{"id":44729,"date":"2026-04-20T04:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/biennale-arte-2026-the-pavilions-in-the-city\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:32:28","slug":"biennale-arte-2026-the-pavilions-in-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/biennale-arte-2026-the-pavilions-in-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Biennale Arte 2026: The Pavilions in the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"figure\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Venezia-ph.-Settimo-Cannatella.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42161 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Venezia-ph.-Settimo-Cannatella.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Venezia-ph.-Settimo-Cannatella.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Venezia-ph.-Settimo-Cannatella-600x375.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<h2>The map of the pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale extends beyond the boundaries of the Giardini and the Arsenale: in the city, we find Timor-Leste, Zimbabwe, and the debuting pavilions<\/h2>\n<p>There are <b>7 countries participating for the first time<\/b> at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/la-biennale-arte-2026-in-minor-keys-by-koyo-kouoh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice Art Biennale<\/a><\/strong>: <b><span lang=\"EN-US\">Republic of Guinea, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic of Nauru, Qatar, Republic of Sierra Leone, Federal Republic of Somalia, Socialist Republic of Vietnam<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"EN-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>ECUADOR<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>TAWNA &amp; Oscar<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Castello 1636\/A<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artists:<\/strong> <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tawna.colectivo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TAWANA collective<\/a> and <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oscarsantillan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Oscar Santill\u00e1n<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Manuela Moscoso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Community, ritual, ecology, memory, and language are recurring themes in the work of the anti-colonial collective Tawna, composed of S\u00e1para, Kichwa, and mestizo artists from the Ecuadorian Amazon, working with \u00d3scar Santill\u00e1n, a visual artist living between the Netherlands and Ecuador who blends ancestral knowledge with emerging technologies. While awaiting more details on the Venice project, Santill\u00e1n is currently exhibiting at the Diriyah Biennale in Riyadh and at the Guggenheim Bilbao with <em>Artes de la Tierra<\/em>, dedicated to the relationship between ecology and artistic practices.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Participating for the first time with its own pavilion: EL SALVADOR<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Cartographies of the Displaced<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ecc-italy.eu\/locations\/palazzomora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Palazzo Mora<\/a>, Cannaregio, Strada Nova, 3659<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/omolina.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jos\u00e9 \u00d3scar Molina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Alejandra Cabezas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>15 sculptures<\/strong> <strong>telling the story of the forced displacement of migrant communities<\/strong>:<strong> Molina<\/strong>, born in Moraz\u00e1n in 1971 and who fled to the United States at 16 during the civil war, transforms migration into splashes of color and sculptures with a QR code linking to messages from displaced people.<\/p>\n<h2>The other pavilions in alphabetical order<\/h2>\n<h3><strong>BAHAMAS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>In Another Man\u2019s Yard: John Beadle, Lavar Munroe, and the Spirit of (Posthumous) Collaboration<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/it\/bacheca\/274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Trovaso Art Space<\/a>, Dorsoduro 947<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artists:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lavar-munroe.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Lavar Munroe<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/j1beadle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">John Beadle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Krista Thompson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lavar Munroe<\/strong> <strong>exhibits alongside works by John Beadle, who passed away in 2024<\/strong>. Both use waste materials following the techniques of Junkanoo, the Bahamian festival where descendants of enslaved people transformed found objects into costumes and sculptures. Beadle was supposed to represent the country in 2015; Munroe brings him to Venice through works that recall his research on migration and identity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"2\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"2\">\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/J.-Oscar-Molina.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Lavar-Munroe_2025.