La Biennale di Venezia

50. Venice Biennial
15 June - 2 November 2003

Theme:
Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer.

Director:
Francesco Bonami

2003 Awards:
Golden Lion for the best work to Peter Fischli and David Weiss
Golden Lion for an artist under 35 years of age to Oliver Payne and Nick Relph
Prize for Young Italian Art to Avish Kheberhzadeh
Golden Lion for the best national participation to Luxembourg
Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement to Michelangelo Pistoletto and Carol Rama

Artists:
Fred Wilson
gruppo A 12
Adel Abdessemed
Etty Abergel
Cruzvillegas Abraham
Marina Abramovic
Carla Accardi
Studio Acconci
Vito Acconci
Özge Açikkol
Franz Ackermann
Vannesa Ahuactzin
Laylah Ali
Viktor Alimpiev
Darren Almond
Greg Van Alstyne
Pawel Althamer
Kai Althoff
Liliana Amielli
Carlos Amorales
Mamma Andersson
Emmanuelle Antille
Walter Aprile
Alfredo Juan Aquilizan
Maria Isabel Aquilizan
Arahmaiani
Arcagroup
Asymptote Architecture
Pablo Ares
Alessandra Ariatti
Zerynthia (Association for Contemporary Art)
Nicoletta Artuso
Micol Assaël
Kader Attia
Charles Avery
Yuri Avvakumov
Zeigam Azizov
Francis Bacon
Jeebesh Bagchi
Yiso Bahc
Maja Bajevic
John Baldessari
Michael Baldwin
Andrea Balestrero
Massimo Banzi
Anna Barbara
Matthew Barney
Gianandrea Barreca
Georg Baselitz
Jean Michel Basquiat
Taysir Batniji
Thomas Bayrle
Mark Beever
Paola Di Bello
Samta Benyahia
Violeta Bernasconi
Zarina Bhimji
Tatiana Bilbao
Johanna Billing
Dara Birnbaum
Sylvie Blocher
Daniel Blochwitz
John Bock
Christian Boltanski
Léonore Bonaccini
Iñaki Bonillas
Ecke Bonk
Ingrid Book
Borges Libreria/World Bookstore
Lorena Bossi
Vanesa Bossi
Bruce Mau design / Institute without Boundaries
Louise Bourgeois
Frank Bowling
Sergei Bratkov
Eric Brewer
Florencia Breyter
Ervins Broks
Alfaro Brooke
Glenn Brown
Renato Brozzi
Berlinde De Bruyckere
Antonella Bruzzese
Fernando Bryce
Kristina Bræin
Erik Bulatov
Angela Bulloch
Daniel Buren
Alberto Burri
Jean Marc Bustamante
Aline Caillet
Man Calin
GAC (Grupo de Arte Callejero)
Mircea Cantor
Maria Fernanda Cardoso
Fernanda Carrizo
Carsten Nicolai
Enrico Castellani
Jota Castro
Cristina Casula
Maurizio Cattelan
Ergin Çavus
Carolina Caycedo
Vija Celmins
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Tony Chakar
Yung Ho Chang
Nikos Charalambidis
Chen Shaoxiong
Pitzo Chinzima
Levan A. Chogoshvili
Young-Eun Choi
Heman Chong
Rachaporn Choochuey
Jai Chung
Santiago Cigureda
Francesco Clemente
Charles Clifford
Cliostraat
Chuck Close
Raqs Media Collective
Marc Comes
Mariana Corral
Lise Anne Couture
Alice Creischer
Alexandre da Cunha
John Currin
Boris Cvjetanovic'
Bureau d'études
Josef Dabernig
Dadang Christanto
Jonas Dahlberg
Azara Khsh Damood
Behrooz Daresh
Colin Darke
Françoise Daune
Jill Dawsey
Trebor Dawsey
Tacita Dean
Markus Degerman
Luc Deleu
Jeremy Deller
Thomas Demand
Gu Dexin
Wilson Diaz
Elizabeth Diller
Thea Djordjadze
Nico Dockx
Peter Doig
Lea Dojc
Gino De Dominicis
Trisha Donnelly
Elmgreen & Dragset
Ingar Dragset
Stanislaw Drózdz
Vladimir Dubossarsky
Marlene Dumas
Sabine Dumont-Schütte
Carroll Dunham
Sam Durant
Jimmie Durham
Tamara K. E.
