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FLORENCE BIENNALE
18 - 26 OCTOBER, 2025
Fortezza da Basso
Viale Filippo Strozzi 1, Florence FI
Opening to the public Saturday 182 pm
Office hours:
- From Monday to Friday9 am to 5 pm
- Saturday and SundayClosed
PROGRAMME
Florence Biennale 2023
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10 am
Media Preview
The preview will be held at 10 am for accredited journalists only, upon presentation of their badge or other valid document. For other methods of accreditation, please contact the media office.
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11 am
Opening Ceremony
Spadolini Pavilion
Entrance to this event is by invitation only.
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2 pm
Opening to the public
Entrance from Spadolini Pavilion
We remind you that you can buy tickets in advance on Ticket One.
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3 pm
"Blooming Womb"
Performance by Elisabetta Amoruso
Spadolini Pavilion
Elisabetta Amoruso tackles trauma and suffering through her QR codes, proposing art as a cure for pain. Her work focuses on awareness, normalisation and analysis of the self and states of mind. Within his empathic works he creates a journey of discovery, rebirth and liberation by engaging the audience in a large-scale art therapy session of his own.
With this year's theme - 'I Am You' - the artist investigates the relationship between the individual and himself and between him and his fellow man, presenting 'Blooming Womb', which deals with the concept of birth and rebirth. Through her improvisational performance, the artist asks the audience to let themselves be guided and interact with her to initiate the blooming of the womb. -
4 pm
“Flawed Euphony”
Performance by Lynn Guo e Viola Panik
Padiglione Spadolini
"In a society's embrace, we bear the weight of whispered expectations and standards. These voices, both known and veiled, measure and chastise our very essence. Through the strokes of painting and the poetry of performance, we unravel the tapestry of self-critique, weaving a symphony of transformation. Amidst body's shame, the canvas becomes a mirror, the ruler becomes an emblem, a universal chorus of "not enough" and "failure" echoing across genders, ages, and cultures. As the performance crescendos, the performer casts aside the rulers, liberated, enveloped by self-embrace, cherishing flaws and imperfections. Witnessing this journey, we beckon the souls of the Florence Biennale to inscribe upon the performer's skin the tender words they yearn to tell themselves".
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5 pm
Performance by Benazir Ihsan
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Benazir Ihsan is a 10 year old abstract expressionist painter and the youngest participating artist in the XIV Florence Biennale 2023. She creates paintings while she performs gymnastics around her humungous canvases to make the colors appear on the canvas in the form of similar bodily movements/gesture. Her technique involves dragging and splashing of paints/other media on canvas placed horizontally on the ground to generate exuberantly brilliant patterns as she moves around the canvas performing her gymnastic.
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6.30 pm
"Color Variations"
Performance by Sergio Maltagliati with Giancarlo Andreini (Clarinet) and Carlo Palagi (Guitar)
Area Teatro - Padiglione Spadolini
In 1986, Pietro Grossi theorised HomeArt, which was presented for the first time during the exhibition 'Nuova Atlantide - Il continente della musica elettronica' organised by the Venice Biennale in November of that year. This electronic art experience stemmed from Grossi's need to express himself also in the field of graphics, while maintaining those principles that had governed his musical ideas and at the same time using small, widely used computer systems.
Sergio Maltagliati developed new visual variations by intervening in the codes of Pietro Grossi's graphic programmes and adding an original soundtrack.
All his thought is collected in writings, (which Grossi entrusts to the computer through programmes that generate infinite and ever-changing graphic and colour variations) defined by Daniele Lombardi as "highly poetic that induces a consideration of music as a social, spiritual fact". Here is one of his phrases at the heart of the thought inherent in HomeArt, used for this work: “For centuries man has told the other, look at what I can do. Today he says look at what YOU can. The computer frees us from the genius of others and increases ours”. -
7 pm
"Blindsight"
Performance by Karakorum Collective
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
"Blindsight" aims to investigate the relationship between identity and freedom, assuming that a once the identity of the subject has been formed, freedom can be exercised only in the limited space of those who we are. So there is no freedom in the broad sense but the only full freedom we can aspire to is what we can experience within our identity.
