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IN MINOR KEYS 61st International Art Exhibition Biennale Arte, Venice

May 9 – Nov 22, 2026

The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, In Minor Keys by Koyo Kouoh, – which will run from Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026 at the Giardini, the Arsenale and in various locations around Venice. The pre-opening will take place on May 6, 7, and 8, while the awards ceremony and inauguration will be held on Saturday, May 9, 2026.

After the premature passing of Koyo Kouoh in May 2025, with the full support of her family, La Biennale di Venezia decided to carry out her Exhibition, with the purpose of preserving, enhancing and widely disseminating her ideas and the work she pursued with such dedication to the very end. Koyo Kouoh, nominated as the Artistic Director of the Visual Arts Department in November 2024, already developed the curatorial project, defining its theoretical framework, selecting the artists and the artworks, designating the authors of the catalogue, determining the graphic identity of the Exhibition and the architecture of the exhibition spaces, and establishing a dialogue with the artists invited to participate.

In Minor Keys is the title chosen by Koyo Kouoh for the 61st International Art Exhibition, as specified in the curatorial text, which was sent to the President of La Biennale on 8 April 2025. The Exhibition will be realised with the contribution of the team selected by Koyo: Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Hélène Pereira and Rasha Salti (advisors); Siddhartha Mitter (editor-in-chief); and Rory Tsapayi (research assistant).

Idee + Raum, Schloss Biesdorf, D – Berlin

Mar 16 – Jun 14, 2026

Opening: Mar 15, 2026

 

The group exhibition IDEE + RAUM brings together artists from different generations whose works can be classified as concrete art or have a concrete appearance. All works are based on a clear idea that precedes their visualisation and materialises in space. The sculptures, objects, installations, drawings and wall works open up current perspectives on space, structure, science, architecture and design. Contemporary Berlin positions are shown alongside works from the Beeskow Art Archive, the ‘Collection and Documentation Centre for Art of the GDR’, supplemented by further works from the late 20th century.

The exhibition is supported by the Exhibition Fund for Municipal Galleries and the Exhibition Remuneration Fund of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Artists:  Anni Albers, Kirstin Arndt, Horst Bartnig, Max Bill, Antje Blumenstein, Katrin Bremermann, Klaus Dennhardt, Cécile Dupaquier, Anne Gathmann, Kiki Gebauer, Hermann Glöckner, Monika Goetz, Pablo Griss, Carla Guagliardi, Erwin Heerich, Zora Janković, Peter K. Koch, Karsten Konrad, Franz Küsters, Axel Lieber, Thomas Lenk, Doris Marten, François Morellet, María Muñoz, Lilian Nachtigall, Susanne Piotter, Esther Rosenboom, Fiene Scharp, Thomas Scheibitz, Maik Teriete, Klaus Martin Treder, Sinta Werner, Renate Wolff

Curated by Rüdiger Lange (loop – raum für aktuelle kunst)

 

 

La peinture est la même pour tout le monde, Musée des beaux-arts, CH – La Chaux-de-Fonds

Mar 8 – Aug 9, 2026

Opening: Mar 7, 2026, 5 pm

Artiste américaine, Marcia Hafif a essayé de réinventer la peinture. Après un début de carrière proche de l’expressionnisme abstrait, elle s’installe à Rome entre 1961 et 1969. À son arrivée en Italie, elle est marquée par les rues, les églises, la publicité et les panneaux de signalisation. Tous ces éléments lui ont permis de développer un nouveau vocabulaire pictural, ainsi qu’une palette de couleurs vibrantes. Ses tableaux explorent la symétrie et la répétition des formes et des contreformes. Loin de s’enfermer dans une peinture abstraite, coupée de la réalité, le travail de Hafif évoque des images quotidiennes, sans jamais les figer dans une signification unique. Des formes arrondies parcourent ses peintures romaines, évoquant à la fois les courbes de corps féminins et les silhouettes des céramiques étrusques.

De retour à New York au début des années 1970, Hafif fait un constat : l’abstraction semble épuisée. Pour continuer à créer, il lui faut recommencer. Elle se libère de tout ce que la peinture a de subjectif, comme le motif, pour se concentrer sur son essence : les gestes, les pigments, les outils. Ses recherches l’amènent au monochrome, qu’elle considère, non comme une fin, mais comme « un nouveau départ ». Elle consigne alors chacune de ses œuvres dans un Inventaire, où elle répertorie par séries l’ensemble de ses expérimentations avec la matière, les pigments, et les supports de la peinture. En 1978, Olivier Mosset la contacte, ensemble, ils fondent le groupe Radical Painting, rejoint par d’autres peintres partageant la même radicalité.

Les tableaux de Marcia Hafif sont le fruit d’une réflexion intellectuelle : l’artiste utilise la peinture pour expliquer ce qu’est la peinture, comme si cette dernière se définissait elle-même à travers ses propres moyens.

Marcia Hafif est née en 1929 à Pomona en Californie et morte en 2018 à Laguna Beach en Californie.

