Notes related to Biennale

Through a ritual ecosystem of materials, sound, and gesture, RojoNegro's proposal for the Mexican Pavilion opens a space of pause and listening in the face of the saturation of the contemporary world.

The Iván Tovar Foundation presents Le Retour, a collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale that repositions the Dominican artist within the global history of Surrealism.

In line with the theme of the 61st edition, the duo Messengers of the Sun turns hyperstition into a tool for rewriting an untold story: that of the peoples displaced by a mythologized feat of engineering.

The Colombian-British artist participates in the current Venice Biennale and opens Confluences at MASP on July 3.

Polish artists and curators are present at the Polish, Estonian, and Albanian Pavilions, as well as an official collateral event at the Procuratie Vecchie.

At the 61st Venice Art Biennale, titled In Minor Keys and conceived by Cameroonian curator Koyo Kouoh, Latin American artists and projects hold a prominent place within an edition shaped by reflections on memory, territory, identity, and community knowledge.

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.