Marcia Kure has been selected to participate in the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.

The 61st edition of the International Art Exhibition is curated by Koyo Kouoh under the title In Minor Keys. The exhibition will take place from 9 May to 22 November 2026 at the Giardini, the Arsenale, and venues throughout Venice.

For La Biennale di Venezia, Marcia Kure presents Network V, a new body of work developed between her studios in Nigeria and the United States. The project brings together large-scale drawings and sculptural works within a single, interdependent system. Drawing functions as the structural core of the project: where decisions are made, routes traced, and material histories registered. Across Network V, marks accumulate.

Lines operate as routes and pressures; surfaces carry density and duration. Materials are selected for their histories of circulation and transformation, registering contact and movement across time. Drawing remains the primary site of inquiry, while sculpture carries the marks of exchange and movement into space. Through Network V, Kure engages how bodies and materials are shaped by long-standing systems of labor, trade, and power. The work holds these forces in tension, registering their effects materially and spatially.

MARCIA KURE is a multidisciplinary artist working between Nigeria and the United States. Her practice is grounded in drawing and extends into sculpture and material-based processes. Through line, inscription, and trace, her work examines how power, trade, and movement shape bodies, materials, and environments over time. Kure's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Menil Drawing Institute, Houston; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Wanås Konst Sculpture Park, Sweden; Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta; the Sharjah Biennial; the International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville; Dak'Art - Dakar Biennale; and La Triennale, Paris. Her work is held in public collections including the British Museum, London; Centre Pompidou; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Menil Drawing Institute; the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution; the Newark Museum of Art; the Princeton University Art Museum; and the Studio Museum in Harlem.