NATIONAL PARTICIPATIONS

BAHRAIN *, Kingdom of
In a World of Your Own
Mariam Haji, Waheeda Malullah, Camille Zakharia
Commissioner: Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Minister of Culture. Curator: Melissa Enders-Bhatia.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

BANGLADESH, People’s Republic of
SUPERNATURAL
Chhakka Artists’ Group: Mokhlesur Rahman, Mahbub Zamal, A. K. M. Zahidul Mustafa, Ashok Karmaker, Lala Rukh Selim, Uttam Kumar Karmaker. Dhali Al Mamoon, Yasmin Jahan Nupur, Gavin Rain, Gianfranco Meggiato, Charupit School
Commissioner/Curator: Francesco Elisei. Curator: Fabio Anselmi.
Venue: Officina delle Zattere, Dorsoduro 947

BELGIUM
Kreupelhout – Cripplewood
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Commissioner: Joke Schauvliege, Flemish Minister for Environment, Nature and Culture. Curator: J. M. Coetzee. Deputy Curator: Philippe Van Cauteren.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.belgianpavilion.be

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
The Garden of Delights
Mladen Miljanovic
Commissioners/Curators: Sarita Vujkovic, Irfan Hošic.
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3198
www.labiennalebih.org

BRAZIL
Inside/Outside (Fervenza/Mlászho/Clark/Bill/Munari)
Hélio Fervenza, Odires Mlászho, Lygia Clark, Max Bill, Bruno Munari
Commissioner: Luis Terepins (Fundação Bienal de São Paulo). Curator: Luis Pérez-Oramas. Deputy Curator: André Severo.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

CANADA
Music for Silence
Shary Boyle
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada / Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Curator: Josée Drouin-Brisebois.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

CHILE
Venezia, Venezia
Alfredo Jaar
Commissioner: National Council of Culture and the Arts. Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

CHINA, People’s Republic of
Transfiguration
He Yunchang, Hu Yaolin, Miao Xiaochun, Shu Yong, Tong Hongsheng, Wang Qingsong, Zhang Xiaotao
Commissioner: China Arts and Entertainment Group (CAEG), Zhang Yu, Yan Dong. Curator: Wang Chunchen.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

COSTA RICA
Democracy & Dreams
Priscilla Monge, Esteban Piedra, Rafael Ottón Solís, Cinthya Soto
Commissioner: Francesco Elisei. Deputy Commissioner: Fabio Anselmi. Curator: Francisco Córdoba, MUSEO DE ARTE Y DISEÑO CONTEMPORÁNEO (Fiorella Resenterra).
Venue: Ca’ Bonvicini, S.Croce 2161

CROATIA
Between the Sky and the Earth / Tra il cielo e la terra
Kata Mijatovic
Commissioner/Curator: Branko Franceschi.
Venue: Sala Tiziano, Opera don Orione Artigianelli, Fondamenta delle Zattere ai Gesuati, Dorsoduro 919

CUBA
La Perversión de lo clásico: Anarquía de los relatos
Liudmila and Nelson, Magdalena Campos Pons and Neil Leonard, Sandra Ramos, Glenda Leon, Lazaro Saavedra, Tonel, Hermann Nitsch, Gilberto Zorio, Wang Du, H.H.Lim, Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes, Francesca Leone
Commissioner: Miria Vicini. Curators: Jorge Fernandez Torres, Giacomo Zaza.
Venue: Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Palazzo Reale, Piazza San Marco 17 and 52. Admission with fee from civic at 52

CYPRUS, Republic of
Oo
Lia Haraki, Maria Hassabi, Phanos Kyriacou, Constantinos Taliotis, Natalie Yiaxi, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister
Commissioner: Louli Michaelidou. Deputy Commissioners: Angela Skordi, Marika Ioannou. Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas.
Venue: Palasport Arsenale, Calle San Biagio 2132, Castello

CZECH REPUBLIC and SLOVAK REPUBLIC
Still the same place
Petra Feriancova, Zbynek Baladran
Commissioner: Monika Palcova. Curator: Marek Pokorny.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

DENMARK
Intercourses
Jesper Just in collaboration with Project Projects
Commissioners: The Danish Arts Council Committee for International Visual Arts: Jette Gejl Kristensen (chairman), Lise Harlev, Jesper Elg, Mads Gamdrup, Anna Krogh. Curator: Lotte S. Lederballe Pedersen.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

