After serving as director of High Line Art in New York for 11 years, the Milan-born curator Cecilia Alemani is now the first Italian woman—and the fifth woman ever—to be appointed Curator of the prestigious Venice Biennale in the exhibition’s 127 years of history.
Alemani previously curated Italy’s national pavilion at the 2017 edition of the Biennale, and in her position as this year’s artistic director, plans to put previously underrepresented artists at the forefront, with women and non-binary artists making up over 80
