“It is a great honor and privilege to be asked to be the director of the Venice Biennale, one of the world’s most important and exceptional surveys of contemporary art. I am very much looking forward to this great challenge. The Biennale is an exhibition which traditionally attracts a broad swathe of the public: professionals, enthusiasts and art lovers. This provides an opportunity to reflect on the highly communicative aspect of today’s art, which strongly involves and engages visitors–presenting a contemporary picture of the individual in the wider collective and social context.” In the words of Bice Curiger, director of the 54th Venice Biennale, the importance that this great international festival, the most influential exhibition of contemporary art in the world, still holds today.