Notes related to Biennale

Memory, identity, and abstraction intersect in the exhibition by Ana Lorena Núñez, Jorge Chavarría, Manuel Navichoc, and Elsie Wunderlich for the international art fair.

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?

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.

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

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

With the large-scale installation and performative work of Antonio José Guzmán and Iva Jankovic, Panama participates for the second time as a National Pavilion in the Biennale di Venezia 2026.

Fifteen artists from the region will take part in In Minor Keys, the 61st International Art Exhibition opening in Venice in May 2026.

The exclusion of Gabrielle Goliath’s work due to its reference to Gaza exposes the tensions between memory, mourning, and political power in contemporary art.

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

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.

MOMENTUM, the Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, inaugurated its 13th edition, Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies, curated by Danish curator and academic Morten Søndergaard. The show invites the public to tune into the quiet, the overlooked, the unheard; presents sound as a way to reorient how we live and as a medium for unprepared listening.

The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled passing the fugitive on, opens on the evening of June 13, 2025, 7–10pm, at four locations in Berlin with over 170 works by more than 60 artists. More than half of the artworks are newly commissioned. 

Rememory, as coined by Toni Morrison in her novel Beloved is the theme and title for the 25th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, which will take place from March 17 until June 17, 2026. Expanding from the understanding of memory as information retention with the passing of time, rememory works in the dark, from the residues and amputations of the past. In Morrison’s own context and research, it relates to chronicling African American history and how it upturns what is canonised as American history.

The board of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Koyo Kouoh as Director of the Visual Arts Department, with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026.

The 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale is coming to an end. Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, offered a reflection through art about migration and borders, recurring themes in today's global discussion. Arte al Día was present to cover the 60th International Exhibition, not only to bring the work of more than 300 artists from almost 100 countries, but also to focus on the contribution of Latin American artists to the global scene, whose presence marked a high point in this edition.

The section dedicated to abstraction in the Strangers Everywhere / Stranieri Ouvunque exhibition at the Venice Biennale 2024 explores how artists from the Global South -particularly those from Latin America- pursued less rigorous forms, undulating lines and a vibrant color palette stemming from references of their own.