A walkthrough of the Venice Biennale's main highlights

A visitor walks next to the painting 'Black Is Beautiful' by Palestinian artist Samia Halaby at the Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition. Photo: AP

Outsider and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition that opened Saturday, curated for the first time by a Latin American.

Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa’s main show, which accompanies 88 national pavilions for the seven-month run, is strong on figurative painting, with fewer installations than recent editions. A preponderance of artists are from the Global South, long overlooked by the mainstream art world circuits.