La Biennale di Venezia announces that the Board of Directors has appointed the Artistic Directors for the Cinema, Dance, Music and Theatre Departments for the four-year term 2021-2024:
The following appointments have been approved:
- Alberto Barbera was confirmed as the Director of the Cinema Department
- Wayne McGregor was appointed as the Director of the Dance Department
- Lucia Ronchetti was appointed as the Director of the Music Department
- ricci/forte (Stefano Ricci and Gianni Forte) were appointed as the Directors of the Theatre Department
The Board of Directors of La Biennale has thanked and expressed its most sincere gratitude to Marie Chouinard, Ivan Fedele and Antonio Latella for their great commitment and the excellent results they achieved during their four-year terms as Directors respectively of the Dance, Music and Theatre Departments.
With regard to the Directors of the Architecture and Visual Arts Departments, these positions are currently held, respectively, by Hashim Sarkis for the next 17th International Architecture Exhibitions (22 May > 21 November 2021) and by Cecilia Alemani for the 59th International Art Exhibition (23 April > 27 November 2022).
In 2021, the opening of Biennale Architettura will be followed by Biennale Teatro (2 > 11 July), Biennale Danza (23 July > 1 August), the 78thVenice International Film Festival (1 > 11 September) and Biennale Musica (17 > 26 September).
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Alberto Barbera
Born in Biella in 1950, after graduating in Modern Literature with a thesis on Film History and Criticism from the University of Torino, he began his collaboration with the A.I.A.C.E. (the Italian association of Friends of Art-House Films), for which he served as president from 1977 to 1989. From 1980 to 1983 he was the film critic for the daily newspaper La Gazzetta del Popolo, and since 1982 he is a member of the Journalists Guild. He has collaborated with many dailies and magazines (Città, La Stampa, Essai, Altro Cinema, Bianco & Nero, Cineforum), television and radio programs as CinemaScoop (RAI 3), La lampada di Aladino (RAI – DSE), Hollywood Party (Radio3 RAI). In 1985, he co-directed a documentary, Cineasti del Nord-Ovest (Filmmakers from the North-West) for RAI 3.
