Venice
Venice residents have rallied against a day-tripper fee for visitors, implemented to combat excess tourism. Protesters argue that the fee turns the famous city into a 'theme park' and that it won't address the real issues they face. Hundreds of Venetians marched though the city's main bus terminal holding banners reading “No to Tickets, Yes to Services and Housing”. Protesters scuffled briefly with police with riot gear who blocked them from entering the city, before changing course and entering over another bridge escorted by plainclothes police officers. The demonstration eventually wrapped ...
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Tourists wishing to visit the Italian city of Venice will have to pay a fee for the first time, as a trial aiming to disincentivize day trippers at peak times started on Thursday. Day visitors will have to pay a €5 ($5.30) access fee between 8:30 am and 4 pm, unless exempt, on 29 trial days through July. Residents of the Veneto region, people who work, study or were born in Venice and anyone who has booked accommodation in the city will be exempt from the requirement to buy a ticket. Children under 14 will also be exempt. In some cases an exemption voucher is required. Admission is paid for by...
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Visitors to Venice who fail to pay the entry fee to the historic city centre will face fines starting at 10 times the €5 ticket price. Starting this year, tourists will have to pay to enter the lagoon city, a move authorities have introduced to clamp down on overtourism. The charge will be in place on 29 days between April and mid-July. “We need to find a balance, a new balance between the tourists and residents,” said the municipal councillor for tourism, Simone Venturini. “We need to safeguard the spaces of the resident, of course, and we need to discourage the arrival of day trippers on par...
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Tourists wishing to visit the Italian city of Venice will have to pay a fee for the first time, as a trial aiming to disincentivize day trippers at peak times started on Thursday. Day visitors will have to pay a €5 ($5.30) access fee between 8:30 am and 4 pm (0630 GMT-1400 GMT) unless exempt. Residents of the Veneto region, people who work, study or were born in Venice and anyone who has booked accommodation in the city will be exempt from the requirement to buy a ticket. Children under 14 will also be among those exempted. In some cases an exemption voucher is required. The trial will initial...
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The 60th edition of the Venice Biennale is a bright, bold and boundary-breaking spectacle. The international exhibition is renowned for distilling many of the major geopolitical issues of the moment, and this year is no exception. Curator Adriano Pedrosa’s title "Foreigners Everywhere" is conveniently malleable, bringing under its wing topics like nationalism, displacement, marginalisation and colonialism. Some pavilions and exhibitions explicitly confront these contemporary issues. The Dutch Pavilion did more than just reflect on the colonial art theft debate; it enacted change by persuading ...
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As Europe nears peak summer season, tourist hotspots are increasingly feeling the strain. In some places, like Spain, locals have long been growing weary of the ‘sun, sex and sangria’ tourism certain destinations attract. But now the issue is more than just nuisance behaviour. Rising visitor numbers are putting pressure on health services, waste management, water supplies and housing at the expense of residents. Increased construction of hotel and housing developments is endangering historic sites, biodiversity and natural resources. Recently, frustrations have boiled over in several European ...
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In the desert-hued pavilion of Saudi Arabia at the Venice Biennale, a rising harmonised humming fills the space. These are the voices of some 1,000 Saudi women that artist Manal AlDowayan has “brought with her” to the international exhibition. With her all-female team of curators, AlDowayan’s installation aims to be a rebuttal of the international media’s preconceptions of women in Saudi Arabia and an amplification of their own voices instead. In Lebanon’s pavilion, artist Mounira AI Solh challenges the male gaze and the way it has shaped the ancient myth of Europa. Like AlDowayan, she returns...
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First Nations artist, Archie Moore, has clinched the prestigious Golden Lion Award for Best National Participation at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale. This is the first time an Australian artist has received this honour. Moore's work "Kith and Kin" explores his Australian aboriginal and British ancestry and spans an incredible 65,000 years. Moore traced his family history back to create a family tree, which he carefully drew in chalk on the black walls of the Australia Pavilion. The work thus examines First Nation Australian history and the impact of colonisation. In a speech recognisi...
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Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa’s main show, which accompanies 88 national pavilions for the seven-month run, is strong on figurative painting, with fewer installations than recent editions. A preponderance of artists are from the Global South, long overlooked by the mainstream art world circuits. Many are dead. Frida Kahlo, for example, is making her first appearance at the Venice Biennale. Her 1949 painting “Diego and I” hangs alongside one by her husband and fellow artist, Diego Rivera. Despite their lower numbers, living artists have “a much stronger physical presence in the exhibition,”...
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Over the coming weeks, a small exhibition of East German photography aims to build a bridge from the Venice Biennale art exhibition to the Capital of Culture 2025 in the eastern German city of Chemnitz. Under the title "Anleitung zum Sehen" (Guide to Seeing), works by photographers Margret Hoppe, Oskar Schmidt and Edgar Leciejewski, all former master students of Timm Rautert at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig, are on display. Photographs from Leciejewski's "Aves" (Latin for birds) series - portraits that show birds very close up and full of grace - and from Hoppe's "Die Verschwundenen Bi...
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