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Dear President Buttafuoco,
Dear Members of the Board of La Biennale di Venezia,

With this letter, we formally request thatThe Fortress be withdrawn from consideration for the Visitor Lion. We do so in solidarity with the resignation of the jury selected by Koyo Kouoh.

This decision concerns the prize structure only. It does not constitute a withdrawal from the Biennale itself, nor from the public, artistic, and critical conversations that the Biennale makes possible. We remain fully committed to presenting The Fortress in Venice, and to engaging with visitors, artists, curators, and colleagues throughout the exhibition period.

Sincerely,

Dries Verhoeven, Artist
& Rieke Vos, Curator of The Fortress
Dutch entry for the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia

@studiodriesverhoeven @riekevos @ellen.van.bunnik @jana.jacuka @mamelgares @jenniebergsli @mchowow @maartenheijnens @denglinglevine @diane.mahin @julienneirynckmayamertens @mrln.pflgr @marie.popall @pousette @oliviariviere @hrihro @mistysuperdeluxe @frauflach @onequartergreek @peterisviksna   @labiennale @evdlingen @mondriaanfonds @dutch.pavilion.venice @fondspodiumkunsten @venice.art.biennale

#biennale #biennaledivenezia #venice taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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5 months ago

Such and incredible pleasure to have dear friends and colleagues take part in this edition of @labiennale #venicebiennale2026

How to Stage a Performance in
Venice

@studiodriesverhoeven @miet_warlop @floholzinger @ei.arakawa.nash in @friezeofficial in conversation with @sf_burns

“The Fortress” @dutch.pavilion.venice

“With performance, there’s an inherent awareness of the contradiction between our intentions and the economic and political structures we operate within.”
- DRIES VERHOEVEN

@studiodriesverhoeven @riekevos @ellen.van.bunnik @jana.jacuka @mamelgares @jenniebergsli @mchowow @maartenheijnens @denglinglevine @diane.mahin @julienneirynckmayamertens @mrln.pflgr @marie.popall @pousette @oliviariviere @hrihro @mistysuperdeluxe @frauflach @onequartergreek @peterisviksna @willempopelier  @labiennale @evdlingen @mondriaanfonds @dutch.pavilion.venice @fondspodiumkunsten @venice.art.biennale

#biennale #biennaledivenezia #venice taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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Can performance art still shock? A century after its invention, the form seems to have lost its nerve — but in Venice, two bold artists are preparing to test audiences’ limits

By @chloeellenstead @financialtimes

Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven, who is representing the Netherlands in Venice, is known for creating taboo-busting performances that confront audiences with moral grey areas, touching on topics such as consumer ethics and sexual subcultures. “I always search for discomfort,” he says. “I use my own feeling of unease as a starting point and then look for ways I can materialise it for an audience so we can examine that unease together.”

His contribution, titled “The Fortress”, marks the first time the Netherlands will be represented by a performance at Venice. A vocal and architectural intervention in the Gerrit Rietveld-designed pavilion, the piece will be experienced by a select number of invited visitors, who will enter a pitch-black, bunker-like space within the otherwise closed building. “It’s a work, I would say, on the reflex for self-preservation — the urge to safeguard our boundaries, our peace of mind, our way of life,” says Verhoeven.

He believes that performance art can counter our tendency to push uncomfortable truths under the carpet and offer a way to switch off the autopilot many of us rely on just to get through the day. “There is this growing sense that the art world should be a safe space, that it should set a good example, and that’s understandable,” he says. “But I’m not interested in utopias. I would like to use art as a space where we can experience our nightmares.”

@studiodriesverhoeven @riekevos @ellen.van.bunnik @jana.jacuka @mamelgares @jenniebergsli @mchowow @maartenheijnens @denglinglevine @diane.mahin @julienneirynckmayamertens @mrln.pflgr @marie.popall @pousette @oliviariviere @hrihro @mistysuperdeluxe @frauflach @onequartergreek @peterisviksna   @labiennale @mondriaanfonds @dutch.pavilion.venice @fondspodiumkunsten @venice.art.biennale

#biennale #biennaledivenezia #venicebiennale #venice https://www.ft.com/content/65470ee6-9832-4802-beec-9b7a17a1f66f taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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I haven’t made art for more than 15 years. But for @hypercomf / @otonom.gr I had to make one-off return, because they make the work that matters. Continuously!   WHY TINOS? Is my humble contribution, in collaboration with @syroslyfe/@archipelago_net & Vangelis. It is also my reply to my mother-in-law who has asked this question a few times, and I wanted to have a concrete answer.
 And great that some institutions see the need for the work done by @hypercomf/@otonom.gr: @neongreece & @cycladespreservationfund

HOTEL PAPER — EXHIBITION 04.09—30.09.2026
OPENING: 04.09.2026 · 19:00—22:00
 Hotel Paper is a participatory project that transforms discarded cotton hotel bed linen from Tinos into handmade paper, exploring new possibilities for material reuse through art.

The material becomes a way of examining hospitality through something usually kept out of sight: the sheets, resources, labour and energy that support the industry. By bringing hotels, artists, residents and visitors into the same material cycle, Hotel Paper creates space to think collectively about consumption, reuse and environmental responsibility on islands shaped by seasonal tourism.

Hotel Paper invited residents and visitors to take part in a series of free and open educational workshops during August. 2026 experimenting on how a familiar waste material can begin a new life. During each workshop, participants discovered how used cotton hotel linen can be collected, prepared and transformed into pulp. They then used a traditional mould and deckle to make their own sheet of handmade cotton paper and learn how to easily replicate this process at home to make paper out of all sorts of waste fabric materials.

