BiennaleArte2026 - National Pavilions - Arsenale - Highlights
Italy Pavilion - Con Te Con Tutto
Curator - Cecilia Canziani
Exhibitor - Chiara Camoni
Exhibitor - Chiara Camoni
Con te con tutto – the exhibition project curated by Cecilia Canziani for the Italian Pavilion – explores Chiara Camoni’s choral approach to living and working, multiplying its readings, voices and presences. The two Tese delle Vergini at the Arsenale follow two orientations – vertical in the first and horizontal in the second – creating a dialogue between the sculptures and visitors’ bodies.
In the penumbra, visitors encounter twenty-four life-sized sculptures incorporating plants, flowers and artificial materials such as plastics, debris and found objects. Archaic and solemn, the figures appear as guardians of a world where every form of matter, living or inert, can thrive.
Italy Pavilion
Israel Pavilion - Rose of Nothingness
Curators - Avital Bar-Shay - Sorin Heller
Exhibitor - Belu-Simion Fainaru
Exhibitor - Belu-Simion Fainaru
In the Israeli pavilion - Belu-Simion Fainaru's - installation Rose of Nothingness was inspired by Paul Celan’s poems, primarily the image of black milk, a symbolic liquid that conjoins life and death, matter and spirit. Black water drips into a rectangular pool, creating a quiet space of framed emptiness that invites contemplation and lingering presence. The pool evokes ink, a symbol of writing and memory, thus binding the artistic experience to collective consciousness.
The work’s installation in Venice, the city where the Talmud was first printed, charges it with resonance as a living, open and continuously evolving visual text. As such, the installation unfolds in the tension between presence and absence, calling for engagement with the experience of time, memory and sustainability.
Exhibitor - Belu-Simion Fainaru
United Arab Emirates - Washwasha
Curator - Bana Kattan
Exhibitors - Mays Albaik - Jawad Al Malhi - Farah Al QasimiAlaa Edris - Lamya Gargash - Taus Makhacheva
In the UAE pavilion - Washwasha - meaning - whisper - in Arabic, explores migration, technology, oral histories, and the relationship between language, body, identity and sound. Through recordings and sound-based works, the exhibition reflects on how changing urban, architectural and technological landscapes shape the ways communities hear, communicate and are heard. It also considers the fragility of preserving sound and memory, particularly in the context of migration and changing communities.
United Arab Emirates Pavilion
Lebanon Pavilion - Don't Get Me Wrong
Commissioner/Curator - Nada Ghandour
Exhibitor - Nabil Nahas
In the Lebanese pavilion - Don’t Get Me Wrong - is an immersive installation spanning 45 linear metres and comprising 26 acrylic-on-canvas panels, Nabil Nahas explores the relationship between humans, nature and the cosmos. Combining figuration, geometric abstraction and fractal forms, the work uses spectacle to encourage introspection and a sense of connection with the universe.
Sultanate Of Oman Pavilion - Zinah - Adornment
Curator - Exhibitor - Haitham Al Busafi
In the Omani - pavilion Zīnah - Adornment - is an immersive, kinetic soundscape that explores the profound bond between the Omani people and their horses. Using traditional al-zaanah - horse jewellery - as its primary motif, the installation invites visitors to walk across a floor of Omani sand. Their movement activates a constellation of enlarged silver pieces overhead, creating a delicate, resonant “minor key.” By shifting the roles of observer and observed, the work invites visitors to experience the dignity of being adorned. The installation reframes jewellery as a philosophy of relation, celebrating the horse as a partner in pride and reflecting the collective care embedded in Omani cultural heritage.
Chile Pavilion - Inter-Reality
Curators - Marisa Caichiolo - Dermis Pérez León
Exhibitor - Norton Maza
Exhibitor - Norton Maza
In the Chilean pavilion - Inter-Reality - is an immersive, multisensory experience that brings diverse audiences and forms of knowledge together to reflect on truth and coexistence. Through fragmented realities, multiple perspectives, illusion and simulacrum, the work creates a tension between the monumental and the poetic. Its installation unfolds as a shared scenario where an architectural object stranded on a rocky mass, dioramas, a human figure, boarding ladder, pilot’s helmet, falcon and power transmission structure become symbolic thresholds. Together, these elements activate questions of memory, civic responsibility, power, truth and freedom, while engaging with migration, ecological crisis, disinformation and political tensions from a South American perspective.
