VENICE — The art world's largest exhibition has chosen, for its next edition, a curator whose best-known essay argues that exhibitions have become too large to see.
The appointment, announced on Thursday, was read by many in the city as a rebuke to the last decade of biennales, which grew with each edition in size, budget and the number of works that visitors photographed rather than looked at.
The curator has said she wants fewer artists, more time and rooms in which a visitor can sit. She has also said she will not announce a theme, which the Biennale has done for every edition since 1999.
Galleries, whose sales depend on the attention the Biennale generates, were cautious in their public comments and less so in private.
The exhibition opens in April 2028.
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 11, 2026, Section C, Page 17 of the European edition with the headline: The Venice Biennale Picks a Curator Who Says She Is Tired of Spectacle.
