52nd Venice Biennale turned one of the most visited in the exhibition’s history

The 52nd International Art Exhibition, first and last stop of the Grand Tour 2007, closed yesterday, November 21st , with an outstanding result in terms of visitors: 319,322 people attended this year's exhibition within its 165 days. This has been the most attended Biennale of the past twenty-five years.

The 52nd International Art Exhibition has been set up within 25,000 squared-meters spread between the Giardini and the Arsenale and included the extraordinary number of 76 National Participations. Since its opening, last June, the 52nd Biennale has been the most visited art show in Italy. Think with the senses - Feel with the mind. Art in the Present Tense, was curated by Robert Storr.

Ukrainian pavilion was presented by the Centre for contemporary art PinchukArtCentre (Kyiv, Ukraine) and hosted in Palazzo Papadopoli built in 17th century. Ukrainian pavilion's project "A Poem about an Inland Sea" was created by a group of Ukrainian and foreign artists including Boris Mikhailov, Serhiy Bratkov, Oleksandr Hnylytsky and Lesia Zayats as well as Mark Titchner, Sam Taylor-Wood, Juergen Teller and Dzine. At the opinion of vice-premier minister and minister of culture of Italy Francesco Rutelli, Ukrainian exhibition became one of the three top events of 52nd Venice Biennale.

The party organized within opening of the Ukrainian Pavilion became one of the most popular events. The special guests of Ukrainian pavilion in this evening became Elton John, Miucia Prada and Mark Jacobs, Larry Gagosian, heavyweight world boxing champion Vitaly Klichko.

The 34 free entrance Collateral Events set up around Venice and the lagoon islands attracted 650,000 visitors.