61st Venice Biennale

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The 61st Venice Biennale is a global international contemporary art exhibition that is being held in 2026 with participants from 99 countries with public exhibitions days running from May 9 until November 22 with preview days started May 6. The declared theme for the main curatorial exhibit as "In Minor Keys," which was selected by Koyo Kouoh, chief curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. However Kouoh died a year before the opening, leaving her collaborators to fill out her vision. This edition of the Venice Biennale has been marred by several controversies, including the resignation of the jury days before the festival was scheduled to start, an initial jury announcement that it would not give awards to countries whose leaders were being indicted for war crimes, and the absence of the Italian minister of culture for the first time in the biennale's history.

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