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Despite the arrival as president of a far-right journalist, the most important contemporary art biennial in the world continues to assert an open and progressive vision.
The more things get tougher in Italy, the more the Venice Biennale seems to be resisting, despite the arrival as president of a former far-right journalist, the whimsical Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, appointed a year ago for a duration of four years. Impervious to the turbulence that never ceases to agitate the cultural scene made in Meloni – with in particular the appointment a few days ago of a new Minister of Culture who promises further turmoil at the head of the institutions – the most important contemporary art biennial in the world therefore continues to affirm an open vision and progressive of art. After a 60th edition cleverly titled “Foreigners everywhere”, under the direction of the Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, it is the Swiss-Cameroonian Koyo Kouoh, 57, who will take the artistic reins of the next edition in spring 2026. “With it in Venice, the Biennale confirms what it has offered the world for more than a century: to be the house of the future“, proclaimed Buttafuoco, in a comical or clever twist.
Africa in a good place on the artistic-political scene
Ranked among the most influential exhibition curators in Africa by the New York Times in 2015, currently at the head of Zeitz-Mocaa, the most important contemporary art museum in South Africa, in Cape Town, Koyo Kouoh founded and directed for several years the cent