Leif Elggren
Olafur Eliasson
Michael Elmgreen
Enrico David
Maria Isabel Espinosa
Alessandra Esposito
Cerith Wyn Evans
Jeremy Everett
Sylvie Eyberg
Group F5
Jan Fabre
Hu Fang
Rotimi Fani-Kayode
Hassan Fathy
Didier Fiuza Faustino
Flavio Favelli
Cao Fei
Hans-Peter Feldmann
Peter Fend
Maddalena De Ferrari
Urs Fischer
Peter Fischli
Vadim Fishkin
Fleas
Ceal Floyer
Lucio Fontana
Xavier Fourt
Alicia Framis
Frank Auerbach
Joao de Freitas
Yona Friedman
Meschac Gaba
Giuseppe Gabellone
Avner Ben Gal
Ellen Gallagher
Fabrizio Gallanti
Lorraine Gauthier
Gego
Federico Geller
Jiri Geller
Isa Genzken
Franz Gertsch
Ghazel
Carmit Gil
Liam Gillick
Gimhongsok
John Giorno
Bruno Gironcoli
Sascha Glasl
Felix Gmelin
Domenico Gnoli
Robert Gober
Carolina Golder
Leon Golub
Fernanda Gomes
Juan Pablo Gómez
Dominique Gonzales-Foerster
Camillo Gonzàlez
Dryden Goodwin
Amit Goren
Tomislav Gotovac
Dan Graham
Rodney Graham
Hannah Greely
Joseph Grigely
Massimo Grimaldi
Caracas Group
Oleanna Group
Juan Pedro Fabra Guemberena
Luca Guglietta
Zheng Guogu
Philip Guston
Renato Guttuso
Daniel Guzmán
Tea Gvetadze
Veliswa Gwintsa
Günes
Hakan Gürsoytrak
Lilian Haberer
Jusuf Hadžifejzovic'
Alejandro Haiek
Mathew Hale
Stuart Hall
Peter Halley
Richard Hamilton
David Hammons
Kevin Hanley
Charles Harrison
Rachel Harrison
Muriel H. Hasbùn
Initiative Haubrich-Forum
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Carina Hedén
Jeanne Van Heeswijk
Jeppe Hein
Michal Helfman
Heri Dono
José Antonio Hernández-Díez
Sandi Hilal
Nikolaus Hirsch
Thomas Hirschhorn
Damien Hirst
Karl Holmqvist
Katie Holten
Herman Pelad Horst
Hossein Khosrojerdi
Marine Hugonnier
Gary Hume
Pierre Huyghe
Jan Håfström
Henrik Håkansson
Candida Höfer
Carsten Höller
Kinema Ikon
Gül Ilgaz
Jörg Immendorff
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Whang Inkie
Daniela Ipar
IRWIN
Yoshimasa Ishibashi
Arata Isozaki
Joo Jae-Hwan
Cictor Jaime
Koo Jeong-A
Wang Jian-Wei
Duan Jianyu
Fu Jie
Yang Jiechang
Sture Johannesson
John MacLane Johansen
Isaac Julien
Jean-Paul Jungmann
Emilia Kabakov
Ilya Kabakov
Momoyo Kaijima
Jan Kaplicky
Gülsün Karamustafa
David Kareyan
iga Kariž
Deborah Kelly
Eva Khachatrian
Bilal Khbeiz
Avish Khebrehzadeh
Ian Kiaer
Anselm Kiefer
Sora Kim
Mazuka Kimura
Thomas King
Martin Kippenberger
Bernd Kniess
Eva Koch
Jakob Kolding
Július Koller
Harmony Korine
Valery Koshliakov
Gyula Kosice
Sakarin Krue-on
Elke Krystufek
Kunst-Fu
Gabriel Kuri
Surasi Kusolwong
Athanasia Kyriakakos
Kyupi Kyupi
Luisa Lambri
Moshekwa Langa
Art & Language
Paulina Lasa
Michel Lasserre
Maria Lassnig
Bertrand Lavier
LCM
Dinh Q. Le
Cheang Shu Lea
Chris Ledochowski
Yan Lei
Yuri Leiderman
Jörg Lenzlinger
Rafael Leona
Jennifer Leonard
Kamin Lertchaiprasert
Simon Leung
Amada Levete
Mikael Levin
Liang Juhui
Roy Lichtenstein
Erik Van Lieshout
Joep van Lieshout
Armin Linke
Warsaw Little
Heng Liu
Liisa Lounila
Sarah Lucas
Kathrin Luz
Ma-rtin
Juan Machado
Janus Magazine
Juan Maidagan
Andrés Makowski
Sara Manazza
Dusan Mandic'
Anna De Manincor
Valérie Mannaerts
Gilda Mantilla
Margherita Manzelli
Massimiliano Marchica
