Yorke + Donwood in Venice

Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood are bringing a new exhibition to Venice during the 2026 Biennale preview week. (news.artnet.com) (labiennale.org) The show is titled “No Go Elevator (not without no keycard)” and will open on May 6, 2026, at Castello 2432 on Fondamenta dei Penini. It is scheduled to run through June 7, with a private view on opening night. (news.artnet.com) (artribune.com) (myartguides.com) Artnet reported that the Venice space will hold a mix of drawings and one large painting. Yorke told the outlet, “Your guess is as good as ours,” signaling that the pair are keeping the concept deliberately opaque before the opening. (news.artnet.com) The timing puts the exhibition directly alongside Biennale Arte 2026, which runs from May 9 to November 22, with preview days on May 6, 7, and 8. This year’s edition is titled “In Minor Keys.” (labiennale.org) (artsy.net) That matters because Venice preview week pulls in curators, collectors, dealers, and museum staff from around the world, and off-site shows often use that traffic to launch artists into a wider institutional circuit. (artsy.net) (labiennale.org) For Yorke and Donwood, Venice also extends a collaboration that began in the 1990s when Donwood started shaping Radiohead’s visual identity. Their work together has covered album art, prints, paintings, and books as well as gallery exhibitions. (news.artnet.com 1) (news.artnet.com 2) (slowlydownward.com) Artnet said the Venice presentation will be the duo’s first exhibition outside the United Kingdom. Their recent art-world run included “The Crow Flies” shows at Tin Man Art in London and an Ashmolean Museum exhibition in Oxford focused on Radiohead-related imagery. (news.artnet.com 1) (news.artnet.com 2) (news.artnet.com 3) The Venice show appears to be organized by Tin Man Art in collaboration with Yasmine Helou, according to Italian listings. That places it outside the Biennale’s official national-pavilion structure, but squarely inside the citywide ecosystem that forms around the main exhibition. (artribune.com) (labiennale.org) For now, the clearest facts are the title, the address, the dates, and the decision to reveal almost nothing else before May 6. In Venice, that can be enough to fill a room. (news.artnet.com)