Armenia's pavilion won the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 56th Biennale di Venezia.

“Armenity: Contemporary Artists from the Armenian Diaspora” pavilion was located at the Mekhitarist Monastery on the Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni.

In honor of the one hundred year commemoration of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, the Pavilion of the Republic of Armenia at the 56th Biennale di Venezia provided an occasion to rethink the notion of Armenianess and broaden this reflection to the concepts of identity type and memory, justice and reconciliation, in the name of which many contemporary struggles are still taking place.

Armenity brings together 18 significant artists from different generations — a “transnational” assembly if you will - under the banner of a dispersed identity