Moldova Pavilion 2026 - La Biennale di Venezia

23/03/2026

Pentru prima dată în istoria Bienalei de Artă de la Veneția, Republica Moldova participă cu drepturi depline. Între 9 mai și 22 noiembrie, generosul spațiu a...

02/03/2026

On the Thousand and Second Night | Moldova Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2026

Curator: Adelina Luft

Adelina Luft is a Bucharest-based curator. From 2014 to 2021, she was active in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, where she developed projects guided by decolonial thought and sustained through process-driven, collaborative, and interdisciplinary forms of working.

Since 2022, she has been living in Bucharest, where she has curated, among others, the group exhibition Ecologies of Repair at Gaep (2022), the residency project Flowing Streams (2024) initiated by EUNIC Romania, and co-curated Jogja Biennale 17, Titen: Embodied Knowledges, Shifting Grounds (2023). She has also co-curated various projects within the Resurrection Committee, a fluid curatorial collective initiated by Raluca Voinea and Ovidiu Țichindeleanu.

She is part of .ro.bucuresti , active at The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, and in 2025 co-founded the Amaranth Seed Kollective (ASK) together with artists, curators, and architects, part of the Spring Entrance Community from Siliștea Snagovului.

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Moldova Pavilion | La Biennale di Venezia
9 May - 22 November 2026
Preview: 6 - 8 May

Spazio Santa Veneranda
Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia
Sestiere Cannaregio 252, 30121

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Photo credits: Sorin Florea

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01/03/2026

On the Thousand and Second Night | Moldova Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2026

Artist: Pavel Brăila

Pavel Brăila, lives and works between Chișinău and Berlin. He is one of the most internationally recognised artists from the Republic of Moldova. Working across film, photography, installation, and performance, his practice explores the social and political realities of Eastern Europe through attentive observation and subtle irony. He has participated twice in documenta (2002, 2017) and in Manifesta 10 (2014). His work has been presented at institutions including Tate (London), Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), Kiasma (Helsinki), and the Renaissance Society (Chicago).

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Moldova Pavilion | La Biennale di Venezia
9 May - 22 November 2026
Preview: 6 - 8 May

Spazio Santa Veneranda
Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia
Sestiere Cannaregio 252, 30121

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Photo credits: Sorin Florea

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26/02/2026

Artistul Pavel Brăila și curatoarea Adelina Luft într-un interviu realizat de Daria Ghiu în emisiunea Orașul vorbește: solidaritate.https://www.radioromaniacultural.ro/sectiuni-articole/produs-de-radio-romania/in-a-mia-si-a-doua-noapte-pavel-braila-duce-republica-moldova-in-premiera-la-biennale-di-venezia-id52447.html

26/02/2026

25/02/2026

Ministerul Culturii al Republicii Moldova anunță participarea oficială a Republicii Moldova la cea de-a 61-a Expoziție Internațională de Artă – La Biennale di Venezia, prin proiectul „În a mia și a doua noapte”, realizat de artistul Pavel Brăila și curatoriat de Adelina Luft.

Detalii: https://www.mc.gov.md/ro/content/republica-moldova-va-participa-pentru-prima-data-oficial-la-expozitia-internationala-de-arta

25/02/2026

The Republic of Moldova marks its first official participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026, presenting On the Thousand and Second Night by Pavel Brăila, curated by Adelina Luft – an installation that unfolds within a register of low frequencies: murmur, attention, and proximity. Rather than amplifying the noise of the present, On the Thousand and Second Night opens a space for reflection in which imagination and material culture operate as forms of continuity within a world undergoing transformation.

The Republic of Moldova marks its first official participation in the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026, supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the project On the Thousand and Second Night by Pavel Brăila, curated by Adelina Luft.

On the Thousand and Second Night unfolds as an installation that opens a space for reflection in which imagination and material culture operate as forms of continuity within a world undergoing transformation.
For a moment, a technology tied to domination becomes an act of protection, and domestic memory gains the power to keep a shared space suspended in the air.

Drawing both on the tradition of carpets woven in homes and villages across Moldova — passed down as dowry and preserved as family memory — and on the Middle Eastern motif of bisat al-rih (the flying carpet) from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, the project reclaims storytelling as a gesture that keeps the possibility of the future open, imagining alternative exits from a world in which borders may shift and security remains fragile.

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Moldova Pavilion | La Biennale di Venezia
9 May - 22 November 2026
Preview: 6 - 8 May

Spazio Santa Veneranda
Chiesa dei Santi Geremia e Lucia
Sestiere Cannaregio 252, 30121

Supported by the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Moldova.

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