The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition held every two years in Venice, Italy. It began in 1895 and has grown over the years to include sections for dance, film, architecture, music, and theater. The main exhibition takes place at the Giardini Public Gardens, where permanent pavilions represent over 40 countries. Additional exhibitions are held around Venice. The Azerbaijan Pavilion at the 2011 Biennale was curated by Chingiz Farzaliyev and featured works by six Azerbaijani artists.

1. Case study
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2. The name
The Venice Biennale (Italian: Biennale di Venezia; also called in English the
"Venice Biennial") is a major contemporary artexhibition that takes place once
every two years (in odd years) in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of
it, as is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years. A dance
section, the "InternationalFestivalof Contemporary Dance", was established in
1999.
Since 1895, Venicehas been hosting La Biennale, one of the biggestand most
prestigious contemporary arts expositions in the world. By way of its name, La
Biennale is supposed to happen every two years. However, as the expo has grown
over the years to include dance, music, theater, and more, the timing of La
Biennale has become quite elastic.
The main partof the Biennale - the forumthat showcases contemporaryworks
fromartists all over the world - takes place fromJune to November every other
year in odd-numbered years. Thesite of the Biennale is the GiardiniPubblici (the
Public Gardens), wherepermanentpavilions for more than 40 countries have
been set up for the occasion. Other exhibitions, performances, and installations
associated with the Biennale also take place around the city in various artspaces,
museums, and galleries.
In addition to the arts expo, the Biennale umbrella includes a dance series, a kids'
carnival(February), theVenice InternationalFilm Festival(September), a
contemporary music festival, and a theatre festival. Since 1980, the Biennale has
added the design world of architecture to its repertoire. The Architecture
Biennale is held every two years in even-numbered years.
If you'revisiting Venice when La Biennale is not in session, you can still see a lot of
the works thathave been featured in past expositions. Visit the Palazzo Corner
della Ca' Grande, where you can see displays of past exhibits and Biennale
catalogues. Additionally, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, located in a grand
villa in Dorsoduro, contains a troveof contemporary works frommany artists that
have been featured in past Biennales.
For more information on La Biennale, including exact dates of all of its different
installments, visitthe La Biennale website. In depth information on up-and-

3. coming artists, which includes a blog, a forum, and video, is also available on
the La Biennale Channel.
History
The first Biennale was held in 1895; during the first editions, decorative arts
played an important role. The event became moreand more international in the
firstdecades of the 20th century: from1907 on, severalcountries started
installing national pavilions at the exhibition. After World War I, the Biennale
showed increasing interest in innovative traditions in modern art. Between the
two World Wars, many important modern artists had their work exhibited there.
In 1930, controlof the Biennale passed fromthe Venice city council to the
national Fascistgovernment. In the 1930s, severalnew sections of the event were
established: the Music Festivalin 1930, theInternationalFilm Festival in 1932 and
the Theatre Festival in 1934. From1938, Grand Prizes wereawarded in the art
exhibition section.
After a six-year break during World War II, theBiennale was resumed in 1948 with
renewed attention to avant-gardemovements in European, and later worldwide,
movements in contemporary art. Abstractexpressionism was introduced in the
1950s, pop artin the 1960s. From1948 to 1972, Italian architect Carlo Scarpa did
a series of remarkableinterventions in the Biennales exhibition spaces.
The protests of 1968 marked a crisis for the Biennale; the Grand Prizes were
abandoned and more emphasis went to thematic exhibitions instead of
monographic ones. In 1972, for thefirst time the Biennale adopted a theme:
'work and behaviour'. The 1974 edition was entirely dedicated to Chile, as a major
cultural protest againstthe dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. New prizes - Golden
Lions, like the awards for the Venice Film Festival - were installed; postmodern art
entered the scene with increasingly varied and popular exhibitions.
In 1980 Achille Bonito Oliva and Harald Szeemann introduced "Aperto", a section
of the exhibition designed to explore emerging art. Italian art historian Giovanni
Carandente directed the 1988 and 1990 editions. A three-year gap was left
afterwards to make surethat the 1995 edition would coincide with the 100th
anniversary of the Biennale. The 1993 edition was directed by Achille Bonito

