Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Coming in at one hundred and eighty euros a square metre

“With a budget of only €1.8 million, and with 155 artists showing in an exhibition space of more than 10,000 square metres, you can easily work out that I need to secure financial backing for every work I wish to include in the Biennale, and there is virtually no budget for research travel.”
Massimiliano Gioni  reveals the economics of curating the exhibition Il Palazzo Enciclopedico (The Encyclopaedic Palace) for the Venice Biennale