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Il-collettivo-Tawna-lartista-Oscar-Santillan-e-la-curatrice-Manuela-Moscoso-Foto-by-Joffre-Cruz-per-gentile-concessione-del-Museo-di-Antropologia-e-Arte-Contemporanea-Ecuador-MAAC.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong>CYPRUS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>It rests to the bones<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/spiazzi_\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Associazione Culturale Spiazzi<\/a>, Castello 3865<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/afictionalastronaut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Marina Xenofontos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Kyle Dancewicz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sculptures that preserve memories like hard drives: <strong>Marina Xenofontos<\/strong> transforms everyday objects into living archives, where traces of the Cypriot diaspora following the 1974 partition are deposited.<br \/>\n<strong>Video and sound installations bring to the surface the folk traditions<\/strong> that Cypriots brought with them when emigrating to the United Kingdom and the United States\u2014an intangible heritage that survives in everyday gestures and objects. &#8220;<em>Her work addresses the weight and lightness of history,<\/em>&#8221; says curator Kyle Dancewicz, deputy director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sculpture-center.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SculptureCenter<\/a> in New York, which dedicated a solo exhibition to her in 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>ESTONIA<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> The House of Leaking Sky<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/veneziasalesiana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Patronato Salesiano Leone XIII<\/a>, Calle San Domenico 1281, Castello<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/cca.ee\/en\/artists-database\/merike-estna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Merike Estna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Natalia Sielewicz<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A frescoed ceiling above a floor marked by basketball lines: <strong>Merike Estna<\/strong> exhibits in a former church transformed into a community center, where the sacred and the civic overlap. Estna&#8217;s painting transcends the boundaries of the canvas to invade environments and objects, and for this Biennale, the artist will live in Venice with her family for the duration of the exhibition, transforming artistic work into a daily and performative gesture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"4\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"4\">\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Marina-Xenofontos-1.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Merike-Estna-Ph.-Priit-Murk-Courtesy-of-the-artist-and-Temnikova-Kasela-Gallery.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>ICELAND<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Pocket Universe<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.docks-cucchini.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Docks Cantieri Cucchini<\/a>, San Pietro di Castello 40A<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astafanney_art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">\u00c1sta Fanney Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curators:<\/strong> Margr\u00e9t \u00c1skelsd\u00f3ttir, Unnar \u00d6rn Au\u00f0arson<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Poet, composer, filmmaker, and visual artist: <strong>\u00c1sta Fanney Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir<\/strong> brings to the Biennale a practice that blends text, sound, and image in performances where the boundary between the conscious and unconscious dissolves.<br \/>\nThe Icelandic pavilion moves to a new venue, the former 19th-century shipyards of San Pietro di Castello, where the Reykjav\u00edk artist builds an immersive environment made of temporal portals, objects charged with meaning\u2014amulets, talismans\u2014and performative actions that traverse the space. &#8220;<em>Imagination is an undervalued source, a capacity for infinite possibilities<\/em>,&#8221; states Sigur\u00f0ard\u00f3ttir, who treats language as living matter, almost a spiritual act, producing dreamlike vocal structures open to hidden layers of meaning.<\/p>\n<h3>KOSOVO<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Hard Teeth<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/fondoambiente.it\/luoghi\/chiesa-santa-maria-del-pianto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chiesa di Santa Maria del Pianto<\/a>, Fondamenta Nove, Castello<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lambdalambdalambda.org\/?\/artist\/brilant_milazimi\/=\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brilant Milazimi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Jos\u00e9 Esparza Chong Cuy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the first time, Kosovo brings a painter to the Biennale: <strong>Brilant Milazimi<\/strong>, winner of the 2020 Kosovar Young Visual Artist Award, will exhibit a 17 m canvas mounted on a self-supporting structure depicting a row of figures crowded on mountainous terrain. The project investigates waiting as a political and physical condition, reflecting Kosovo&#8217;s state of partial recognition on the international stage.