In Minor Keys

In Minor Keys takes its title from music. The exhibition unfolds through quieter tonalities: intimacy, improvisation, and poetic persistence — drawing on jazz, Caribbean thought, and the metaphor of the Creole garden, where diverse species coexist in shared ecosystems of protection and exchange.

This edition also extends beyond visual art. The Theatre programme is directed by Willem Dafoe. The Music programme — by Caterina Barbieri. Official sponsor of the Biennale for the next 3 years: Bulgari.

USA

Alma Allen. Self-taught sculptor based in Mexico. Around 30 sculptures in walnut burl, volcanic Cantera verde, and Colorado Yule marble. Call Me the Breeze.

USA

Alma Allen. Self-taught sculptor based in Mexico. Around 30 sculptures in walnut burl, volcanic Cantera verde, and Colorado Yule marble. Call Me the Breeze.

France 

Yto Barrada. Multidisciplinary artist born in Paris, raised in Tangier. Work shown at MoMA, Tate, Centre Pompidou. The Search for a New Utopia — collective storytelling, migration, postcolonial memory.

France 

Yto Barrada. Multidisciplinary artist born in Paris, raised in Tangier. Work shown at MoMA, Tate, Centre Pompidou. The Search for a New Utopia — collective storytelling, migration, postcolonial memory.

United Kingdom 

Lubaina Himid. Born in Zanzibar, based in Preston. First Black woman and oldest artist to win the Turner Prize (2017). Her landmark installation Naming the Money (2004) — painted cut-out figures representing Black musicians and servants erased from European court histories.

United Kingdom 

Lubaina Himid. Born in Zanzibar, based in Preston. First Black woman and oldest artist to win the Turner Prize (2017). Her landmark installation Naming the Money (2004) — painted cut-out figures representing Black musicians and servants erased from European court histories.

Germany

Henrike Naumann × Sung Tieu. New site-specific installations examining historical responsibility, migration, bureaucracy, and the fractures between past and future.

Germany

Henrike Naumann × Sung Tieu. New site-specific installations examining historical responsibility, migration, bureaucracy, and the fractures between past and future.

Germany

Henrike Naumann × Sung Tieu. New site-specific installations examining historical responsibility, migration, bureaucracy, and the fractures between past and future.

Canada

Abbas Akhavan. Born in Tehran, based between Montreal and Berlin. Site-responsive installation engaging the pavilion's architecture — ruins, gardens, threatened sites at the intersection of nature and memory.

Canada

Abbas Akhavan. Born in Tehran, based between Montreal and Berlin. Site-responsive installation engaging the pavilion's architecture — ruins, gardens, threatened sites at the intersection of nature and memory.

Italy

Chiara Camoni. Works with ceramics and organic materials. Con te con tutto — built through long-term collaborative practice, emphasizing female friendship and shared making.

Italy

Chiara Camoni. Works with ceramics and organic materials. Con te con tutto — built through long-term collaborative practice, emphasizing female friendship and shared making.

Japan

Ei Arakawa-Nash. Japanese American performance artist. New installation developed from the perspective of queer parenthood, examining nationalism, patriarchy, and embodied experience.

Japan

Ei Arakawa-Nash. Japanese American performance artist. New installation developed from the perspective of queer parenthood, examining nationalism, patriarchy, and embodied experience.

Brazil

Rosana Paulino with Adriana Varejão. Work in MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou. Comigo ninguém pode — named after a toxic plant, addressing colonial wounds through textiles, archives, and painted tiles.

Brazil

Rosana Paulino with Adriana Varejão. Work in MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou. Comigo ninguém pode — named after a toxic plant, addressing colonial wounds through textiles, archives, and painted tiles.

Brazil

Rosana Paulino with Adriana Varejão. Work in MoMA, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou. Comigo ninguém pode — named after a toxic plant, addressing colonial wounds through textiles, archives, and painted tiles.

Ukraine

Zhanna Kadyrova. Security Guarantees — centered on her sculpture Deer (2019), originally installed on the pedestal of a dismantled Soviet military jet in Pokrovsk, evacuated from the combat zone in 2024.

Ukraine

Zhanna Kadyrova. Security Guarantees — centered on her sculpture Deer (2019), originally installed on the pedestal of a dismantled Soviet military jet in Pokrovsk, evacuated from the combat zone in 2024.