The Venezuelan pavilion houses Venezuela's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. It is located in the Giardini della Biennale.
Background
Organization and building The Biennale began in 1895. When it resumed after a break caused by World War II, Venezuela was invited to participate. The government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez agreed to fund a national pavilion, the first for a Latin American country. Designed by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, it was built between 1953 and 1956.
Representation by year
Art
1954 — Armando Reverón 1956 — Mateo Manaure 1958 — Régulo Pérez 1960 — Hector Poleo 1962 — Oswaldo Vigas 1964 — Jesús Rafael Soto 1970 — Carlos Cruz-Diez 1978 — Luisa Richter 1976 — Alirio Rodríguez 1980 — Oswaldo Subero 1988 — Jacobo Borges 1990 — Julio Pacheco Rivas 1995 — Meyer Vaisman 1999 — Victor Lucena 2005 — Santiago Pol (Commissioner: Vivian Rivas Gingerich) 2007 — Antonio Briceño, Vincent & Feria (Commissioner: Zuleiva Vivas) 2009 — Claudio Perna, Antonieta Sosa, Alejandro Otero 2011 — Francisco Bassim, Clemencia Labin, Yoshi (Curator: Luis Hurtado) 2013 — Colectivo de Artistas Urbanos Venezolanos (Curator: Juan Calzadilla) 2015 — Argelia Bravo, Félix Molina (Flix) (Curator: Oscar Sotillo Meneses) 2017 — Juan Calzadilla
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