With You, With Everything: Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Art

With You, With Everything: Italy Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Art 2026

Artist and curator: Chiara Camoni. Curated by Cecilia Canziani.

Dates: 9 May – 22 November 2026

The Italy Pavilion at the Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale of Venice unfolds as a transforming landscape: a site-specific installation combining sculpture, reclaimed materials, natural elements and collective practices to rethink the relationship between living matter and materiality.

What to see

• A forest of figures: more than twenty ceramic statues, slightly above human scale, shaped with traditional techniques and enriched with natural finds collected by the artist’s studio.
• An evolving building: the second shed is conceived as a building in progress, made of natural materials, industrial waste and reused plastics that form floors, walls, seats and gardens.
• A central square and a living garden: resting spaces that connect the time of sculpture, human life and natural cycles.

Program and insights

The installation includes the Dialogues, curated by Fiammetta Griccioli and Lucia Aspesi, which link Camoni’s work to historical and contemporary documents and artworks (from Etruscan amphorae to archival materials and works by artists such as Fausto Melotti and Marisa Merz). Two site-specific commissions are featured, including the performance Canti fossili by Annamaria Ajmone and Alice Rohrwacher’s intervention Che cosa resta.

Accessibility and public program

The public program, curated by Lungomare, offers performances, listening sessions and co-creation activities that encourage direct engagement with the works. Accessibility is a priority: in collaboration with the Ciao! project of Fondazione Amplifon, about 30,000 elderly residents in care homes across seven countries will be able to visit remotely and join the activities.

Practical information

Venue: Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale, Venice.

Address: Campo de la Tana, 2169, 30122 Venice VE, Italy.

Check the Biennale di Venezia official channels or the Italy Pavilion's communication channels for opening hours and ticketing. The project is promoted by the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General for Contemporary Creativity and supported by institutional and private partners.

Why visit: the installation offers an immersive encounter that blends material memory, craft practices and collective participation, prompting reflection on human relationships with objects and the environment.