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#thankyou @sigridakirk @awitalondon @smac_venice @ #thankyou @sigridakirk @awitalondon @smac_venice @thetokyobanana @davidazio @dhranko @tatarenko_k Repost from @awitalondon
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Yesterday, we hosted a breakfast at @smac_venice to honour 25 cultural leaders across generosity, vision, and impact - not as a retrospective, but as a living recognition of what they are building and passing forward.

As AWITA enters its tenth year, it feels like the right moment to recognise that leadership is not singular - it is collective, relational, and built through connection.

These 25 women represent a truly global network. Each, in her own way, is shaping how culture is produced, supported, and understood - not only through individual achievement, but through the ecosystems they sustain and the futures they make possible.

Images by @goldsmith_studio
Performance by @saralongosings

@pelhamcomms

#awitalondon #AWITAHonoursLeadsinCulture #VeniceBiennale #CulturalLeaders
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e-flux Announcements gathers a selection of collateral events taking place on the occasion of the 61st International Venice Biennale.

Held in resonance with Koyo Kouoh’s curatorial vision, these projects span exhibitions, performances, and public programs unfolding across the city, alongside the national pavilions.

#labiennale #venicebiennale2026 #inminorkeys

Cover image courtesy of Asia Forum
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Join us tonight at Victoria Miro Venice for the private view of Flora Yukhnovich: Egg, an exhibition of new paintings conceived in dialogue with a site-specific wall painting. 5–7pm, all welcome.

In these new works, @Flora_Yukhnovich is drawn to the underlying ideologies of creational stories — myths and fairy tales, especially those detailing fantastical conceptions and births — and the ways in which, often, they strive to explain life’s mysteries while failing to account for the far stranger reality of lived experience.

For the artist, this notion of concept versus practice finds salient parallels in painting, where the physicality of the painted mark can hold inherent contradictions and uncertainties, by turns precarious or profound, that live beyond simple interpretation.

See more via the link in bio

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Image: Flora Yukhnovich, Groweth Seeds and Bloweth Mead, 2026. Oil on linen. 150 x 120 cm, 59 x 47 1/4 in © Flora Yukhnovich. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

#florayukhnovich #victoriamirovenice #victoriamiro
#perfect start to the day @carolynchristovbakargie #perfect start to the day @carolynchristovbakargiev exhibition BRACHA. THE ROOM IS SHARED seven-day exhibition of seven works by @brachaettinger in #sıgmundfreud’s room at the hotel @hotelmetropolevenezia
“One touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin” curated by students from @curatorial.school and featuring work by students from @academia Delle belle arte Venezia @abavenezia 
Repost @curatorial.school Held at the P. F. Calvi Lower Secondary School, a former convent, where the school’s classrooms and spaces are reimagined by works created by students from the Venice Academy of Fine Arts, selected via an open call: paintings, sculptures and participatory installations  examine the mechanisms of knowledge transmission, forming interconnected elements of a single ecosystem. The exhibition itinerary unfolds through a network of thematic nodes dedicated to cross-disciplinary forms of learning: signs, symbols, sensory impressions, metamorphoses and correspondences invite visitors to engage with the multifaceted nature of knowledge. 
During the morning, the school is attended by elementary and middle school students, who will hold their lessons in the same spaces that host the artworks, living alongside them on a daily basis; in the afternoon, the exhibition is open to the public.

ONE TOUCH OF NATURE MAKES THE WHOLE WORLD KIN

Sestiere Castello, 1808, 30122 Venezia

Free entry

With:

Elena Baggio @elena__baggio
Aurora Basso @auroraboreal._._.__
Paola Bianco @paolaa_bianco
Eva Carlan @evabenee
Sara Cecconi @saracecconi_
@sentiziyou
Claudia Frau @claudia_fraucf
Sergio Gagliardo @sg.scribble
Lucia Giromella @luci_giro
Lishan Hung @lishanhuang457
Filippo Locatelli @pippo_loca
Flora Maffezzoli @ffiordalisoo
Sara Manfio @a_sanna16
Alice Moschetta @alicemschtt
Ofelia Piazza @ofelia__
Lucia Rakovaska @luciarakovska
Tommaso Ravasi @tommaso.giuseppe.ravasi_
William Rizzardi @william.rizzardi
Giacomo Rongaudio @g_study_venice
Carlo Alberto Sghinolfi 
Nicole Sinigaglia @nicole_sinigaglia_ 
Jianing Tong t.void_art
Vinicio Tronca
Chloe Motolese @chloemotolese
Gabriel Valenzuela @fornicio_rivera
Laura Zanoni @laura.zanoni.art
Elena Zattin @elena.arteblu
Rebecca Zen @rebecca_zen
Rachele Zerbetto @l.incon.scio