Chile Pavilion - Inter-Reality - detail
India Pavilion - Geographies of Distance - Remembering Home
Curator - Amin Jaffer
Exhibitors - Alwar Balasubramaniam - Sumakshi Singh - Ranjani Shettar
Exhibitors - Alwar Balasubramaniam - Sumakshi Singh - Ranjani Shettar
Asim Waqif - Skarma Sonam Tashi
In the Indian pavilion - Geographies of Distance: Remembering Home - explores home not as a fixed place, but as something continually reshaped through memory, movement and change. For lives shaped by migration across regions and generations, home becomes a portable condition rooted in material, ritual and personal memory.
Republic of Uzbekistan Pavilion - The Aural Sea
Curators - Kamila Mukhitdinova - Sophie Mayuko Arni - Nico Sun - Thái Hà Aziza Izamova
Exhibitors - Jahongir Bobokulov - Zi Kakhramonova - Aygul Sarsen
Exhibitors - Jahongir Bobokulov - Zi Kakhramonova - Aygul Sarsen
Zulfiya Spowart - Xin Liu - A.A.Murakami - Nguyen Phuong Linh
The Uzvekistan pavilion explores the loss of the Aral Sea through myth, imagination and ecological storytelling. Inspired by an imagined, replenished Aral where fantasy becomes a form of agency, the exhibition brings together local and international artists working across installation, interactive works and painting to envision the sea as shared ground for imagining ecological futures. It connects the Aral’s disappearance to environmental crises worldwide, asking how imagination can help reshape our relationship with a changing planet.
The pavilion is developed through the Bukhara Biennial Curatorial School and builds on initiatives connecting art, science and local knowledge to envision the Aral region’s future.
People's Republic of China Pavilion - Dream Stream
Curator: Yu Xuhong
In an era shaped by rapidly advancing technology, the exhibition considers how tradition can be renewed through innovation and how art, science and technology can come together. It proposes a dialogue between cultural heritage and new forms of knowledge, opening pathways toward a future where technological progress remains connected to deeper human and spiritual values.
The South African Pavilion - was Silenced !!!
La Biennale di Venezia - The 61st International Art Exhibition
Exhibitors - Game Science - Feng Ji, Yang Qi - Liu Chenglong - Wang Yixin+Wang Yu - Weng Jie, Lin Zhe - Zhou Haosong - Fei Si - Huang Chengxi Yang Tingmu+Yang Hancheng+Xie Xianhui - Team of China Academy of Art and Zhejiang Lab - Xu Jiang - Wang Dongling - Yang Fudong - Lining Yao+Guanyun Wang+Danli Luo - Method Scenography Group (Mou Sen - Ma Yuanchi - Xin Ge - Mei Yuezi - Zhao Da) - Wu Ziyang+Crude_Castin (Xu Jing, Zou Nan - Ye Qi, Yan Zhenghao) - Nie Shichang - Jiang Suxuan+Yu Jiangfan Hu Yueming+Lin Yuxin+Ji Huanhuan - Zhang Zhoujie
In the Chinese pavilion - Dream Stream - draws on Chinese philosophical traditions that connect the observation of nature, humanity, art and science. Referencing Shen Kuo’s Dream Stream Essays and the ancient character for art, the exhibition reflects on a cultural heritage rooted in reverence for the land and artistic practice, while also invoking the symbolism of Athena’s penetrating vision and the search for knowledge.
In an era shaped by rapidly advancing technology, the exhibition considers how tradition can be renewed through innovation and how art, science and technology can come together. It proposes a dialogue between cultural heritage and new forms of knowledge, opening pathways toward a future where technological progress remains connected to deeper human and spiritual values.
The South African Pavilion - was Silenced !!!
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La Biennale di Venezia - The 61st International Art Exhibition
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