List of Venice Biennale exhibitions
This is a list of Venice Biennale exhibitions.
Art
| # | Dates | Arts director | Central exhibition | Awards | Ref |
| 60th | 2024 | Adriano Pedrosa | Foreigners Everywhere |
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| 59th | 2022 | Cecilia Alemani | The Milk of Dreams | ||
| 58th | 2019 | Ralph Rugoff | May You Live in Interesting Times | ||
| 57th | 2017 | Christine Macel | Viva Arte Viva | ||
| 56th | 2015 | Okwui Enwezor | All the World's Futures | ||
| 55th | 2013 | Massimiliano Gioni | The Encyclopedic Palace | ||
| 54th | 2011 | Bice Curiger | ILLUMInations | ||
| 53rd | 2009 | Daniel Birnbaum | Making Worlds | ||
| 52nd | 2007 | Robert Storr | Think with the Senses, Feel with the Mind | ||
| 51st | 2005 | Maria de Corral and Rosa Martinez | |||
| 50th | 2003 | Francesco Bonami | Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer |
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| 49th | 2001 | Harald Szeemann | Plateau of Humankind | ||
| 48th | 1999 | Harald Szeemann | |||
| 47th | 1997 | Germano Celant | |||
| 46th | 1995 | Jean Clair | |||
| 45th | 1993 | Achille Bonito Oliva | |||
| 44th | 1990 | Giovanni Carandente | |||
| 43rd | 1988 | Giovanni Carandente | |||
| 42nd | 1986 | Giovanni Carandente | |||
| 41st | 1984 | Maurizio Calvesi | None | – | |
| 40th | 1982 | Sisto Dalla Palma | None | – | |
| 39th | 1980 | Luigi Carluccio | None | – | |
| 38th | 1978 | Luigi Scarpa | None | – | |
| 37th | 1976 | Vittorio Gregotti | None | – | |
| 36th | 1972 | Mario Penelope | Opera o Comportamento | None | – |
| 35th | 1970 | Umbro Apollonio | – | None | – |
| 34th | 1968 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : British painter Bridget Riley, French sculptor Nicolas Schöffer, German etcher Horst Janssen, and Italian sculptors Gianni Colombo and Pino Pascali | |
| 33rd | 1966 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : Argentine painter Julio Le Parc, Danish sculptor Robert Jacobsen ex aequo with Étienne Martin, Japanese etcher Masuo Ikeda, and Italians painter Lucio Fontana, sculptor Alberto Viani, and etcher Ezio Gribaudo | |
| 32nd | 1964 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : American painter Robert Rauschenberg, Swiss sculptor Zoltan Kemeny, German draughtsman Joseph Fassbender, and Italians sculptor Andrea Cascella, sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, and etcher Angelo Savelli. | |
| 31st | 1962 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : French painter Alfred Manessier, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti, Argentine etcher Antonio Berni, and Italians painter Giuseppe Gapogrossi ex aequo with Ennio Morlotti, sculptor Aldo Calò ex aequo with Umberto Milani, and etcher Antonino Virduzzo | |
| 30th | 1960 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : French painter Jean Fautrier, German painter Hans Hartung, Italian painter Emilio Vedova, and Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra. | |
| 29th | 1958 | Gian Alberto Dell'Acqua | – | Gran Premi : American painter Mark Tobey, Spanish sculptor Eduardo Chillida, Brazilian etcher Fayga Ostrower, Italians painter Osvaldo Licini, sculptor Umberto Mastroianni, and etcher Luigi Spacal | |
| 28th | 1956 | Rodolfo Pallucchini | – | Gran Premi : French painter Jacques Villon, British sculptor Lynn Chadwick, Japanese etcher Shiko Munakata, Brazilian draughtsman Aldemir Martins, and Italians painter Afro, sculptor Emilio Greco, etcher Zoran Music, and draughtsperson Carlo Mattioli ex aequo with Anna Salvatore | |
| 27th | 1954 | Rodolfo Pallucchini | – | Gran Premi : German painter Max Ernst, French sculptor Jean Arp, Spanish etcher Joan Miró, and Italians painter Giuseppe Santomaso, sculptor Pericle Fazzini, and etcher Paolo Manaresi ex aequo with Cesco Magnolato | |
| 26th | 1952 | Rodolfo Pallucchini | – | Gran Premi : French painter Raoul Dufy, American sculptor Alexander Calder, German etcher Emil Nolde, and Italians painter Bruno Cassinari ex aequo with Bruno Saetti, sculptor Marino Marini, and etcher Tono Zancanaro | |
| 25th | 1950 | Rodolfo Pallucchini | – | Gran Premi : French painter Henri Matisse, French sculptor Ossip Zadkine, Belgian etcher Frans Masereel, Italians painter Carlo Carrà, sculptor Marcello Mascherini ex aequo with Luciano Minguzzi, and etcher Giuseppe Viviani | |
| 24th | 1948 | Rodolfo Pallucchini | – | Gran Premi : French painter Georges Braque, British sculptor Henry Moore, French etcher Marc Chagall, and Italians painter Giorgio Morandi, sculptor Giacomo Manzù, and etcher Mino Maccari | |
| 23rd | 1942 | Antonio Maraini | – | Gran Premi : Hungarian painter Arthur Kampf, Swiss sculptor Charles Otto Bänninger, Swedish etcher Stif Borglind, and Italians painter Alberto Salietti, sculptor Francesco Messina, and etcher Luigi Bartolini | |
| 22nd | 1940 | Antonio Maraini | – | Gran Premi : Hungarian painter Vilmos Aba Novàk, German sculptor Arno Breker, Belgian etcher Maurice Brocas, and Italians painter Felice Carena, sculptor Guido Galletti, and etcher Marcello Boglione | |
| 21st | 1938 | Antonio Maraini | – | Gran Premi : Spanish painter Ignacio Zuloaga, Swiss sculptor Herman Hubacher, British etcher Blair Hughes-Stanton, and Italians painter Felice Casorati, sculptor Venanzio Crocetti, and etcher Mario Delitala | |
| 20th | 1936 | Antonio Maraini | – | – | |
| 19th | 1934 | Antonio Maraini | – | – | |
| 18th | 1932 | Antonio Maraini | – | – | |
| 17th | 1930 | Antonio Maraini | – | – | |
| 1928 | Antonio Maraini | – | – | ||
| 1926 | Vittorio Pica | – | – | ||
| 1924 | Vittorio Pica | – | – | ||
| 1922 | Vittorio Pica | – | – | ||
| 1920 | Vittorio Pica | – | – | ||
| 1914 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1912 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1910 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1909 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1907 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1905 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1903 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1901 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1899 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1897 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – | ||
| 1895 | Antonio Fradeletto | – | – |