Asia Forum at the Venice Biennale 2026: Minor Feelings

Asia Forum returns to the Venice Biennale with Minor Feelings programme Asia Forum returns to the Venice Biennale with Minor Feelings, a programme of conversations, artistic interventions and screenings exploring diasporic experience, collective care and the politics of being rendered “minor”. In resonance with the 61st Biennale di Venezia, Minor Keys, curated by Koyo Kouoh, the programme takes as its departure point a concept both intimate and political. Borrowed from poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong, minor feelings describe the emotional register that arises when one’s lived reality is persistently contradicted by dominant narratives — the quiet dissonance of existing at the margins of a story that was never written for you. Through conversations, artistic interventions and screenings, the programme interrogates the conceptual framing of minor itself — asking who is made minor, and by whose authority, and what it means to imagine embracing the ‘minor-majorities’. It turns to the significance of the collective — how forms of togetherness, care and solidarity might emerge from these conditions. The forum also considers how rest and love can function as anti-colonial practices — ways of honouring minor feelings while tending to what extraction and erasure have depleted. Contributors include artists and curators such as Fac Xtra Retreat (FXR) , Gabrielle Goliath , Ryan Inouye , Adeline Kueh , Liz Park , Denise Ryner , Khaled Sabsabi, Kandis Williams , Selene Yap , Zairong Xiang , Ong Kian Peng , X Zhu-Nowell and others. With thanks to the pavilions of Australia, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Programme Schedule TBA Minor Feelings is presented in partnership with: With the patronage of the DVRI – Distretto Veneziano della Richerca e dell’Innovazione. Special thanks to the Bagri Foundation who have supported the work of Asia Forum through the Sakti sponsorship 2023-2025