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11 am
"L’arte nelle poesie cantate di Giulio Rapetti Mogol" (Art in the Sung Poems of Giulio Rapetti Mogol)
Talk (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Giulio Rapetti Mogol's speech on the relationship between music, poetry and creativity.
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2.30 pm
"Unity - The Missing Elements"
Talk (eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Speech by Paul Foropoulos on the theme of the XIV Florence Biennale: "I Am You".
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3 pm
Viktoria Andreeva
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Winner of the International Open Call Competition (Photography).
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3.30 pm
Jean-Michel Bihorel
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Winner of the International Open Call Competition (Art).
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4.30 pm
Amalia del Ponte
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
On the occasion of the XIV Florence Biennale, Guest of Honour Amalia Del Ponte receives the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award from the President and exhibits a new artwork inspired by the theme "I Am You," which compares an enlargement of the artist's skin and that of the "skin" of a tree, gently evoking the bond between human beings and nature: "You Are Me."
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5.30 pm
“Il viaggio invisibile” (The Invisible Journey)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Screening of the documentary resulting from the collaboration between FERCAM and the artist Jago.
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Closing day
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10.30 am
XIV Florence Biennale Catalogue
Presentation (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the catalogue of the XIV Florence Biennale, published by Giorgio Mondadori Editore.
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11.30 am
"I am You"
Speech (esp)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Speech by Julio Sapollnik, member of the Florence Biennale Curatorial Board.
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3.30 pm
Maori Collective
Presentation and performance by the Maori Collective
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
TĀHŪ brings together a collective of Indigenous Māori Artists from the East Coast North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Māori term Tāhū (also known as tāhuhu), has layered conceptualisation of indigenous knowledge and practice. Tāhū is described as the first weft in the weaving of a traditional Māori garment, or, as the main ridge-pole of a traditional ancestral house. Both concepts have underlying threads that connect people and place – a metaphor of weaving a direct line of ancestry, through genealogy, design and story. -
5 pm
David LaChapelle
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The artist will be awarded the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award with the following motivation: "as a tribute to one of the most talented and influential photographers of our time, and in recognition of his unique style and outstanding artistic production, based on imagination, experimentation and creativity, conveying profound social messages. Thanks to his visionary, original and courageous perspective, he has inspired many other artists and audiences worldwide".
Photo: © Thomas Canet
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11 am
"I AM YOU - Architecture of biotopes"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Interview with Arch. Dorota Szlachcic by Arch. Margherita Blonska Ciardi - Studio Artemisia.
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4 pm
I AM MAHSA
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the special project "I AM MAHSA': WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM" in collaboration with Me Art Group and the International Centre for Peace Amongst Peoples in Assisi.
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10.30 am
FantaCity
Talk by Andrea Felice (ita)
Fantacity is a world made up of different stories, floating in a timeless dimension where the past, present and future coincide on the stage of visual representation.
The landscape and architecture of Fantacity, in the grip of sudden changes, mark the urgency of conscious, shared action aimed at safeguarding the planet. -
11 am
"9999 and radical architecture"
Talk by Lilla Fiumi (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The group 9999 was a movement of radical architects founded in Florence in 1968, initially known as '1999'. This group, along with others such as Superstudio and Archizoom, helped define radical architecture, pursuing a subversive and visionary approach that influenced generational change in Italian architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. Their impact extended to cities such as Milan, Turin, Rome and Naples, revolutionising architectural language and embracing a modern architectural ideology.
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11.30 am
"City Carpet. The weave of cities in cinema"
Talk by Giorgio Scianca (ita)
For more than a century, cinema has been narrating the cities of the world. Films are a time machine, a teleporter. City Carpet is a project that strips films of their private interiors to make room for public exteriors. The story for us ends on the doorstep. We are travellers, tourists, who want to get lost in the labyrinth and then find ourselves and tell the tale of the journey. It can be done without moving from home, it is a zero-kilometre journey. At the end there is another city 'to sing'.