Ph @veronicagelati @rubinastradella
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Representing Scotland at the 61st Venice Biennale, Bugarin + Castle (@bugarinandcastle) are leading a ‘Shame Parade’ — foregrounding Scottish archives and Filipino heritage to tease out the unsettling contemporary echoes of the charivari, an Early Modern public shaming ritual. Communities would parade people who’d broken social rules (especially marriage norms) through the streets while jeering and performing mockery. Often, the ritual included cross-dressing and role reversals to publicly humiliate the accused and reinforce social order.⁠
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Rooted in research, such as an 18th century engraving by William Hogarth depicting the charivari, the duo brings together a re-enactment of the ritual, alongside sculpture and moving image that contends with today’s hostile climate of gender policing, surveillance and so-called ‘transvestigations’. Across the exhibition, imagery of queer and trans Filipinos, debris gathered by the artists at Pride parades last year, medieval motifs and iconic Filipino objects such as karaoke machines and a Jeepney collide to shift punishment to play, vulnerability into visibility – and visibility into defiance. ⁠
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Read the full article at the link in bio ⁠
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Bugarin + Castle will represent Scotland at the 2026 Venice Biennale, on view from 9 May to 22 November⁠
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Read the full column at the link in bio, or in frieze magazine’s Venice Issue - available now. Follow @friezeofficial for the latest on the 61st Venice Biennale @labiennale⁠
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#Frieze #VeniceBiennale #InMinorKeys #LaBiennalediVenezia #BiennaleArte2026 ⁠
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Words:⁠ @alastair_curtis 
Images: All images © Bugarin + Castle and Scotland + Venice⁠
1/5. Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, 2026⁠
2. Bugarin + Castle, Davide Bugarin and Angel Cohn Castle, at Mount Stuart. Photo by Charlotte Cullen⁠
3. William Hogarth, Hudibras Encounters the Skimmington (Plate 7: Illustrations to Samuel Butler’s Hudibras), 1725-30. Courtesy: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection and Fund⁠
4. Bugarin + Castle, Set Upon, 2026⁠
6/7. Bugarin + Castle, At Certayne Tymes (production image), 2026⁠
8. Bugarin + Castle, Noctural Amusement [production image - discreet visor], 2026
Very much looking forward to opening tomorrow at 5 Very much looking forward to opening tomorrow at 5.30pm @aplusagallery @mattwilliams3101 @dr._sandro_pignotti see repost below for full details all welcome
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Counterforms
Preview: 4 May 2026, 11:30 am - 8:00 pm
cocktail reception at 5:30 pm

Organised by Neue Alte Brücke and Matt Williams

Hannah Black @hannah_black___ 
Yvo Cho @yvo_cho 
Anna Clegg @annaclegg_ 
Racheal Crowther @rachcrowther 
Ufuoma Essi @ufuoma.essi 
Nat Faulkner @nat_faulkner 
Amelia Gill #ameliagill 
Jason Hirata @hiratajason 
Anna Howard @a__howard 
Vincenzo Ottino #vincenzoottino 
Nina Porter @_inanina_ 

Exhibition Dates: 5 May - 26 July 2026

A plus A, Venice

Counterforms examines how meaning is structured through absence. As described by Ellen Lupton and grounded in principles articulated by Jan Tschichold, counterforms refer in typography to the spaces within and around letters that make them legible, defining proportion and rhythm and shaping how forms are read. This logic informs the exhibition, where
interstices operate as an organising condition.

Across film, photography, installation, painting and ephemera, fragmentation and mediation shape how works are produced and encountered. Images appear displaced or incomplete, objects register
traces of use, removal and redaction, and sound resonates as both presence and residue, unfolding through layered temporal and material
conditions. Systems of capture, processing and display further condition how these works take form and come into view. The exhibition extends counterform as a structuring principle, through which intervals, discontinuities and spatial relations determine encounter.

Image: artwork by Anna Howard @a__howard
#thankyou @emermaryg @sean_griffiths1 @gilesround #thankyou @emermaryg @sean_griffiths1 @gilesround @labrumlondon @iamfods #Northamptonshire Black History Archives #discreteensemble #grubbymitts @the_food_library for fabulous opening of the major new artist-led cultural institution @artscollectivenn
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Dr. Bettina Kames, Co-Founder and CEO of @las_artfoundation, joins The Hope Forum 2026 as a speaker. 

