Venezuelan pavilion



The Venezuelan pavilion houses Venezuela's national representation during the Venice Biennale arts festivals. It is located in the Giardini della Biennale.

Organization and building
The Biennale began in 1895. When it resumed after a break caused by World War II, Venezuela was invited to participate. The government of Marcos Pérez Jiménez agreed to fund a national pavilion, the first for a Latin American country. Designed by the Italian architect Carlo Scarpa, it was built between 1953 and 1956.

Art

 * 1954 — Armando Reverón
 * 1956 — Mateo Manaure
 * 1958 — Régulo Pérez
 * 1960 — Hector Poleo
 * 1962 — Oswaldo Vigas
 * 1964 — Jesús Rafael Soto
 * 1970 — Carlos Cruz-Diez
 * 1978 — Luisa Richter
 * 1976 — Alirio Rodríguez
 * 1980 — Oswaldo Subero
 * 1988 — Jacobo Borges
 * 1990 — Julio Pacheco Rivas
 * 1995 — Meyer Vaisman
 * 1999 — Victor Lucena
 * 2005 — Santiago Pol (Commissioner: Vivian Rivas Gingerich)
 * 2007 — Antonio Briceño, Vincent & Feria (Commissioner: Zuleiva Vivas)
 * 2009 — Claudio Perna, Antonieta Sosa, Alejandro Otero
 * 2011 — Francisco Bassim, Clemencia Labin, Yoshi (Curator: Luis Hurtado)
 * 2013 — Colectivo de Artistas Urbanos Venezolanos (Curator: Juan Calzadilla)
 * 2015 — Argelia Bravo, Félix Molina (Flix) (Curator: Oscar Sotillo Meneses)
 * 2017 — Juan Calzadilla