EGYPT
Treasuries of Knowledge
Mohamed Banawy, Khaled Zaki
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture. Curator: Khaled Zaki.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

ESTONIA
Evident in Advance
Dénes Farkas
Commissioner: Maria Arusoo. Curator: Adam Budak.
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3199, San Samuele
www.evident-in-advance.com

FINLAND (Pavilion Alvar Aalto)
Falling Trees
Antti Laitinen
Commissioner: Raija Koli. Curators: Collective Gruppo 111 (Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso).
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

FRANCE
Ravel Ravel Unravel
Anri Sala
Commissioner: Institut Français in co-production with CNAP. Curator: Christine Macel.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.pavillonfrancais.com

GEORGIA
Kamikaze Loggia
Bouillon Group,Thea Djordjadze, Nikoloz Lutidze, Gela Patashuri with Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, Gio Sumbadze
Commissioner: Marine Mizandari, First Deputy Minister of Culture. Curator: Joanna Warsza.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.georgian-pavilion.org

GERMANY
Ai Weiwei, Romuald Karmakar, Santu Mofokeng, Dayanita Singh
Commissioner: Federal Foreign Office Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa). Curator: Susanne Gaensheimer.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.deutscher-pavillon.org

GREAT BRITAIN
Jeremy Deller
Commissioner: Andrea Rose. Curator: Emma Gifford-Mead.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
venicebiennale.britishcouncil.org

GREECE
HISTORY ZERO
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Commissioner: Hellenic Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports. Curator: Syrago Tsiara.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

HOLY SEE *
In Principio
Studio Azzurro, Josef Koudelka, Lawrence Carroll
Commissioner: Em.mo Card. Gianfranco Ravasi, Presidente del Pontificio Consiglio della Cultura.
Curator: Antonio Paolucci.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.cultura.va

HUNGARY
Fired but unexploded
Zsolt Asztalos
Commissioner: Gábor Gulyás. Curator: Gabriella Uhl.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.fired-but-unexploded.com

ICELAND
Katrín Sigurðardóttir
Commissioner: Dorotheé Kirch. Curators: Mary Ceruti, Ilaria Bonacossa.
Venue: Lavanderia, Palazzo Zenobio, Collegio Armeno Moorat-Raphael, Fondamenta del Soccorso, Dorsoduro 2596
www.islenskiskalinn.is

INDONESIA, Republic of
SAKTI
Albert Yonathan Setyawan, Eko Nugroho, Entang Wiharso, Rahayu Supanggah, Sri Astari, Titarubi
Commissioner: Soedarmadji JH Damais. Deputy Commissioner: Achille Bonito Oliva. Curators: Carla Bianpoen, Rifky Effendy.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.indonesiavenice.com

IRAQ
Welcome to Iraq
Abdul Raheem Yassir, Akeel Khreef, Ali Samiaa, Bassim Al-Shaker, Cheeman Ismaeel, Furat al Jamil, Hareth Alhomaam, Jamal Penjweny, Kadhim Nwir, WAMI (Yaseen Wami, Hashim Taeeh)
Commissioner: Tamara Chalabi. Deputy Commissioner: Vittorio Urbani. Curator: Jonathan Watkins.
Venue: Ca’ Dandolo, San Polo 2879, San Tomà
www.theiraqpavilion.com

IRELAND
The Enclave
Richard Mosse
Commissioner/Curator: Anna O’Sullivan.
Venue: Fondaco Marcello, San Marco 3415
www.irelandvenice.ie

ISRAEL
The Workshop
Gilad Ratman
Commissioners: Arad Turgeman, Michael Gov. Curator: Sergio Edelsztein.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

ITALY
vice versa
Francesco Arena, Massimo Bartolini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Elisabetta Benassi, Flavio Favelli, Luigi Ghirri, Piero Golia, Francesca Grilli, Marcello Maloberti, Fabio Mauri, Giulio Paolini, Marco Tirelli, Luca Vitone, Sislej Xhafa
Commissioner: Maddalena Ragni.Curator: Bartolomeo Pietromarchi.
Venue: Italian Pavilion, Tese delle Vergini at Arsenale
viceversa2013.org

