Already announced Pavilions of countries and institutions for 2026. This list is compiled from various sources, and will be constantly updated. We do not guarantee its accuracy. Links from names lead to photos and info related to the person in all the areas of Universes in Universe.

United Arab Emirates
Commissioner: Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation
Curator: Bana Kattan
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
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Albania
A Place in the Sun
Artist: Genti Korini
Curator: Małgorzata Ludwisiak
Argentina
Monitor Yin Yang
Artist: Matías Duville
Curator: Josefina Barcia
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Armenia
Ode to Lord Byron
Artist: Zadik Zadikian
Curators: Tony Shafrazi, Tina Shakarian
Australia
Artist: Khaled Sabsabi
Curator: Michael Dagostino
Organizer: Creative Australia
Venue: Giardini
Austria
Seaworld Venice
Artist: Florentina Holzinger
Curator: Nora-Swantje Almes
Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Venue: Giardini
The Bahamas
Artists: Lavar Munroe & John Beadle
Curator: Krista Thompson
Commissioner: The Bahamas in Venice Committee
Belgium
IT NEVER SSST
Artist: Miet Warlop
Curator: Caroline Dumalin
Institutional partners: Morpho and Kanal-Centre Pompidou
Venue: Giardini
Brazil
Comigo ninguém pode
[Nobody can do anything to me]
Artists: Rosana Paulino, Adriana Varejão
Curator: Diane Lima
Commissioner: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Venue: Giardini
Canada
Artist: Abbas Akhavan
Curator: Kim Nguyen
Commissioner: Jean-François Bélisle, Director & CEO of the National Gallery of Canada
Organizer: National Gallery of Canada (NGC), Ottawa
Venue: Giardini
Chile
Inter-Reality
Artist: Norton Maza
Curators: Dermis León, Marisa Caichiolo
Commissioner: Claudia Pertuzé
Venue: Arsenale
Cyprus
Artist: Marina Xenofontos
Curator: Kyle Dancewicz
Commissioner: Department of Contemporary Culture of the Deputy Ministry of Culture
Venue: Associazione Culturale Spiazzi
Czech and Slovak Republics
The Silence of the Mole
Artists: Jakub Jansa, Selmeci Kocka Jusko (Alex Selmeci, Tomáš Kocka Jusko)
Curator: Peter Sit
Commissioner: Michal Novotný
Venue: Giardini
Denmark
Completely Surreal
Artist: Maja Malou Lyse
Organizer: Danish Arts Foundation
Venue: Giardini
El Salvador
Cartografías del desplazamiento
[Cartographies of displacement]
Artist: Óscar Molina
Curator: Alejandra Cabezas
Commissioner: Astrid Bahamond
Venue: Palazzo Mora
Estonia
Artist: Merike Estna
Commissioner: Maria Arusoo, Director of the Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art
Organizer: Estonian Centre for Contemporary Art
Finland
Artist: Jenna Sutela
Curator: Stefanie Hessler
Commissioned and produced by Frame Contemporary Art Finland
Venue: Giardini
France
Artist: Yto Barrada
Curator: Myriam Ben Salah
Commissioner: Institut français
Venue: Giardini
Germany
Artists: Henrike Naumann and Sung Tieu
Curator: Kathleen Reinhardt
Commissioner: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Venue: Giardini
Great Britain
Artist: Lubaina Himid
Commissioner: British Council
Venue: Giardini
Greece
Escape Room
Artist: Andreas Angelidakis
Curator: George Bekirakis
Venue: Giardini
Hong Kong
Artists: Kingsley Ng & Angel Hui
Curator: Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA)
Organizers: Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) & Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC)
Venue: Campo della Tana, Castello
Hungary
Artist: Endre Koronczi
Curator: Luca Cserhalmi
Commissioner: Julia Fabényi
Venue: Giardini
Iceland
Artist: Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir
Organizer: Icelandic Art Center
Venue: Arsenale
Ireland
Artist: Isabel Nolan
Curator: Georgina Jackson, The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art
Commissioner: Culture Ireland
Producer: Cian O’Brien
Venue: Arsenale
Israel
Rose of Nothingness
Artist: Belu-Simion Fainarus
Curators: Sorin Heller and Avital Bar-Shay
Venue: Arsenale
Italy
Con te, con tutto
Artist: Chiara Camoni
Curator: Cecilia Canziani
Venue: Arsenale
Japan
Artist: Ei Arakawa-Nash
Co-curators: Lisa Horikawa, Mizuki Takahashi
Organizer: The Japan Foundation
Venue: Giardini
Korea (Republic of)
Artists: Choi Geon, Hyeree Ro
Curator: Binna Choi
Organizer: Arts Council Korea
Venue: Giardini
Kosovo
Strong Teeth
Artist: Brilant Milazimi
Curator: José Esparza Chong Cuy
Commissioner: Hana Halilaj, National Gallery of Kosovo
Latvia
Untamed Assembly: Backstage of Utopia
Artists: Untamed Fashion Assemblies (Bruno Birmanis), MAREUNROL’S
Curators: Inga Lāce, Adomas Narkevičius
Commissioner: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art
Venue: Arsenale
Lebanon
Artist: Nabil Nahas
Curator: Nada Ghandour
Commissioner: Lebanese Visual Art Association
Venue: Arsenale
Lithuania
Warm Blooded and Earthbound
Artist: Eglė Budvytytė
Organizer: Lithuanian Council for Culture
Luxembourg
Artist: Aline Bouvy
Curator: Stilbé Schroeder
Organizers: Arts Council Kultur:LX, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Macao (China)
Jacone’s Polyphony
Artists: Fok Hoi Seng, O Chi Wai, Lei Fung Ieng
Curators: Feng Yan, Ng Sio Ieng
Organizer: Macao Museum of Art
