The Johannesburg Pavilion is a programme of contemporary African film and live performance that will travel to Venice during the first two weeks of the 56th Venice Biennale. The project is a a partnership between the 133 Arts Foundation & the FNB JoburgArtFair and developed in memory of the final Johannesburg Biennale curated in 1997 by Okwui Enwezor, the current and first African Director of the 56th Venice Biennale 2015. Initiated by a collective group of artists, writers and curators, the project encapsulates the spirit of the expansive and mythical African city of Johannesburg, both in its provocative title as a non-official ‘city pavilion', and as a temporary interventions in the everyday urban fabric of the city of Venice.