NAURU

Nauru, the smallest island state in the world, joins the Biennale for the first time, raising awareness of its present condition after decades of intensive phosphate extraction which have compromised its landscape and sovereignty, while rising sea levels threaten its very existence. The Pavilion brings together ten artists from as many nations to reflect on the disappearance not only of a physical territory, but also of memory, identity and cultural continuity. Nauru not as a remote case, but as a warning and a guide towards a shared future.

Featured image: Tedo Rekhviashvili, Sea that Remembers, 2026