The 61 International Art Exhibition will open its doors from May 09 to 22 November 2026.
“In Minor Keys,” the Biennale conceived by Koyo Kouoh before her death in 2025, transforms performance, ritual, and collective processions into a diffuse elegy, making live performance the true cultural epicenter of the exhibition.
At the Giardini della Biennale, Labics reinterprets over a century of stratifications, transforming the Central Pavilion into a coherent and accessible system featuring new functions, a café, and social spaces.
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.
From Lawrence Abu Hamdan to Janis Rafa, by way of the radical installation of 2050+: Canicula transforms Venice’s Ospedaletto into one of the most powerful visual experiences of the 2026 Art Biennale. An exhibition that speaks of images, propaganda, crisis, and attention — asking what it truly means to look today.
Beyond the Biennale, Venice becomes a labyrinth of international art. Here’s our guide to the must-see exhibitions unfolding across the city.
On the occasion of the 61st Venice Art Biennale, the Olivetti Showroom in Piazza San Marco hosts the fantastic and surreal works of Leandro Erlich: an exhibition project we will be hearing a lot about.
As Russia returns and Israel re-enters the 2026 edition, the Venice Biennale reveals a structural paradox: conceived as an open international platform, it has become an institution that cannot exclude.
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.
Gardens, oases, devotions and ghosts — but also performance, jazz, ficus trees in Venice and mango in Dakar. It sounds like a novel by Gabriel García Márquez. Instead, it’s an exhibition. Here are the themes, new features, artists and standout moments of the 61st Venice Biennale, “In Minor Keys”.
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.
Amid geopolitical controversies, cross-accusations, and the Buttafuoco case, the 2026 Art Biennale is being overwhelmed by its own “discourse”. While “In Minor Keys” attempts to construct a meditative exhibition, the most explosive present—from AI to war—remains off-screen.
