Venice Biennale 2026

Remembering Home Across Distance: A Conversation with Amin Jaffer

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /

Dr. Amin Jaffer, an internationally celebrated curator with a career spanning institutions such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, The Al Thani Collection, and major biennials, brings a deeply transnational perspective to his role as curator of the India Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His practice has consistently explored how objects, materials, and histories travel […]

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Andreas Angelidakis Reimagines the National Pavilion as an Anti-Fascist Escape Room

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Andreas Angelidakis

Andreas Angelidakis, an architect and artist from Athens, is making waves at the Venice Biennale with his artwork, which is characterised as providing an anti-fascist escape room with purposefully campy touches. His work encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including publishing, exhibition design, architecture, and curating, and as a self-described internet addict, he uses and

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Listening to the Sea: Jon Cuyson’s Quiet Politics at the Venice Biennale

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /

Through the installation ‘Sea of Love,’ which tells the story of the sea from four perspectivesβ€”the sailor, his mother, his lover, and the sea of echoesβ€”Philippine artist Jon Cuyson is creating a new kind of visual experience at the Venice Biennale. The work explores a spatial environment shaped by the logic of the sea, using

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From Sapi to Venice: Skarma Sonam Tashi’s Journey Through Memory and Material

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Skarma-Sonam-Tashi

The artworks of Skarma Sonam Tashi, from the Indian mountains of Ladakh, are resonating at the Venice Biennale. That resonance has as much depth and breadth as the winds blowing in the Himalayas. Sonam Tashi, India’s delegate at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, is bringing the essence of Ladakh’s high-altitude culture, along with an

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Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka at the Venice Biennale: ‘Embodied Ecologies of Paper, Water, and Memory’

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, a queer Japanese-Canadian artist born in 1988, is a prominent figure at the Venice Biennale. Alexa Hatanaka primarily works with paper, utilising printmaking, ink drawing, and natural dyeing alongside sewing. She also interacts with traditional paper materials and techniques that both demand and support a clean environment. These modifications of customs, which

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A Journey Through Layers of Truth: Norton Maza Represents Chile at the Venice Biennale

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Norton Maza

At the ongoing Venice Biennale, the artworks of Chilean artist Norton Maza are attracting the attention of art lovers, just as those of other artists from the Global South, and are making the concept of ‘art’ and politics the centre of discussion. Considering the artist’s family history, especially that his father was arrested after the

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Waiting, Land, and Memory: Senzeni Marasela at the Venice Biennale

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /

South African interdisciplinary artist Senzeni Marasela is an active and attentive presence at the ongoing Venice Biennale. Marasela’s Venice Biennale work, which combines a wide range of artistic practices, including photography, video, prints, and mixed-media installations involving textiles and embroidery, and through which she conveys her message, captures the active attention of art lovers. Marasela’s

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EustΓ‘quio Neves on Memory, Erasure, and Afro-Brazilian Histories at Venice

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Eustaquio-Neves

Self-taught photographer EustΓ‘quio Nevse from Brazil presents projects at the Venice Biennale that bring Afro-diasporic experiences to the international stage and give them new dimensions. Neves exhibits two series at the 2026 Biennale Arte. Building relationships with a centuries-old Black community in Minas Gerais over a long period of time led to the creation of

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Lines of Resistance: Marcia Kure at the Venice Biennale

Interview, Venice Biennale 2026 /
Marcia Kure

One of the main attractions of the ongoing Venice Biennale is the artworks of artists from countries including Africa. Among them, Marcia Kure is particularly noteworthy. Born in Nigeria in 1970, Marcia Kure is known for her mixed-media artworks. Through these, she explores themes such as identity, history, and the lasting effects of colonialism. Marcia

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Venice Biennale 2026: 10 Must-See National Pavilions

Venice Biennale 2026 /
Venice Biennale

Currently, the art world is following the Venice Biennale. The ambience of the 61st Venice Biennale is more subdued than normal. The speciality of this year’s Biennale is that many of the national pavilions shift away from spectacle toward intimacy, recollection, and slow attention, under the theme In Minor Keys, conceived by the late curator

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