Some of it is even on the ceiling.

The New Zealand pavilion at the biennale opened on Wednesday night, Italian time, solar executive gifts and premium featuring works by London and France-based Bill Culbert.

Culbert's exhibition, Front Door Out Back, features eight installations using fluorescent lights and recycled domestic objects to transform the historic Istituto Santa Maria della Pieta building.

Bebop is a 15-metre-long work suspended from the ceiling of a historic corridor KD furniture, where 34 second-hand tables and chairs "seem to have been pierced by a single bolt of fluorescent light".

In another key work, Daylight Flotsam Venice, Culbert feeds 150 fluorescent tubes into a densely packed field of recycled plastic bottles "creating a carpet of colour, seen against the backdrop of the canal beyond".

Culbert has been using electric lights in his art works since the 1960s.

"The ultimate experience comes when you stand in the space to enjoy the dazzle and play of light and the journey," he says of his exhibition.

More than 80 countries are taking part in the biennale white wine.