
Koyo Kouoh, the late artistic director of the 2026 Venice Biennale who sadly died before the opening of the world’s most watched international contemporary art exhibition, left behind a set of profound curatorial cues.
She wanted “In Minor Keys”, the title of this year’s Biennale, to be a place where art slows you down enough to hear the voices of the ignored and the silenced, where differences can gather in “convivial collectivity” and views are not screamed combatively.


