Who Will Win the Venice Biennale 2026 Visitors’ Lions? My Predictions After Three Visits
The jury is gone, more than one hundred participants have challenged the system that replaced it, and thousands of visitors
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Biennale 2026 
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Venice Biennale 2026 gathers interviews, pavilion reviews, artist profiles, and critical essays on one of the most visible stages of contemporary art.
This archive follows national pavilions, emerging voices, political conflicts, feminist practices, ecological projects, queer positions, technological anxieties, and artistic experiments shaping the Biennale today.
Rather than treating the Biennale as an exhibition calendar, these articles read it as a pressure point: a place where contemporary art tests its relation to power, identity, memory, conflict, visibility, and consequence.
From artists such as Kader Attia, Nick Cave, Annalee Davis, Judy Chicago, Alfredo Jaar, and Ryoji Ikeda to national pavilions shaped by war, ecology, sound, protest, exile, and political absence, this archive maps the Biennale as a living field of tensions rather than a neutral display of art.
Biennale 2026 
Khaled Sabsabi’s work in the Australia Pavilion. conference of one’s self, 2026, Australia Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Andrea Rossetti. Courtesy of the artist and Milani Gallery. Australia Removed Him. Now Khaled Sabsabi Is at the Venice Biennale Twice
At the Biennale, spirituality is risky material. It can turn into atmosphere, into style, even into an alibi. Khaled Sabsabi
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Pussy Riot at Biennale in Venice 2026 When the Art World Decides You Exist, Google Usually Agrees
Some Venice Biennale articles reached Google’s first page. Others on Gaza, Israel, Russia and institutional power almost vanished. This essay follows the machinery of visibility from museums and markets to search engines and AI.
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Sun Yuan e Peng Yu - Can’t Help Myself (2016) Everyone Cried for This Robot. But It Was Never Dying
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Can’t Help Myself became the internet’s favourite dying machine. The story was false. What the
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Jago, Habemus Hominem (Left), and Chiara Camoni, Con te con tutto, Italian Pavilion (Right) Is Jago Really the Problem? Italian Contemporary Art Has Stopped Taking Risks
While Jago wins over audiences and institutions, part of the art system still dismisses him as obvious, rhetorical and media-driven.
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Natasha Tontey, The Phantom Combatants and the Metabolism of Disobedient Organs, 2026. Installation view at Ateneo Veneto, Venice, Italy. Commissioned by LAS Art Foundation and Amos Rex. © 2026 Natasha Tontey. Photo Jacopo La Forgia From Historic Palace to Battlefield for Ghosts: An Interview with Natasha Tontey in Venice
Until 25 October 2026, ancient rituals, surveillance technologies and colonial memories run through Indonesian artist Natasha Tontey’s installation at the
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Yayoi Kusama The 15 European Art Exhibitions Worth Travelling for This Autumn
A critical guide to the 15 contemporary art exhibitions worth seeing across Europe in autumn 2026, spanning Venice, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Turin, Madrid, Bilbao and Munich.
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Angelo Orazio Pregoni, NATURA VIVA – Il malato e il “secolo breve” (LIVING NATURE – The Patient and the “Short Twentieth Century”), 2026. The live painting performance at the Tanzania Pavilion, 61st Venice Biennale. Angelo Orazio Pregoni Finishes NATURA VIVA at the Venice Biennale. What Does a Finished Image Leave Out?
Angelo Orazio Pregoni’s completed monumental painting NATURA VIVA, developed through a live painting performance at the Tanzania Pavilion during the
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Angelo Orazio Pregoni at the Venice Biennale 2026: NATURA VIVA Against the Finished Image
At the Venice Biennale 2026, Angelo Orazio Pregoni turns ten days of live painting into a public meditation on illness, care and memory. NATURA VIVA is an artwork to encounter before it is finished.
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Ñi Demoon, Ño Delusi. Artist Courtesy Tuan Andrew Nguyen at the Venice Biennale 2026: What History Cannot Resolve
Tuan Andrew Nguyen and the Histories That Refuse to Be Resolved Translation of the original Italian article published by Artribune
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