Contemporary Art Criticism, Interviews, Essays and Visual Politics
Venice Biennale 2026 gathers interviews, pavilion reviews, artist profiles, and critical essays on one of the most visible stages of contemporary art.
This archive follows national pavilions, emerging voices, political conflicts, feminist practices, ecological projects, queer positions, technological anxieties, and artistic experiments shaping the Biennale today.
Rather than treating the Biennale as an exhibition calendar, these articles read it as a pressure point: a place where contemporary art tests its relation to power, identity, memory, conflict, visibility, and consequence.
From artists such as Kader Attia, Nick Cave, Annalee Davis, Judy Chicago, Alfredo Jaar, and Ryoji Ikeda to national pavilions shaped by war, ecology, sound, protest, exile, and political absence, this archive maps the Biennale as a living field of tensions rather than a neutral display of art.
At the Venice Biennale 2026, Angelo Orazio Pregoni turns ten days of live painting into a public meditation on illness, care and memory. NATURA VIVA is an artwork to encounter before it is finished.
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Ñi Demoon, Ño Delusi. Artist Courtesy Tuan Andrew Nguyen and the Histories That Refuse to Be Resolved Translation of the original Italian article published by Artribune
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Angelo Orazio Pregoni - Ujamaa Express Paintings – PH Angelo O. Pregoni VENICE BIENNALE 2026 | UJAMAA EXPRESS Through painting, sculptural perfumes and unexpected encounters between Western icons and Tanzanian history, Angelo
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Photos by Gregorio Díaz. Courtesy of the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art - MAMBO Kader Attia does not repair the wound to make it disappear. He keeps the scar visible because history is not
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Nick Cave - Soundsuit Before they became spectacular, Nick Cave’s Soundsuits were already something darker: a body trying to survive the violence of being
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Lubaina Himid - Boatbuilders - Exhibition Predicting History Testing Translation, British Pavilion, 61st Venice Biennale 2026 There was a time when representation seemed like the battle itself. To enter the museum. To appear on the wall.
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Ryoji Ikeda, data-verse, video still, Venice Biennale 2026. At the Venice Biennale, data entered the body Ryoji Ikeda’s data-verse 1 did not behave like an image at the
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Alfredo Jaar, The End of the World, installation view, Venice Biennale 2026. At the end of the red corridor, almost nothing waits At Venice Biennale 2026, Alfredo Jaar does something almost cruel.
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Venice Biennale 2026 - In Minor Keys At the Venice Biennale 2026, the scandal did not stay outside the exhibition. It entered the voting system, the pavilions,
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Biennale 2026, Italy Pavilion. Photo: Irene Fanizza At the Venice Biennale 2026, Chiara Camoni’s Con te con tutto does not simply bring clay, plants, ritual, memory and
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