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12 pm
Ala Assoarchitetti. The Dedalo Minosse International Award for Commissioning Architecture
Conference (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
This award is promoted by ALA - Assoarchitetti and the Veneto Region every two years since 1997. Its mission is to highlight the importance of quality in architecture, focusing on the design and construction process, highlighting the key players: the architect and the client, together with the companies and public administrations that contribute to the success of the architectural work.
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3.30 pm
"Picasso"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Lecture by Prof. Gregorio Luke (eng).
Photo: Getty-Images
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5 pm
Santiago Calatrava
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Calatrava will be awarded the "Leonardo da Vinci" Lifetime Achievement Award for Design with the following motivation: "The Award is the Florence Biennale's tribute to one of the most influential architects of our time and recognition of his daring experimentation, his extraordinary talent and his ingenious ability to combine architecture and art in projects conceived and realised in harmony with nature and oriented towards the ideals of beauty".
Photo: © Thomas Hoeffgen
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10 am - 7 pm
“La museologia del presente. Musei inclusivi e sostenibili si diventa”
Conference (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Conference co-curated by Domenico Piraina and Maurizio Vanni.
The Museology of the Present pushes to rethink the sustainability, valorisation and management of museums: museum functions are increasing by placing the visitor at the centre of every cultural offer. Will museum structures be able to adapt to the new challenges proposed by ICOM in its new definition of a museum? Will they be able to devise experiential inclusion projects for different audience segments, to fulfil the requirements of social responsibility and holistic sustainability and significantly reduce their environmental impact? These will be some of the topics that will be addressed by professionals with interdisciplinary expertise: museum presidents and directors, museologists, specialists in cultural marketing and economic management, psychiatrists, bio-architects, specialists in technological innovation and holistic sustainability.
The conference will focus on the four degrees of sustainability: - economic sustainability (economic impact)
• social responsibility (social impact)
• environmental sustainability (environmental impact)
• holistic sustainability (holistic impact)
• functional technology
• corporate museums
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10 am
“Can you smile for me?”
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the photo exhibition consisting of over 80 shots taken by RAI special correspondent and photo-reporter Giammarco Sicuro.
A collection that the author wanted to donate to UNICEF and collected in more than 10 years of work in various countries around the world, composed entirely of children's faces and stories. A colourful and heterogeneous mosaic, but also and above all a suffering, emergent and painful mosaic of a childhood lost in corners of the world too often abandoned and forgotten.
Myanmar, Peru, Bolivia, India, Nepal, Brazil, Oman, Tajikistan, are just some of the countries visited, with a main focus on two major emergencies: Afghanistan and, of course, Ukraine. The former, a country that has suffered the Taliban's return to power and faces a gigantic humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition, diseases that had already been eradicated and are now present again, absolute denial of rights to children, girls and women, extreme poverty that Giammarco Sicuro has been able to document also thanks to the precious help of UNICEF, visiting schools and hospitals in remote and otherwise inaccessible locations.
And then, the war in Ukraine on its first anniversary, whose tragedy emerges with overwhelming and shocking force from the author's shots, taken close to the front in the midst of the conflict.
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11 am
Presentation of Day Centres for the Disabled
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The Florence Biennale hosts, as in 2021, the semi-residential centres L'Abbraccio, L'Aquilone and L'Arcolaio, three realities of the south-east Florence area that offer answers to the needs of citizens with severe and medium-severe disabilities and their relatives. As part of the XIV Florence Biennale, an exhibition space will be dedicated to the artworks realised by the members of the centres during the art workshops they held together with the operators.
