Venice Biennale 2026 Painters and Palazzi
Eight painter and sculptor collateral shows fan out across Venice’s palazzi for the 2026 Biennale — and two of them, Baselitz and Barry X Ball, share an island. The Venice Biennale 2026 painters question is rarely answered properly because the answer is geographic, not alphabetical. The 61st International Art Exhibition runs 9 May to 22 November 2026, but the painter-and-sculptor collaterali opened on a staggered calendar between 25 April and 9 May, which means the city has been absorbing them one palazzo at a time. Hernan Bas at Ca’ Pesaro, Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Manfrin, Georg Baselitz at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Marina Abramović at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Nalini Malani at the Magazzini del Sale, Sanya Kantarovsky at Palazzo Loredan, Barry X Ball inside Palladio’s basilica on San Giorgio Maggiore, and Fondazione Dries Van Noten at Palazzo Pisani Moretta — that is the list, and it does not move. ...