Events by the CIMAM Network at the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia

A selection of events presented by CIMAM Board Members, CIMAM Members, and CIMAM Patrons, on the occasion of the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

For colleagues visiting the Biennale, this includes a selection of national pavilions as well as events taking place beyond the Giardini and the Arsenale, where CIMAM members are actively involved.

Tuesday, 5 May 2026

18:30 Opening
Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship
An exhibition by Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
📍 Spazio Punch, Sestiere Giudecca 800

Wednesday, 6 May 2026

Danish Pavilion
14:00 - Opening
Things to Come
Commissioner: The Danish Arts Foundation
Curator: Chus Martínez
Artist: Maja Malou Lyse
📍Giardin

Ecuadorian Pavilion
16:00 - Opening
TAWNA & Oscar
Commissioner: Museo de Antropología y Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC)
Curator: Manuela Moscoso
Artists: TAWNA collective, Óscar Santillán
📍 Castello 166/A

Japanese Pavilion
16:30 - Opening
Grass Babies, Moon Babies
Commissioner: The Japan Foundation
Curators: Lisa Horikawa, Mizuki Takahashi
Artist: Ei Arakawa-Nash
📍 Giardini
The Japan Pavilion will collaborate with the Korean Pavilion for the first time in history and a joint toast will take place at the tree-lined space between the two pavilions around half past four o’clock on the same day.

Thursday, 7 May 2026

09:30 Walkthrough
Darkness Visible: The Long Shadow of Dictatorship
An exhibition by Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
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📍 Spazio Punch, Sestiere Giudecca 800

Albanian Pavilion
16:30 - Opening
A Place in the Sun
Commissioner: Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport
Curator: Małgorzata Ludwisiak
Artist: Genti Korini
📍Arsenale

Friday, 8 May 2026

Zimbabwe Pavilion
16:30 - Opening
Second Nature | Manyonga
Commissioner: Raphael Chikukwa, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
Curator: Fadzai Muchemwa
Artists: Gideon Gomo, Eva Raath, Felix Shumba, Franklyn Dzingai, Pardon Mapondera
📍Santa Maria della Pietà, Castello 3701

Saturday, 9 May 2026

Tadeusz Kantor (1915–1990): Emballage, Cricotage and Madame Jarema
Presented by Starak Family Foundation. Free Admission.
📍 Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco

Pavilions Curated by CIMAM Members

Australia
conference of one’s self
Commissioner: Creative Australia
Curator: Michael Dagostino
Artist: Khaled Sabsabi
📍 Giardini

Austria
Seaworld Venice
Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport, Republic of Austria
Curator: Nora-Swantje Almes
Artist: Florentina Holzinger
📍 Giardini

Canada
Abbas Akhavan: Entre chien et loup
Commissioner: National Gallery of Canada, Jean-François Bélisle
Curator: Kim Nguyen
Artist: Abbas Akhavan
📍 Giardini

Croatia
Compelled by Fright and Beauty
Commissioner: Ministry of Culture and Media
Curator: Branko Franceschi
Artist: Dubravka Lošić
📍 Palazzo Zorzi, Salizada Zorzi, 4930

Finland
Aeolian Suite
Commissioner: Juha Huuskonen, Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Curator: Stefanie Hessler
Artist: Jenna Sutela
📍 Giardini

Germany
Ruin
Commissioner: ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Curator: Kathleen Reinhardt
Artists: Henrike Naumann, Sung Tieu
📍 Giardini

Holy See
The Ear is the Eye of the Soul
Commissioner: Card. José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the Holy See
Curators: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ben Vickers
Artist: Soundwalk Collective
📍 Complesso di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, Fondamenta S. Gioacchin, Castello 450, and Giardino Mistico dei Carmelitani Scalzi, Cannaregio

Iran
Commissioner: Aydin Mahdizadeh Tehrani

Latvia
Untamed Assembly: Backstage of Utopia
Commissioner: Solvita Krese
Curators: Inga Lāce; Adomas Narkevičius
Artists: MAREUNROL’S, Bruno Birmanis
📍 Arsenale

Morocco
Asǝṭṭa
Commissioner: Mohammed Benyaacoub
Curator: Meriem Berrada
Artist: Amina Agueznay
📍 Arsenale

Panama
Tropical Hyperstition
Commissioner: Gianni Bianchini
Curators: Ana Elizabeth González, Mónica Kupfer
Artists: Antonio José Guzmán & Iva Jankovic
📍 Tesa 42 Arsenale, Fondamenta Case Nuove, 2738c

Qatar
Untitled (a gathering of remarkable people)
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Sophia Al Maria, Tarek Atoui, Alia Farid, Fadi Kattan
Commissioner: Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Curators: Tom Eccles, Ruba Katrib
Exhibitor: Qatar National Pavilion
📍 Giardini

Saudi Arabia
May your tears never dry, you who weep over stones
Commissioner: Visual Arts Commission, Saudi Ministry of Culture
Curator: Antonia Carver
Artist: Dana Awartani
📍 Arsenale

Slovenia
Soundtrack for an Invisible House
Commissioner: Martina Vovk
Curator: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Artists: Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Miloš Kosec)
📍 Arsenale

Syrian Arab Republic
The Tower Tomb of Palmira
Commissioner: Waseem Abd Alhameed, Director of Fine Arts at the Syrian Ministry of Culture
Curator: Yuko Hasegawa
Artist: Sara Shamma
📍 IUAV di Venezia, Cotonificio, Dorsoduro 2196

Timor-Leste
Across Words
Commissioner: Jorge Soares Cristóvão
Curator: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani
Artists: Veronica Pereira Maia, Etson Caminha, Juventino Madeira
📍 Arsenale

United States
Call Me the Breeze
Commissioner: Jenni Parido
Curator: Jeffrey Uslip
Artist: Alma Allen
📍 Giardini

*CIMAM does not provide its members with access to ticketed areas of the Venice Biennale.