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Third Space Art Foundation will present 1922 Revisited, a live arts program during the preview week of the Venice Biennale, scheduled for May 5–9, 2026. Curated by Dr. Janine A. Sytsma, the program brings together artists from across Africa and its diasporas to engage with a historical moment in the Biennale’s exhibition history.
The project takes the 1922 Venice Biennale as its point of reference, when African objects were presented within a broader exhibition context. The surviving record of the 1922 exhibition is described as fragmentary, consisting of limited archival materials. A century later, 1922 Revisited returns to this reference point through contemporary performance.
The program unfolds across multiple sites in Venice and includes a series of live works that engage questions of memory, embodiment, and the relationship between archive and lived experience. The project draws on performance as a way to engage archival material in both interpretive and experiential terms.
In this approach, artists work with the archive not as a fixed record, but as a point of departure—activating fragments through movement, presence, and public interaction. The program is presented in collaboration with the African Art in Venice Forum and the European Cultural Centre, with additional academic and institutional partners supporting research and documentation.
1922 Revisited is developed in dialogue with the curatorial framework of the 2026 Biennale. Its theme, In Minor Keys, emphasizes attention to affective, sensory, and interpretive dimensions of artistic experience, creating space for reflection, listening, and encounter.
Within this context, the program positions performance as a means of engaging historical material in the present. The works do not reconstruct past exhibitions; instead, they draw from archival fragments to create new forms of encounter, supporting reflection on how such histories are approached and understood.
Participating artists include:
Alongside the live program, Third Space Art Foundation is developing a companion publication titled Harmonies of Repair. The publication will include artist contributions, curatorial essays, and archival research related to the project.
Through its combined focus on performance, research, and collaboration, 1922 Revisited is positioned as a contribution to ongoing conversations about how global exhibition platforms—including the Venice Biennale—are experienced, interpreted, and revisited over time.
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