Sean Kelly Artists in Venice 2026

Marina Abramović was one of the first performance artists to become formally accepted by the institutional museum world, with major solo shows taking place throughout Europe and the US over a period of more than 25 years. Her first European retrospective The Cleaner was presented at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden in 2017, followed by presentations at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Denmark, Henie Onstad, Sanvika, Norway (2017), Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2018), Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (2019), and Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia (2019). The artist’s opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas debuted at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, Germany in 2020, and traveled to Palais Garnier, Paris, France and the Greek National Opera, Athens, Greece in 2021. In 2023, Abramović was the first female artist to host a major solo exhibition in the Main Galleries of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. 

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Fusing scientific observation with poetic speculation, Julian Charrière creates immersive works where wonder and unease coexist, probing the colonial and extractivist legacies embedded in exploration, landscape representation, and technologies of seeing. Born in Morges, Switzerland in 1987, he graduated from the Berlin University of Arts (UdK) and participated in Olafur Eliasson’s Institut für Raumexperimente (Institute for Spatial Experiments). Charrière has exhibited his work internationally—both individually and as part of the Berlin-based collective Das Numen—at institutions including Museum Tinguely; Palais de Tokyo; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo); MASI Lugano; the Parasol Unit Foundation for Art, London; the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne; the Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthalle Wien; Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna; the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; the Reykjavik Art Museum; the K11 Foundation, Shanghai; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, among others. His work has also been featured in major biennials, including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale; the 12th Biennale de Lyon; the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice; the 57th Venice Biennale; the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art; and the 14th Bienal de Artes Mediales de Santiago. Charrière was awarded the Kiefer Hablitzel / Swiss Art Award in 2013 and 2015, received the GASAG Art Prize in 2018, and was the recipient of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize at MOCA Los Angeles in 2024.
 

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Joseph Kosuth lives and works in New York and Venice. He has been awarded the Brandeis Award, 1990; Frederick Wiseman Award, 1991; the Menzione d’Onore at the Venice Biennale, 1993; and the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French government,1993 amongst others. He received a Cassandra Foundation Grant in 1968. In June 1999, a 3.00-franc postage stamp was issued by the French Government in honor of his work in Figeac. In February 2001 he received the Laurea Honoris Causa, doctorate in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Bologna, Italy. In October 2003 he received the Austrian Republic’s highest honor for accomplishments in science and culture, the Decoration of Honour in Gold for services to the Republic of Austria. Kosuth’s work titled, ni apparence ni illusion opened at the Musée du Louvre, Paris in 2009 and became a permanent installation in 2014. In May 2012 he was inducted into the Royal Belgian Academy. In 2022, Kosuth was presented with a Medal of Honor from The National Arts Club for his outstanding achievements in fine art on September 2022. This March, he became the recipient of an honorary degree in Communication and Enhancement of Contemporary Art Heritage from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy.

Kosuth’s internationally recognized work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at institutions including the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia; the Kunstmuseums Thurgau, Warth, Switzerland; Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland; and the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia, amongst others. In 2019 Kosuth installed permanent public installations at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida and Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California. His work is featured in major private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the Tate Gallery, London; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Louvre Museum, Paris, France; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome amongst many others worldwide.

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