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.
Pussy Riot and FEMEN protest performance at the Venice Biennale 2026 “Russia’s art today is blood” Between pink balaclavas, slogans against Kremlin propaganda, and direct accusations aimed at the Venice Biennale
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Liquid Tongues installation view, Photo Jacopo Salvi (altomare)/ Zacheta Archive Through sign language, whales, and bodies immersed in water, the Polish Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale presents one of
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The team of the Swiss Pavilion at the 2026 Biennale. From left to right: Miriam Laura Leonardi, Yul Tomatala, Nina Wakeford, Gianmaria Andreetta, Luca Beeler, Lithic Alliance. Photo: Del LaGrace Volcano. The Politics of an Open Archive At the 2026 Venice Biennale, The Unfinished Business of Living Together brings together Nina
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Sergey Grinevich, Daniella Kaliada, Natalia Kaliada MBE and Olga Podgayskaya, 2026. Photo Francesco Barasciutti Belarus Free Theatre – Official. Unofficial. Belarus Link to the Italian version on Artribune Collateral Event of the 61st International
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Kader Attia, Whisper of Trace, In minor Keys, Installation View ph Francesca Cavallaro Kader Attia: Repair Does Not Erase the Wound For In Minor Keys, the French-Algerian artist brings Whisper of Traces to
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Palestin Pavilion - Photo credits: Federico Vespignani, Celestia Studio. “ – – – – – – – – – “* *Gaza – No Words – See the Exhibit Amid
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Pussy Riot at Biennale in Venice 2026 The dissident collective led by Nadya Tolokonnikova said they had repeatedly attempted to open a dialogue with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco in
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Biennale Pavilion of Nature Amid protests against the Russian Pavilion, tensions surrounding Israel’s participation, and pro-Palestinian demonstrations, two seagulls sitting on their eggs in
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Annalee Davis The Barbados-born artist brings to Venice a work that holds together extinction, colonial memory, and the desire for repair. Not
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MArina Abramović preview Venice At the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Marina Abramović’s exhibition Transforming Energy turns presence, attention, and belief into the real field
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