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2 pm
Mastering the Art of Selling: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists
Talk with Mia du Toit - Art Manager & Marketing Manager (ita-eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Are you an artist struggling to sell your art? Don't worry, you're not alone. Many artists find it challenging to navigate the business side of art, but with the right approach, it is possible to make a successful sale. In this interactive workshop, we will teach you the basic principles you need to apply to sell your art successfully. The first step is to understand your target audience and identify who your buyer is. Knowing your buyer's preferences and interests will help you tailor your approach to increase your chances of making a sale. Next, we will discuss the three essential questions you need to ask to close a sale successfully. These questions will help you understand your buyer's needs and expectations and enable you to address any concerns they may have. With these insights, you'll be able to present your art in a way that resonates with your buyer, ultimately increasing your chances of making a successful sale. Finally, we will delve into how to build your brand as an artist. In today's market, it's essential to establish a strong personal brand that showcases your unique style and message. We'll guide you through the process of creating a brand that is authentic to you and attracts your ideal buyer. In conclusion, this workshop is ideal for any artist looking to improve their sales skills and build a successful career in the art industry. With our expert guidance, you'll be well on your way to mastering the art of selling.
The whole workshop will be translated into Italian.
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4 pm
Galdos Rivas
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Enrique Galdos Rivas will receive the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award from the President. The Florence Biennale will display a series of his works, and a retrospective dedicated to him will also be projected during a musical performance by his daughters Martha Galdos and Blanca Galdos and their ensemble.
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5 pm
"Salvador Dalì"
Lecture by Prof. Gregorio Luke (eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The greatest artistic and ideological rival of Picasso is Salvador Dalí, who painted a world of desires, passions and obsessions. He became the most famous surrealist in the world. His entire life is surrounded by scandal and controversy, what is not in doubt is his enormous talent. His creativity encompasses not only painting, but writing, sculpture, fashion and film. We will analyze in detail his masterpieces, enjoy scenes from his films with Buñuel and Hitchcock and celebrate his obsessive love for his wife Gala, the museums he created and his legacy.
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6 pm
"Mirroring"
Performative installation by Sara del Bene (ita-eng)
Theatre Area - Padiglione Spadolini
The installation appears as a cascade of mirrors, where the visitor can pass through and linger. The mirror is round, like a handbag mirror and has a pin on the back. It's a mirror that you can wear.
Sara Del Bene invites the visitor to become part of the artistic experience by wearing the mirror during the event, as an ornament and more. The artist invites the public to reflect on individual and collective identities. This installation focuses on the multiplicity and transience of confrontation.
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10.30 am
"A.R Juárez: La Escuela de Rancagua"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Ricardo Juárez is an artist from Pergamino, Argentina, where he founded the Rancagua School. His works have nature and its relationship with man as their main theme, drawing inspiration from his home town, Rancagua, in the province of Buenos Aires, which is distinguished by its landscape of vast plains, fields and countless colours in the earth and sky. This everyday landscape offers the artist moments of deep reflection that are manifested in his paintings. In virtue of this homage to his homeland, Juárez founded the School of Rancagua, to which some of the artists exhibiting with him at the XIV Florence Biennale belong.
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11 pm
Lv Zhongyuan
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
On the occasion of the XIV Florence Biennale, Guest of Honour Lv Zhongyuan receives the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award from the President.
Lv Zhongyuan integrates the realism and decoration of form, the tension of colour and the implicitness of thought, giving the paintings a secluded and distant atmosphere full of oriental ideals and forming a personal artistic style that fuses China and the West.
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11.30 am
"ADI Design Museum in Tuscany - Design Milestones meet the Young Promises"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The best examples of design presented by ADI Toscana together with the ADI Design Museum of Milan with a series of products selected by ADI Design Index, the annual review of the best Italian design, Honorable Mentions and the Compasso d'Oro Award, the highest award of the sector.
With the presentation of the ADI "Targa Giovani" award and the contribution of educational institutions, the intention is to prefigure continuity in the tradition of Design Made in Italy.
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3 pm
Artists and Designers Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
During each edition of the Florence Biennale, the exhibiting artists and designers who stand out for their works in the competition in the relevant categories receive the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (for Art) and "Leonardo da Vinci" (for Design) awards assigned by an International Jury made up of distinguished personalities from the world of art and culture.
