The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, through the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID), and in collaboration with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) are pleased to announce Los restos by artist Oriol Vilanova, curated by Carles Guerra, as the project selected to represent Spain at the 61st International Venice Biennale (May 9 to November 22, 2026).

Los restos draws on an extensive collection of postcards the artist has gathered … more

Aballí’s proposal consists of two actions: a 1:1 scale architectural intervention of the pavilion and the publication of six guides. Both actions were conceived with the idea of correcting the apparent errors the artist found during his research on the physiognomy of the pavilion and the city of Venice. First, Aballí corrects the layout of the Spanish building by rotating the whole structure by ten degrees, thus aligning it with the neighboring pavilions in the Giardini. With the second acti… more

Artist Jordi Colomer and curator Manuel Segade will represent Spain at the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

¡Únete! Join Us! ​invites visitors to become participants in an exploration of nomadism and collective agency.
Transhumance, wanderings, journeyings, strayings, displacement: these themes are key to ​¡Únete! Join Us!​, whose reference point is rooted in urban utopias that use movement as part of a radical rethinking… more

The theme of the 56th Venice Biennale is All the World's Futures and it is curated by Okwui Enwezor. This year the Biennale proposes a project devoted to a fresh appraisal of the relationship of art and artists with the current state of things.

The Spanish Pavilion at the Biennale is organised by the AECID with the collaboration of AC/E and is curated by Martí Manen.  Its project, entitled Los sujetos (The subjects), features works by the arti… more

Lara Almarcegui to represent Spain at the 55th Venice Biennale
Installation and Video

Octavio Zaya was appointed curator of the Spanish Pavilion by the Spanish Agency for International Development and Cooperation (AECID) in October 2012. He has selected the artist Lara Almarcegui to represent Spain at the “55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte.”

Itziar Taboada, Director of Cultural and Scientific Relations at the AECID, convened an Advisory Committee for Contemporary Art last… more