Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Manfrin for 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Italy

28 January 2026

During the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Anish Kapoor unveils an ambitious new exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin, a Venetian landmark in Cannaregio with layers of history dating back to the 16th century. The exhibition brings together large-scale installations and architectural models spanning the last 50 years, alongside a series of mirror and stainless-steel works.

Kapoor has become world renowned for making sculptural objects on an architectural scale, and for architecture that exists as sculptural object; from monumental works such as At the Edge of the World (1998) and Descent into Limbo (1992), both included in the show, to the world’s first inflatable concert hall Ark Nova (2013) and the recently opened Monte Sant’Angelo Metro Station in Naples, Italy; the genesis of such monumental works is always the sketchbook and the model. These playful experiments in scale and form, in often the most basic materials of the studio, enable thinking and propositions to occur. Some are followed through into the world, others, yet unrealised, retain their potency as moments in thinking. The exhibition will also include an immersive architectural work, composed of silicone and paint, that marks a symbiotic moment with Kapoor's current painting practice. Anish Kapoor. Palazzo Manfrin presents Kapoor’s idiosyncratic approach to the space of the object and its potential to create new space in our encounter with it, through models and works that conjure the allure of both the abyss and the sublime.

Read the full announcement in The Art Newspaper here.

Image: Anish Kapoor, At the Edge of the World (1998), Photo: David Stjernholm