From 29th August to 21st November 2010

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, which will take place in Venice, at the Giardini the Arsenale from 29th August to 21st November 2010, has been awarded to the Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas. The decision was taken by the Board of the Biennale di Venezia, chaired by Paolo Baratta. in Time in 2008 as

29th August – 21st November 2010
Giardini and Arsenale

Last May an early program of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition was presented: it will be opened to the public from Sunday 29th August to Sunday 21st November 2010 at the Giardini of Biennale and at the Arsenale. For the first time this year a woman will direct the Architecture Sector: Kazuyo Sejima who has recently been awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010 (together with Ryue

29th August – 21st November 2010
Giardini, Arsenale

Last 22nd January 2010 the new Director  of the 12th International Architecture Exhibition, Kazuyo Sejima, with the President of the Biennale, Paolo Baratta, met, at Ca’ Giustinian, the representatives of the 54 Countiries participating in the next Biennale which will take place from 29th August

From June 7th , 2009

Completed the artist selection of Making Worlds: 6 New Exhibitions in the Collateral Events section.

The Padiglione Venezia dedicated to Murano Glassware

Biennale art 2009 Roberto Cuoghi, Sunil Gawde, Gilbert & Gorge, Sherrie Levine complete the list of artists (this year more than 90, groups included) of the 53rd International Art Exhibition, entitled Making Worlds / Banting Duniyan / Weltenmachen/ Construire des Mondes / Fazer Mundos, opened to the public in Venice (Giardini and Arsenale) from 7th June to 22nd November 2009.

The exhibition which will be held at the Padiglione Venezia will be dedicated to the artistic Venetian glassware; it is organized by the Regione Veneto in combination with the 53rd Exhibition entitled ‘Fa come natura face in foco’ and curated by Ferruccio Franzoia.

The list of the Collateral Events of the Art Biennale has been enriched with six new exhibitions too, reaching the total number of 44 Collateral Events organized throughout Venice and on

6th and 7th September 2009
Venice Lido

Several world previews from the animation cinema universe will enrich the 66th Venice Film Festival on the occasion of the presentation of John Lasseter and the Pixar Animation Studios directors with the Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement .

The world premiere screenings of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 in 3D as well as of some sequences of the new Christmas feature film by the Disney–Pixar, The Princess and the Frog, will be on 6th and 7th September 2009. The latter, directed by Ron Clemens and John Musker, is the new transposition of the

20th September – 19th October 2008
Lagoon Park in Venice – Thetis Space – Biennal
From 20th September to 19th October 2008 it is possible to visit the Lagoon in a definitely original way. As a matter of fact the Lagoon Park Institution, in scope of the event Lagoon Park Shelter, namely a series of floating emplacements (which have been defined ‘ shells as shelters’ by those who created them in scope of the Architecture Biennal) located in strategic and panoramic points of the lagoon, organises guided tours on some small very picturesque boats, namely the ‘bragozzi’, among the scenic wonders of the urban archipelago of Venice. The tour starts from the Certosa Island, then it reaches the Vignole, Forte St. Andrea, St. Erasmo, while the morning tour reaches the Lazzareto Nuovo, St. Francesco del Deserto and St. Giacomo

14th September -2nd November 2008
The 11th International Architecture Exhibition started last Sunday 14th september and this year the Biennale, rather than proposing us a series of relief models, tries to make us understand the visions of architects. Starting from the presupposition, already explained several times by the manager of such sector, Aaron Betsky, that buildings are frequently unattractive and sad, it has been decided, thus, to focus people’s attention on the meeting between imagination and the real essence of architecture. In fact it represents a field of study which not only puts up buildings, but it gives life to the environment surrounding us, namely the environment immediately near us and the one involving our social life.
The Architecture Biennale has been, thus, transformed into something looking like the Art Biennale (with lots of naked models capturing everybody’s attention!): most of the installations are frequently interactive, thus immediately drawing the visitors’ attention, and they are

