Iran Withdraws Amid Controversies at Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale faces controversy and resignations over its jury, with Iran announcing its withdrawal from the art exhibition, while artists like Ai Weiwei comment on the role of art in political discourse.
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Anish Kapoor says US’s ‘politics of hate’ should exclude it from Venice Biennale
Artist commends jury for resigning over inclusion of Russia and Israel but says reasoning should also have included US Anish Kapoor says the US should be excluded from the Venice Biennale because of the country’s “abhorrent politics of hate” and its “incessant warmongering”. The artist, who represented Britain at the 1990 edition, told the Guardian that he commended the biennale jury’s decision to resign just a few days before the event, which is billed as the “Olympics of art”, in protest at...
By Lanre Bakare in Venice and Lorenzo Tondo
Read full article →Ai Weiwei: ‘The Venice Biennale should not make value judgments about political positions. Otherwise, it’s censorship’
The Chinese artist and activist, who has just opened the retrospective ‘Aftershock’ at the MAXXI museum in L’Aquila, argues that restrictions on expression are not only a problem of autocracies but also permeate Western democracies
By Barbara Celis
Read full article →Iran not taking part in controversy-hit Venice Biennale
(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 4 - Iran will not take part in the 2026 Venice Art Biennale, organizers said on Monday. The 61st International Art Exhibition, which has 100 national participations and is set to open on May 9, has been dogged by controversy regarding the reopening, albeit not to the public, of the Russian Pavilion. The Biennale has come under fierce criticism for the move, with the European Commission saying it put two million euros EU funding for the event at risk, while Italian Culture M...
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