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The fantastic four: Stand-out pavilions at the 2026 Venice Biennale

EuroNews · · 904 words · By Rebecca Ann Hughes
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“A week into the 61st international art exhibition, there have been protests against Russia and Israel's participation, pavilions closing and threats to cut funding.”
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Multiple independent web sources report protests against the Russian and Israeli pavilions, as well as institutional crises involving the jury's resignation over these participations.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 61st Venice Biennale is a global international contemporary art exhibition that is being held in 2026 with participants from 99 countries with public exhibitions days running from May 9 until Nove…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61st_Venice_Biennale
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the art world, a biennale ( BEE-en-AH-lay, -⁠lee, Italian: [bi.enˈnaːle]; Italian for 'biennial' / 'every other year'), is a large-scale international contemporary art exhibition. The term was popu…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennale
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Venice Biennale ( BEE-en-AH-lay, -⁠lee; Italian: la Biennale di Venezia [la bi.enˈnaːle di veˈnɛttsja]) is an international cultural exhibition hosted every two years in Venice, Italy. There are t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale
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“the theme ‘In Minor Keys’”
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Wikipedia and multiple web sources explicitly state that 'In Minor Keys' is the theme for the 61st Venice Biennale.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Venice Biennale ( BEE-en-AH-lay, -⁠lee; Italian: la Biennale di Venezia [la bi.enˈnaːle di veˈnɛttsja]) is an international cultural exhibition hosted every two years in Venice, Italy. There are t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 61st Venice Biennale is a global international contemporary art exhibition that is being held in 2026 with participants from 99 countries with public exhibitions days running from May 9 until Nove…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61st_Venice_Biennale
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In Minor Keys is the theme for the 61st Venice Biennale. It was selected by Koyo Kouoh, the curator who died at age 57 of liver cancer a year before the Biennale opened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Minor_Keys
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“Grass Babies, Moon Babies by Japanese American queer artist Ei Arakawa-Nash is one of the most subtly profound expressions of Kouoh’s curatorial theme.”
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Three independent web search results confirm that Ei Arakawa-Nash created 'Grass Babies, Moon Babies' for the Japan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.
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web search NEUTRAL — Japan Pavilion opens Ei Arakawa-Nash’s Grass Babies, Moon Babies at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di.
https://venezia-biennale-japan.jpf.go.jp/wp/wp-content/uploa…
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web search NEUTRAL — Grass Babies, Moon Babies. Artist. Ei Arakawa-Nash.The Japan Foundation. 61st International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Theme. In Minor Keys.
https://venezia-biennale-japan.jpf.go.jp/e/news/ei-arakawa-n…
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web search NEUTRAL — Japan Grass Babies, Moon Babies. “Grass Babies, Moon Babies” draws on Japanese American artist Ei Arakawa-Nash’s experience as a queer parent to explore responsibility, love, and labor.
https://www.artasiapacific.com/shows/must-see-national-pavil…
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“visitors are invited to carry one of 57 dolls – in funky onesies and sunglasses – through the Pavilion’s pilotis, gardens and interior spaces.”
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While sources confirm visitors carry dolls through the pavilion, the number of dolls is contradicted. One source mentions 208 baby dolls, while another says 'more than 100'. The claim's specific number '57' is not supported by the evidence provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Death in Midsummer and Other Stories is a 1966 collection of English translations of stories by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. The book takes its name from the included short story of the same title.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article contains the details of the pavilions at Expo 2010. The 2010 World Expo Shanghai is the largest Expo site ever, covering more than 5.2 square kilometers and containing more than 70 exposi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2010_pavilions
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Rie Miyazawa (宮沢 りえ, Miyazawa Rie; born April 6, 1973) is a Japanese actress and former idol singer. She is regarded as one of Japan's top actresses, and her accolades include six Japan Academy Film P…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rie_Miyazawa
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“Kouoh, who died in May 2025”
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Wikipedia and multiple cross-references from news agencies (EuroNews, Deutsche Welle) confirm Koyo Kouoh died in May 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Venice Biennale ( BEE-en-AH-lay, -⁠lee; Italian: la Biennale di Venezia [la bi.enˈnaːle di veˈnɛttsja]) is an international cultural exhibition hosted every two years in Venice, Italy. There are t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice_Biennale
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Koyo Kouoh (24 December 1967 – 10 May 2025) was a Cameroonian-Swiss art curator who served as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Af…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koyo_Kouoh
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In Minor Keys is the theme for the 61st Venice Biennale. It was selected by Koyo Kouoh, the curator who died at age 57 of liver cancer a year before the Biennale opened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Minor_Keys
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“In the Polish Pavilion’s audio and video installation Liquid Tongues, Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski delve into disempowered ways of communication.”
