“In Minor Keys” Is the Biennale’s Crown Jewel

Centuries of Endurance Undergird “In Minor Keys”

VENICE — If you’re Eurocentric by disposition, confident that the West is the single source of high art and ideas of progress, then don’t visit Koyo Kouoh's exhibition In Minor Keys at the 2026 Venice Biennale. If you bristle at the mention of White colonizers, this show is not for you, though it might be partly about you. Moreover, if you’re convinced that what’s happened in Gaza over the last three years looks nothing like a genocide, you’re i…