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"6\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"6\">\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Asta-Fanney-Sigurdardottir_ph.-Gulli_Mar.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Brilant-Milazimi-au-pavillon-du-Kosovo-Autore-Majlinda-Hoxha-Ringraziamenti-\u00a9-Photo-Majlinda-Hoxha.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>LITHUANIA<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Animism sings anarchy<\/em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sumus.community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SUMUS<\/a> &#8211; Fucina del Futuro, Castello 5063\/B<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/egle_budvytyte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Egl\u0117 Budvytyt\u0117<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Louise O&#8217;Kelly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas studied Neolithic societies where women ruled and the sacred was mixed with everyday life. <strong>Egl\u0117 Budvytyt\u0117<\/strong> transforms these theories into a film with choreographic scenes shot among the rivers, limestone quarries, and clay of Lithuania, where bodies and landscape merge through rituals and songs.<\/p>\n<h3>SLOVENIA<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title: <\/strong><em>Soundtrack for an Invisible House<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/it\/luoghi\/arsenale-spazio-marceglia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Campo della Tana 2169\/F<\/a>, Castello<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artists:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/nonument.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nonument Group<\/a> (Neja Tom\u0161i\u010d, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Milo\u0161 Kosec)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Nata\u0161a Petre\u0161in-Bachelez<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The <strong>Nonument Group<\/strong> collective works on the ruins of the first mosque built in Slovenia in 1916 in Log pod Mangartom by Bosnian Muslim soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I. The mosque was demolished in the 1920s after the soldiers returned home and the territory passed to Italy.<br \/>\nThe project uses testimonies, archival documents, and performative actions to show how a building changes meaning when political and social conditions shift, opening a reflection on religion, military infrastructure, ruins, and empires in the contemporary era of historical reparations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"8\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"8\">\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Egle-Budvytyte.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Nonument-Group-photo-Peter-Giodani.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>PAKISTAN<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Punj\u2022AB \u2013 A Sublime Terrain<\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.193gallery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">193 Gallery Venice<\/a> &#8211; Ex Farmacia Solveni, Dorsoduro 993<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.faizabutt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Faiza Butt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Beatriz Cifuentes Feliciano<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s second participation in the Biennale Arte after its 2019 debut, with <strong>Faiza Butt<\/strong> presenting Punjab, a historical region divided between India and Pakistan in 1947 when the British left the subcontinent, drawing borders that separated communities, families, and territories. The artist works with photography, embroidery, and ceramics\u2014techniques that museums and galleries have always classified as craft and that Butt exhibits as contemporary art.<\/p>\n<h3>SAN MARINO<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Sea of Sound<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/noticeboard\/301\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tana Art Space<\/a>, Fondamenta de la Tana 2111 &#8211; a former wood and coal warehouse converted into a space for contemporary art<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biennaleveneziasanmarino.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mark Francis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Luca Tommasi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Mark Francis<\/strong> <strong>translates sound frequencies into abstract painting<\/strong>, transforming the exhibition space into a listening field where vision becomes vibration.<br \/>\nThe pavilion is divided into two rooms: the first hosts the projection <em>Listening Field<\/em>, while the second houses new large-format paintings on canvas and aluminum\u2014soundscapes that invite the perception of the world&#8217;s invisible echo.<\/p>\n<h3>ZIMBABWE<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em>Second Nature | Manyonga<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Venue:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pietavenezia.org\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Chiesa della Piet\u00e0<\/a>, Santa Maria della Visitazione, Castello 3701<\/li>\n<li><strong>Artists:<\/strong> Gideon Gomo, Eva Raath, Felix Shumba, Franklyn Dzingai, Pardon Mapondera<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curator:<\/strong> Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The title and the word &#8220;Manyonga&#8221; in the Shona language signify the ability to transform in order to survive: five Zimbabwean artists bring sculpture, painting, and installation to tell the story of what it means to resist and adapt when everything around is uncertain.