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\n\tThe Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) has escalated its ongoing opposition to the Israel Pavilion, announcing a 24-hour strike and rally on May 8, the day before the much-hyped and highly contentious 2026 Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\n\tANGA was formed in objection to Israel\u2019s inclusion in the 2024 Biennale, and began referring to this year\u2019s presentation, which features an exhibition by Haifa-based artist Belu-Simion Fainaru, as the \u201cGenocide Pavilion\u201d as soon as Israel was officially announced as a participant in January.<\/p>\n
\n\tIn March, ANGA released an open letter demanding that the Venice Biennale organizers exclude Israel from the event, which runs through November 2026. That letter has currently been signed by over 200 artists, curators, and culture workers, among them Lubaina Himid, P. Staff, Sophia Al-Maria, Sara Flores, Farah Al Qasimi, Meriem Bennani, Alfredo Jaar, and Gala Porras-Kim, not to mention Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo and Rasha Salti, who are part of the late Koyo Kouoh\u2019s curatorial team and are realizing her vision for the Biennale\u2019s main show, \u201cIn Minor Keys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tInspired by ANGA\u2019s activism, some 60 artists organized an action titled Solidarity Drone Chorus <\/em>on Tuesday. One of the participants, Carolina Caycdeo, who also signed ANGA\u2019s open letter, told ARTnews<\/em> that many of the Arsenale artists are \u201coutraged that the Biennale directors decided to relocate the Israeli Pavilion within the Arsenale. It throws us into complicity without us wanting to.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tAccording to ANGA\u2019s Instagram, earlier today the group organized hundreds of protestors outside Israeli\u2019s pavilion in the Arsenale with speeches, banners, and Palestinian flags \u201ccalling for the shut down of the Genocide Pavilion.\u201d \u201cPalestine is the world in its future tense,\u201d read one sign.<\/p>\n \n\tThe 24-hour strike will begin with a rally on Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Viale Garibaldi. According to the Art Newspaper<\/em>, ANGA is collaborating with several labor and culture organizations in Venice, including Biennalocene and Vogliamo Tutt\u2019altro, which represent art and culture workers; S.a.L.E. Docks, an independent art space; and Mi Riconosci, a cultural heritage group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/israel-pavilion-protest-venice-biennale-unions-strike-1234784225\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/anga-2.jpg?w=1024″] The Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) has escalated its ongoing opposition to the Israel Pavilion, announcing a 24-hour strike and rally on May 8, the day before the much-hyped and highly contentious 2026 Venice Biennale opens to the public on Saturday. ANGA was formed in objection to Israel\u2019s inclusion in the 2024 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1923449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1923449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1923449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1923449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1923449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}