The Venice Biennale has announced the 111 participating artists for the main exhibition of its 61st edition, “In Minor Keys,” curated by the late Koyo Kouoh and scheduled to run from May 9 to November 22. The list, comprising 105 artists and collectives and, uniquely, six artist-led organizations across multiple continents, was unveiled at a press conference at Ca’ Giustinian on February 25 by the curatorial team Kouoh had assembled before her passing in May 2025: advisors Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Hélène Pereira, and Rasha Salti; the catalog’s editor-in-chief Siddhartha Mitter; and research assistant Rory Tsapayi.

Selected with “particular attention to resonances, affinities, and possible convergences between practices, even when far apart,” the 111 invited participants reflect Kouoh’s “relational geography of encounters with artists over her lifetime,” according to the press release. Rather than being divided into formal sections, the exhibition will be structured around conceptual “motifs” or “undercurrent priorities,” among them shrines, processions, enchantment, rest, and schools. The focus on schools appears as artist-centered institutions and ecosystems rooted in local contexts yet operating transnationally—“spaces of learning and regeneration founded on encounter, shared knowledge, and autonomy from market forces” that “intertwine art and social responsibility.”  

“In Minor Keys” will unfold across the Giardini’s Central Pavilion, the Arsenale, and other venues throughout Venice. The presentation will additionally encompass outdoor installations, a procession of poets in the Giardini, and performances centering “the body as a site of knowledge and memory.”

Among the 111 participants is Lebanese-born, Sydney-based artist Khaled Sabsabi, who will represent Australia in its national pavilion and appear in the main exhibition—a dual role that the Biennale and Australian media have highlighted as unprecedented for an Australian artist at Venice. His reinstated pavilion project is curated by Michael Dagostino and supported by Creative Australia.

National participations and collateral events will be announced on March 4, followed by the international jury in April.

Below is the full list of artists and organizations partaking in the 2026 Venice Biennale:

Pio Abad (b. 1983)
Philip Aguirre y Otegui (b. 1961)
Akinbode Akinbiyi (b. 1946)
Laurie Anderson (b. 1947)
Fabrice Aragno (b. 1970)
arms ache avid aeon: Nancy Brooks Brody (b. 1962), Joy Episalla (b. 1957), Zoe Leonard (b. 1961), Carrie Yamaoka (b. 1957), fierce pussy (founded 1991), Jo-ey Tang (b. 1978)
Kader Attia (b. 1970)
Sammy Baloji (b. 1978)
Ranti Bam (b. 1985)
Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983)
Éric Baudelaire (b. 1973)
Sabian Baumann (b. 1962)
blaxTARLINES KUMASI (founded 2015)
Beverly Buchanan (b. 1940)
Seyni Awa Camara (b. 1945)
Nick Cave (b. 1959)
Carolina Caycedo (b. 1978)
Annalee Davis (b. 1963) 
BuBu de la Madeleine (b. 1961) 
Dawn DeDeaux (b. 1952)
Nolan Oswald Dennis (b. 1988)
Denniston Hill (founded 2008)
Bonnie Devine (b. 1952) 
Godfried Donkor (b. 1964)
Marcel Duchamp (b. 1887)
Edouard Duval-Carrié (b. 1954)
Torkwase Dyson (b. 1973)
rana elnemr (b. 1974)
Theo Eshetu (b. 1958)
Rachel Fallon (with Alice Maher) (b. 1971) 
G.A.S. Foundation (founded 2023)
Sofía Gallisá Muriente (b. 1986)
Adebunmi Gbadebo (b. 1992)
Leonilda González (b. 1923)
Linda Goode Bryant (b. 1949) 
Joana Hadjithomas (b. 1969) & Khalil Joreige (b. 1969) 
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka (b. 1988)
Ayrson Heráclito (b. 1968)
Clarissa Herbst (b. 1959) & Dominique Rust (b. 1960)
Nicholas Hlobo (b. 1975)
Carsten Höller (b. 1961)
Sohrab Hura (b. 1981)
Alfredo Jaar (b. 1965)
Mohammed Joha (b. 1978)
Michael Joo (b. 1966)
Nina Katchadourian (b. 1968)
Bodys Isek Kingelez (b. 1948)
Sandra Knecht (b. 1968)
Marcia Kure (b. 1970)
Natalia Lassalle-Morillo (in collaboration with Gloria Morillo) (b. 1991)
Florence Lazar (b. 1966)
Dan Lie (b. 1988)
Werewere Liking (b. 1950)
lugar a dudas (founded 2004)
Daniel Lind-Ramos (b. 1953)
Alice Maher (b. 1956)
Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (b. 1959) & Kamaal Malak (b. 1962)
Senzeni Marasela (b. 1977) 
Guadalupe Maravilla (b. 1976) 
Manuel Mathieu (b. 1986)
Georgina Maxim (b. 1980)
Tiona Nekkia McClodden (b. 1981)
Big Chief Demond Melancon (b. 1978)
Avi Mograbi (b. 1956)
Wangechi Mutu (b. 1972)
Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute (NCAI) (founded 2020)
Eustaquio Neves (b. 1955)
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (b. 1976) 
Tammy Nguyen (b. 1984)
Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974)
Kaloki Nyamai (b. 1985)
Temitayo Ogunbiyi (b. 1984)
Pauline Oliveros (b. 1932)
Kambui Olujimi (b. 1976)
Hagar Ophir (b. 1983)
Uriel Orlow (b. 1973) 
Ebony G. Patterson (b. 1981)
Rajni Perera (b. 1985) & Marigold Santos (b. 1981)
Thania Petersen (b. 1980)
Alan Phelan (b. 1968)
Johannes Phokela (b. 1966)
Léonard Pongo (b. 1988)
Walid Raad (b. 1967)
Mohammed Z. Rahman (b. 1997)
RAW Material Company (founded 2008)
Tabita Rezaire (b. 1989)
Guadalupe Rosales (b. 1980)
Yo-E Ryou (b. 1987)
Khaled Sabsabi (b. 1965)
Rose Salane (b. 1992)
Issa Samb (b. 1945)
Amina Saoudi Aït Khay (b. 1955
Carrie Schneider (b. 1979)
Hala Schoukair (b. 1957) 
Berni Searle (b. 1964) 
Mmakgabo Mmapula Helen Sebidi (b. 1943)
Wardha Shabbir (b. 1987)
Yoshiko Shimada (b. 1959)
Himali Singh Soin (b. 1985) & David Soin Tappeser (b. 1987)
Buhlebezwe Siwani (b. 1987)
Cauleen Smith (b. 1967)
Vera Tamari (b. 1944)
Tsai Ming-liang (b. 1957)
Victoria-Idongesit Udondian (b. 1982)
Celia Vásquez Yui (b. 1960)
Kemang Wa Lehulere (b. 1984)
Kennedy Yanko (b. 1988)
Raed Yassin (b. 1979) 
Sawangwongse Yawnghwe (b. 1971) 
Billie Zangewa (b. 1973)

APPLIED ARTS PAVILIONA Special Project of La Biennale di Venezia and Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984) (participating out of competition)

Aisha Traub Chan is an editorial intern at ArtAsiaPacific.