Li-ga Marcinkevic(a
Marepe
Enzo Mari
Stefano Marini
Kerry James Marshall
Agnes Martin
Rossella Matamoros
Bruce Mau
Lucy McKenzie
Steve McQueen
Cildo Meireles
Jonas Mekas
Salem Mekuria
Sebastián Menasse
Annette Messager
Gustav Metzger
Beatriz Milhazes
Tyler Millard
Ayumi Minemura
Helen Mirra
Stefano Mirti
Miran Mohar
Andrei Monastirsky
Jonathan Monk
Marco Moretti
Jean Luc Moulène
Pavel Mrkus
Dante Muñoz
Takashi Murakami
Marko Mäetamm
Ahmad Nadalian
Christian Nagel
Sabah Naim
Deimantas Narkevicius
Monica Narula
Moataz Nasr
Ahmed Nawar
Rivane Neuenschwander
Claudia Neumann
Francis Ng
Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
Charly Nijensohn
Damir Niksic
Andreas Nobel
Jonas Nobel
Cady Noland
Nils Norman
Edin Numankadic'
Dario Nunez
Klaus Nyqvist
Tomás Ochoa
Motohiko Odani
Marcel Odenbach
Chris Ofili
og(lu
Hélio Oiticica
Antonio Ole
Kaido Ole
Henrik Olesen
Paulina Olowska
Olof Olsson
Roman Ondak
Yoko (I) Ono
Richard Onyango
Ana Opalic'
Roman Opalka
Gabriel Orozco
Damián Ortega
Muyiwa Osifuye
Anatoli Osmolovski
Ning Ou
Tsuyoshi Ozawa
Pablo Atchugarry
Sergio Paolantonio
Lygia Pape
Claude Parent
Philippe Parreno
Joaquín Rodríguez del Paso
Jennifer Pastor
Matteo Pastore
Oliver Payne
Yan Pei-ming
Marko Peljhan
Marìa Isabel Peña
Eugenia Vargas Pereira
Alexandre Perigot
Manfred Pernice
Diego Perrone
Alessandro Petti
Elizabeth Peyton
Kamol Phaosavasdi
Patricia Piccinini
Kirsten Pieroth
Huang Yong Ping
Janas Piotr
Michelangelo Pistoletto
Lari Pittman
Paola Pivi
Magnus von Plessen
Neriman Polat
Sigmar Polke
Luca Poncellini
Marjetica Potrc
Bettina Pousttchi
Sergio Prego
Richard Prince
Oda Projesi
Florian Pumhösl
Tawatchai Puntusawasdi
Panu Puolakka
Feng Qianyu
Ma Qingyun
Jorge Queiroz
Alex Quinto
Walid Raad
Radek
Carol Rama
Edi Rama
Mel Ramsden
Carolina Rapetti
Hani Rashid
Alessandra Raso
Matteo Raso
š Ratniks
Robert Rauschenberg
Charles Ray
Marcos Lora Read
Tobias Rehberger
Uta M. Reindl
Pedro Cabrita Reis
Nick Relph
Rosângela Rennó
ROR (Revolutions on Request)
Pedro Reyes
Gerhard Richter
Bridget Riley
Marisel Jimènez Rittner
David Robbins
Francois Roche
Fernando Romero
Israel Rosenfield
Martha Rosler
Sara Rossi
Silvia Rossi
Dimitris Rotsios
Michal Rovner
Ieva Rubeze
Aida Ruilova
Rúrí
Ed Ruscha
Robert Ryman
Pia Rönicke
Natascha Haghighian Sadr
Anri Sala
Tisna Sanjaya
Tomas Saraceno
Bojan Sarcevic
Francesca Sassaroli
Savas
Jenny Saville
Andrej Savski
Thomas Scheibitz
Markus Schinwald
Christoph Schlingensief
Julian Schnabel
Arnaud Schroeder
Dana Schutz
Ricardo Scofidio
Allan Sekula
Mark Seligson
Shuddhabrata Sengupta
Chung Seoyoung
Thasnai Sethaseree
Randa Shaath
Shirana Shahbazi
Michael Shaowanasai
Wael Shawky
Shimabuku
Efrat Shvily
Andreas Siekmann
Santiago Sierra
Shahzia Sikander
Mathew Sinclair
Vasan Sitthiket
Kamera Skura
Andreas Slominski
Patti Smith
Robert Smithson
Sean Snyder
Nedko Solakov
Doron Solomons
Yutaka Sone
Monika Sosnowska
Vitamin Creative Space
Carola Spadoni
Nancy Spero
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Paulius Stanikas
S&S Stanikas
Svajone Stanikas
Simon Starling
Gerda Steiner
Frederik Stenberg
