ITSLIQUID Group is pleased to announce the 25th edition of VENICE INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 2026, an international showcase taking place in Venice during the 61st Venice Biennale of Art. The event brings together contemporary artists working across photography, painting, video art, sculpture and mixed media, investigating the relationship between body, identity and space.

The program develops through the two main sections LIQUID ROOMS and FUTURE LANDSCAPES. The first explores the hidden dimensions of identity, perception and consciousness, while the second moves towards abstract and conceptual environments, questioning the boundaries between body, mind, memory and the places we inhabit.

The project is further enriched by a series of solo presentations across Venice, curated by Luca Curci and co-curated by Amaride Ferrante and Giulia Tassi. At Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Despoina Stathaki presents “Utopia”, a body of mixed-media works incorporating gold dust, gold leaf, and liquid glass to evoke a luminous, dreamlike universe inspired by Greek mythology. At Palazzo Pisani-Revedin, Maria Elena Lavie’s practice moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, combining classical references with playful and symbolic imagery, while Thomas Ruhl’s “About People” features hand-coloured, photo-based portraits that explore and celebrate our shared humanity across cultures.

The two venues create complementary contexts for the project, allowing contemporary artistic languages to enter into dialogue with the architectural and cultural identity of Venice. Within this framework, the selected works offer different perspectives on identity and perception, such as Judy Maynard’s “Flourish”, which introduces an organic dimension, where botanical shapes and vivid colours evoke growth and transformation.

A similar connection between the visible and the inner world continues in Reyhaneh Foyouzi’s “A silent face”, a contemplative portrait in which silence becomes a realm of introspection and unspoken identity, a relationship that emerges in Paul Adrian Mabelis’ “The Ontology of Drift Image Formed in the Wake of Thought” too, where perception appears as an unstable and constantly shifting process. On the same wave, Alex Iglesias’ “Feline?” plays with ambiguity, presenting a mysterious feline-like presence emerging from darkness and leaving the viewer torn between recognition and imagination.

A more intimate atmosphere characterises Ekaterina Stolyarova’s “Silent Sanctuary”, where delicate lines and soft shapes create a suspended zone between body, memory
and landscape – a threshold between reality and imagination which becomes more dynamic in Asnaby Samuel’s “Djinn 5”, whose geometric and symbolic figures evoke an enigmatic presence suspended between the material and the imaginary.

Questions of freedom and limitation are central to Petra Dorst’s “Globe of freedom”, where the spherical form becomes a metaphor for a world simultaneously protected and confined. This sense of enclosure continues in Thomas Ruhl’s “Prison of dreams”, transforming urban structures into a psychological landscape where architecture, recollection and desire intersect.

Another main topic of this edition is the body, which becomes a central point of connection in the still image from “Cross-Pollination” by Jodi Lomask / CAPACITOR & RJ Muna, where movement and performance suggest identity as something continuously shaped through relationships with others and the surrounding environment. The journey moves towards collective memory through Harald Hauswald’s “U-Bahn Linie A, Ostberlin, DDR 1987”, where his black-and-white photograph captures an everyday urban scene while preserving the social and historical atmosphere of a specific time and place.

The language of everyday reality is transformed through colour and composition in Tiziano Lombardini’s “Composizione con mandarini”, where ordinary objects become elements of a rhythmic and abstract visual construction – an itinerary that concludes with Despoina Stathaki’s “Reflections”, in which vibrant colours and fragmented shapes blur the boundaries between landscape, memory and imagination.

Together, these works present identity as a fluid and evolving condition: bodies become landscapes, environments become psychological structures, memories become visual traces and ordinary settings acquire new meanings. The exhibition therefore becomes a journey between intimate and collective experiences, physical and imagined dimensions, inviting visitors to reconsider how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.