Contemporary Venice - 19th Edition 2026

ITSLIQUID Group is proud to announce the opening of the 19th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE, an international art exhibition running from October 16 to October 30, 2026, during the 61st Venice Biennale of Art. Hosted inside the 16th-century Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello. About CONTEMPORARY VENICE - 19TH EDITION 2026 16 - 30 October 2026 Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice ITSLIQUID Group is proud to announce the opening of the 19th edition of CONTEMPORARY VENICE, an international art exhibition running from October 16 to October 30, 2026, during the 61st Venice Biennale of Art. Hosted inside the 16th-century Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, the exhibition brings together a selected group of global artists working across painting, photography, video art, sculpture, installation, and live performance. CONTEMPORARY VENICE explores the evolving relationship between the body and the spaces we inhabit, reflecting on how identities are shaped, transformed, and hybridised within today's cultural, physical, social, and urban environments. The exhibition unfolds through two sections: MIXING IDENTITIES, which investigates the inner dimensions of identity and the body as a relational system, and FUTURE LANDSCAPES, where boundaries dissolve and space becomes an open field of ideas and possibilities. The idea of a hybrid and ever-changing self takes shape in works that blur the boundaries between form: in this sense, Bardia Mehdinejad presents "Bluebird", a collage in which a blue-plumed bird and a rhinoceros emerge from a violet ground, composes a dreamlike creature that resists any single definition. This tension between concealment and presence also animates "Untouchable skies" by Antonella Camisassi, where two veiled figures turn toward one another: their features are hidden, yet the gesture of closeness makes their bond unmistakable, and the fabric that shrouds them becomes at once a barrier and a form of protection. From the relationship between bodies, the focus shifts to the body as matter in Leonardo Glauso's "Busto", whose surface, traversed by vibrant strokes of red and blue, reads as a stratified territory of memory and emotion. This inward movement reaches its depth in Pati Avakian's "Weigh of existence", where a watchful face rises from a deeply textured, almost geological surface, as if the hidden layers of consciousness had been brought to light. Identity, however, is never built in isolation, and the exhibition also looks at the encounters and shared spaces that shape it. Terje Kjølseth captures in "Serious Talk" the quiet exchange between two elderly women seated on a bench, a bond sustained over time and distilled into a single black and white image. On a very different register, Rui Carruco suspends a luminous fragment of childhood on the shore in "Between sand and light", where figures, sand, and light merge into a memory in motion; finally, Vheneka Roy Dakarayi Magazi closes this first part of the journey with "Ultraviolet", an intense red field from which a patterned headpiece appears at the very edge of the frame, playing on presence and concealment and on the cultural signs through which identity is expressed and perceived. The path then opens onto the Future Landscapes section, where space turns fluid and imagination takes the lead. In the video work "The Fractals: los improbables", Yolanda Spínola-Elías imagines a habitat of creatures evoking unknown oceans and alternative evolutionary histories - their multiple eyes seem to return our gaze, drawing the viewer into an encounter suspended between recognition and strangeness, and asking how we extend attention and care beyond resemblance. Within this landscape that continues to dissolve and expand, Aldo Luigi Gaddi transforms the Venetian lagoon into a boundless vision in "Laguna di Venezia Circolare", bending sea and sky into one another until horizon and perspective vanish. This dissolution carries on in Kingsley Gunatillake's "Oto II", where landscape is reduced to pure atmosphere, a melting field of yellow and orange that invites a journey through sensation rather than place. In "Bleu Echo", Beatrice de Diego lets blue ink spread and resonate across the paper like an echo, turning the gesture into an expanding space, while Mary More completes the itinerary with "Puzzle", an interlacing of blue signs and fragments that seek one another and recompose into a landscape of thought in continuous transformation. CONTEMPORARY VENICE 2026 offers a cohesive journey through contemporary visual practices, further enriched by a great selection of video artworks (see video program ). CONTEMPORARY VENICE - 19TH EDITION 2026 Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello Associazione Culturale Italo-Tedesca (ACIT), Cannaregio 4118, Venice Opening October 16, 2026 | 06:00 PM RSVP: info@itsliquid.com Free entry - Register here Exhibition days October 19 - 30, 2026 Monday - Friday | 09:30 AM - 05:30 PM Read more Toggle Prints Film / Video Mixed media Design / Fashion Painting Multi-disciplinary Sculpture Performance / Live Art Digital Architecture Photography Drawing Installation