Discover the exhibitions by the gallery’s artists across Venice during this year’s Biennale
La Biennale di Venezia
Florentina Holzinger
SEAWORLD VENICE
Austrian Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale
9 May—22 November 2026
The Austrian choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger will represent Austria at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia with SEAWORLD VENICE, a bold new interdisciplinary commission, curated by Nora-Swantje Almes (Gropius Bau, Berlin). Known for her genre-defying work that challenges socio-political conventions, Holzinger uses her long-standing research into the element of water—as both subject and symbol—to explore the human body in a radically changing landscape, in which nature and technology collide. The project will feature a permanent live installation and performances at the Austrian Pavilion, alongside site-specific Études across Venice and its lagoon.
Alvaro Barrington
In Minor Keys
Curated by Koyo Kouoh
Arsenale and Giardini della Biennale
9 May—22 November 2026
Alvaro Barrington has been invited to participate in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh.
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov
Venetian Diary
Venetian Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale
9 May—22 November 2026
Ca’ Tron, San Stae
9 May—28 June 2026
Exhibitions across Venice
— Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz
Eroi d’Oro
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
6 May—27 September 2026
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini presents an exhibition of new works by Georg Baselitz, supported by Thaddaeus Ropac gallery. The exhibition features the German artist’s most recent series of large-scale paintings, which explore the interplay between gold grounds, figures rendered through an approach that inherits from line drawing and bursts of pastose colour.
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David Salle
Painting in the Present Tense
Palazzo Cini Gallery
6 May—27 September 2026
For his exhibition at the Palazzo Cini Gallery, David Salle refocuses a custom-designed AI model on an earlier part of his oeuvre, the Tapestry Paintings (1989–91). In doing so, he highlights painting’s ability to collapse multiple temporal realities onto a single plane: ‘Everything in painting exists in the present tense,’ as he says. The original Tapestry Paintings were based on 18th-century Russian tapestries, which were themselves modelled after 16th- and 17th-century Italian paintings. This layering of art history now comes into contact with Salle’s proprietary AI model. Organised around cubist-like grids informed by Salle’s signature inset panels – separate panels cut into and set flush with the surface of the painting, whose presentation of simultaneity has been seen to have anticipated the logic of computer screens – the painted tapestries become grounds over which the artist composes his distinctive poetic juxtapositions.
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Erwin Wurm
Dreamers
Museo Fortuny
6 May—22 November 2026
The Museo Fortuny will present an exhibition of works by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, featuring both new sculptures shown for the first time and works retracing some of his most celebrated series. The exhibition unfolds across three floors of the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, which, for the first half of the 20th century, was the home and atelier of Spanish fashion designer Mariano Fortuny. The ground floor will be dedicated to a solo presentation of Wurm’s sculptures, while, on the first and second floors, his work will be brought into dialogue with Fortuny’s, the light-toned, ductile aspect of Wurm’s works conveying a sculptural plasticity as they emerge from the shadows of the museum’s rich collection. ‘I find that very exciting’, says Wurm, ‘placing contemporary sculpture in such a layered, historical environment’.
Eva Helene Pade
Don't have hope, be hope!
Opening 7 May 2026
Eva Helene Pade features in Don't have hope, be hope!, a group exhibition featuring a selection of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. The exhibition is part of the inaugural programme, presented by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo on the occasion of the unveiling of its third permanent venue on the Isola di San Giacomo in Venice.
