Venice Biennale quietly takes over Venice and turns it into something unusual: a city where contemporary art

Eco art isn’t here to be polite. It doesn’t quietly whisper about climate change from the corner of a white cube. It arrives muddy, blooming, dripping, melting, decomposing — sometimes literally — and asks what it means to make beauty inside a system that is breaking its own habitat. What makes eco artists compelling isn’t that they “use recycled materials” or “care about sustainability.” It’s that they treat the Earth not as a theme, but as a collaborator. Soil becomes pigment. Grass...

In Qiuxiang Liu’s world, the body breathes like a landscape—wild, erotic, and endlessly transforming. Born in China and now based in London, Liu (also known as Rainy Tong) paints through the lens of queer ecology, where desire and decay coexist in tender defiance. Her canvases, saturated with the rhythm of the seasons, dissolve boundaries between self and nature, intimacy and violence, beauty and rot. The female form in her work is not an object of gaze but a vessel of love and resistance,...