4. Oliva. In 1995, Jean Clair was appointed to be the Biennale's firstnon-Italian
director of visual art while Germano Celant served as director in 1997.
In 1999 and 2001, Harald Szeemann directed two editions in a row (48th & 49th)
bringing in a larger representation of artists fromAsia and Eastern Europeand
more young artist than usualand expanded the show into several newly restored
spaces of the Arsenale.
The 50th edition, directed by Francesco Bonami, had a record number of seven
co-curators involved, including Hans Ulrich Obrist, Catherine David, Igor Zabel,
Hou Hanru and Massimiliano Gioni. The 51stedition of the Biennale opened in
June 2005, curated, for the firsttime by two women, Maria de Corraland Rosa
Martinez. De Corral organized "TheExperience of Art" which included 41 artists,
frompast masters to younger figures. Rosa Martinez took over the Arsenalewith
"Always a Little Further." Drawing on "the myth of the romantic traveler" her
exhibition involved 49 artists, ranging fromthe elegant to the profane. In
2007, RobertStorr became the firstdirector fromthe United States to curate the
52nd edition of the Biennale entitled Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind.
Art in the PresentTense. Swedish curator Daniel Birnbaum was artistic director of
the 2009 edition, followed by Bice Curiger in 2011.
The Biennale has an attendance today of over 300,000 visitors.
Format
The formal Biennale is based at a park, the Giardini, that houses 30 permanent
national pavilions. The number of countries represented is still growing. In 2005
China was showing for the firsttime, followed by the African Pavilion and Mexico
( 2007), theUnited Arab Emirates (2009), and India (2011).[4]
Theassignmentof
the permanentpavilions was largely dictated by the international politics of the
1930s and the Cold War. There is no single formatto how each country manages
their pavilion. The pavilion for Great Britain is always managed by the British
Council while the United States assigns the responsibility to a public gallery
chosen by the Department of State. The Giardiniincludes a large exhibition hall
that houses a themed exhibition curated by the Biennale's director.
Initiated in 1980, the Aperto began as a fringeevent for younger artists and artists
of a national origin not represented by the permanent national pavilions. This is
usually staged in the Arsenaleand has become part of the formalbiennale

5. programme. In 1995 therewas no Aperto so a number of participating countries
hired venues to show exhibitions of emerging artists.
Information
Exhibitionvenues
Venice: Giardini and Arsenale (4 June > 27 November 2011)
Opening hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays (excepting 6 June and 21 November, 2011)
Ticket offices
Giardini / Arsenale (Tana, Vergini)
Ca’ Giustinian (S. Marco 1364/A)
The ticket is valid for one entry to the two exhibition venues (Giardiniand
Arsenale)
Distance between venues: 15’ on foot
Animals are not admitted
Payment: credit card (booking fee), ATM, cash
Services for visitors
Giardini and Arsenale: infopoint, bar - restaurant, bookstore, freecheckroom
Ca' Giustinian
The walk between venues is equipped for disabled people
How to get to the exhibitionvenues
fromPiazzale Roma / Railway Station:
to Arsenale: lines ACTV 1, 41
to Giardini: lines ACTV 1, 2, 41, 51, 61 (fromPiazzaleRoma only)
Web sites
www.labiennale.org - www.labiennalechannel.org
Educational

6. Guidedtours, thematic-educational itineraries, laboratories andcreative
workshops
Available in Italian and in the main foreign languages.
Booking required, averageduration 2 hours.
The service is fee-paying, entry ticket not included.
Art + Music formula
During the 55thInternational Festival of Contemporary Music (September,
24th– October, 1st2011) reduced pricetickets will be available for both events.
Art + Theatre formula
During the 41st International Theatre Festival (October, 10th–October, 16th
2011) reduced pricetickets will be available for both events.
TEAM OF THE AZERBAIJAN PAVILION
Chingiz Farzaliyev - Curator And Commissar
- Director of Azerbaijan State Art Museum.
- Chair of Painting, Azerbaijan State Academy of Arts
- Honored Member of Russian Academy of Arts.
- Author of the books : “History of Azerbaijan Painting” 2007 and “Azerbaijan
State ArtMuseum” 2009
- Professor, Painting
Beral Madra– Curator
- Critic and curator
- Director of BM Contemporary Art Centre (since 1980)
- Coordinator of the 1st(1987) and the 2nd (1989) IstanbulBiennale,
- Curator of exhibitions of Turkish artists in 43rd, 45th, 49th, 50th and 51stVenice
Biennale, Central Asia Pavilion, 53rd Venice Biennale, (2009).

7. - Representing IstanbulScholarship of Berlin Senate since 1995 Founding member
and honorary presidentof AICA, Turkey (established 2003)
VittorioUrbani – Co-Commissar
Amina Melikova–AssistantCurator
Togrul Afandiyev – Editor
Suad Garayeva – Coordinator, Writer
MilaAskerova – Coordinator
Teymur Daimi – Writer, Art Critic
Farhad Farzaliyev –Designer And Photographer
VincenzoCasali – Architect Designer
Artists:
Mikayil Abdurahmanov, ZeigamAzizov, Khanlar Gasimov, Aga Ousseinov, Altai
Sadikhzade, Aidan Salakhova.
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