent national pavilions.

Australia's participation at the Venice Biennale is managed by the Australia Council for the Arts.

The Glass Sellers Prize used to be an annual award but since 2008 has been linked to the British Glass Biennale and is awarded biennially.

The British Glass Biennale exhibition is located in the Lower Glasshouse, Ruskin Glass Centre, Wollaston Road, Stourbridge, West Midlands, DY84HF, UK.

It is also the site where the British Glass Biennale exhibition and the International Glass Festival are hosted.

Each British Glass Biennale is a landmark juried exhibition of contemporary glass by artists working and living in the UK and working in glass.

As a response to the Douanier Rousseau's having been born in Laval, there is a biennial festival of naive art, the Biennale Internationale d ' Art naïf de Laval.

Kutter was awarded two golden medals at the Venice Biennale and he invented the well-known Schiefspiegler telescope which is a modified Cassegrain reflector featuring superb optical definition due to an off-axis secondary mirror.

The island is a major venue partner of the Biennale of Sydney.

It is most commonly used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art, stemming for the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895 ( the phrase has since been used for multiple events, as the " Biennale de Paris ", or even as Portmanteau with the Berlin Biennale Berlinale ).

An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled " Presence of the Past ".

Works at 54th Venice Biennale, special edition for the 150 Anniversary of Italian Unification, 2011-2012

For 2013, the board of the Venice Biennale appointed Italian curator Massimiliano Gioni to the post.

A special edition of the 54th Biennale was held at Padiglione Italia of Torino Esposizioni-Sala Nervi ( December 2011-February 2012 ) for the 150th Anniversary of Italian Unification.

In 1899 his work was shown at the Venice Biennale and in the ensuing years his art was on display at major Italian exhibitions in Rome and Venice, in Munich, Berlin and Düsseldorf in Germany as well as at the Salon d ' Automne in Paris and at galleries in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

With the aid of real Washington political advisers, Italian conceptual artist, Francesco Vezzoli, created two commercials for competing US presidential campaigns – pitting Sharon Stone against Bernard-Henri Lévy – in a project entitled Democrazy, shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale.

As soon as the piece was installed on a lawn outside the Italian pavilion, Kusama, dressed in a golden kimono, began selling each individual sphere for 1, 200 lire ($ 2 ), until the Biennale organisers put an end to her enterprise.

* Turisti ( Tourists ) ( 1997 ), taxidermied pigeons and fake pigeon shit exhibited in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of 1997

For the 52nd Venice Biennale Buren created a new site-specific work for the Giardini of the Italian Pavilion, and was curator of Sophie Calle's contribution to the French Pavilion.

" As part of the Venice Biennale in 2005, Kruger installed a digitally printed vinyl mural across the entire facade of the Italian pavilion, thereby dividing it into three parts — green at the left, red at the right, white in between.

At the first Venice Biennale in 1895, Segantini was awarded the Prize of the Italian State for his painting Return to the Homeland.

In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame.

On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

In subsequent years he was given many prestigious commissions, including the Dutch pavilion for the Venice Biennale ( 1953 ), the art academies in Amsterdam and Arnhem, and the press room for the UNESCO building in Paris.

* RUTTMANN Opus II, III, IV ( 2003 ) for flute, 3 saxophones, horn, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, double bass, piano ( film music for a film of Walter Ruttman, written for the Filmmuseum Biennale 2003 )

He was awarded the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1952 and the Feltrinelli Prize at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome in 1954.

* Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture for lifetime achievement ( 2010 )

The city serves as a venue for the Tirana Biennale, Tirana Jazz Festival, Summer Day, White Night on 28 November, Rally Albania, Netet e Klipit Shqiptar, and Tirana Fashion Week.

In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions

She also received a Golden Lion Award for lifetime achievement from the Venice Biennale in 2009.

In 1995, Viola represented the United States at the 46th Venice Biennale, for which he produced a series of works called Buried Secrets, including one of his best known works The Greeting, a contemporary interpretation of Pontormo's The Visitation.

* 2000-Leone d ' oro at the Mostra di Architettura di Venezia ( Venice Architecture Biennale ) for his lifelong achievement

Van Gogh received a prize at the Venice Biennale in 1948, and also won an Oscar for Best 2-reel Short in 1949.

His work for the 2009 Venice Biennale ' Dyddiau Du ( dark days )' was shown at the festival, along with a number of live performances at venues around Hobart.

Further shows have included taking part in the exhibition Eight Figurative Painters, held at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, USA, in 1981, alongside Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, William Coldstream, Lucian Freud, Patrick George, Leon Kossoff and Euan Uglow ; and a retrospective exhibition at the Kunstverein, Hamburg, in 1986, comprising paintings and drawings made between 1977 and 1985 originally shown at the 42nd Venice Biennale also in 1986.

Siqueiros participated in the first ever Mexican contingent at the XXV Venice Biennale exhibition with Orozco, Rivera and Tamayo in 1950, and he received the second prize for all exhibitors, which recognized the international status of Mexican art.

In addition to participating in an international array of group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale ( 1997, 1980, 1976 ), the Whitney Biennial ( 1995, 1977 ), and Documenta, Kassel, Germany ( 1972 ), Martin has been the recipient of multiple honors including the Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of the Women ’ s Caucus for Art of the College Art Association ( 2005 ); the Governor ’ s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico ( 1998 ); the National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts ( 1998 ); the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association ( 1998 ); the Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale ( 1997 ); the Oskar Kokoschka Prize awarded by the Austrian government ( 1992 ); the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize awarded by the city of Wiesbaden, Germany ( 1991 ); and election to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York ( 1989 ).