Adebunmi Gbadebo among the participating artists announced for “In Minor Keys,” the main exhibition at this year’s 61st Venice Biennale, curated by the team of the late curator Koyo Kouoh.
The Venice Biennale has revealed the 105 artists and collectives and six artist-led organizations participating in the main exhibition its sixty-first iteration, to take place May 9–November 22. The show was conceived by Cameroon-born curator Koyo Kouoh, who died last summer as she was putting it together. The exhibition is being realized by a team she assembled, comprising curators Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo, Marie Helene Pereira, and Rasha Salti; critic Siddartha Mitter, who is serving as the Biennale catalogue’s editor; and research assistant Rory Tsapayi.
“The sixty-first international art exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia intends neither a litany of commentary on world events, nor an inattention or escape from compounding and continuous intersecting crises,” said Tsapayi, speaking at a press conference at which the participants were revealed. “Rather, it proposes a radical reconnection with art’s natural habitat and role in society, that is the emotional, the visual, the sensory, the effective, the subjective.”
Spread across the Giardini’s Central Pavilion, the Arsenale, and other sites, “In Minor Keys” will additionally encompass outdoor installations, performances, and a procession of poets in the Giardini.
Learn more about the announcement on Artnet here and Artforum here!