IVORY COAST *, Republic of
Traces and signs
Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Tamsir Dia, Jems Koko Bi, Franck Fanny
Commissioner: Paolo De Grandis. Curator: Yacouba Konaté.
Venue: Spiazzi, Arsenale, Castello 3865
www.ivoirebiennalevenise.info

JAPAN
abstract speaking - sharing uncertainty and collective acts
Koki Tanaka
Commissioner: The Japan Foundation. Curator: Mika Kuraya.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.jpf.go.jp/venezia-biennale/

KENYA
Reflective Nature # a new primary enchanting sensitivity
Kivuthi Mbuno, Armando Tanzini, Chrispus Wangombe Wachira, Fan Bo, Luo Ling & Liu Ke, Lu Peng, Li Wei, He Weiming, Chen Wenling, Feng Zhengjie, César Meneghetti
Commissioner: Paola Poponi. Curators: Sandro Orlandi, Paola Poponi.
Venue: Caserma Cornoldi, Castello 4142 and San Servolo island

KOREA, Republic of
To Breathe: Bottari
Kimsooja
Commissioner/Curator: Seungduk Kim. Deputy Commissioner: Kyungyun Ho.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

KOSOVO *, Republic of
Petrit Halilaj
Commissioner: Erzen Shkololli. Curator: Kathrin Rhomberg.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

KUWAIT *
National Works
Sami Mohammad, Tarek Al-Ghoussein
Commissioner: Mohammed Al-Asoussi (National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters). Curator: Ala Younis.
Venue: Palazzo Michiel del Brusà, Cannaregio, 4391/A, Strada Nova

LATVIA
North by Northeast
Kaspars Podnieks, Krišs Salmanis
Commissioners: Zane Culkstena, Zane Onckule. Deputy Commissioner: Laura Adamovica. Curators: Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Alise Tifentale.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.northbynortheast.lv

LEBANON
Letter To A Refusing Pilot
Akram Zaatari
Commissioner: APEAL. Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.lebanonatvenice.com

LITHUANIA
oO
Gintaras Didžiapetris, Elena Narbutaite, Liudvikas Buklys, Kazys Varnelis, Vytaute Žilinskaite, Morten Norbye Halvorsen, Jason Dodge, Gabriel Lester, Dexter Sinister
Commissioners: Jonas Žakaitis, Aurime Aleksandraviciute. Curator: Raimundas Malašauskas.
Venue: Palasport Arsenale, Calle San Biagio 2132, Castello

LUXEMBOURG, Grand Duchy of
Relegation
Catherine Lorent
Commissioner: Clément Minighetti. Curator: Anna Loporcaro.
Venue: Ca’ del Duca, Corte del Duca Sforza, San Marco 3052

MACEDONIA, Former Yugoslavian Republic of
SILENTIO PATHOLOGIA
Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva
Commissioner: Halide Paloshi. Curator: Ana Frangovska.
Venue: Scuola dei Laneri, Santa Croce 113/A
www.silentiopathologia.com

MALDIVES *
PORTABLE NATION
Disappearance as Work in Progress – Approaches to Ecological Romanticism
Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky, Thierry Geoffrey aka Colonel, Gregory Niemeyer, Stefano Cagol, Hanna Husberg, Laura McLean & Kalliopi Tsipni-Kolaza, Khaled Ramadan, Moomin Fouad, Mohamed Ali, Sama Alshaibi, Patrizio Travagli, Achilleas Kentonis & Maria Papacaharalambous, Wooloo, Khaled Hafez, Ursula Biemann, Heidrun Holzfeind & Christoph Draeger, Klaus Schafler
Commissioner: Ahmed Adeeb, Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Republic of Maldives. Curators: CPS – Chamber of Public Secrets (Alfredo Cramerotti, Aida Eltorie, Khaled Ramadan). Deputy Curators: Maren Richter, Camilla Boemio.
Venue: Gervasuti Foundation, Via Garibaldi, Fondamenta Sant’Anna, Castello 995
www.chamberarchive.org

MEXICO
Cordiox
Ariel Guzik
Commissioner: Gaston Ramirez Feltrin. Curator: Itala Schmelz.
Venue: Ex Chiesa di San Lorenzo, Castello 5069, Campo San Lorenzo

MONTENEGRO
Image Think / Pensare attraverso l'immagine
Irena Lagator Pejovic
Commissioner/Curator: Nataša Nikcevic.
Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3078-3079/A, Ramo Malipiero Venezia – Ground Floor

