Amina Agueznay has been selected to represent Morocco at the 2026 61st Venice Biennale.
The Kingdom of Morocco’s first official National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale will see Amina Agueznay unveil the project Asǝṭṭa, which will be curated by Meriem Berrada. Asǝṭṭa takes its name from the Amazigh word for ritual weaving, an act which chimes with the overarching theme of this year’s Biennale, selected by the late Koyo Kouoh, In Minor Keys, which calls for further attention to be paid to quieter and subtler moments.
The project explores how traditional craftsmanship and collective memory are passed down, while particularly honing in on liminal spaces and their enduring symbolism. Agueznay’s monumental installation proposal was selected from 29 submissions in an open call sent out by the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication in Morocco and will be on view at the Arsenale in Venice from the 9 May to 22 November.
Curator Meriem Berrada said: “Asǝṭṭa pays tribute to these often invisible talents: keepers of time-honoured skills. They are invited here not as peripheral figures, but as key resources, witnesses to a space of living transmission where artisanal creation is never objectified but activated as language, as thought in action. A living archaeology of gestures, passed down, transformed, and exalted, continuing to shape new forms from ancestral heritage; a mark of recognition for those who, in minor key, contribute to the beauty of the world.”
