Performer Yoko Ono (Tokyo, 1933) and artist and art lecturer John Baldessari (California, 1931) have been announced as the winners of the 53rd Venice Biennale’s Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement award. The award will be officially presented to the two artists in Venice during the opening of the Biennale on June 6.
The decision was taken by the board of the Venice Biennale together with Daniel Birnbaum, director of the current edition, who defines their work as a revolution in art language: “The Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement are honouring two artists whose ground-breaking activities have opened new poetic, conceptual and social possibilities for artists around the globe working in all media.” | |  | | Yoko Ono; John Baldessari | |
