- Venue
- Florence Biennale
- Starts
- Saturday, December 5, 2009
- Ends
- Sunday, December 13, 2009
- Address
- Viale Belfiore 54 50144 - Firenze - Italy tel. +39 055 3249173 tel. +39 055 3218172 fax +39 055 333540 [email protected]
- Location
The seventh edition of the Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea of Florence will be held from 5th to 13th December 2009 in the historical setting of Fortezza da Basso, 840 artists from 76 countries will exhibit more than 2,500 works of art and will take part in the exhibition for an extraordinary encounter between different cultures, styles and languages as the “Dialogue among Civilization” program promotes, the Biennale has been officially participating in this program since 2001.As always, the Biennale will see the presence of important artists: In the 2007 edition, the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" career prize was conferred to Gilbert & George, for the 2005 edition to Christo and Jeanne-Claude and to Richard Anuszkiewicz and in 2003 to David Hockney. In the 2009 edition,Marina Abramovic will meet both the artists participating at the Biennale and visitors to the Biennale, as part of the rich calendar of conferences, meetings and video projections. The Chinese artist Shu Yong who’s been invited as an honor guest and who will be exhibiting some of his paintings dedicated to Chinese Myths.
