Creative Australia has reinstated Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the creative team for the 2026 Venice Biennale – after facing much criticism.
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Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia representative for the Venice Biennale. A review offers a damning but restrained post-mortem.
The withdrawal of Karen Wyld’s A$15,000 fellowship for a Stolen Generations novel, due to a Gaza-related tweet, is part of a recent pattern.
Australia has a rich history of artists engaging in political issues, and of such work being shown without timidity in state and national galleries.
What does ‘peer review’ and ‘arm’s lenth funding mean’? And what’s next for Creative Australia’s relationship with artists?
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic community has condemned this decision.
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, School of Art and Design, Australian National University
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Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, Adelaide University
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Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Art and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, School of Art, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Media and Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, School of Culture and Communication, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne