The 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia will take place from 9 May to 22 November 2026. 

In 2026, the artistic team exhibiting in the Australia Pavilion are Khaled Sabsabi as the artist and Michael Dagostino as the curator after being recommissioned on 2 July 2025.

Sabsabi is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist with over 35 years of experience working across art mediums, geographical borders and with communities both in Australia and internationally. His work explores themes of human collectiveness, questions identity politics, and ideology, and sparks thought and dialogue through compelling artistic expression. 

Sabsabi with Dagostino, currently Director of the Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney, will draw on their long-standing creative collaboration to present a new work for the Australia Pavilion.

^{Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino in Granville. Photo: Anna Kucera}

^{As the world is being divided by fixed ideologies, we believe that it is our duty as artists and storytellers to plant seeds for nurturing conversations that may guide us one day to settle differences with positive values of admiration and appreciation.}

Creative Australia is the commissioner and producer of Australia’s National Participation at the Venice Biennale 2026. 

The 2026 Biennale’s main exhibition, In Minor Keys, will honour the late curator Koyo Kouoh by realising the project as she originally conceived it. Kouoh, formerly Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, will be credited posthumously.