On February 27, 2022, three days after the start of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the curator Raimunda Malašauskas, who was then responsible for the Russian pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, wrote: “This war is politically and emotionally unbearable.” In doing so, he announced his resignation as Russia’s representative at the art show. The Russian pavilion, built in 1914 by Alexei Shchusev, remained empty. The Biennale expressed its solidarity with the curator and the two Russian artists slated for the pavilion. There is no place for countries that prefer violence to peaceful dialogue, an official statement said at the time.
Russia offers its pavilion at the Venice Biennale to Bolivia – Culture
