The Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta has appointed, upon recommendation by the Artistic Director Christine Macel, the International Jury of the 57th International Art Exhibition (13 May > 26 November 2017) composed of the following members:

Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Italy), Milan-based curator of exhibitions, shows, and conferences. FAM’s research focuses on the issues connected with contemporary changes, as well as an art theorist and lecturer.

Manuel J. Borja-Villel (Spain), director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), and former director of the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona and the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).

Amy Cheng (Taiwan), Taipei-based curator and writer, co-founder of TheCube Project Space, which serves as an independent art space devoted to the research, production and presentation of contemporary art.

Ntone Edjabe (Cameroon), journalist and DJ, founder of Chimurenga (a pan-African publication of art, culture, and politics based in Cape Town) and the Pan African Space Station (PASS), and winner of the Principal Award of the Prince Claus Awards in 2011.

Mark Godfrey (Great Britain), Senior Curator, International Art at Tate Modern. He has organised several exhibitions on Sigmar Polke, Francis Alys, Richard Hamilton, and Abraham Cruzvillegas’s Turbine Hall commission. He won the 2015 Absolut Art Writing prize.

Francesca Alfano Miglietti (Italy) is a Milan-based curator of exhibitions, shows, and conferences. FAM’s research focuses on the issues connected with contemporary changes: language and body decay, Live Art, impact of new technologies and relationships between the visible and the invisible. She isan art theorist, critic and lecturer at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. She was a commissioner in one of the sections of Biennale Arte 1993, directed by Achille Bonito Oliva. She also curated several exhibitions at the Palazzo Reale and Triennale (Milan), Casa dei Tre Oci (Venice), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico, and The Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in Turin. She has also authored many books and TV shows on art and culture.