Notes related to Bienal

Haitian artist Enock Placide's installation offers an immersive experience of time, space, and perception, on view through November 22 at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello.

Florentina Holzinger represents Austria at the 61st International Art Exhibition with a live installation exploring water, purity and feminist resistance. On view through 22 November at the Giardini della Biennale.

The 2026 Venice Biennale hosts an exhibition exploring the Bahamian Junkanoo tradition through the work of John Beadle and Lavar Munroe — two generations of artists united by discarded materials and collective memory.

With Victoria water lilies as protagonists, Abbas Akhavan transforms the Canadian pavilion into a liminal space that invites to rethink humanity's relationship with the natural world.

No formal application, no galleries, and uncertain funding: the artist representing the United States in Venice explores the transformation of matter and the American landscape.

The Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale is transformed into an anti-museum led by the Catalan artist, grounded in the accumulation of postcards, memory, and a critique of the archive.

A new series of large-scale photographs of taxidermied birds — some extinct, many endangered — explores the intersection of colonial history, Māori spirituality, and ecological loss.

For the 61st edition of the world's oldest contemporary art exhibition, Denmark selected Maja Malou Lyse and curator Chus Martínez to represent the country at the Giardini.

In the run-up to the Venice Biennale, the Ecuador Pavilion project offers solar-powered boat tours and intimate conversations about extractivism, rivers, territories, and ways of life in the Amazon.

By: María Galarza and Álvaro de Benito

The Venice Art Biennale is approaching the inauguration of its 61st edition amid resignations, protests, and controversies. Never indifferent to its time, its launch also converges within an intense context of wars, genocides, and geopolitical crises. From Arte al Día, we ask ourselves: how can we trace the relationships between politics and art?

Open call to participate in a new installation by internationally renowned artist Chiharu Shiota at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer.

The proposal selected for the Chilean pavilion brings an immersive experience in Venice that addresses contemporary tensions.

The Central American country will bring Oscar Molina's work to the Biennale, paying tribute to displaced communities and the global diaspora.

The Uruguayan Pavilion in Venice will present Whyte’s work, which combines textiles, obsolete machines, and scraps of waste to demonstrate that disorder does not destroy.

Matías Duville's installation proposes a traversable landscape where light and shadow, permanence and transformation coexist without resolution.

The exhibition offers a political reading through paintings that bring together sacred, industrial, and domestic textiles within a single visual field.

Cuban artist Roberto Diago presents a sculptural installation that turns the scar into an emblem of identity and precariousness into an act of sovereignty.

Curated by Diane Lima, the exhibition brings together Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino for the first time to rewrite the wounds of colonialism.

As curator of the Peruvian pavilion in Venice, Andrade examines how the Shipibo-Konibo artist transforms a visual thinking system into an all-encompassing experience —and why that gesture reshapes the scale of what contemporary art can hold.

This May, the Ecuador Pavilion will present an exhibition curated by Manuela Moscoso that explores territory, knowledge, and coexistence.

The exhibition evokes a present marked by oppression, where bodies, sensibilities, and politics are deeply intertwined.

Combining science, music, and theatricality, Jenna Sutela’s work—curated by Stefanie Hessler—explores the unpredictable nature of the wind and its connection to the contemporary environmental crisis.

An exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale that revisits television archives to reflect on coexistence as both a social promise and a contested field.

The intergenerational selection traces a sensitive map of practices connected to the United States, where affective, political, and technological ties intertwine through an experimental lens.

Lucía Sanromán and Aimee Harrison to co-curate the 14th edition of the festival, taking place from 5 June 2027 until 12 September 2027.

The event will bring together 46 Indigenous artists from different regions of Argentina and neighboring countries, with exhibitions and activities taking place between February and April.

Curated by Josefina Barcia, the project was selected among 69 submissions and will occupy the Argentine Pavilion from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

The 25th edition, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, announced new projects which will explore memory and history through works from around the world.

Curated by Diane Lima, the project Comigo ninguém pode will bring together two of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian art around themes of colonial memory, resilience, and poetic imagination in Brazil’s Pavilion.

The International Art Biennial returns after 44 years, bringing together over 120 artists from 25 countries, 300 artworks, and a free program spanning 15 municipalities.