#BiennaleArte2026 - Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation - Lydia Ourahmane - 5 Works

Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation 

Lydia Ourahmane - 5 Works

The Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation presents a new solo exhibition by - Conceptual artist - Lydia Ourahmane - 5 Works - until - November 22 - curated - Polly Staple.  Created during the artist's 2026 residency in Venice, the exhibition is shaped by collaborations with local craftspeople, technicians and community organisations. Bringing together sculpture, installation, sound and found materials—including antique sculpture moulds, church lighting and decommissioned bed linen—5 Works explores themes of displacement, exchange and collective memory.  A highlight is a new landing pier - above - commissioned for the island of Poveglia, installed at the Foundation before being transferred to the island after the exhibition closes, it reflects Ourahmane's interest in works that extend beyond the gallery and continue to serve a public purpose.

(45.3820696, 12.3294242) - 2026

Offerta Luce €1 - 2026

Using materials such as antique plaster moulds, church lighting, decommissioned hotel bed linen, and handmade bead curtains, Ourahmane draws attention to the histories and forms of labour embedded within them. Rather than presenting sculpture as a self-contained object, the works reveal the networks of care, maintenance, and exchange that make them possible.

1.3 tons of decommissioned bed linen from 200 Venetian hotels - 2026

Many of the works emerge from partnerships with Venetian institutions and community groups, grounding the exhibition in the city's social and cultural fabric.   Through these site-specific collaborations, Ourahmane examines how art can intersect with everyday life, revealing the social, political and material forces that shape places and communities.

Manuela, Margherita, Marianna, Monia, Patrizia - 2026

Angel - 2026

5 Works operates as a series of encounters that unfold across the rooms of the Foundation’s building. The dormant void, contained energy, and its potential are concepts that Ourahmane uses as a dynamic within her work but also as a motif within the staging of the exhibition. In seemingly empty rooms the lights turn on and off or the aroma of cooking greets you.

Rock Soup - 2026

Ourahmane’s practice is focused on the real politics of daily life as much as exploring how art itself is valued and produced, distributed and displayed. We are living in a new world order in which waste collapses into sublime abstraction for many but remains a brutal reality for others. This requires a shift in perspective. What then is the form for our present moment? At what point does art insert itself into reality? In 5 Works, matter is always negotiating its terms.

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- Giudecca, Dorsoduro, Poveglia, Cannaregio, Napoli, Mirano, Murano - 2026

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#BiennaleArte2026 - Palazzo Franchetti - Turandot: To the Daughters of the East

"...works that reflect on memory, migration, mythology, identity 

and the enduring complexities of history"

 Palazzo Franchetti 

Turandot: To the Daughters of the East

At Palazzo Franchetti - The Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art - presented - an official collateral event - La Biennale di Venezia -  TURANDOT: To the Daughters of the East - until October 31 - curated - Dr Ziba Ardalan, the exhibition brings together eleven remarkable women artists—Lida Abdul, Afruz Amighi, Huma Bhabha, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Saodat Ismailova, Madina Joldybek, Daria Kim, Nazira Karimi, Farideh Lashai, Tala Madani and Mona Hatoum.

 Mona Hatoum - Hot Spot

Saodat Ismailova - What Was My Name? - 2020

Spanning video, installation, sculpture, painting, textiles and spoken word, the exhibition brings together works that reflect on memory, migration, mythology, identity and the enduring complexities of history. 

Nazira Karimi - Return Policy - 2019

Curator - Dr. Ziba Ardalan

Huma  Bhabha - Road to Balkh - 2015

Inspired by the legendary figure of Turandot, whose origins lie in Persian literature, the exhibition reframes her as an emblem of resilience, wisdom and creative agency - and - together, these artists in the exhibition - present - compelling perspectives that honour the richness and plurality of women's voices across Central Asia and the wider East.

Farideh Lashai - Gone Down the Hole - 2010

Madina Joldybek

Director - Fondazione Giacomo Puccini - Luigi Viani

 

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#BiennaleArte 2026 - SMAC Venice - San Marco Art Centre - Lee Ufan

 SMAC - San Marco Art Centre 

Lee Ufan

Dia Art Foundation presents a major solo presentation of work by Lee Ufan - until November 22 -  at -  SMAC Venice - curated - Jessica Morgan - developed in close partnership with the artist and supported by - Pace gallery, the exhibition traces the evolution of seven decades of Lee Ufan's iconic visual language with works ranging from new and historical paintings to large-scale installations and a new site-specific commission. Developed in close partnership with the artist, the exhibition traces his iconic visual language with works ranging from new and historical paintings to large-scale installations and a new site-specific commission.

 

Relatum - Formerly Iron Field - 1969/2026

Lee, one of the foremost figures of the Japanese Mono-ha - School of Things - as well as a key contributor to the Korean Dansaekhwa - Monochromatic Paintings -  movements, has long explored the possibilities of embodying and representing space and time through painterly gestures on canvas.  The metaphysical observations of the relationship between entities are similarly explored in his site-specific paintings that are made directly on the floor and walls of a given space. Here, the architecture is part of the dialogue between the painted and the unpainted, the mark and the surrounding space.

Response - Excavated I - 2022

From Line - 1980 - comprises a downward stroke that captures a singular moment, exemplifying Lee's concern with the passage of time. With these reductive, repetitive gestures, the artist meditates on the act of painting and enduring examination of the representation of space - emphasizing absence and presence - as well as the cyclical nature of existence articulated through the systematic act of the brushstroke's release of paint.

From Line - 1980

Dialogue - 2008

With Winds - 1990

The Correspondance series is a return to an emphasis on the foregrounding empty space made evident by the surrounding elements. In their sparseness, the artist's strokes make clear the relation between unpainted and painted space, between absence and presence.

Correspondance - 1994

Two locally sourced, rounded stones - intentionally selected for their specific forms - flank a mirrored path that rests atop a layer of pebbles that fill the space.  The room-sized installation invites the viewer to traverse a shifting terrain, moving from the unstable surface of the pebbles to the smooth, reflective path in an experience that oscillates between the natural and the industrial.

Relatum - The Mirror Road - 2021-2022

The  exhibition is staged across eight of SMAC Venice’s galleries at the Procuratie in Piazza San Marco, holistically, it is designed to reflect both Lee’s long-standing dialogue with architectural space and his continued commitment to creating environments that prompt reflection and heightened awareness.

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