2008
Eleventh International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Aaron Betsky. Over 129,000 visitors attended this edition, titled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building. The online competition, Everyville, was aimed at university students from around the world: 245 groups for a total of 782 students from 48 countries took part in the competition.

2006
Tenth International Architeture Exhibition, directed by Richard Burdett. The exhibition was titled Cities, architecture and society and ran September 10 to November 19 (the collateral section City-Port was held in Palermo until January 14, 2007). The exhibition attracted over 130,000 visitors.

2004
Ninth International Architecture Exhibition, directed by Kurt W. Forster and titled METAMORPH (September 12 - November 7). The exhibition attracted over 115,000 visitors.

2002
Eighth International Architecture Exhibition, Castello Gardens and Arsenale (director: Deyan Sudjic). The exhibition was titled Next and took place from September 8 to November 3, attracting over 100,000 visitors.

2000
Seventh International Architecture Exhibition, Castello Gardens and Arsenale (director: Massimiliano Fuksas). The exhibition took place from June 18 to October 29 under the title Less Aesthetics, More Ethics.

1996
Sixth International Architecture Exhibition. Castello Gardens (director: Hans Hollein). The main exhibition was titled Sensing the Future - The Architect as Seismograph and covered some thirty contemporary masters of architecture.

1992
Architecture: Modernity and the sacred space. Old Granaries on the Giudecca (curator: Paolo Portoghesi).

1991
Fifth International Architecture Exhibition. Castello Gardens. National pavilions: Forty Architects for the 90s; exhibition of project designs for A Gateway to Venice; exhibition of project designs for the Italian Pavilion; new Bookshop Pavilion designed by James Stirling. Corderie dell'Arsenale: The Venice Prize, an encounter of 43 schools of architecture; exhibition of projects for the new Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido (director: Francesco Dal Co).

1988
Italian Pavilion. 12 project designs for the Venice Biennale. National competition, Doge's Palace (director: Francesco Dal Co).

1986
Fourth International Architecture Exhibition: Hendrik Petrus Berlage - Drawings. Villa Farsetti, Santa Maria di Sala (director: Aldo Rossi).

1985
Third International Architecture Exhibition: Venice Project, international competition, Castello Gardens (director: Aldo Rossi).

1982
Second International Architecture Exhibition: Architecture in Islamic Countries. Italian Pavilion at the Castello Gardens (director: Paolo Portoghesi).

1980
First International Architecture Exhibition: The presence of the Past. Including the Strada Novissima exhibition at the Corderie dell'Arsenale, and exhibitions on Antonio Basile, the architect; The Banal Object. An Exhibition of Critics. An Exhibition of Young Architects. Homage to Gardella, Ridolfi and Johnson (director of the Architecture Section: Paolo Portoghesi).

1979
Theatre of the World. The Dogana at the end of the Zattere, created by Aldo Rossi for the Architecture and Theatre Sections of the Biennale in occasion of the exhibition Venice and the Stage (winter 1979-80).

1978
Utopia and the Crisis of Anti-Nature. Architectural Intentions in Italy. Magazzini del Sale, Zattere (director: Vittorio Gregotti).

1976
Werkbund 1907. The Origins of Design; Rationalism and Architecture in Italy during the fascist period; Europe-America, old city centre, suburbia; Ettore Sottsass, an Italian designer. Ca' Pesaro, San Lorenzo, Magazzini del Sale, Cini Foundation (director. Vittorio Gregotti).

1975
On the subject of the Stucky Mill. Magazzini del Sale at the Zattere (curated by the Visual Arts and Architecture Section of the Biennale, directed by Vittorio Gregotti)