The Golden Lion for the best participant in the main exhibition went to four Māori women comprising the Mataaho Collective— Erena Baker, Sarah Hudson, Bridget Reweti, and Terri Te Tau. Their textile-centered installation of glowing takapau— woven Māori birthing mats— radiated in the collective show.
Winners of the The Lifetime Achievement awards, Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter, were announced late last year as biennial curator Adrino Pedrosa proclaimed them to be “two extraordinary, pioneering women artists who are also migrants, and who embody in many ways the spirit of Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere.”