Sculptor Marina Xenofontos to Represent Cyprus at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Turkey Announces Artist, Curator for 2026 Venice Biennale

The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has named multidisciplinary artist Nilbar Güreş, known for her humorous, poetic, yet critical works commenting on social topics, as Turkey’s representative to the Sixty-First Venice Biennale, set to take place May 9–November 22, 2026. Güreş was unanimously selected by the Turkish pavilion’s advisory board, which comprised art […]

Sculptor Marina Xenofontos to Represent Cyprus at the 2026 Venice Biennale

Athens-based artist Marina Xenofontos will represent Cyprus at the 2026 Venice Biennial. Titled “It rests to the bones,” the pavilion will be curator by Kyle Dancewicz, deputy director of SculptureCenter in New York. For this edition, the Cyprus Pavilion will be housed at the Associazione Culturale Spiazzi, near the Arsenale. Xenofontos, who was born in Limassol, Cyprus, in 1988, is known for a sculptural practice that spans found objects, k…