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

About the main exhibitions 2.Arsenale

Arsenale is a old shipbuilding yard, that was build in 16th century and made of stone. It is very unique and interesting that the artworks are exhibited in this ruin. Several exhibitions consist Arsenale. You can also find works outside of Arsenale. In 2009, the exhibition site was expanded to other warehouses, to where we crossed a sea on a boat.
It takes you a whole day to see all exhibitions in Arsenale.