Participant Countries

http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/national-participations/

Participant Artists

http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/exhibition/artists/

Who will participate in Venice Biennale?

The participating artists will be announced in the official site.
As of January 10, 2011, the site is not updated yet though.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/archive/exhibition/artists/
For example, artists below will join;
Tabaimo(Japan)
Mike Nelson (UK)
Hany Armanious (Australia)
Christian Boltanski (France)

The Title for 54th Biennale Exhibition is ILLUMInations.

The title chosen by Bice Curiger, the Director of the 54th International Art Exhibition,  for the 54th International Art Exhibition is ILLUMInations.Bice Curiger explains:
«La Biennale is one of the world’s most important forums for the dissemination and “illumination” about the current developments in international art. The work of Venetian painter Tintoretto will play a prominent role in ILLUMInations."
Please click URL below for further information;
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/illuminations.html
Venice Biennale traditionally have each country's Pavilions and this way of exhibition is sometimes considered to be outdated. It is quite interesting that Cruiger wants to "illuminate" "nations" particularly in the current of globalization.

About ticket

The admission fee is 15 Euro, which allows you to enter both Giardini and Arsenale. Discount for group or student is available. As you can reserve the ticket online in the official website, you would better reserve in order to avoid the line in the ticket office.

Director of the 54th Exhibition of Venice Biennale, 2011

Bice Curiger is assigned as Director of the Visual Arts Sector, responsible for curating the 54th International Art Exhibition to be held in 2011. Curiger is an art historian, critic and curator. She has been curator at the Zurich Kunsthaus since 1993, and editor of “Parkett”, one of the most authoritative and innovative contemporary art magazines in the world. Since 2004, she has been publishing director of the “Tate etc” magazine produced by London’s Tate Gallery.

Refer to the URL for the further information;
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/news/curiger.html
http://www.labiennale.org/en/art/director/

Collateral exhibitions all over Venice

Other than main sites, Giardini and Arsenale, there held a lot of collateral exhibitions in old mansions and church, etc. in Venice.
1.Pavilions of the countries who don't have their pavilion in Giardini
2.Other official Biennale Events and Exhibitions
3.Museum, Exhibitions which is not related to Biennale officially
You can find the banners with Biennale logo all over Venice. Most of them are admission free.

reference: 2009 Venice Biennale Map

Pavilions in Venice city

Collateral Exhibitions