Adel Abidin has been invited to be part of the next Venice Bienniale! Curator René Block selected him alongside Finnish artist Maaria Wirkkala to be part of the Nordic Pavilion show untitled Welfare – Fare Well. Other artists invited are Jacob Dahlgren (Sweden), Toril Goksøyr ja Camilla Martens (Norway) and Sirous Namazi (Sweden).

The Venice Biennale will open to the public the 10th of June 2007 until November the 21st.

Check the news story in Finnish from Helsingin Sanomat.