Biennale College Archive – Writing in Residence 2026

La Biennale di Venezia announces the new call for the Biennale College Archive – Writing in Residence programme 2026, launched on 3 July on the website www.labiennale.org.

The Biennale College Archive - Writing in Residence programme is open to young graduates under 30 from all over the world with an excellent knowledge of Italian language, spoken and written.

Thanks to Swiss Seaside Foundation, a non-profit organization founded in 2008 in Switzerland that supports projects related to children, youth, family and the environment.

The call is dedicated to young graduates under 30, aimed at writing a critical text that will be collected in a publication of La Biennale di Venezia. For each of the above-mentioned sectors, the artistic directors have identified a research topic related to the programs of the festivals and exhibitions, to be explored in depth in the Historical Archive of La Biennale. The young scholars selected starting from the proposed theme carry out in Archive, guided by tutors, a search of sources and documents for the drafting of a text of up to 15 pages.

The call covers the following sectors and themes:

Writing on Cinema, theme: The Venice International Film Festival, 1992–1996
Tutor: Paolo Lughi
Deadline: 26 July 2026

Writing on Music, theme: Music as the childhood of the spirit. A pure and radical listening experience is at the heart of the Biennale Musica 2026, A Child of Sound
Tutor: Federico Sardo
Deadline: 26 July 2026

Biennale College Archive – Writing in residence, now in its 9^th edition, is one of the activities of the Historical Archive of La Biennale - International Research Center on Contemporary Arts, within which research programs are developed also in connection with cultural institutions and universities as well as special projects such as, among the most recent, the new magazine La Biennale di Venezia, reborn after 54 years after its last publication.