Malta
No Need to Sparkle
Artists: Adrian Abela, Charlie Cauchi, Raphael Vella
Curator: Margerita Pulè
Commissioner: Arts Council Malta
Venue: Arsenale
Mexico
Actos invisibles para sostener el universo
[Invisible acts to sustain the universe]
Artists: RojoNegro (María Sosa, Noé Martínez)
Curator: Jessica Berlanga Taylor
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Morocco
Asǝṭṭa project
Artist: Amina Agueznay
Curator: Meryem Berrada
Commissioner: Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication
The Netherlands
Artist: Dries Verhoeven
Curator: Rieke Vos
Commissioner: Eelco van der Lingen, Director Mondriaan Fund
Venue: Giardini
New Zealand
Artist: Fiona Pardington
Commissioner: Kent Gardner
Organizers: The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa and Christchurch Art Gallery
Venue: Arsenale
Nordic Countries
(Finland, Norway, Sweden)
Artists: Klara Kristalova, Benjamin Orlow, Tori Wrånes
Curator: Anna Mustonen
Commissioners: Kiasma in collaboration with Moderna Museet, Sweden, and OCA – Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Venue: Giardini
North Macedonia
Pieta in the Veils of Urgency
Artist: Velimir Žernovski
Panama
Artists: Antonio José Guzmán & Iva Jankovic
Curators: Mónica Kúpfer, Ana Elizabeth González
Peru
Sara Flores. De otros mundos
[Sara Flores. From other worlds]
Artist: Sara Flores
Curators: Issela Ccoyllo, Matteo Norzi
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Philippines
Sea of Love: A History of Movement / Dagat ng Pag-Ibig: Isang Kasaysayan ng Paglalayag
Artist: Jon Cuyson
Curator: Mara Gladstone
Venue: Arsenale
Poland
Liquid Tongues
Artist: Bogna Burska & Daniel Kotowski
with the participation of Chór w Ruchu, Alicja Czyczel, Aleksandra Gryka, Magdalena Mosiewicz
Curators: Ewa Chomicka, Jolanta Woszczenko
Venue: Giardini
Portugal
RedSkyFalls
Artist: Alexandre Estrella
Curators: Ana Baliza, Ricardo Nicolau
Curator of the public program: Marco Bene
San Marino
Sea of Sound
Artist: Mark Francis
Curator: Luca Tommasi
Commissioner: Valentina Garavini Venue: Tana Art Space
Saudi Arabia
Artist: Dana Awartani
Curator: Antonia Carver
Assistant Curator: Hafsa Al-Khudairi
Organizer: Visual Arts Commission of the Ministry of Culture
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Scotland
Artists: Bugarin + Castle (Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle)
Curator: Mount Stuart Trust
Commissioner: Scotland + Venice
Serbia
From Golgotha to Resurrection
Artist: Predrag Đaković
Curators: Tomislav Todorović, Olga Čučković
Singapore
Artist: Amanda Heng
Curator: Selene Yap
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Slovenia
Discomfort of Memorialisation
Artists: Nonument Group (Neja Tomšič, Martin Bricelj Baraga, Nika Grabar, Miloš Kosec)
Curator: Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez
Spain
Los restos
[The remains]
Artist: Oriol Vilanova
Curator: Carles Guerra
Commissioner: Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID)
Venue: Giardini
Switzerland
The Unfinished Business of Living Together
Artists: A collective made up of Gianmaria Andreetta, Luca Beeler, Nina Wakeford, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Lithic Alliance and Yul Tomatala
Commissioner: Swiss arts council Pro Helvetia
Venue: Giardini
Taiwan
Artist: Li Yi-Fan
Curator: Raphael Fonseca
Organizer: Taipei Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan
Venue: Palazzo delle Prigioni
Timor-Leste
Artists: Veronica Pereira Maia, Etson Caminha, Juventino Madeira
Curator: Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani
Commissioner: Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture of Timor-Leste
Türkiye
Artist: Nilbar Güreş
Curator: Başak Doğa Temür
Organizer: Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Ukraine
Security Guarantees
Artist: Zhanna Kadyrova
Curators: Ksenia Malykh, Leonid Marushchak
Organizer: Ministry of Culture and Strategic Communications of Ukraine
Venue: Arsenale, Sale d'Armi
Uruguay
Antifrágil
Artist: Margaret Whyte
Curator: Patricia Bentancur
Commissioner: Martín Craciun, Coordinator of the National Institute of Visual Arts, National Directorate of Culture of the Ministry of Education and Culture
Venue: Giardini
USA
Call Me the Breeze
Artist: Alma Allen
Curator: Jeffrey Uslip
Commissioner: Jenni Parido, The American Arts Conservancy (AAC)
Venue: Giardini
Wales
Exhibitors: Manon Awst and Dylan Huw
Organizers: Oriel Davies and Oriel Myrddin
Commissioner: Arts Council of Wales
Zimbabwe
Second Nature | Manyonga
Artists: Franklyn Dzingai, Gideon Gomo, Pardon Mapondera, Eva Raath, Felix Shumba
Curator: Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa
Commissioner: Raphael Chikukwa, National Gallery of Zimbabwe
61st International Art Exhibition
La Biennale di Venezia
9 May – 22 November 2026
(Pre-opening days: 6 – 8 May)
Title: In Minor Keys
Curatorial concept by Koyo Kouoh (1967 - 2025)
Produced by La Biennale di Venezia, with professionals selected by Koyo Kouoh: Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Helene Pereira and Rasha Salti (advisors); Siddhartha Mitter (editor-in-chief); Rory Tsapayi (assistant).
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