She leads LAS’s artistic direction and mission to illuminate the intersections between art, science and technology. Under her leadership LAS has commissioned immersive installations by Refik Anadol, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Ian Cheng, Libby Heaney, Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Pierre Huyghe, Christelle Oyiri, Laure Prouvost and Jakob Kudsk Steensen, among others, covering topics from AI and quantum computing to ecology. She studied History of Art at LMU, Munich, and completed her PhD at FU, Berlin.

The Hope Forum will soon take place in Venice during the opening of @labiennale — stay tuned!

📷: Robert Fischer, Courtesy LAS Art Foundation 

#TheHopeForum2026 #VoicesOfHope
#ArtforGlobalGoals
@smac_venice @victoriamirogallery Repost from @ilg @smac_venice @victoriamirogallery Repost from @ilgiornaledellarte
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In occasione della 61ª Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, la città si trasforma in un sistema espositivo diffuso che travalica i confini della mostra internazionale. 

Ecco una guida alle esposizioni imprescindibili in Laguna, per orientarsi in una delle stagioni più dense e strategiche del calendario internazionale.

Raccontiamo tutte le mostre su www.ilgiornaledellarte.com

#IlGiornaleDellArte
Repost @victoriamirogallery @perrotin opening @lab Repost @victoriamirogallery @perrotin opening @labiennale
@leeufan_offcial @diaartfoundation @smac_venice sm @leeufan_offcial @diaartfoundation @smac_venice smac_venice supported  supported by @pacegallery Repost from @ilgiornaledellarte
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In occasione della 61ª Biennale d’Arte di Venezia, la città si trasforma in un sistema espositivo diffuso che travalica i confini della mostra internazionale. 

Ecco una guida alle esposizioni imprescindibili in Laguna, per orientarsi in una delle stagioni più dense e strategiche del calendario internazionale.

Raccontiamo tutte le mostre su www.ilgiornaledellarte.com

#ilgiornaledellarte
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We are delighted to reopen for the season with a new site-specific installation of ‘All That Changes You. Metamorphosis’ (2025) by acclaimed British artist Isaac Julien.

A poetic meditation on transformation in a time of ecological and social crisis, the work draws on feminist science fiction and critical theory, with references to Octavia E. Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Naomi Mitchison, and Donna Haraway, among others. Haraway’s call to ‘stay with the trouble’ sets the work’s ethical orientation: a commitment to remaining present within complexity, and to imagining futures grounded in interdependence and empathy.

It feels especially meaningful to re-open to the public on Earth Day. The installation sits beneath Charles Jencks’ sculpture ‘Tortured Earth’ (2019) in the gallery of The Cosmic House, one of his last works and a powerful expression of his engagement with themes of ecology.

We are grateful to Isaac Julien (@isaacjulien) and his studio for this collaboration and to Victoria Miro Gallery (@victoriamirogallery) for all their help in realising this project.

Read more about the exhibition at the link in bio. 

📸 Isaac Julien, All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, 2025. Installation view, The Cosmic House, London. Photos by Thierry Bal. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro ©️ Isaac Julien

#IsaacJulien #EarthDay #TheCosmicHouse #CharlesJencks #MaggieKeswickJencks PostModernism
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With the greatest admiration, we are honored to welcome artist @yinkashonibarestudio to the speaker lineup of The Hope Forum and very much look forward to the insights he will bring!

Yinka Shonibare, born in 1962 in London, UK, studied Fine Art at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1989) and received his MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1991). His interdisciplinary practice uses citations of Western art history and literature to question the validity of contemporary cultural and national identities within the context of globalisation. Through examining race, class and the construction of cultural identity, his works comment on the tangled interrelationship between Africa and Europe, and their respective economic and political histories. 
 
In November 2022, Shonibare hosted the international launch of @gasfoundation, a non-profit founded and developed by the artist. The Foundation is dedicated to facilitating cultural exchange through residencies, public programmes, and exhibition opportunities for creative practitioners from around the world. 

📷: Portrait of Yinka Shonibare. Photography by Tom Jamieson. Image © Yinka Shonibare and Tom Jamieson.

