Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present
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Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present
There is very little human figuration in the 2026 Venice Biennale, which signals a significant shift away from an anthropocentric vision of art and the world toward a more post-human universalism that reconsiders human presence and creation within a broader ecosystem of interrelations. At least in its main exhibition, the Biennale moves away from identity-based frameworks—national, racial and gendered—that dominated many past editions, shifting …
Venice, May 2026. The 61st International Biennial of Art opens under the title In Minor Keys, designed by Koyo Kouoh, Cameroonian curator who died six months before seeing her work inaugurated. What she left behind is both a tribute and a manifesto: the conviction that art does not change the world by representing it, but by changing the way one looks at it and thus the way one thinks, which one chooses, which one decides what the present is mad…
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