Con te con tutto — Italian Pavilion | Biennale Arte 2026

Throughout the exhibition, the Italian Pavilion will be accompanied by a public program curated by Angelika Burtscher and Daniele Lupo (Lungomare), an invitation to consider the voice as a manifestation of presence, but also as an instrument of dissent and transformation, participating in a shared process in which listening, gesture and words generate connection and reflection. Through performances, processes of co-creation, moments of listening and the sharing of transdisciplinary knowledge, the programme – open to the cultural realities of the city of Venice – triggers direct relationships with Chiara Camoni’s exhibited works, extending their resonance in time and space.

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.

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.

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.