Artistic director Christine Macel, the chief curator at the Centre Pompidou,[1] curated its central exhibition, "Viva Arte Viva", as a series of interconnected pavilions designed to reflect art's capacity for expanding humanism.
The curator also organized a project, "Unpacking My Library", based on a Walter Benjamin essay, to list artists' favorite books.
[1] A trend of presenting overlooked, rediscovered, or "emerging dead artists" was a theme of the 57th Biennale.
[7] The Diaspora Pavilion was established in order to diversify the Venice Biennale and address the lack of representation of people of colour within the visual arts more widely.
[8] The Pavilion provided a space for artists from diverse backgrounds to exhibit work exploring the concept of diaspora.