Painting in Color, Currier Museum of Art, USA-Manchester

Mar 5 – Aug 9, 2026

Accompanying Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s, the exhibition Painting in Color features four contemporary artists whose work continues the tradition of abstraction into the 21st century. Heather Hutchison (b. 1964), Joseph Marioni (1943–2024), Jane Swavely (b. 1959), and John Zurier (b. 1956) explore color, light, scale, and space in artworks that foreground visual perception and invite quiet reflection.

 

 

Impulse Paula – Worpswede-Museen, D – Worpswede

Feb 7 – Nov 1, 2026

On February 8, 2026, Paula Modersohn-Becker would have turned 150 years old. During her lifetime, the artist sold hardly any of her paintings. It was only in the decades after her death that the art world recognized the magic inherent in her unique style. Today, her paintings are considered milestones of Expressionism. With her work and her life, Paula Modersohn-Becker was both a role model and a source of inspiration. Contemporary artists  are inspired by her.

Pure Gegenwart – Kunstmuseum, D – Singen

Jan 25 – Apr 12, 2026

Markus Weggenmann (born 1953) is a painter through and through. His paintings, executed with high-load distemper, are extraordinary interactions between highly reduced forms on the one hand and homogeneous flat colors on the other. The spectrum ranges from light-absorbing to light-emitting colors. He became known in the 1990s with his vibrant striped paintings, which were already on display at the Kunstmuseum Singen at that time.

In 2026, the Kunstmuseum Singen will once again be showing a retrospective of the German-Swiss artist’s work. The current series “LW” is reminiscent of landscape formations and mountain panoramas. At the moment of perception, these forms tip over into pure, autonomous, clearly contoured areas of color interspersed with white fields of energy. Weggenmann thus creates unsettling, floating pictorial spaces that simultaneously draw us into a state of profound calm. Some critics say they are reminiscent of works of German Romanticism.

Archistories – Staatliche Kunsthalle, D – Karlsruhe

Nov 29, 2025 – Apr 12, 2026

The special exhibition Archistories: Architecture in Art brings together around 100 works by 70 artists from five centuries that reflect on buildings and construction in different ways. Sometimes playful, sometimes humorous, sometimes socially critical, the works on display deal with the realities of life, past times, or fantastical spaces. They all show how we shape our world or could shape it in the future. In doing so, the exhibition explores aesthetic, political, social, and ecological questions.

Paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from the Kunsthalle’s collection are complemented by video works, photographs, and installations by contemporary artists. Archistories thus provides a comprehensive insight into the history of architecture from the 17th century to the present day and makes it clear that architecture always tells stories and recounts history.

An extensive catalog accompanying the exhibition is now available for €48 in the Kunsthalle’s online shop.

Art 35 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 35 Basel Unlimited

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 2004

Art 34 Basel

Jun 17 – Jun 23, 2003

Art 33 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 2002

Art 32 Basel

Jun 13 – Jun 18, 2001

Art Cologne 2000

Nov 5 – Nov 12, 2000

Art Cologne 1999

Nov 7 – Nov 14, 1999

Art 30 Basel

Jun 16 – Jun 21, 1999

Art Cologne 1998

Nov 8 – Nov 15, 1998

Art 29 Basel

Jun 10 – Jun 15, 1998

FIAC Paris 1997

Oct 1 – Oct 6, 1997

Art 28 Basel

Jun 11 – Jun 16, 1997

Art 27 Basel

Jun 12 – Jun 17, 1996

Art Cologne 1995

Nov 11 – Nov 19, 1995

Art 26 Basel

Jun 14 – Jun 19, 1995

Art Cologne 1994

Nov 10 – Nov 16, 1994

Art 25 Basel

Jun 15 – Jun 20, 1994

Four Honest Outlaws – Sala Ray Marioni Gordon

published by Michael Fried for the Yale University Press
In this strongly argued and characteristically original book, Michael Fried considers the work of four contemporary artists: video artist and photographer Anri Sala, sculptor Charles Ray, painter Joseph Marioni, and video artist and intervener in movies Douglas Gordon.
«Four Honest Outlaws» takes its title from a line in a Bob Dylan song, «To live outside the law you must be honest», meaning in this case that each of the four artists has found his own unsanctioned path to extraordinary accomplishment, in part by defying the ordinary norms and expectations of the contemporary art world.
Michael Fried will moderate a symposium «PAINTING NOW: A discussion taking off from the work of Joseph Marioni»,
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (USA), December 10, 2011

The Archive in the Worm

Verlag für Moderne Kunst, with essays by Andrés Duprat, Carl Friedrich Schröer and Raimund Stecker.
Published on the occasion of the eightpart transcontinental exhibition in Argentina, Germany and Switzerland.
«Martín Mele lives in a foreign land, it’s uncertain how foreign, how distant or familiar it is. For he has lived abroad for some time, actually forever. …»

Aufsetzpunkt

published by modo Verlag on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil-Jona from April 7 until June 19, 2011.
with essays by Invar-Torre Hollhaus and Daniela Hardmeier.