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10 am
Media Preview
The preview will be held at 10 am for accredited journalists only, upon presentation of their badge or other valid document. For other methods of accreditation, please contact the media office.
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11 am
Opening Ceremony
Spadolini Pavilion
Entrance to this event is by invitation only.
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2 pm
Opening to the public
Entrance from Spadolini Pavilion
We remind you that you can buy tickets in advance on Ticket One.
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3 pm
"Blooming Womb"
Performance by Elisabetta Amoruso
Spadolini Pavilion
Elisabetta Amoruso tackles trauma and suffering through her QR codes, proposing art as a cure for pain. Her work focuses on awareness, normalisation and analysis of the self and states of mind. Within his empathic works he creates a journey of discovery, rebirth and liberation by engaging the audience in a large-scale art therapy session of his own.
With this year's theme - 'I Am You' - the artist investigates the relationship between the individual and himself and between him and his fellow man, presenting 'Blooming Womb', which deals with the concept of birth and rebirth. Through her improvisational performance, the artist asks the audience to let themselves be guided and interact with her to initiate the blooming of the womb. -
4 pm
“Flawed Euphony”
Performance by Lynn Guo e Viola Panik
Padiglione Spadolini
"In a society's embrace, we bear the weight of whispered expectations and standards. These voices, both known and veiled, measure and chastise our very essence. Through the strokes of painting and the poetry of performance, we unravel the tapestry of self-critique, weaving a symphony of transformation. Amidst body's shame, the canvas becomes a mirror, the ruler becomes an emblem, a universal chorus of "not enough" and "failure" echoing across genders, ages, and cultures. As the performance crescendos, the performer casts aside the rulers, liberated, enveloped by self-embrace, cherishing flaws and imperfections. Witnessing this journey, we beckon the souls of the Florence Biennale to inscribe upon the performer's skin the tender words they yearn to tell themselves".
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5 pm
Performance by Benazir Ihsan
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Benazir Ihsan is a 10 year old abstract expressionist painter and the youngest participating artist in the XIV Florence Biennale 2023. She creates paintings while she performs gymnastics around her humungous canvases to make the colors appear on the canvas in the form of similar bodily movements/gesture. Her technique involves dragging and splashing of paints/other media on canvas placed horizontally on the ground to generate exuberantly brilliant patterns as she moves around the canvas performing her gymnastic.
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6.30 pm
"Color Variations"
Performance by Sergio Maltagliati with Giancarlo Andreini (Clarinet) and Carlo Palagi (Guitar)
Area Teatro - Padiglione Spadolini
In 1986, Pietro Grossi theorised HomeArt, which was presented for the first time during the exhibition 'Nuova Atlantide - Il continente della musica elettronica' organised by the Venice Biennale in November of that year. This electronic art experience stemmed from Grossi's need to express himself also in the field of graphics, while maintaining those principles that had governed his musical ideas and at the same time using small, widely used computer systems.
Sergio Maltagliati developed new visual variations by intervening in the codes of Pietro Grossi's graphic programmes and adding an original soundtrack.
All his thought is collected in writings, (which Grossi entrusts to the computer through programmes that generate infinite and ever-changing graphic and colour variations) defined by Daniele Lombardi as "highly poetic that induces a consideration of music as a social, spiritual fact". Here is one of his phrases at the heart of the thought inherent in HomeArt, used for this work: “For centuries man has told the other, look at what I can do. Today he says look at what YOU can. The computer frees us from the genius of others and increases ours”. -
7 pm
"Blindsight"
Performance by Karakorum Collective
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
"Blindsight" aims to investigate the relationship between identity and freedom, assuming that a once the identity of the subject has been formed, freedom can be exercised only in the limited space of those who we are. So there is no freedom in the broad sense but the only full freedom we can aspire to is what we can experience within our identity.
