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Thursday 11 June: a talk with Mario Banushi (Ca’ Giustinian, 3 pm); Davide Iodice, Promemoria (San Giobbe, 4 pm); Mario Banushi, Ragada (Ca’ Malcanton, 6 pm); Alberto Colombo Sormani, Imago vocis (Tese dei Soppalchi, 7 pm); Dorcy Rugamba, Hewa Rwanda (Teatro alle Tese, 9 pm).

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement goes to the director Emma Dante; the Silver Lion goes to the Greek-Albanian director Mario Banushi. Awards ceremony on Friday 12 June at 12 noon CEST, broadcast via live streaming.

Wednesday 10 June 2026, 5:30 pm, at La Biennale di Venezia Library.

The new issue addresses the concept of the hemisphere as a symbolic, geographical, political, and cultural form of the present.

An exhibition from the Historical Archive of Contemporary Arts  - ASAC (Sala delle Colonne di Ca’ Giustinian, 8 > 21 June 2026).

A series of workshops open to the public and aimed at dancers with various levels of experience: from 19 July to 1 August at Sala d’Armi G (Arsenale).

At the Venice Arsenale (Campo della Tana 2169/F): Lectures and Performances, 1 and 2 June. Open Day, 3 June. Free reservations available online.

Tickets and subscriptions for the Festival (running from 7-21 June) are available exclusively on labiennale.org

Contributors include filmmaker Mona Fastvold, who talks about the importance of archives in her films and Willem Dafoe, who presents the new edition of Biennale Teatro.