Italian-Brazilian visual artist
Anna Maria Maiolino will receive the
Golden Lion for her lifetime achievement at the next edition of the
Venice Art Biennale , in 2024. Born in Italy and based in Brazil, Anna Maria Maiolino lives and works in São Paulo, where, at 81 years old, she develops works in poetry, woodcuts, photography, cinema, performance, sculpture, installation and drawing.
“This decision is particularly significant given the title and framing of my exhibition, which focuses on artists who have travelled and migrated between the North and the South, Europe and beyond, and vice versa,” explains Venice Art Biennale curator
Adriano Pedrosa , who is also artistic director of MASP. Alongside Maiolino, Paris-based Turkish artist
Nil Yalter will also receive the Golden Lion at the 60th edition of the Biennale. Both artists will be participating in the Art Biennale for the first time.
About Anna Maria Maiolino
(Paulo Scheuenstuhl/CASACOR)
Today, her practice explores notions of subjectivity through drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation and sculpture. For over six decades, she has explored the universal themes of fragility, hunger, migration, motherhood, resistance, love and longing for something lost. Her art can be seen as an accumulation of experiences, not just as a craft. His work is part of the collections of more than 30 museums, such as the Tomie Ohtake Institute and MASP, in São Paulo; MoMA, in New York; Tate Modern and the Whitechapel Gallery, in London; the Centre Pompidou, in Paris; the Reina Sofia, in Madrid; and the Malba, in Buenos Aires. At the Venice Biennale, she will present a new large-scale work that will follow a series of clay sculptures and installations.
