As Juliana Engberg puts it in Kerry Gardner’s book, Australia at the Venice Biennale: ’To participate in the Venice Biennale is to have the opportunity to enter into a milieu of experimentation, contest of ideas, dialogue of forms and discovery of shared and divergent aesthetics – each pursuing a way to express the sentiments, contexts and issues of our time.’
The Venice Biennale, which gathers international stars and curatorial masterminds, not only provides a platform for critical expression and discussion, it is also a career accolade increasingly connected with profile and commercial representation.
