Venice 2026

Venice 2026:  Exhibitions on View

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to celebrate the participation of our gallery artists in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale Di Venezia and collateral exhibitions.

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Amar Kanwar
Co-travellers

Palazzo Grassi - Pinault Collection
29 Mar 2026 - 10 Jan 2027

On the upper floor of the Palazzo Grassi, Kanwar presents his latest major installation, The Peacock's Graveyard (2023), part of the Pinault Collection. This unique cinematic experience is a profound meditation on impermanence and the cycle of life, inviting visitors to reconfigure their viewing of non-canonical wisdom as they search for new ways of resistance, reconciliation, and politics. Exhibited alongside "The Torn First Pages" (2004–2008), Amar Kanwar's works offer deep insights into a moment of history in which every truth seems to have an opposite brutal truth. 

Maurizio Cattelan and Adrian Villar Rojas
Included in Don’t Have Hope, Be Hope

 

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
7 May 2026 - 22 November 2026
Isola di San Giacomo, Venice

Don’t have hope, be hope!, features a selection of works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection. With its new location in Venice, the Foundation strengthens its commitment to the promotion of contemporary art and creates a place for production, research, and experimentation, open to dialogue among artists. Fully self-sustaining, the Isola di San Giacomo will also serve as a laboratory for ecological reflection.

Tony Cragg
Ocean of Drops; Included in Waves, The Only True Protest Is Beauty

Ocean of Drops (Solo Exhibition): Fondazione Berengo, Ca' Tron, 5 May - 22 November 2026

Waves: Casa Sanlorenzo, 6 May - 28 June 2026 

The Only True Protest Is Beauty: Fondazione Dries Van Noten at Palazzo Pisani Moretta, 25 April - 4 October 2026

Tony Cragg is one of the world's most distinguished contemporary sculptors, drawing on both the natural world and industrial systems to create new forms of sculptural language. Cragg's abiding interest in providing an alternative to the utilitarian sphere is in every exhibition, as he presents a visually compelling, vital and diverse new category of forms beyond the mediated nature populating our current reality. 

Tacita Dean and Álvaro Urbano
Included in Still Joy, from Ukraine into the World

 

The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and the PinchukArtCentre
Palazzo Contarini Polignac in Venice
9 May - 1 August 2026

Still Joy — From Ukraine into the World brings together leading international and Ukrainian artists reflecting on the concept of joy as both a vital force and a radical act of humanity. The exhibition’s starting point and a disruptive agent are the testimonies collected by two Ukrainian story-gatherers: Hlib Stryzhko, a marine and veteran, a prisoner of war. These stories are anchoring fragments of reality within the exhibition.

Urbano is one of the recipients of this year’s Chanel Art Prize; celebrations for it will take place during the Biennale.

 

Agnieszka Kurant
Included in Strange Rules

Palazzo Diedo - Berggruen Arts & Culture
4 May – 22 November 2026

Strange Rules introduces the concept of Protocol Art, a practice that engages with the underlying rules that dictate how culture is produced, distributed, and perceived in a digital age. These rules frequently manifest as algorithms, artificial intelligence models, computer protocols, platforms, and various technological infrastructures. Protocol Art does not simply use these tools; it exposes, analyses, and transforms them into artistic material itself.

Tino Sehgal
Included in Aura

Ama Venezia
4 May - 21 November 2026

Tino Sehgal's critical acclaim derives from his radical artistic practice that takes the form of "constructed situations": live encounters between visitors and those enacting the work. Their ephemeral beauty rests in the fleeting specificity of the encounter, where players often engage the visitors with their active participation in constructing the piece. Sehgal’s abandoning of material production in favor of lived experience is nevertheless achieved with a sensitivity to classical considerations of form, composition and space, grounded not only in the history of dance but also western traditions of sculpture and painting. 

Tavares Strachan
Included in A Necessary Fiction: Maps, Art and Models of Our World

Abbazia di San Gregorio
6 May – 22 November 22, 2026

A Necessary Fiction is a journey through territories in constant flux, where historical maps—dating from the thirteenth century to the present—serve as a lens through which to examine our enduring need to create models of the world. These models offer fantastic mythological visions and imaginative interpretations of scientific inquiry throughout the ages to the present day. The curators create a dynamic perspective on cartography over time and across a wide geographical span.

Lawrence Weiner
Included in Shifting Waters

Fondazione ERES
9 May – 28 June 2026, 4 September – 1 November 2026

In a fluid interplay, the group show Shifting Waters combines various aspects of the coexistence of humans and water. The artistic positions are reminiscent of the permanent struggle with the forces of nature or enchant with the poetry of the liquid. The beauty of pearls, the wondrous texture of scales, enormous structures from the hidden realm and the remains of dismantled architecture create a melody of connection and repulsion. The exhibition features images, sculptures and thoughts that give an idea of how to deal with the fluidity of water, how to respond to it and how to benefit from it: a constant flow of change that will also shape our future.

Yang Fudong
Included in Dream Stream, People's Republic Pavilion, Arsenale

Dream Stream
9 May - 22 November 2026  

The Pavilion of the People's Republic of China at the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale presents a project of extraordinary breadth, establishing a dialogue between the millennia-old roots of Chinese culture and the most advanced frontiers of contemporary creativity. The chosen title, Dream Stream, evokes a continuous, dreamlike flow: a river of images, memories, and visions in which tradition and innovation flow together, without opposition or fracture.

Denniston Hill
Included in In Minor Keys, La Biennale di Venezia

9 May - 22 November 2026

"The minor keys are also the small islands, worlds amid oceans with distinct and endlessly rich ecosystems, social lives that are articulated, for better and worse, within much larger political forms and ecological stakes. Here, the evocation of the key and the island extends to an archipelago of oases: gardens, courtyards, compounds, lofts, dance floors - the other worlds that artists make, the intimate and convivial universes that refresh and sustain even in terrible times; indeed, especially in terrible times."

Denniston Hill is an artist residency and cultural platform rooted in 220 acres of forested land in the southern Catskill Mountains, within the ancestral territory of the Esopus people of Lenapehoking.   The residency offers a rare kind of pause-a chance for artists to step away from the relentless demands of productivity and enter a slower rhythm that nurtures rest, reflection, and renewal. In this spaciousness, artists can reconnect with their practice, with the land, and with one another, allowing new ideas to take root.