NETHERLANDS, The
Mark Manders. Room with Broken Sentence
Mark Manders
Commissioner: Mondriaan Fund. Curator: Lorenzo Benedetti.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

NEW ZEALAND
Front Door Out Back
Bill Culbert
Commissioner: Jenny Harper. Deputy Commissioner: Heather Galbraith. Curator: Justin Paton.
Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello
www.nzatvenice.com

NORDIC PAVILION (FINLAND, NORWAY)
Finland
Falling Trees
Terike Haapoja
Commissioner: Raija Koli. Curators: Collective Gruppo 111 (Marko Karo, Mika Elo, Harri Laakso). Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
Norway
Beware of the Holy Whore: Edvard Munch, Lene Berg and the Dilemma of Emancipation
Edvard Munch, Lene Berg
Commissioner: Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). Curators: Marta Kuzma, Pablo Lafuente, Angela Vettese. Venue: Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Galleria di Piazza San Marco 71/C
www.oca.no

PARAGUAY *
The Encyclopedic Palace of Paraguay
Pedro Barrail, Felix Toranzos, Diana Rossi, Daniel Milessi
Commissioner: Elisa Victoria Aquino Laterza. Deputy Commissioner: Nori Vaccari Starck. Curator: Osvaldo Gonzalez Real.
Venue: Palazzo Carminati, Santa Croce 1882
www.bienaldevenecia-paraguay.com

POLAND
Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More
Konrad Smolenski
Commissioner: Hanna Wróblewska. Curators: Agnieszka Pindera, Daniel Muzyczuk.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

PORTUGAL
Trafaria Praia
Joana Vasconcelos
Commissioner: Direção-Geral das Artes/Secretário de Estado da Cultura, Governo de Portugal. Curator: Miguel Amado.
Venue: Riva dei Partigiani / Venetian Lagoon
www.vasconcelostrafariapraia.com

ROMANIA
An immaterial retrospective of the Venice Biennale
Alexandra Pirici, Manuel Pelmus
Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Raluca Voinea.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

Reflection Centre for Suspended Histories. An Attempt
Apparatus 22 (Dragos Olea, Maria Farcas, Erika Olea), Irina Botea and Nicu Ilfoveanu, Karolina Bregula, Adi Matei, Olivia Mihaltianu, Sebastian Moldovan
Commissioner: Monica Morariu. Deputy Commissioner: Alexandru Damian. Curator: Anca Mihulet.
Venue: Istituto Romeno di Venezia, Palazzo Correr, Campo Santa Fosca, Cannaregio 2214

RUSSIA
Vadim Zakharov: Danaë
Vadim Zakharov
Commissioner: Stella Kasaeva. Curator: Udo Kittelmann.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini
www.ruspavilion.ru/en/2013/

SERBIA
Nothing Between Us
Vladimir Peric, Miloš Tomic
Commissioner: Maja Ciric.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

SLOVENIA, Republic of
For Our Economy and Culture
Jasmina Cibic
Commissioner: Blaž Peršin. Curator: Tevž Logar.
Venue: Galleria A+A, San Marco 3073
slovenianpavilion.net

SOUTH AFRICA
Imaginary Fact: Contemporary South African Art and the Archive
Commissioner: Saul Molobi. Curator: Brenton Maart.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale

SPAIN
Lara Almarcegui
Lara Almarcegui
Commissioner/Curator: Octavio Zaya.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

SWITZERLAND
Valentin Carron
Commissioners: Pro Helvetia - Sandi Paucic and Marianne Burki. Deputy Commissioner: Pro Helvetia - Rachele Giudici Legittimo. Curator: Giovanni Carmine.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC
CARA AMICA ARTE
Giorgio De Chirico, Miro George, Makhowl Moffak, Al Samman Nabil, Echtai Shaffik, Giulio Durini, Dario Arcidiacono, Massimiliano Alioto, Felipe Cardena, Roberto Paolini, Concetto Pozzati, Sergio Lombardo, Camilla Ancilotto, Lucio Micheletti, Lidia Bachis, Cracking Art Group, Hannu Palosuo
Commissioner: Christian Maretti. Curator: Duccio Trombadori.
Venue: Isola di San Servolo

