Artistic director Adriano Pedrosa curated its central exhibition, Foreigners Everywhere, and 88 countries contributed national pavilions.
The Biennale parent organization also hosts regular festivals in other arts: architecture, dance, film, music, and theater.
[1] Adriano Pedrosa, curator of the São Paulo Museum of Art, served as the 60th Venice Biennale's artistic director.
As the Biennale began, the pavilion's artist and curators announced that they would stay closed until there was a ceasefire in the Israel–Hamas war and all Hamas-abducted hostages were returned.
[14][15] Two months earlier, Biennale organizers had rebuffed calls to exclude Israel and Iran, including an open letter with thousands of signatures.