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11 am
"L’arte nelle poesie cantate di Giulio Rapetti Mogol" (Art in the Sung Poems of Giulio Rapetti Mogol)
Talk (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Giulio Rapetti Mogol's speech on the relationship between music, poetry and creativity.
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2.30 pm
"Unity - The Missing Elements"
Talk (eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Speech by Paul Foropoulos on the theme of the XIV Florence Biennale: "I Am You".
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3 pm
Viktoria Andreeva
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Winner of the International Open Call Competition (Photography).
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3.30 pm
Jean-Michel Bihorel
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Winner of the International Open Call Competition (Art).
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4.30 pm
Amalia del Ponte
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
On the occasion of the XIV Florence Biennale, Guest of Honour Amalia Del Ponte receives the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award from the President and exhibits a new artwork inspired by the theme "I Am You," which compares an enlargement of the artist's skin and that of the "skin" of a tree, gently evoking the bond between human beings and nature: "You Are Me."
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5.30 pm
“Il viaggio invisibile” (The Invisible Journey)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Screening of the documentary resulting from the collaboration between FERCAM and the artist Jago.
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Closing day
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10.30 am
XIV Florence Biennale Catalogue
Presentation (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the catalogue of the XIV Florence Biennale, published by Giorgio Mondadori Editore.
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11.30 am
"I am You"
Speech (esp)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Speech by Julio Sapollnik, member of the Florence Biennale Curatorial Board.
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3.30 pm
Maori Collective
Presentation and performance by the Maori Collective
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
TĀHŪ brings together a collective of Indigenous Māori Artists from the East Coast North Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The Māori term Tāhū (also known as tāhuhu), has layered conceptualisation of indigenous knowledge and practice. Tāhū is described as the first weft in the weaving of a traditional Māori garment, or, as the main ridge-pole of a traditional ancestral house. Both concepts have underlying threads that connect people and place – a metaphor of weaving a direct line of ancestry, through genealogy, design and story. -
5 pm
David LaChapelle
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The artist will be awarded the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award with the following motivation: "as a tribute to one of the most talented and influential photographers of our time, and in recognition of his unique style and outstanding artistic production, based on imagination, experimentation and creativity, conveying profound social messages. Thanks to his visionary, original and courageous perspective, he has inspired many other artists and audiences worldwide".
Photo: © Thomas Canet
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11 am
"I AM YOU - Architecture of biotopes"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Interview with Arch. Dorota Szlachcic by Arch. Margherita Blonska Ciardi - Studio Artemisia.
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4 pm
I AM MAHSA
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the special project "I AM MAHSA': WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM" in collaboration with Me Art Group and the International Centre for Peace Amongst Peoples in Assisi.
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10.30 am
FantaCity
Talk by Andrea Felice (ita)
Fantacity is a world made up of different stories, floating in a timeless dimension where the past, present and future coincide on the stage of visual representation.
The landscape and architecture of Fantacity, in the grip of sudden changes, mark the urgency of conscious, shared action aimed at safeguarding the planet. -
11 am
"9999 and radical architecture"
Talk by Lilla Fiumi (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The group 9999 was a movement of radical architects founded in Florence in 1968, initially known as '1999'. This group, along with others such as Superstudio and Archizoom, helped define radical architecture, pursuing a subversive and visionary approach that influenced generational change in Italian architecture in the 1960s and 1970s. Their impact extended to cities such as Milan, Turin, Rome and Naples, revolutionising architectural language and embracing a modern architectural ideology.
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11.30 am
"City Carpet. The weave of cities in cinema"
Talk by Giorgio Scianca (ita)
For more than a century, cinema has been narrating the cities of the world. Films are a time machine, a teleporter. City Carpet is a project that strips films of their private interiors to make room for public exteriors. The story for us ends on the doorstep. We are travellers, tourists, who want to get lost in the labyrinth and then find ourselves and tell the tale of the journey. It can be done without moving from home, it is a zero-kilometre journey. At the end there is another city 'to sing'.
