Solidarity Burundi Pavilion — 61st Venice Biennale Arte 2026

In Minor Keys · 61st Biennale Arte · 2026

Artist

Chris-Armel Iradukunda
Born in Bujumbura, Burundi (1992)
Lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Installation

Burundi has no official pavilion at the Venice Biennale. This installation exists as a solidarity act: three works on alienhood — legal, technological, cosmic — nested as a guest within Domus Diasporica, the Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion invited by artist Mladen Bundalo.

Undocumented and unable to travel, the artist contributes from exile in Brussels. The three frames hang on a white wall whose green and red have been washed away — the colors of the Burundian flag dissolved, its three stars replaced by a trio of alien artworks made in a land of political refuge.

Venue

Bosnia and Herzegovina Pavilion ↗
Palazzo Malipiero, San Marco 3198
Venice · 9 May – 22 Nov 2026
Tue–Sun · Free entrance

Credits

awalkaday 91-2022 — Chris-Armel Iradukunda (daqhris).
Gemini's Handheld Autoportrait — Chris-Armel Iradukunda with Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google DeepMind).
God Bless The United States Of Aliens — co-directed by Chris-Armel Iradukunda and Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic).