From flying synagogues to Ukrainian Origami Horses, titled chapels and corals that mimic metropolises. An exploration of the 61st International Art Exhibition through the lens of architecture, crafts and design.
At the Greek Pavilion of the Venice Art Biennale, Escape Room stages a labyrinth of soft ruins, self-filming surveillance, and queer spatial logic — Andreas Angelidakis’s sharply timed response to an age of disinformation, rewritten history, and far-right populism.
No protest, no political noise. These pavilions at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia show how, through crafts, art can hold a mirror to our most pressing concerns.
Platonic Caves, probes and soviet barracks. At Venice Biennale 2026, some of the most radical art isn’t on the walls — it’s in the walls.
From a tilted brick chapel to a home on a wheelbarrow and a floating synagogue, these surreal architectures at the Venice Art Biennale reframe space, identity, and belonging.
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
A poetic choreography of suspended luminous flowers dances with the waves in Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ installation during the Venice Art Biennale.
The American artist transforms a Venetian back alley into a breathing, community-made meditation on water, tide, and urban resilience against mass tourism and climate change.
There is something quietly arresting about a sixteenth-century Venetian synagogue, perched atop a floating rock, drifting above the waters of the lagoon. This is Nabatele, a mesmerising installation by Anna Kamyshan, and an official Collateral Event of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
