From 9 May to 22 November 2026, Con te con tutto (With You With Everything) by Chiara Camoni will enliven the spaces of the Italian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, promoted by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The exhibition, curated by Cecilia Canziani, is a call to come together, an invitation to build a different way of being in the world through encountering and sharing with other lifeforms, leaving room for wonder, sentiment, dialogue, contemplation, and the flow of time that transforms everything. Thus spoke the Italian Minister of Culture, Alessandro Giuli “Today is a special day because we celebrate the Italian Pavilion at the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, which brings together two key figures for the Italian Ministry of Culture. An experienced curator, Cecilia Canziani, and an artist who is by now already well known, Chiara Camoni. I had the opportunity to appreciate Chiara’s poetic vision even before the shortlist of candidates to represent Italy at the Biennale was presented to my attention. I consider her an exceptional artist. From the very beginning, I admired her ability to create a dialogue between art and nature, her references to the more decorative strands of twentieth-century art, and her capacity to make the ancient present. Above all, I admire her ability to “antiquize” the present through delicate references to the Etruscan world, which made me think of a kind of magical realism – seductive and captivating, yet at the same time clearly intelligible, accessible, and enjoyable. Once again, Italy will succeed in expressing, within the Biennale and through its own pavilion, an artistic excellence of great strength and quality”.
“Con te con tutto is a statement as intimate as it is universal, and fully captures the essential spirit, the return to the origins, to a point zero of humanity. The 2026 Italian Pavilion displays its special sensitivity through In Minor Keys, a title proposed by Koyo Kouoh, Artistic Director of the 61st International Art Exhibition, and who, shortly before her untimely death, entrusted me with her curatorial text, with statements that I find reflected in the artistic project by Chiara Camoni and curated by Cecilia Canziani. It is therefore a question of rethinking our very existence through matter, relationships, listening and collaboration. Keywords dictated by common sense, we might say, which for centuries have governed our existence in the world, from which we drifted apart
for several decades. And which, with magnetic force, are now returning, mindful once more of just who we are,” says Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, President of the Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia. Angelo Piero Cappello, Commissioner of the Italian Pavilion and Director-General of Contemporary Creativity at the Italian Ministry of Culture, adds: “The Italian Pavilion at the Biennale Arte 2026 stems from a specific cultural choice: to support research capable of combining tradition and contemporaneity, plastic memory and experimentation. Chiara Camoni’s project, curated by Cecilia Canziani, places artistic creation back at the centre as a shared practice, where craftsperson ship, relationship and responsibility intertwine in a deeply contemporary language. Entrusted entirely to female knowledge and sensibility for the first time, the Pavilion proposes an idea of art as a space for attention and measure, offering the international context a coherent contribution that is conscious and rooted in our cultural history.”
“Con te con tutto,” in the words of the curator, Cecilia Canziani “is structured as a unique installation that involves the entire Pavilion and imagines it as a landscape in transformation, in which the body of the sculpture and those of the visitors are invited to partake in mutual exchange. Chiara Camoni is part of a constellation of thinkers and artists committed to ‘re-enchanting the world’. Her work is part of an Italian reflection on sculpture characterised by the deconstruction of the relationship with the monument, the reappraisal of traditional materials such as terracotta and an interest in minor art histories, particularly Etruscan art, via the Italian masters of the twentieth century and Arte Povera. The work is interpreted by the artist as an epiphany: the appearance of forms that recount the hybridisation between the animal, the human and the sacred worlds, occupying space temporarily, in equilibrium with the whole world. The exhibition is comprised of works created specifically for the exhibition and existing works, according to a combinatorial practice of reuse and re-semanticization, already used by the artist and suggested by the very nature of his works. The artist’s familiar materials are joined by new ones: recycled plastics, industrial waste, found objects and steel – which are brought together here to describe the contemporary landscape, inviting us to recognise beauty even in waste."