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12 pm
Ala Assoarchitetti. The Dedalo Minosse International Award for Commissioning Architecture
Conference (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
This award is promoted by ALA - Assoarchitetti and the Veneto Region every two years since 1997. Its mission is to highlight the importance of quality in architecture, focusing on the design and construction process, highlighting the key players: the architect and the client, together with the companies and public administrations that contribute to the success of the architectural work.
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3.30 pm
"Picasso"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Lecture by Prof. Gregorio Luke (eng).
Photo: Getty-Images
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5 pm
Santiago Calatrava
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Calatrava will be awarded the "Leonardo da Vinci" Lifetime Achievement Award for Design with the following motivation: "The Award is the Florence Biennale's tribute to one of the most influential architects of our time and recognition of his daring experimentation, his extraordinary talent and his ingenious ability to combine architecture and art in projects conceived and realised in harmony with nature and oriented towards the ideals of beauty".
Photo: © Thomas Hoeffgen
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10 am - 7 pm
“La museologia del presente. Musei inclusivi e sostenibili si diventa”
Conference (ita)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Conference co-curated by Domenico Piraina and Maurizio Vanni.
The Museology of the Present pushes to rethink the sustainability, valorisation and management of museums: museum functions are increasing by placing the visitor at the centre of every cultural offer. Will museum structures be able to adapt to the new challenges proposed by ICOM in its new definition of a museum? Will they be able to devise experiential inclusion projects for different audience segments, to fulfil the requirements of social responsibility and holistic sustainability and significantly reduce their environmental impact? These will be some of the topics that will be addressed by professionals with interdisciplinary expertise: museum presidents and directors, museologists, specialists in cultural marketing and economic management, psychiatrists, bio-architects, specialists in technological innovation and holistic sustainability.
The conference will focus on the four degrees of sustainability: - economic sustainability (economic impact)
• social responsibility (social impact)
• environmental sustainability (environmental impact)
• holistic sustainability (holistic impact)
• functional technology
• corporate museums
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10 am
“Can you smile for me?”
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Presentation of the photo exhibition consisting of over 80 shots taken by RAI special correspondent and photo-reporter Giammarco Sicuro.
A collection that the author wanted to donate to UNICEF and collected in more than 10 years of work in various countries around the world, composed entirely of children's faces and stories. A colourful and heterogeneous mosaic, but also and above all a suffering, emergent and painful mosaic of a childhood lost in corners of the world too often abandoned and forgotten.
Myanmar, Peru, Bolivia, India, Nepal, Brazil, Oman, Tajikistan, are just some of the countries visited, with a main focus on two major emergencies: Afghanistan and, of course, Ukraine. The former, a country that has suffered the Taliban's return to power and faces a gigantic humanitarian crisis. Malnutrition, diseases that had already been eradicated and are now present again, absolute denial of rights to children, girls and women, extreme poverty that Giammarco Sicuro has been able to document also thanks to the precious help of UNICEF, visiting schools and hospitals in remote and otherwise inaccessible locations.
And then, the war in Ukraine on its first anniversary, whose tragedy emerges with overwhelming and shocking force from the author's shots, taken close to the front in the midst of the conflict.
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11 am
Presentation of Day Centres for the Disabled
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The Florence Biennale hosts, as in 2021, the semi-residential centres L'Abbraccio, L'Aquilone and L'Arcolaio, three realities of the south-east Florence area that offer answers to the needs of citizens with severe and medium-severe disabilities and their relatives. As part of the XIV Florence Biennale, an exhibition space will be dedicated to the artworks realised by the members of the centres during the art workshops they held together with the operators.
