Moscow has not participated in the Biennale since 2022. This year, it received the approval of the president of the Biennale Foundation, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. The decision caused tensions within the …

Financial Times

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‘I wanted to make her proud’: Venice Biennale artists on realising the late Koyo Kouoh’s vision

Painters, sculptors and filmmakers have interpreted the curator’s title ‘In Minor Keys’ as a prompt to resist spectacle — and return to the essence of artmaking

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A South African artist’s act of mourning was banned from the Venice Biennale — now it’s back

Gabrielle Goliath’s ‘Elegy’, which pays tribute to a Palestinian poet killed by an Israeli strike, will be shown at the Chiesa di Sant’Antonin

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A new generation of ‘post-medium’ artists rises at the Venice Biennale

Materials and categories are swiftly dissolving, as a young cohort of artists looks to meet the present moment

Gazeta Wyborcza (PL)

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The Biennale's management cooperated with Russia to bypass Western sanctions

Przewodniczący weneckiego festiwalu sztuki wielokrotnie zapewniał, że Rosja została zaproszona na Biennale w ramach szerzenia tolerancji i otwartości, oraz że nie zostały złamane żadne sankcje. Z dokumentów, do których dotarła …

La Repubblica (IT)

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Biennial, the Ministry of Culture sends inspectors to the foundation

Secondo quanto si apprende, la necessità di ulteriori controlli sarebbe legata alla decisione della giuria dell’esposizione di escludere dai premi Russia e Israele

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Biennale, the correspondence with the Russian commissioner. The foundation: “Standards respected”

Nelle mail Karneeva chiede aiuto all’istituzione veneziana per ricevere i visti. L’escamotage per aggirare le sanzioni: l’installazione sarà solo

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Biennale, the Minister of Culture Alessandro Giuli will not participate in the inauguration

Alla base della decisione c’è il dissenso verso la scelta di Buttafuoco di riaprire il padiglione russo

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Biennial, the jury excludes Russia and Israel from the prizes. And Moscow attacks EU funds

La decisione “per crimini contro l’umanità”. Il ministero degli Esteri Zakharova contro la Commissione sulla revoca dei finanziamenti: “Una ricaduta nell'anticultura”

NYT Europe

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A Curator Died Suddenly. Could the Venice Biennale Be Saved?

Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer at 57, was just months into her dream job overseeing the Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition. But she left a plan that her assistants have …

Rzeczpospolita (PL)

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The Italian Minister of Culture is boycotting the inauguration of the Venice Biennale. This is a protest against Russia's involvement

Ministerstwo Kultury Włoch poinformowało, że Alessandro Giuli – szef tego resortu – nie weźmie udziału w inauguracji Biennale Sztuki w Wenecji, które odbędzie się 9 maja. Wcześniej polityk – będący …