Under the title “Foreigners Everywhere,” the Venice Biennale wants to focus on migration, minorities and the global south. Could be that it’s the end of an era.
Has there ever been an art biennale in Venice in which the political was expressed as spatially as in this one? It’s not so much about the three dozen younger people with Palestinian flags who, at the preview on Wednesday afternoon, called for the disappearance of Israel as a whole and the exclusion of the Israeli pavilion from the Biennale in particular, and then because the pavilion was closed by decision of the The artistic teams responsible there this time had not even been opened, and from “Israel” they took the conveniently very short route to the American and finally to the German pavilion, where they loudly accused “Germany” of its Middle East policy, as if the exhibition buildings were actually embassy buildings with a sovereign representative function of the respective governments.