AwardsNovember 6, 2023
Anna Maria Maiolino and Nil Yalter were awarded the Golden Lions For Lifetime Achievement at The Venice Biennale Arte 2024
The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere (April 20 - November 24, 2024).
The decision was approved by La Biennale’s Board of Directors, chaired by Roberto Cicutto, upon the recommendation of Adriano Pedrosa, Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition.
Adriano Pedrosa explained in the press release: “This decision is particularly meaningful given the title and framework of my Exhibition, focused as it is on artists who have traveled and migrated between North and South, Europe and beyond, and vice versa. In this sense, my choice rests upon two extraordinary, pioneering women artists who are also migrants and who embody in many ways the spirit of Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere: Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, Italy, 1942, lives in São Paulo, Brazil), who migrated from Italy to South America, first to Venezuela and later to Brazil, where she lives today; Nil Yalter (Cairo, Egypt, 1938, lives in Paris, France), a Turkish who migrated from Cairo to Istanbul and finally to Paris, where she is based.”
The artists will both be participating at the Biennale Arte for the first time in 2024: Maiolino will present a new large-scale work that continues and unfolds her series of sculptures and installations in clay; Yalter will showcase a new reconfiguration of her installation Exile is a hard job in conjunction with her Topak Ev work, placed in the first room of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.
The awards ceremony and opening of the 60th Exhibition, which will open to the public at 11.00 a.m. on that same day, will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale di Venezia.
The decision was approved by La Biennale’s Board of Directors, chaired by Roberto Cicutto, upon the recommendation of Adriano Pedrosa, Curator of the 60th International Art Exhibition.
Adriano Pedrosa explained in the press release: “This decision is particularly meaningful given the title and framework of my Exhibition, focused as it is on artists who have traveled and migrated between North and South, Europe and beyond, and vice versa. In this sense, my choice rests upon two extraordinary, pioneering women artists who are also migrants and who embody in many ways the spirit of Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere: Anna Maria Maiolino (Scalea, Italy, 1942, lives in São Paulo, Brazil), who migrated from Italy to South America, first to Venezuela and later to Brazil, where she lives today; Nil Yalter (Cairo, Egypt, 1938, lives in Paris, France), a Turkish who migrated from Cairo to Istanbul and finally to Paris, where she is based.”
The artists will both be participating at the Biennale Arte for the first time in 2024: Maiolino will present a new large-scale work that continues and unfolds her series of sculptures and installations in clay; Yalter will showcase a new reconfiguration of her installation Exile is a hard job in conjunction with her Topak Ev work, placed in the first room of the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.
The awards ceremony and opening of the 60th Exhibition, which will open to the public at 11.00 a.m. on that same day, will be held on Saturday, April 20, 2024, at Ca’ Giustinian, the headquarters of La Biennale di Venezia.