THAILAND
Poperomia/Golden Teardrop
Wasinburee Supanichvoraparch, Arin Rungjang
Commissioner: Khemchat Thepchai, Ministry of Culture, General Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC). Curators: Penwadee Nophaket Manont, Worathep Akkabootara.
Venue: Santa Croce 556

TURKEY
Resistance
Ali Kazma
Commissioner: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts. Curator: Emre Baykal.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
pavilionofturkey.iksv.org

TUVALU *
Destiny Intertwined
Vincent J.F. Huang
Commissioners: Apisai Ielemia, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tapugao Falefou, Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Tourism, Environment & Labour. Curators: An-Yi Pan, Szu Hsien Li, Shu Ping Shih.
Venue: Forte Marghera, via Forte Marghera 30, Mestre
www.tuvalupavilion.com

UKRAINE
The Monument to a Monument
Ridnyi Mykola, Zinkovskyi Hamlet, Kadyrova Zhanna
Commissioner: Victor Sydorenko. Curators: Soloviov Oleksandr, Burlaka Victoria.
Venue: Palazzo Loredan - Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, San Marco 2946, Campo Santo Stefano

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Walking on Water
Mohammed Kazem
Commissioner: Lamees Hamdan. Curator: Reem Fadda.
Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.uaepavilion.org

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Sarah Sze: Triple Point
Sarah Sze
Commissioners/Curators: Carey Lovelace, Holly Block.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

URUGUAY
Wifredo Díaz Valdéz: Time (Time) Time
Wifredo Díaz Valdéz
Commissioner: Ricardo Pascale. Curators: Carlos Capelán, Verónica Cordeiro.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

VENEZUELA
El arte urbano. Una estética de la Subversión
Collettivo di Artisti Urbani Venezuelani
Commissioner: Edgar Ernesto González. Curator: Juan Calzadilla.
Venue: Pavilion at Giardini

ZIMBABWE, Republic of
Dudziro
Portia Zvavahera, Michele Mathison, Rashid Jogee, Voti Thebe, Virginia Chihota
Commissioner: Doreen Sibanda. Curator: Raphael Chikukwa.
Venue: Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701

ISTITUTO ITALO-LATINO AMERICANO
El Atlas del Imperio
Commissioner: Sylvia Irrazábal. Curator: Alfons Hug. Deputy Curator: Paz Guevara. Venue: Pavilion at Arsenale
www.iila.org
ARGENTINA
Guillermo Srodek-Hart
BOLIVIA
Sonia Falcone
BRAZIL
Juliana Stein
CHILE
León & Cociña
COLOMBIA
François Bucher
COSTA RICA
Lucía Madriz
CUBA
Humberto Díaz
ECUADOR
Miguel Alvear and Patricio Andrade
EL SALVADOR
Simón Vega
ITALY
Luca Vitone
NICARAGUA
Marcos Agudelo
PANAMA
Jhafis Quintero
PARAGUAY
Fredi Casco
PERU
David Zink Yi
DOMINICAN REPUBBLIC
Collettivo Quintapata -Pascal Meccariello, Raquel Paiewonsky, Jorge Pineda, Belkis Ramírez
URUGUAY
Martín Sastre
VENEZUELA
Susana Arwas
GERMANY /BRAZIL
Harun Farocki & Antje Ehmann. In collaboration with: Cristián Silva-Avária, Anna Azevedo, Paola Barreto, Fred Benevides, Anna Bentes, Hermano Callou, Renata Catharino, Patrick Sonni Cavalier, Lucas Ferraço Nassif, Luiz Garcia, André Herique, Bruna Mastrogiovanni, Cezar Migliorin, Felipe Ribeiro, Roberto Robalinho, Bruno Vianna, Beny Wagner
Christian Jankowski

CENTRAL ASIA PAVILION
WINTER
Commissioner: HIVOS (Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation). Deputy Commissioner: Dean Vanessa Ohlraun (Oslo National Academy of the Arts/The Academy of Fine Art). Curators: Ayatgali Tuleubek, Tiago Bom. Scientific Committee: Susanne M. Winterling. Venue: Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3079
www.cap2013.net/en
KAZAKHSTAN
Kamilla Kurmanbekova
Erlan Tuyakov
Ikuru Kuwajima
KYRGYZSTAN
Aza Shade
TAJIKISTAN
Anton Rodin
Sergey Chutkov
UZBEKISTAN
Saodat Ismailova
Vyacheslav Akhunov
* Countries participating for the first time