LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA MAGAZINE IS REBORN
“La Biennale di Venezia Magazine is reborn. The project is grafted onto the activity of the ASAC – La Biennale di Venezia’s Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts, in which, today as in the past, at their end, Exhibitions and Festivals are converted into records, turning into new research material and inspiration for the future.
The magazine, whose first issue was published in July 1950 and that ran until 1971 with 68 published issues, is reborn today with the same spirit and nature that has characterised it since its very first edition, guided by one essential keyword: research, a term that recurs in the constituting law of La Biennale itself, and whose field of action encompasses the Visual Arts, Architecture, Dance, Music, Theatre, Cinema, and any discipline offering a space for reflection and discussion on today, always with a view to better understanding and imagining the future. As in the first magazine, fashion is also part in the project, precisely due to the connection the fashion creative process shares with art, archives, and experimentation.
Each issue, planned on a quarterly basis and dedicated to a specific theme, collects new testimonies, stories, and ex cathedra contributions by artists, researchers, and personalities from the world of culture and society. Documents from La Biennale’s Historical Archive illustrate and complete the texts published in the magazine, providing a framework for the history of the Institution, while also containing links and suggestions introducing the topics explored in the issue, while also containing links and suggestions introducing the topics explored in the issue.
This is a magazine conceived, designed and published on paper, with a unique and original graphic identity: a physical testimony destined to the Archive, a place where the active motion of memory comes into existence.”

Debora Rossi
Head of the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts