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At the Venice Biennale, not all works come from protected spaces or abstract ideas. Some arrive from real places, shaped by history and the violence of the present. In the Ukrainian Pavilion, a suspended sculpture greets visitors with a quiet strength: it is a deer, a work not originally created for the Biennale but brought here because it was no longer safe elsewhere. The sculpture, titled Deer and created by Ukrainian artist Zhanna Kadyrova, was located in a public space i

VENICE / JOHANNESBURG – As the technical deadline for submitting national pavilion proposals to the Venice Biennale 2026 approaches, South Africa finds itself at the center of a controversy that blends contemporary art, politics, and geopolitics .South Africa’s Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton McKenzie , has halted Elegy , the project selected to represent the country at the Biennale Arte 2026 , prompting artist Gabrielle Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo to