venice art biennale 2022

the venice art biennale 2022 – the 59th international art exhibition of la biennale di venezia – takes place from april 23 to november 27, 2022. the 2022 edition, which is curated by cecilia alemani and titled 'the milk of dreams', was postponed by one year due to the outbreak and spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

the exhibition takes its title from a book by leonora carrington (1917–2011) in which the surrealist artist describes a magical world where life is constantly re-envisioned through the prism of the imagination. according to alemani, 'the milk of dreams' takes leonora carrington’s otherworldly creatures, along with other figures of transformation, as companions on an imaginary journey through the metamorphoses of bodies and definitions of the human.