Michael Stevenson
Mladen Stilinovic'
Rudolf Stingel
Michael Sturminger
Haydée Victoria Suescum
Viktor Sydorenko
Future System
Takamine Tadasu
Karolina Taipale
Swie-hian Tan
Xu Tan
Armando Tanzini
Javier Tellez
Mikiko Terauchi
Stefano Testa
Nahum tevet
Jan Theissen
Cheyney Thompson
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Lincoln Tobier
Montri Toemsombat
Milica Tomic
Chen Tong
Jaan Toomik
Nazif Topçuoglu
Hendrik Tratsaert
Rosemarie Trockel
Francisco Tropa
Tatiana Trouvé
Tsou-Choi Tsang
Su-Mei Tse
Nobuko Tsuchiya
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Patrick Tuttofuoco
Luc Tuymans
Cy Twombly
U-theque
Piotr Uklanski
Roman Uranjek
Campement Urbain
Vana Urosevik
Meyer Vaisman
Suchitra Van
Zaneta Vangeli
Agnès Varda
Luis Vera
Dawson Verne
Anton Vidokle
José Ignacio Vielma
Jacques Villeglé
Aleksandr Vinogradov
Luca Vitone
Borut Vogelnik
Meyer Voggenreiter
Mami Wakeshima
Andy Warhol
Lawrence Weiner
Markus Weisbeck
David Weiss
Eyal Weizman
Loo Jia Wen
Franz West
Pae White
Made Wianta
Fred Wilson
Hoy Cheong Wong
Amelie von Wulffen
Paola Yacoub
Yang Yong
Fudong Yang
Zhenzhong Yang
Sha Yeja
Lu Yi
Lin Yilin
Shizuka Yokomizo
Carey Young
Paula Young
Tamas Zanko
Peili Zhang
Liu Zheng
Jiang Zhi
Jia Zhu
Marian Zhunin
Fe-likss Zi-ders
ZimmerFrei
Dolores Zinny
Andrea Zittel
Constantin Zvezdochotov
Nebojša Šeric-Šoba


If the idea of the large international survey has always been conceived as a whole concept to be fragmented into the visions of the individuals artists, "Dreams and Conflicts" wants art from the autonomy of the different projects to seek in this complexity of ideas the unity that defines the language of contemporary art today.
In the contemporary society the viewers with their presence and absence controls the success of every exhibition and cultural enterprise; in "Dreams and Conflicts" they appear as one of the subjects that contribute to define the structure of the show, the artist, the curator, the viewer.
Along with the artist, the beholder is one of the poles that connecting produce the spark that activate the art work successfully in the social and cultural context.
The dream and the conflict, the total world opposed to its political and geographical fragmentation, the national aspirations in contrast with the international achievements are all elements that will contribute to the making of the Visual Arts Biennale.
"Dreams and Conflicts" will be an exhibition focused at the same time on art as a personal tool of a personal experience and conviviality. A show through which is possible to have access to the complexity of a world made by groups of individuals defined by multiple and diverse necessities. An exhibition constructed with multiple projects to test the strength of that ideal community where the creative process of the contemporary artist is active. Dreams and Conflicts will not be a show about political art but a reflection on the politics of art. The experience of the viewer facing the unique vision of the artist. Two contemporary subjects divided simply by a different gaze.