The Biennale Arte 2024 explores the nuances of identity, belonging, and transformation. Pedrosa’s title, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, not only reflects our shared experience of encountering the “foreign,” but also the internal “foreignness” that resides within each of us. In several languages, the words for foreign and “strange” share the same root.
The exhibition delves into the lived experiences of global artists navigating the intersections of unfamiliarity and recognition in its two sections: the Nucleo Contemporaneo and the Nucleo Storico. The former celebrates the contributions of artists who are often on the periphery of mainstream art narratives—queer, indigenous, outsider, and folk artists—while the latter re-examines modernisms from the Global South, offering new perspectives on its established canons and underexplored narratives.
In 2022, Teiger Foundation supported the 59th International Art Exhibition: Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani.