2024's monumental commission by British artist John Akomfrah RA was a multi-layered exhibition which encouraged visitors to experience the British Pavilion’s 19th century neoclassical building in a new way.

Through his work, Listening All Night To The Rain, Akomfrah explores the themes that have featured throughout his work over the past four decades and his investigation of issues of contemporary life, such as memory, migration, racial injustice and climate change – with a renewed focus on the act of listening and the sonic.

Listening All Night To The Rain was on display at the British Pavilion as part of the 60th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy from 20 April – 24 November 2024.

Visual identity: TEMPLO
Film: John Ingle © British Council
Photography: Jack Hems © British Council

In this section