#TheHopeForum2026 #VoicesOfHope
#ArtforGlobalGoals
#thankyou @thecosmichouse @isaacjulien @markgnash #thankyou @thecosmichouse @isaacjulien @markgnash @esteierhoffer @lilyjencksstudio @heathcoteedwin @victoriamirogallery for an inspiring evening to celebrate the opening of the site-specific installation of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis by @isaacjulien
#thankyou @markrappolt Repost from @art2030org • #thankyou @markrappolt Repost from @art2030org
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We are delighted to announce that Mark Rappolt will be joining the speaker lineup of The Hope Forum 2026. 

Mark Rappolt is the Editor-in-Chief of @artreview_magazine. He founded its sister publication, ArtReview Asia, in 2013. His writing has appeared in publications ranging from The Times and Die Zeit to i-D, Icon and Citizen K, and includes exhibition catalogues on artists such as Matthew Krishanu, Lee Bae, Ha Chong-Hyun, Bharti Kher, Wang Guangle, Yuko Mohri and Liu Xiaodong. Books include monographs on architects Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry.

Rappolt’s recent exhibitions include: ‘La Bella Estate,’ cocurated with Tom Eccles and Liam Gillick, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy (2025); ‘One Tiger or Another,’ cocurated with Tom Eccles, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar (2022); and the touring show ‘Breaking the Waves,’ chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China and the K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong (2021). He is one of the curators of the upcoming Rubaiya Qatar, a new international contemporary art quadrennial in Doha opening in November 2026.

📷: Courtesy Mark Rappolt 

#TheHopeForum2026 #VoicesOfHope
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#excellent #inconversation with @osmanstudio and @ #excellent #inconversation with @osmanstudio and @ekoweshun #thank you @bolanlecontemporary in the occassion A Home That Will Not Behave exhibition of new work by @osmanstudio
#thankyou clarriewallis and the team @turnercontem #thankyou clarriewallis and the team @turnercontemporary for an inspiring day such pleasure to collaborate and a great opportunity to see the new work for the gallery’s Sunley Window opened earlier this month as part of 15th anniversary celebrations. Realised by David Hockney—the window depicts a sunrise in Normandy, where the artist once lived. It is adapted from 27th April 2020, No.1, which Hockney created on an iPad—a digital medium he embraced to capture the vitality of the natural world. Measuring seven by ten metres, this site-specific installation transforms the gallery’s iconic floor-to-ceiling window, framing Margate’s celebrated skies and views of the North Sea—the same light that inspired JMW Turner. Founded to honour JMW Turner’s deep connection to Margate’s skies and sea, the gallery has spent fifteen years connecting local communities with world-leading artists and demonstrating how art can drive cultural and economic renewal.
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A pioneer of the Mono-ha movement in Japan, which spanned roughly 1969 to ’74, Korean artist #LeeUfan developed a practice that explored the relationships between natural and man-made materials.
 
In work from that time, rather than asserting or denying authorship over an object, Lee distributed forms across what he called a “system” of material and physical relations that inherently incorporate the viewer.
 
“Relatum” (formerly “Iron Field”) 1969/2019 was first conceived by Lee as Mono-ha began to take shape. Composed of steel, wire, and sand, it is exemplary of Lee’s practice of working with diverse elements for site-specific installation.
 
Lee’s groundbreaking work across six decades, including “Relatum”, will be on full display in two upcoming major presentations organized by Dia Art Foundation (@diaartfoundation) at SMAC Venice (@smac_venice) from May 9, and Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York from May 8.
 
Lee Ufan
Opening May 8, 2026
Dia Beacon 
 
Lee Ufan
61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
May 9 – November 22, 2026
Dia Art Foundation at SMAC Venice
Procuratie, P.zza San Marco
 
Follow the link in bio to learn more.
 
#Monoha #BiennaleArte2026 #ContemporaryArt
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With great joy and admiration, we welcome @shirin__neshat as a speaker at The Hope Forum 2026! 

Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Neshat works and continues to experiment with the mediums of photography, video, film, and Opera, which she imbues with highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives that question issues of power, religion, race, gender and the relationship between the past and present, East and West, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian woman living in exile.
 
Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally, including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; The Broad, Los Angeles; Museo Correr, Venice, Italy; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., and the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Neshat has directed three feature-length films: Women Without Men (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017), and, most recently, Land of Dreams, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021). 

Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006), and in 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo. 

📷: Cheryl Dunn

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Image credit

An ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris sp.) on a yarrow (Achillea millefolium) spotted during an excursion in Berlin. Photo: Frederic Griesbaum © Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.Courtesy Gaia Art Foundation

 
 
 
 
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