The handmade paper produced through the project was also be sent to invited artists, who created new works responding to tourism, hospitality and the seasonality of island life.

Works by the participating artists, together with material from the workshops and production process, are being presented in a public exhibition in Tinos 04.09 -30.09.2026 taken in Tinos Island, Cyclades Greece by @natosash

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And the most incredible, unexpected surprise has been the exhibition at the @pinchukartcentre “Still Joy - from Ukraine into the World”, curated by @bgeldhof and @iwinku.

Incredibly curated exhibition with a remarkable group of artists. If in venice for @labiennale do NOT miss it.

“Across all its layers, Still Joy responds to the present moment — originating in Ukraine and extending beyond — to a place that is fragile, yet resilient, where joy endures.”

Participating artists include: Kateryna Aliinyk (UKR), Piotr Armianovski (UKR), Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller (CAN), Julian Charrière (CH), Tacita Dean (UK), Ryan Gander (UK), Gabrielle Goliath (SA), Nikita Kadan (UKR), Zhanna Kadyrova (UKR), Alevtina Kakhidze (UKR), Roman Khimei & Yarema Malashchuk (UKR), Pavlo Kovach (UKR), Bogdana Kosmina (UKR), Katya Lesiv (UKR), Kateryna Lysovenko (UKR), Simone Post, (NLD) Ashfika Rahman (Bangladesh), Daniel Turner (USA), Álvaro Urbano (ESP), Lesia Vasylchenko (UKR), Oleksiy Sai & Yury Gruzinov (UKR).

@aliinyk.co, @armianovski, @janetcardiff , @george_bures_miller, @julian.charrier, @tacita_dean, @ryanjgander, @gabriellegoliath, @jannkad, @truealevtina, @romanhimey, @yaremiah,
@bog_dana_aqua_kosmina_ukraina, @katya.lesiv, @olysovenko_kateryna, @simone_post_, @ashfikarahman47, @alvaro_urbano, @lesia_vasylchenko, @oleksiysai, @yuriy.gruzinov, #nikitakadan taken in PinchukArtCentre by @natosash

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There are so many amazing artists presenting work at this edition of @labiennale and here are some of them. Props to all!

1. @ei.arakawa.nash
2. @gelitin_official
3. & 4.@floholzinger @austrianpavilion
5. @abbasakhavan
6. @alexakumikohatanaka
7. @miet_warlop
8. @habitual_body_monitoring2
9. @bogna_burska & @kotowski.daniel
10. @raedyassinstudio
11. @gabriellegoliath
12. @henrikenaumann
13. @mayansong_mad
14. @sumakshisingh
15. @alaaedris
16. @matiasduville
17. @egle_budvytyte
18. & 19. @afictionalastronaut
20. @alinebouvy taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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The past 2 weeks have been an incredible privilege to experience the build-up and the opening of the @labiennale while being part of an incredible team of the @dutch.pavilion.venice @studiodriesverhoeven taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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And “The Fortress” is officially open. Proud of you #driesverhoeven for always speaking up. For being faithful to your morals and your practice. Regardless of who is in attendance (this time it was the Dutch King & Queen).

As Susan Sontag put it: “So far as we feel sympathy, we feel we are not accomplices to what caused the suffering. Our sympathy proclaims our innocence as well as our impotence.”

@studiodriesverhoeven @riekevos @jana.jacuka @mamelgares @jenniebergsli @mchowow @maartenheijnens @denglinglevine @diane.mahin @julienneirynckmayamertens @mrln.pflgr @marie.popall @pousette @oliviariviere @hrihro @mistysuperdeluxe @ellen.van.bunnik @frauflach @onequartergreek @peterisviksna   @labiennale @evdlingen @mondriaanfonds @dutch.pavilion.venice @fondspodiumkunsten @venice.art.biennale

#biennale #biennaledivenezia #venice taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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Before arriving at @fondazionedriesvannoten I was certain that with the annoying title of the inaugural exhibition, “The only TRUE protest is BEAUTY”, it would be an equally annoying exhibition. The title and the curatorial text of #driesvannoten and @geertbruloot lived up to my expectation. BUT the building, with the incredible mosaic floors and marble inlays, the collected objects and their install (most of it is object-based) were incredible. Also a treat for fans of @maison_codognato - before their recent rebranding through the hipster-like collaboration with @asaprocky (brilliant musician and producer). taken in Palazzo Pisani Moretta by @natosash

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“The Fortress” BTS - Part II

“Maybe the growing interest in performance also reflects a broader disillusionment with the art market. You can’t store a performance in a vault and wait for its value to rise. It only exists in the moment it’s witnessed. In that sense, the art collector doesn’t differ from the student – they get the same experience. That helps us stay credible: it’s hard to critique value accumulation while making work that itself becomes a commodity. With performance, there’s an inherent awareness of the contradiction between our intentions and the economic and political structures we operate within, especially in a setting like Venice.” - DV

@studiodriesverhoeven @riekevos @ellen.van.bunnik @jana.jacuka @mamelgares @jenniebergsli @mchowow @maartenheijnens @denglinglevine @diane.mahin @julienneirynckmayamertens @mrln.pflgr @marie.popall @pousette @oliviariviere @hrihro @mistysuperdeluxe @frauflach @onequartergreek @peterisviksna   @labiennale @evdlingen @mondriaanfonds @dutch.pavilion.venice @fondspodiumkunsten @venice.art.biennale

#biennale #biennaledivenezia #venice taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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@studiodriesverhoeven wearing 🔥 @zosma_tinos x @intellectualleisure 🔥 taken in La Biennale di Venezia by @natosash

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