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fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 weeks ago'This is an opportunity that will never happen again': Syrian artist Sara Shamma on rebuilding her country
Syria’s 2026 Venice Biennale pavilion will feature Sara Shamma’s immersive Palmyra-inspired installation, reflecting cultural renewal after post-war change and reconstruction.
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3 weeks agoandreas angelidakis fills the greek pavilion with soft ruins and queer atmospheres
The Athens-based artist reimagines the pavilion as a contemporary Platonic Cave, where truth fractures into replicas, projections, staged realities, and algorithmic illusions. The installation positions the Greek Pavilion itself as a historical body haunted by nationalism, propaganda, and the unresolved tensions embedded within the Giardini.
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3 weeks agoS&M-inspired Greek Pavilion in Venice confronts its fascist chains
Grecia 'starts deconstructing herself as a national subject,' says the co-curator of the pavilion, Ioli Kavakou. 'She realises that being a national subject doesn't mean following a specific identity or a linear narrative that defines Greekness.' Grecia, then, is also an 'escape room,' as the installation is titled.
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2 months agoVenice Biennale risks losing EU funding over planned Russia involvement
The European Commission threatens to cut €2 million in funding to the Venice Biennale if Russia participates in the 2026 exhibition, citing violations of ethical standards and European democratic values.
fromThe Art Newspaper - International art news and events
3 months agoVenice Biennale curatorial team reveal how they are bringing the late Koyo Kouoh's vision to life
The artists [selected] are channels to the minor keys. [They all] stand as a collective score... artists who work at the boundaries of form. These are artists whose practices seamlessly bleed into society. The structure is not abstractly determined... it is not organised in sections but in respect to undercurrent priorities.
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fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
3 months agovenice art biennale 2026 curatorial team shares details as koyo kouoh's vision moves forward
Appointed Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Department in December 2024, Kouoh had fully developed the theoretical framework of the exhibition, artist selection, editorial structure, graphic identity, and spatial layout prior to her passing in May 2025. With the support of her family, La Biennale di Venezia committed to realizing the project exactly as she had conceived it.
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3 months agoSouth Africa pavilion will be empty at 2026 Venice Biennale, culture ministry says
Goliath and the curator Ingrid Masondo were to present a new iteration of the three-part, video-based project Elegy -a project begun in 2015 that has centred on femicide and the murder of LGBTQI+ people in South Africa. The version planned for the Biennale also addressed violence against women in Namibia and Gaza, and it was the new Gaza-related section that caused the controversy.
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4 months agoSouth African artist Gabrielle Goliath to approach high court over cancelled Venice Biennale pavilion
Goliath and Masondo were selected to represent South Africa at the 2026 Venice Biennale on 6 December last year, by a five-person selection committee composed of imminent members of the country's art community. The pair were to present a new iteration of Elegy- Goliath's decade-long project that has centred on femicide and the murder of LGBTQI+ people in South Africa.
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