The 2015 Venice Biennale List of Artists Is Out—See Our Exclusive

Who made the cut?

The artist list for the main exhibition of the 56th Venice Biennale is out. “All the World’s Futures,” curated by Okwui Enwezor, promises to be a politically and socially minded show, featuring artists like Tania Bruguera (see How Tania Bruguera’s Whisper Became the Performance Heard Round the World), Thomas Hirschhorn, Jeremy Deller, and Coco Fusco. The show will include several relatively new collectives, such as the Gulf Labor coalition (see Protests at New York’s Guggenheim Calls Attention to Labor Conditions at UAE Expansion), Aboundaddara, and the e-flux Journal, and events like the Creative Time Summit.

Here is the list of 136 artists and collectives, as it appears on the Biennale’s website:

ABBOUD, Jumana Emil

ABDESSEMED, Adel

ABONNENC, Mathieu Kleyebe

ABOUNADDARA

ACHOUR, Boris

ADKINS, Terry

AFIF, Saâdane

AKERMAN, Chantal

AKOMFRAH, John

AKPOKIERE, Karo

AL SOLH, Mounira

ALGÜN RINGBORG, Meriç

ALLORA, Jennifer & CALZADILLA, Guillermo

ATAMAN, Kutlug

BAJEVIC, Maja

BALLESTEROS, Ernesto

BALOJI, Sammy

BARBA, Rosa

BASELITZ, Georg

BASUALDO, Eduardo

BAUER, Petra

BESHTY, Walead

BHABHA, Huma

BOLTANSKI, Christian

BONVICINI, Monica

BOYCE, Sonia

BOYD, Daniel

BREY, Ricardo

BROODTHAERS, Marcel

BRUGUERA, Tania

BURGA, Teresa

CALHOUN, Keith & McCORMICK, Chandra

CAO, Fei

CHAMEKH, Nidhal

CHERNYSHEVA, Olga

CHUNG, Tiffany

COOPERATIVA CRÁTER INVERTIDO

CREATIVE TIME SUMMIT

DAMIANI, Elena

DELLER, Jeremy

DJORDAJDZE, Thea

DUMAS, Marlene

E-FLUX JOURNAL

EDWARDS, Melvin

EFFLATOUN, Inji

EHMANN, Antje & FAROCKI, Harun

EICHHORN, Maria

EVANS, Walker

FAROCKI, Harun

FLOYD, Emily

FRIEDL, Peter

FUSCO, Coco

FUSINATO, Marco

GAINES, Charles

GALLAGHER, Ellen

GALLARDO, Ana

GARCIA, Dora

GATES, Theaster

GENZKEN, Isa

GLUKLYA

GOMES, Sônia

GROSSE, Katharina

GULF LABOR

GURSKY, Andreas

HAACKE, Hans

HADJITHOMAS, Joana & JOREIGE, Khalil

HARRY, Newell

HASSAN, Kay

HIRSCHHORN, Thomas

HÖLLER, Carsten

HOLT, Nancy & SMITHSON, Robert

IM, Heung Soon

INVISIBLE BORDERS: Trans-African Photographers

ISHIDA, Tetsuya

JI, Dachun

JULIEN, Isaac

K., Hiwa

KAMBALU, Samson

KIM, Ayoung

KLUGE, Alexander

KNGWARREYE, Emily Kame

LAGOMARSINO, Runo

LEBER, Sonia & CHESWORTH, David

LIGON, Glenn

MABUNDA, Gonçalo

MADHUSUDHANAN

MAHAMA, Ibrahim

MALJKOVIC, David

MAN, Victor

MANSARAY, Abu Bakarr

MARKER, Chris

MARSHALL, Kerry James

MARTEN, Helen

MAURI, Fabio

McQUEEN, Steve

MOHAIEMEN, Naeem

MORAN, Jason

MÜLLER, Ivana

MUNROE, Lavar

MURILLO, Oscar

MUTU, Wangechi

NAM, Hwayeon

NAUMAN, Bruce

NDIAYE, Cheikh

NICOLAI, Olaf

OFILI, Chris

OGBOH, Emeka

PARRENO, Philippe

PASCALI, Pino

PIPER, Adrian

PONIFASIO, Lemi

QIU, Zhijie

RAISSNIA, Raha

RAQS MEDIA COLLECTIVE

(NARULA, Monica; BAGCHI, Jeebesh; SENGUPTA, Shuddhabrata)

REYNAUD-DEWAR, Lili

RIDNYI, Mykola

ROBERTS, Liisa

ROTTENBERG, Mika

SCHÖNFELDT, Joachim

SELMANI, Massinissa

SENGHOR, Fatou Kandé

SHETTY, Prasad & GUPTE, Rupali

SIBONY, Gedi

SIMMONS, Gary

SIMON, Taryn

SIMPSON, Lorna

SMITHSON, Robert

SUBOTZKY, Mikhael

SUHAIL, Mariam

SZE, Sarah

THE PROPELLER GROUP

the TOMORROW

TIRAVANIJA, Rirkrit

TOGUO, Barthélémy

XU, Bing

YOUNIS, Ala


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