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rgg-container\" data-rgg-id=\"10\">    <div class=\"rgg-imagegrid captions-overlay-hover-show captions-effect-slide_up \" data-rgg-id=\"10\">\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"0.66625\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Faiza-Butt-portrait.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n                    <a  title=\"\" data-caption=\"\" class=\" size-full rgg-img\" data-ratio=\"1.6\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"rgg-tile-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mark-francis-ph-erin-francis.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The other pavilions in the city<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC<\/strong> \u2013 IUAV of Venice, Cotonificio, Dorsoduro 2196<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN<\/strong> \u2013 Campo della Tana, Castello 2124\/A, Castello 2125<\/li>\n<li><strong>BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3198<\/li>\n<li><strong>BULGARIA<\/strong> \u2013 Sala Tiziano, Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli, Zattere 919<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Canal, Dorsoduro 3121<\/li>\n<li><strong>DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO<\/strong> \u2013 Ancient Refectory, Scuola Grande di San Marco<\/li>\n<li><strong>CROATIA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Zorzi, Salizada Zorzi 4930<\/li>\n<li><strong>CUBA<\/strong> \u2013 Il Giardino Bianco \u2013 Art Space, Castello 1814<\/li>\n<li><strong>ETHIOPIA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Bollani, Castello 3647<\/li>\n<li><strong>GEORGIA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Querini, Calle Lunga San Barnaba 2691<\/li>\n<li><strong>GRENADA<\/strong> \u2013 Spazio Berlendis, Cannaregio 6301\/A<\/li>\n<li><strong>GUATEMALA<\/strong> \u2013 Spazio Berlendis, Cannaregio 6301<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF GUINEA<\/strong> \u2013 Island of San Servolo<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF EQUATORIAL GUINEA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Don\u00e0 dalle Rose, Cannaregio 5038 \/ 5101<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF HAITI<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Cannaregio 4118<\/li>\n<li><strong>INDONESIA<\/strong> \u2013 International School of Graphics, Cannaregio 1798<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN<\/strong> \u2013 Naval History Museum, Castello 2148<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZSTAN<\/strong> \u2013 Former Church of Santa Caterina, Cannaregio 4941<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA<\/strong> \u2013 Former Buon Pastore Chapel, Castello 77<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA<\/strong> \u2013 Spazio Santa Veneranda, Church of Saints Geremia and Lucia<\/li>\n<li><strong>MONGOLIA<\/strong> \u2013 Squero Castello, Salizada Streta 368<\/li>\n<li><strong>MONTENEGRO<\/strong> \u2013 Artenova, Castello 5063<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF NAURU<\/strong> \u2013 Spazio Castello 3683<\/li>\n<li><strong>PORTUGAL<\/strong> \u2013 Fondaco Marcello<\/li>\n<li><strong>HOLY SEE<\/strong> \u2013 Santa Maria Ausiliatrice Complex + Mystic Garden of the Discalced Carmelites<\/li>\n<li><strong>SENEGAL<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Navagero, Riva degli Schiavoni 4145<\/li>\n<li><strong>REPUBLIC OF SIERRA LEONE<\/strong> \u2013 Liceo Guggenheim, Dorsoduro 2613<\/li>\n<li><strong>FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF SOMALIA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Caboto, Via Garibaldi 1645<\/li>\n<li><strong>UGANDA<\/strong> \u2013 Palazzo Navagero Gallery, Riva degli Schiavoni 4147<\/li>\n<li><strong>SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM<\/strong> \u2013 Ca\u2019 Faccanon, San Marco 5016<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Learn more about the national participations at the:<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/national-pavilions-at-the-giardini-of-the-venice-art-biennale-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GIARDINI<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/the-pavilions-at-the-arsenale-for-the-venice-art-biennale-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARSENALE<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.veneziadavivere.com\/en\/collateral-events-of-the-2026-art-biennale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">COLLATERAL EVENTS<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><em>Article by Lucia Pecoraro.<br \/>\nCover photo by Settimo Cannatella.<br \/>\nPhotos provided by the respective artists or pavilions.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] The map of the pavilions at the 61st Venice Biennale extends beyond the boundaries of the Giardini and the Arsenale: in the city, we find Timor-Leste, Zimbabwe, and the debuting pavilions There are 7 countries participating for the first time at the Venice Art Biennale: Republic of Guinea, Republic of Equatorial Guinea, Republic 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