Artists Threaten to Boycott Venice Biennale Over Israeli Pavilion

Artists Threaten to Boycott Venice Biennale Over Israeli Pavilion

Artists, curators, and cultural workers are threatening a boycott of the 61st Venice Biennale, slated to open on May 9, 2026, over its “complicit invitation” of Israel. In an open letter sent to Biennale organizers today, October 2, the anonymous activist group Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA), described in an email to Hyperallergic as an international collective of artists, curators, writers, and art workers, called for “the immediate and compl…