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2 pm
Mastering the Art of Selling: A Comprehensive Guide for Artists
Talk with Mia du Toit - Art Manager & Marketing Manager (ita-eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Are you an artist struggling to sell your art? Don't worry, you're not alone. Many artists find it challenging to navigate the business side of art, but with the right approach, it is possible to make a successful sale. In this interactive workshop, we will teach you the basic principles you need to apply to sell your art successfully. The first step is to understand your target audience and identify who your buyer is. Knowing your buyer's preferences and interests will help you tailor your approach to increase your chances of making a sale. Next, we will discuss the three essential questions you need to ask to close a sale successfully. These questions will help you understand your buyer's needs and expectations and enable you to address any concerns they may have. With these insights, you'll be able to present your art in a way that resonates with your buyer, ultimately increasing your chances of making a successful sale. Finally, we will delve into how to build your brand as an artist. In today's market, it's essential to establish a strong personal brand that showcases your unique style and message. We'll guide you through the process of creating a brand that is authentic to you and attracts your ideal buyer. In conclusion, this workshop is ideal for any artist looking to improve their sales skills and build a successful career in the art industry. With our expert guidance, you'll be well on your way to mastering the art of selling.
The whole workshop will be translated into Italian.
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4 pm
Galdos Rivas
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Enrique Galdos Rivas will receive the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Lifetime Achievement Award from the President. The Florence Biennale will display a series of his works, and a retrospective dedicated to him will also be projected during a musical performance by his daughters Martha Galdos and Blanca Galdos and their ensemble.
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5 pm
"Salvador Dalì"
Lecture by Prof. Gregorio Luke (eng)
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The greatest artistic and ideological rival of Picasso is Salvador Dalí, who painted a world of desires, passions and obsessions. He became the most famous surrealist in the world. His entire life is surrounded by scandal and controversy, what is not in doubt is his enormous talent. His creativity encompasses not only painting, but writing, sculpture, fashion and film. We will analyze in detail his masterpieces, enjoy scenes from his films with Buñuel and Hitchcock and celebrate his obsessive love for his wife Gala, the museums he created and his legacy.
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6 pm
"Mirroring"
Performative installation by Sara del Bene (ita-eng)
Theatre Area - Padiglione Spadolini
The installation appears as a cascade of mirrors, where the visitor can pass through and linger. The mirror is round, like a handbag mirror and has a pin on the back. It's a mirror that you can wear.
Sara Del Bene invites the visitor to become part of the artistic experience by wearing the mirror during the event, as an ornament and more. The artist invites the public to reflect on individual and collective identities. This installation focuses on the multiplicity and transience of confrontation.
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10.30 am
"A.R Juárez: La Escuela de Rancagua"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
Ricardo Juárez is an artist from Pergamino, Argentina, where he founded the Rancagua School. His works have nature and its relationship with man as their main theme, drawing inspiration from his home town, Rancagua, in the province of Buenos Aires, which is distinguished by its landscape of vast plains, fields and countless colours in the earth and sky. This everyday landscape offers the artist moments of deep reflection that are manifested in his paintings. In virtue of this homage to his homeland, Juárez founded the School of Rancagua, to which some of the artists exhibiting with him at the XIV Florence Biennale belong.
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11 pm
Lv Zhongyuan
Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
On the occasion of the XIV Florence Biennale, Guest of Honour Lv Zhongyuan receives the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" Lifetime Achievement Award from the President.
Lv Zhongyuan integrates the realism and decoration of form, the tension of colour and the implicitness of thought, giving the paintings a secluded and distant atmosphere full of oriental ideals and forming a personal artistic style that fuses China and the West.
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11.30 am
"ADI Design Museum in Tuscany - Design Milestones meet the Young Promises"
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
The best examples of design presented by ADI Toscana together with the ADI Design Museum of Milan with a series of products selected by ADI Design Index, the annual review of the best Italian design, Honorable Mentions and the Compasso d'Oro Award, the highest award of the sector.
With the presentation of the ADI "Targa Giovani" award and the contribution of educational institutions, the intention is to prefigure continuity in the tradition of Design Made in Italy.
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3 pm
Artists and Designers Award Ceremony
Theatre Area - Spadolini Pavilion
During each edition of the Florence Biennale, the exhibiting artists and designers who stand out for their works in the competition in the relevant categories receive the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" (for Art) and "Leonardo da Vinci" (for Design) awards assigned by an International Jury made up of distinguished personalities from the world of art and culture.