BOOK:All the World’s Futures,56th La Biennale di Venezia, Marsilio Publications

The Catalogue of the Biennale Arte 2015 is published in two volumes. The first describes the International Exhibition in a lengthy essay by Okwui Enwezor, the curator of the 56th Venice Biennale, divided into chapters that feature the narrative biographies of the invited Artists and the images of their works. Volume two is dedicated to the National Participations and the Collateral Events.

By Efi Michalarou

Rather than one overarching theme, the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale is informed by a layer of intersecting filters. These filters are a constellation of parameters that circumscribe multiple ideas which will be touched upon to imagine and realize a diversity of practices. “All the World’s Futures” employs as a filter the historical trajectory that the Biennale itself, over the course of its one hundred and twenty years existence has run over. A filter through which to reflect on both the current “state of things” and the “appearance of things”. At its core is the notion of the exhibition as a stage, where historical and counter-historical projects are explored. Within this framework the main aspects of the 56th Biennale Exhibition solicit and privilege new proposals and works conceived specifically by invited artists, filmmakers, choreographers, performers, composers, and writers.The guide is an essential tool, it contains information on all the Artists, the National Pavilions and Collateral Events. The graphic design of the Exhibition and its editorial products are by Chris Rehberger and his Double Standards studio in Berlin.