There are many events, performances and conferences planned for the 12th Florence Biennale which will take place from 18 to 27 October at the Fortezza da Basso in Florence.
Below all the dates and times:
Friday, 18 October
11:00 Press Preview
17:00 Opening ceremony with flagbearers, Bandierai degli Uffizi del Calcio Storico Fiorentino
17:30 Inauguration
Saturday, 19 October
14:00 Talk Area Book presentation: The Transition of Traditional Chinese Art into Contemporary Art: The Artistic Realization of Overseas Chinese Artists in the United States di Chiu Ling-ting (Soochow University).
15:00 Lauri Stallings + glo present their performance art project Supple Means of Connection.
16:00 Presentation of the Video Art exhibition project ‘Slightly Modified Looking Glasses’, curated by Veronica Citi, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti (LABA), of Florence.
16:00 AquaFlor Workshop (for artists)
18:00 National première projection of Denying Beauty, directed by Rossano B. Maniscalchi, who will also present his solo exhibition of photographs at the XIIth Florence Biennale
19:30 The Meal of Madam Candlestick, performance by Eldarin Yeong
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Andrea Perini (Al 588) prepares his ‘stuffed mozzarella’
Sunday, 20 October
10:00 Luxury Jewellery Workshop, University of Siena, Faculty of Arezzo
11:00 Ceremony: Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture to Gustavo Aceves
14:00 Presentation of the ‘EpiMimesis – EpiZone V: Shifthing Identities’ by Joanna Hoffmann with the EpiLab Team (Art & Science Node Berlin)
15:00 Presentation of the group exhibition project by Harper’s Bazaar (China)
16:00 Presentation of the “Maris Art Project” by Liku Maria Takhashi
17:00 The Meal of Madam Candlestick, performance by Eldarin Yeong
18:00 ‘Leonardo da Vinci, lecture by Gregorio Luke
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Giuseppe D’Auria makes ‘vegetable sculptures’
Monday, 21 October
14:00 Projection of the film L’Architecte Textile by Mika’Ela Fisher
16:00 Presentation of the workshop “Design del gioiello di alta gamma” and talk “Storia del gioiello/Archivio Bulgari” curated by Paolo Torriti, University of Siena, Faculty of Arezzo
16:00 AquaFlor Workshop (for designers)
17:00 Presentation of the One World One Face by Adoratorio, Digital Creative Agency, and Erminando Aliaj
18:00 Ceremony: Lorenzo il Magnifico Award from the President to Anthony Howe
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Stefania Storai talks about ‘the structure of the tortello’
Tuesday, 22 October
11:00 AquaFlor workshop for the Jury members
14:00 ‘Interior Sound Design’ seminar by K-Array Accademy. Guest Speaker Felice Limosani
16:00 ‘Che Guevara in Contemporary Art’, lecture by Gregorio Luke
17:00 Presentation of the videos by exhibiting artists (competing in the Video Art category)
18:00 Ceremony: Lorenzo il Magnifico Award from the President to Mice Jankulovski
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Edoardo Tilli (Podere Belvedere) prepares his dessert, ‘World’
Wednesday, 23 October
10:30 Talk Area Book presentation: Rime di-segni by Chiara Ponti
14:30 ‘Lenci, lecture by Melanie Zefferino
15:00 Presentation of the Manifesto ‘Art of Toys’
16:00 Presentation of the exhibition “Soirèe la luce del pensiero”, curated by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, in collaboration with Guzzini
17:00 Presentation of the outcomes of the design workshops held by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) in collaboration with AquaFlor, Florence.
17:30 Talk Area ‘The Collection of the Museo del Design Toscano (MuDeTo)’, presentation by the President of the museum, Luigi Trenti
18:00 Ceremony: Lorenzo il Magnifico Award from the President to Han Juchen
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Show cooking: Stefano Fantozzi makes ‘sugar sculptures’
Thursday, 24 October
12:00 Ceremony: Leonardo da Vinci Lifetime Achievement Award for Design to Elsa Peretti
14:00 Presentation by the Centro Stile Piaggio
15:00 Presentation by the Centro Stile Italdesign
16:00 ‘Space and Earth, macchine e persone’, lecture by Guillermo Trotti, SACI Board of Trustees Member, Space Architect and NASA advisor
16:00 AquaFlor Workshop
17:00 Presentazione dell’esito del workshop IED Firenze in collaborazione con Corneliani
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Paolo Sacchetti prepares the ‘peaches of Prato’
Friday, 25 October
10:00 – 18:30 The Leonardo da Vinci Study Day. Chaired by Dr. Melanie Zefferino
Invited distinguished speakers:
Prof. Joanna Hoffmann, University of Poznan (Poland); Dr. Maurizio Diana, artist and scholar, former member of the ENEA; Ruben de la Nuez, Lecturer at the School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Dr. Maria Letizia Sebastiani, MiBac; Dr. Andrea Bernardoni, Ricercatore al Museo della Scienza (Museo Galileo), Firenze; Dr. Roberta Barsanti, Direttrice del Museo Leonardiano e Biblioteca Leonardiana di Vinci; Dr. Giuseppina Mussari, Direttrice della Biblioteca Reale di Torino; Dr. Matthew Laundrus, University of Oxford; Prof. Anna Sconza, Université Paris Sorbonne
19:00 Synaesthetic performance by Giorgia Marzi for AquaFlor, event organised by Spectra Enterprises
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Lorenzo Romano shows ‘ceci n’est pas un tomate’
Saturday, 26 October
11:00 Ceremony: Leonardo da Vinci Lifetime Achievement Award to Paula Scher
15:00 Solid Edge Academic Program Overview (Design Software, Free Education Version), Presentation by Ivan Cravero (Siemens Europe)
16:00 “Design values e design storytelling nei sistemi di distribuzione e-commerce”, presentation by the designer Valentina Guidi Ottobri
18:00 Book presentation Nulla è la Luna by Luigi Ferrario
18:30 Book presentation One Ton Goldfish by Justin Garcia
18:00 Announcement of the winners of the Design Index 2019 by the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI). The winners compete for the ADI ‘Compasso d’oro’ Prize.
20:00 Gala Dinner. Fortezza da Basso, Cavaniglia Pavilion
Aperitivo Show Cooking
18:00 Silvestro D’Andrea, makes ‘cheese sculptures’
