The Venice Biennale 2024 closes with 700,000 Tickets sold

With an 18% increase over the pre-Covid edition in 2019 and second only to the previous 2022 edition – The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, which registered a record 800,000 visitors, Biennale Arte 2024 announced the superlative sale of 700,000 tickets (an average of approximately 3,300 visitors per day), in addition to the 27,966 visitors who attended the preview.

A share of 59% of the public came from abroad, and 41% from Italy.
There was strong attendance by young people and students under the age of 26, totalling over 190,000, or 30% of all visitors. There was also a significant 20% increase in primary school visits; while 35% of the schools came from abroad.

A record result was also the participation of fragile categories at the Exhibition, with an increase this year of +67%. This figure confirms La Biennale’s constant and growing attention to activities relating to the accessibility of the cultural heritage and of contemporary arts in particular to persons with disabilities or situations of social disadvantage or marginalisation.

President Pietrangelo Buttafuoco: “We  wistfully take our leave of Adriano Pedrosa’s Biennale Arte, its rousing success and its important lesson: we are all Foreigners Everywhere. The works and the artists in the exhibition he curated have reached beyond the confines of the Giardini and the Arsenale to pervade our daily lives and our mental horizon. In these challenging times for the world, art reminds us that everything is polemos between cultures, viewpoints, past and future. But it also teaches us that life’s path leads us to encounter the you, the us, beyond the desperate solitude of the I. We are all Foreigners Everywhere in the crossing of worlds, in the experience of existence, and hence in the evolution of beauty and our very freedom, there where we are united by our common appreciation of art.”

The Curator Adriano Pedrosa: “As the Biennale Arte 2024 closes after a week of extraordinary performances, I am grateful above all to the artists who participated in the exhibition, to the biennale staff, to my own team, to all the lenders, galleries, sponsors and donors who supported the exhibition so generously, as well as to the more than 700.000 visitors who came to see our show.  I am also grateful to former president Roberto Cicutto, for having appointed me, and for president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, for his support. 
It is always melancholic to see an exhibition of this magnitude come to an end, yet in some ways the journey continues, and I am now looking forward to the afterlife of Stranieiri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, especially regarding the understanding, reception and visibility of artists from the Global South, as well as indigenous artists, queer artists, self taught artists and 20th century figures from Africa, Asia and Latin America.”