Con te con tutto — Italian Pavilion | Biennale Arte 2026

WEEKEND 1
26 and 28 June 2026
The wild, the oneiric and the disastrous

Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale; Forte Sant’Andrea; Ocean Space

With Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Giorgiomaria Cornelio, Ilaria Gianni, Annalisa Metta, and Roberto Paci Dalò.

In collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Arcicoro (Circolo Arci Franca Trentin Baratto), the PhD Programme in Architecture, City and Landscape at Università Roma Tre, Microclima, and NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia).

In the first weekend, the public program explores the dream as a generative space in which to develop a new vocabulary for imagining and constructing reality. The voice in the form of poetry and song takes shape as a dialogic and communal practice: individual voices interweave into a collective body. Alongside this perspective is a reflection on landscape as an ambiguous and hybrid entity – not an inert backdrop, but a living presence that questions our ways of looking at what surrounds us. The wild and the hybrid emerge as productive categories for thinking about the cities and natures we inhabit.

WEEKEND 2

25 and 26 September 2026

The many forms of knowing

Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale

With Angelika Burtscher, Cecilia Canziani, Felice Cimatti, Valentina Karga, Esther Kinsky, Daniele Lupo, Jacopo Miliani, and NERO with Cora Baratti and Giulia Currà (Salotto delle Preziose).

In collaboration with Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Karlsruhe and Università Iuav di Venezia — Multimedia Arts Programme.

The second weekend proposes a return to myth, ritual, archaic knowledge and beyond-human intelligence as alternative forms of knowing. A polyphony of knowledge that moves through voice, bodies and matter, opening spaces of resistance to univocal and authoritarian narratives. Within this horizon, knowledge is understood as a device capable of opening counterintuitive perspectives and of calling into question what appears obvious – a decentring of reason in order to know the world from multiple angles.

WEEKEND 3

29, 30 and 31 October

What the voice carries

Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale

With Mirene Arsanios, Sara Basta, Adriana Cavarero, Cecilia Canziani, Felice Cimatti, Wissal Houbabi, and Francesco Ventrella.

In collaboration with Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia and Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma; NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome campus; and Spazio Punch.

The third and final weekend of the public program explores the voice as bodily manifestation and creation of communal space, as an instrument of memory beyond linguistic and cultural borders. The voice is never neutral nor universal, but singular and relational: it exposes the uniqueness of the speaker and calls upon the listening of the other. The programme investigates how historical vocal practices and memories are transmitted through time, becoming new collective narrative – the voices of the past tune in with those of the present, carried by those who inhabit the diaspora. Alongside this experience comes an open invitation to the city: to translate into words the voices of the present, to pass them from body to body toward the future.

The volume is conceived as an anthology made up of images and texts that alternate freely, showing the contiguity of themes, evocations and ideas that circulate in the artist’s practice and throughout the exhibition. This alternation is also translated visually through a continuous change of paper stock between sections printed on textured turquoise natural paper and sections on smooth, glossy white paper. Like the exhibition, the volume is conceived as a polyphony, capable of conveying the experience of the Pavilion through the many voices of which it is made up. The layout is also structured through two main grids, interrupted by a horizontal line that marks the Dialogues section, extending from one margin of the book to the other. The sequence of photographic images, on the other hand, unfolds as a dialogue between images of artworks, exhibition views, and what the artist defines as “matter”: fragments of images that contributed to the creation of the works themselves. In this way, the images are freely arranged throughout the book, while always starting from the centre and moving outwards.

The volume is designed as a pocket-sized book that can be easily carried and consulted during and after the visit. A user’s manual, designed as a space for writing and taking notes in the margins. The cover is also independent from the book block: it is not glued, but rather rests on it and contains it. The design of the cover welcomes the traces left by each reader through the use of thermochromic paint, which reacts to heat. The gestures that each of us leaves behind are added to those of the artist and of everyone who contributed to the catalogue.

A book that transforms not only in relation to the environment in which it is placed, but also through the hands it passes through.