For the 2026 Venice Biennale, Palazzo Manfrin reopens to the public with an exhibition bringing together Anish Kapoor’s architectural models, mirrored sculptures, Vantablack works, and immersive installations that transform space into a perceptual experience.
At the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Transforming Energy stages the artist’s contradiction, through dialogues with Tiziano, rituals of presence, and a digital avatar: an exhibition that works when it forces you to slow down.
Just after his passing, Baselitz will be in Venice with his latest works: an opportunity to understand why he changed contemporary painting by constantly putting it into crisis.
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
From collaborations with science labs to foundation programs like LAS, more and more artists are turning to quantum physics—not to illustrate it, but to question a world shaped by predictive models and artificial intelligence.
We don’t inhabit environments, we are the environment
We interviewed the Chief Curator of the 13th Shanghai Biennale, entitled “Bodies of Water” who describes Biennale’s as reality-sensing-devices.
Entering the studio on Via Fondazza in Bologna, Joel Meyerowitz photographs each bottle, vase, and jar used by the painter in his iconic still lifes. The project becomes Morandi’s Objects, a book set for release in 2026.
In Valencia, a new exhibition dedicated to Anselm Kiefer centers on Danaë—a more than 13-meter-long painting never before shown in Europe—set within one of the most historically charged buildings of the 20th century.
At MAXXI L’Aquila, “Aftershock” brings the Sichuan and Abruzzo earthquakes into dialogue: around seventy works exploring how fractures—political, human, and material—continue to reverberate over time.
On the eve of Milan Design Week, the city reactivates an ancient gesture: opening what is hidden and transforming objects and spaces into a collective ritual, where design becomes an opportunity to see - and recognize - together.
It’s not artificial intelligence that’s the problem, but the logic already shaping music, fashion, and images: from Spotify to Margiela, today’s most compelling artists are those who derail the algorithm—even when they use it.
Cao Fei’s exhibition Dash at Fondazione Prada explores the transformation of agriculture through drones, algorithms, and automated farming, where human labor is gradually replaced by systems, data, and new technological rituals.
From miart’s new venue to the evolution of its role, and seven key exhibitions across the city: what to see during Milan Art Week 2026, in the words of artistic director Nicola Ricciardi.
