Venice Biennale Faces Mass Outcry Over Return of Russian Pavilion: ‘Normalizing What Cannot Be Normalized’

The forthcoming Venice Biennale will see the first Russian Pavilion since the onset of the nation’s war in Ukraine in 2022, and few outside Russia seem happy about it.Ukraine itself issued a blistering statement about the pavilion this weekend, calling for the Biennale to exclude Russia this time around. “The Venice Biennale is one of the world’s most authoritative art platforms,” Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote in a statement posted to social media, &ldquo