The Biennale Architettura 2025 in figures

758      Architects invited to the International Exhibition
303      Projects participating to the International Exhibition
2          Special Projects:

• Pavilion of Applied Arts in collaboration with Victoria and Albert Museum in London with the project On Storage
•  Forte Marghera, polveriera austriaca the exhibition Margherissima by Nigel Coates,  with Michael Kevern, Guan Lee, John Maybury and Jan Bunge

GENS Public Programme:
111 Workshops
9 Conferences

66        National Participations:
26        National Participations in the historical Pavilions of Giardini
25        National Participations in the Arsenale, including Italy
15        National Participations around the city of Venice
4          National Participation for the first time: Republic of Azerbaijan, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, Republic of Togo.

11        Collateral Events

298,000           Total visitors (+5% over 2023)
plus 17,584 pre-opening visitors 
1,530               average visitors per day

Young people and students accounted for 28% of total visitors.
People who visited the Exhibition as a group comprised 16% of the overall number of visitors.

52,383 (3,205 groups) participants in the educational activities and in the guided tours (+ 3% over 2023)

Educational activities
29,685 young people and students participated in the educational activities   
1,376    groups
4,961    teachers involved in educational activities carried out in the Exhibition venues
2.021    teachers involved during the dedicated preview
660    participating schools, of which:

• 52     preschools
• 141   primary schools
• 50     secondary schools I grade
• 417   secondary schools II grade

NOTES:  79% of the young participants in the educational activities come from Italy.

Guided tours 
22,698  adults and public who visited as part of a group (+22% over 2023)
16,702  public organized in groups participated in the guided tours (+17% over 2023)
5,996   participants in the fixed-departure and Family Friendly tours
1,829    groups

Rides of Biennale BUS and VAPORETTO Biennale for schools
240         rides on Biennale BUS (one-way 120, return 120)
11,310    students travelled on it (one-way 5,655, return 5,655)
260         rides on Biennale VAP (one-way 130, return 130)
23,015    students travelled on it (one-way 11,554, return 11,554)

Biennale Sessions
106      Universities participating in the project: 81 affiliated universities (+5% over 2023) and 25 universities participating through joint projects
6,482   participating students involved in the project
25        Countries 
34        Italian universities 
47        Foreign universities
73        workshops organized in La Biennale venues, curated by participating universities

With 12 universities involved, Germany is the second country in terms of attendance, followed by Great Britain (4 attendances).
After Europe, the Americas are confirmed as the second continent of origin, with 11 affiliated universities.
39 Biennale qualified assistants for educational activities and specifically designed tours of the two Exhibition venues from 11 countries, with educational activities in 11 different languages (Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Albanian, Moldovan, Armenian), as well as in Italian Sign Language (LIS). 

School-to-Work Training Programs
For the year 2025, La Biennale has launched targeted programs involving 8 high schools. These training paths engaged 122 students from the following schools: Liceo Artistico Marco Polo di Venezia, Liceo Artistico Michelangelo Guggenheim di Venezia, Istituto Scolastico Paritario Giuseppe Parini di Mestre (VE), Istituto Levi Ponti di Mirano (VE), Istituto Majorana Corner di Mirano (VE),  Liceo Trissino di Valdagno (VI),  Istituto superiore Marconi Liceo Classico Conegliano (TV), Liceo Scientifico Marinelli di Udine.

996 (71 groups) participants in the Fragile Categories Project, for the Accessible Biennale.

20 young graduates – active cataloguers – available to the public to provide information about the Exhibition’s content.

Press Office activities
2,351   journalists registered for the pre-opening, including
1,345 international journalists
1,006 Italian journalists 
plus other journalists who registered as press during the opening of the Exhibition.

Digital communication
Official website: labiennale.org
May 10^th > November 18^th 2025
1,049,987     individual visitors (2023: 981,352)
5,4 million page views (2023: 5,1 million)
14 million  events generated (page views, session start, first visit, scroll, clicks, file downloads, etc.)

Devices/Users:
mobile     732,240 users (70,2%)
desktop   304,633 users (29,2%)
tablet       13,058 users (1,3%)
smart tv  56 (<0,01%)

Social Media
May 8^th > November 18^th 2025
During the Biennale Architettura 2025 the contents posted on La Biennale di Venezia’s Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube pages obtained a total about 121 million views (2023: 70 million) and 2 million interactions (2023: 1,8 million).

Facebook
486,968 total page followers 
+7,572 since the opening of Biennale Architettura 2025
(Biennale Architettura 2023: 473,169 total followers on November 21^st, 2023)
During the Biennale Architettura 2025 the content posted on La Biennale di Venezia’s Facebook page obtained more than 24 million views (2023: 19,2 million) and 130,855 interactions.

X
665,925 total page followers
+5.670 since the opening of the Biennale Architettura 2025
(Biennale Architettura 2023: 707,826 total followers on November 21^st, 2023)
During the Biennale Architettura 2025, the tweets posted on the @la_Biennale X page obtained a total about 11,3 millionviews and 451.804 interactions. The most significant interactions include 94.666 likes and 27.114 retweets.

Instagram
915,334 total page followers
+52,194 since the opening of the Biennale Architettura 2025
(Biennale Architettura 2025: 758,644  total followers on November 21^st, 2023)
During the Biennale Architettura 2025 the content posted on the @labiennale Instagram page obtained a total of about 85,7 million views (2023: 26,1 milion)  and 1,4 million interactions (2023: 674.331).
The 5 most popular Instagram posts with the hashtag #BiennaleArchitettura2025 and #IntelliGens, reached over 14,671 likes.
On Instagram, the hashtag #BiennaleArchitettura2025 and #IntelliGens have generated over 5,000 user-created posts respectively.

YouTube
64,072 total subscribers to the channel
+3.202 subscribers since the beginning of the Biennale Architettura 2025
(Biennale Architettura 2023: 55.722 total followers on November 21^st, 2023)
During the Biennale Architettura 2025 the BiennaleChannel YouTube channel counted 649.505 views (2023: 540.113).

Source: Google Analytics, Meta Insights, X Statistics, Instagram Insights, Iconosquare, YouTube Studio

Editorial projects
On November 18^th, 2025 in the Exhibition Bookshops and on store.labiennale.org e-commerce has been sold: 
497 Italian catalogues 
1,001 English catalogues
1,695 Italian short guides 
4,128 English short guides 

2          Heads of State and Prime Ministers, including the Albanian President Edi Rama and the UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay
37       Ministers and Deputy Ministers, including the French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati and the Minister of Culture of the United Arab Emirates, His Excellency Sheikh Salem bin Khalid Al Qassimi
38        Ambassadors and Deputy Ambassadors

Partner:                     Rolex, Official Timepiece  of the 19^th International Architecture Exhibition
Sponsors:                    Bloomberg Philanthropies, Vela - Venezia Unica, Hydro, Gruppo Saviola
Media Partner:         Rai 

407      books acquired for La Biennale bibliography programme (Book Pavilion project) 
318      titles overall
1,212   library visitors (scholars and students) 
242      online requests