Historical Archive: presentation of the new premises

La Biennale di Venezia announces an important event marking the inauguration of the new premises of the Historical Archive – International Centre for Research on the Contemporary Arts at the Arsenale. The initiative will take place on Monday 1 and Tuesday 2 June, with a programme of lectures and performances curated by the Artistic Directors of La Biennale (reservation required), and will subsequently open to the public on Wednesday 3 June with an open day dedicated to tours of the restored spaces (reservation required).

The programme will unfold as a wide-ranging reflection on the universal languages of the contemporary age, focusing on the archive as a dynamic space of memory: a living memory, capable not only of preserving the past, but of constantly renewing it, carrying it forward into the future.

Free admission with reservation required

Monday 1 June
3:30 pm – 5 pm / 6 pm – 7:30 pm

Body as Archive, Performance of Biennale Danza, curated by Wayne McGregor

WATERMARKS, Performance of Biennale Arte with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak

We Were Together, I Forget the Rest, Performance of Biennale Teatro, curated by Willem Dafoe

Tuesday 2 June
11 am – 12:30 pm

AMATEUR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

Lecture by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu, Directors of the Biennale Architettura 2027

3:30 pm – 5 pm
Body as Archive, Performance of Biennale Danza, curated by Wayne McGregor

WATERMARKS, Performance of Biennale Arte with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak

We Were Together, I Forget the Rest, Performance of Biennale Teatro, curated by Willem Dafoe

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
ORIZZONTI DELLA MOSTRA INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE CINEMATOGRAFICA  Conversation of Biennale Cinema with Alberto Barbera

9:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Yet Darkness Held No Seraphim, Concert of Biennale Musica with Caterina Barbieri