29th August 2008

We expected to see Charlize Teron and Kim Basinger too – taking part, today, in the Film Festival with ‘The Burning Plain’ – at the sparkling soirée that last night involved two exceptional Venetian locations, namely the Theatre La Fenice and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the first one prepared for the presentation of the documentary ‘The last emperor’ and the second one for the Party in honour of Valentino, doubly celebrated: in a film and in his real life. On the contrary none of them was present, though there were actually some celebrities: Eva Herzigova, Eva Riccobono, Liz Hurley, Diane Kruger, the young Carolina Crescentini, Afef, Eliana Miglio, Gaia Bermani Amaral, the icon Elsa Martinelli, Matteo Marzotto and Lapo Elkann. After standing ovation welcoming Valentino at the Sala Grande at Lido, yesterday afternoon many more applauses at the Theatre La Fenice, where in the foyer for this occasion a retrospective exhibition with thirty creations of the maison has been organized. And after the Fenice everybody was invited to Ca’Corner dei Leoni, namely the place of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, where Vanity Fair and Vogue Italia offered the stylist a great party with one thousand candles illuminating the garden and the terrace, as well as flowery decorations and waiters in dark blue uniforms.
Charlize Teron, instead, delighted people with her presence and all her amazing beauty this morning at Lido; she wore a wonderful fuchsia dress. She presents her competing film ‘The Burning Plain’ by Gulliermo Arriaga, the scriptwriter of Inarritu, who has worked as a film director for the first time. C. Teron, besides being, with Kim Basinger, one of the protagonists, is also the producer of this intense and dramatic film developed on more temporal and spatial levels and dealing with four stories that, like the film director has explained today during a press conference, are based on the main natural elements: fire, air, earth and water. Her interpretation is perfect, showing once more that besides being very beautiful, she is very good too, and the film too has won a deep emotion and the applauses of the public of critics and journalists of this morning.

Tania Danieli

28th august 2008
Yesterday Manoel De Oliveira, who is now centenarian, started the opening Ceremony of the 65th Venice Film Festival in front of a worshipping public who stood applauding Venice – 65th International Film Festival. As the opening ceremony his great work in the cinematographic world.
Soon afterwards the new masterpiece of the Coen Brothers was projected, still they, not being satisfied with the three Oscars they had just won with ‘It is not a country for the old’, present their ‘Burning after reading’, completely changing genre: it is an irreverent bitter and cynical comedy lining up a stellar cast, namely stars bound to become unexpectedly grotesque as they are placed in nearly surrealistic situations. Just not long beforehand, these actors, and particularly Brad Pitt and George Clooney, literally had sent into a frenzy the crown who had been crouched down since the morning out of the Palazzo del Cinema, in order to get their autographs. The Festival has given us a sparkling opening and looks like very interesting despite the fact that there will not be many great stars from Hollywood next days and in spite of the arguments about the temporal closeness to the Rome Festival and Toronto’s one, which represents, according to everybody, the fact causing the shortage of presences. Anyway the programme is rich in films by famous directors, such as ‘Akires to kame’ by Takeshi Kitano, ‘The Perfect Day’ by Opzetek and ‘The

27th August 2008
The 65th International Film Festival started yesterday (one day in advance compared to the official date) with the arrival of prominent international film stars. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton, John Malkovic and the Coen Brothers, respectively actors and directors of the film opening the festival, ‘Burn after reading’, have been among the 120 hosts taking part in the Party organized at the Granai of Giudecca. The Charity event has been arranged by Manuele Malenotti by Belstaff together with the Noow (Not on our watch) Foundation, created by Pitt and Clooney themselves with Matt Damon, that will gather funds for the starving people in Darfur. There were also Angelina Jolie, Ksenia Rappoport, Valeria Golino and Riccardo Scamarcio, Wim Wenders and Lola Ponce who also sang the opening phases of a song for her boyfriend, namely Belstaff’s patron, and precisely ‘Malenotti no’.
Tonight the actors of the new long-awaited film by the Coen Brothers are going to take part in the real Inauguration Ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema, before the projection of ‘Burn after reading’ at the Sala Grande and then they will be present at the great Party organized, like every year, on the Terrace along the Beach (which has been built just for such event) of the Westin Excelsior Hotel.