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Multiple web sources confirm that Bogna Burska and Daniel Kotowski created the audio-video installation 'Liquid Tongues' for the Polish Pavilion.
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web search NEUTRAL — “Liquid Tongues” is the title of a project that will be presented at the Polish Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2026.The audio-video installation represe…
https://iam.pl/en/liquid-tongues-project-polish-pavilion-ven…
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web search NEUTRAL — The audio/video installation titled Liquid Tongues, opens to the public on May 9 at the Polish Pavilion in the Giardini della Biennale, running through November 22 as part of the 61st Venice Art Bienn…
https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7791/artykul/3683024,liquid-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Liquid Tongues, the project of the Polish Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, is an audio-video installation that offers a reflection on how we defi.
https://artdaily.com/news/191191/-Liquid-Tongues--reimagines…
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“playing a performance by the Choir in Motion of both hearing and Deaf singers who chant and sign in International Sign Language.”
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Web sources confirm the installation features the 'Choir in Motion' (Chór w Ruchu) consisting of hearing and Deaf singers using International Sign Language.
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web search NEUTRAL — “Liquid Tongues” is the title of a project that will be presented at the Polish Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia in 2026.
https://iam.pl/en/liquid-tongues-project-polish-pavilion-ven…
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web search NEUTRAL — Liquid Tongues is an audio-video installation by Bogna Burska in collaboration with Daniel Kotowski, in which the Chór w Ruchu [Choir in Motion], featuring both hearing and Deaf people, does interpret…
https://zacheta.art.pl/en/wystawy/jezyki-z-wody-61-miedzynar…
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web search NEUTRAL — The installation, audio-visual in nature, involves the Choir in Motion (Chór w Ruchu) collective, composed of hearing and deaf performers, who are called upon to interpret communication codes and whal…
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/poland-at-v…
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“The project highlights efforts to reclaim languages pushed aside by dominant voices, including Hand Talk, the Plains Indian Sign Language used by both hearing and Deaf Indigenous people in North America.”
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While web results confirm that 'Hand Talk' is the Plains Indian Sign Language, none of the provided evidence for the 'Liquid Tongues' project specifically mentions that the project references Hand Talk.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hand Talk as Plains Indian Sign Language.Hand Talk has its own grammar and structure, separate from American Sign Language. Linguists have identified 9 basic handshapes that can be rounded or unrounde…
https://scienceinsights.org/what-is-hand-talk-native-america…
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web search NEUTRAL — Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk, Plains Sign Talk,[6][7] Plains Sign Language, or First Nation Sign Language,[4] is an endangered[8] sign language common to the majority of…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_Indian_Sign_Language
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web search NEUTRAL — Sharing a few of the hand signs from our native american ancestors that helped us to communicate effectively even though we spoke some many different languag...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_CE-NZ2xxg
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“The Holy See Pavilion’s The Ear is the Eye of the Soul complements Kouoh’s “archipelago of oases””
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Multiple web sources confirm the Holy See Pavilion's exhibition is titled 'The Ear is the Eye of the Soul'.
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web search NEUTRAL — The Ear is the Eye of the Soul explores listening as a spiritual and artistic act.The Pavilion’s title was drawn from Hildegard’s writings by the late German filmmaker and author Alexander Kluge, whos…
https://parametric-architecture.com/the-holy-see-pavilion-ve…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Holy See’s Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale is centered on the concept of listening and is inspired by the work and figure of the German Saint and Doctor of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen. Th…
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-city/news/2026-04/veni…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Pavilion is closed on Mondays (with the exception of Monday May 11th, June 1st, September 7th, November 16th), in line with the opening schedule of La Biennale.
https://www.coopculture.it/en/events/event/the-ear-is-the-ey…
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“In the case of the Giardino Mistico, a convent garden of the Discalced Carmelite order, visitors are invited to attune to a quieter register.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding the 'Giardino Mistico' or its association with the Discalced Carmelite order in the context of the Holy See Pavilion.
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“encountering a series of sound commissions by experimental musicians inspired by 12th-century Saint Hildegard of Bingen’s chants and visions.”
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“Titled Seaworld Venice, it’s somewhere between an underwater theme park and a sewage treatment plant”
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“Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger’s permanent live installation features a naked jet skier zooming in circles”
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“another nude performer in a water tank that is topped up with visitors’ filtered urine from adjacent portable toilets.”
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“As curator Nora-Swantje Almes explains”
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