Five years after François Pinault spurned his native France and its
bureaucratic red tape to instead house his enormous contemporary art
collection in Venice, the PPR billionaire is solidifying his presence
in the island city even more — just in time for the Biennale, of
course. This year, marking the fifth anniversary of his cavernous
Palazzo Grassi space and the second Biennale year of his Tadao
Ando-rehabbed Punta della Dogana, Pinault is using two new exhibitions
to define the function of his private institutions for years to come.

Following in the footsteps of "Mapping the Studio," the exhibition
of art from Pinault's collection that was organized across both venues
by Alison Gingeras and Francesco Bonami, this year a single curator —
Caroline Bourgeois, the collector's recent consigliere — will
organize two separate exhibitions: "The World Belongs to You" at the
Palazzo Grassi, which will present work, including commissions and
site-specific installations, by international artists who reflects a
globalized world "now characterized by proliferation, multiplicity,
movement, and nomadism," according to a statement; and "In Praise of
Doubt," which will present "another re-assessment of the traditional
limits of the geography of art, and how we relate to others and the
world." (Hey, come to think of it, that sounds like one exhibition
after all.)

The shows, both composed of work in Pinault's collection and
featuring notable young-artist overlaps — including Cyprien Gaillard,
Loris Gréaud, and Nicholas Hlobo — with Bice Curigier's official Venice
Biennale show "ILLUMInations," are intended to mark a new phase in the
French billionaire's Venetian art project. Under the new direction of
Martin Bethenod, the onetime FIAC head who was hired last year to
manage both the Palazzo and the Punta della Dogana, the former will
become a Kunsthalle-like space for continually cycling exhibitions
while the latter will become a permanent home for Pinault's collection
that will operate on the long-term schedule of a traditional museum.

Whether or not these changes will be immediately discernible to the
international jet-setters who will descend on Venice this summer, the
June 2 opening of the shows is bound to be one of the hottest tickets
during the Biennale festivities.

See the artist lists for "The World Belongs to You" and "In Praise of Doubt" below:

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"THE WORLD BELONGS TO YOU"

– Ahmed Alsoudani
– Yto Barrada
– Alighiero Boetti
– Sergey Bratkov
– Frédéric Bruly Bouabré
– Maurizio Cattelan
– David Claerbout
– Matthew Day Jackson
– Marlene Dumas
– El Anatsui
– Urs Fischer
– Cyprien Gaillard
– Adrian Ghenie
– Loris Gréaud
– David Hammons
– Nicholas Hlobo
– Thomas Houseago
– Huang Yong Ping
– Jeff Koons
– Friedrich Kunath
– Louise Lawler
– Boris Mikhailov
– Farhad Moshiri
– Takashi Murakami
– Giuseppe Penone
– Philippe Perrot
– Sigmar Polke,
– Charles Ray
– Thomas Schütte
– Rudolf Stingel
– Lee Ufan
– Joana Vasconcelos
– Francesco Vezzoli
– Jonathan Wateridge
– Sislej Xhafa
– Sun Yuan & Peng Yu
– Yang Jiechang
– Zhang Huan
– Zeng Fanzhi

"IN PRAISE OF DOUBT"

– Adel Abdessemed
– Marcel Broodthaers
– Maurizio Cattelan
– Subodh Gupta
– David Hammons
– Roni Horn
– Thomas Houseago
– Donald Judd
– Edward Kienholz
– Jeff Koons
– Paul McCarthy
– Julie Mehretu
– Bruce Nauman
– Sigmar Polke
– Thomas Schütte
– Sturtevant
– Tatiana Trouvé
– Chen Zhen