Lebanon’s pavilion named

Lebanon will present Nabil Nahas at the 2026 Venice Biennale with a pavilion titled “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” curated by Nada Ghandour. (e-flux.com) The project is part of the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, which runs from May 9 to November 22, 2026, with preview days on May 6, 7 and 8. Lebanon’s pavilion is listed in the Biennale’s national participation lineup, not as a collateral event. (labiennale.org 1) (labiennale.org 2) The 2026 edition is titled “In Minor Keys” and was organized around a project by curator Koyo Kouoh, whose exhibition will be accompanied by 99 national participations and 31 collateral events. Lebanon’s announcement places Nahas alongside that broader state-backed structure that countries use to represent themselves in Venice. (labiennale.org 1) (labiennale.org 2) That format matters in Venice because national pavilions function like country presentations inside one of the art world’s biggest recurring exhibitions. La Biennale says countries participate through independent government-backed initiatives recognized within the exhibition’s national participations section. (labiennale.org) Nahas’s pavilion will be installed in the Arsenale, one of the Biennale’s main venues, at Campo de la Tana in Venice. The Lebanon Pavilion website says Nahas lives and works between New York and Beirut after moving to the United States in 1969 and studying at Louisiana State University and Yale University. (e-flux.com) (lebanesepavilionvenice.com) Additional project details released earlier this year describe “Don’t Get Me Wrong” as a 45-meter installation made of 26 acrylic-on-canvas panels, each 3 meters high, arranged as a continuous frieze. Lebanese and art-guide reports said Nahas presented the work at the National Library in Beirut in February in the presence of Culture Minister Ghassan Salamé. (today.lorientlejour.com) (myartguides.com) (executive-bulletin.com) Those descriptions say the work draws on Persian miniature painting, geometric abstraction and recurring themes in Nahas’s practice around nature and the cosmos. The Lebanon Pavilion site identifies Ghandour as commissioner and curator and describes her as a specialist in modern and contemporary art with training in heritage conservation in Paris. (myartguides.com) (lebanesepavilionvenice.com) The immediate next step is the Biennale opening in Venice in May, when “Don’t Get Me Wrong” moves from announcement to public presentation inside the Arsenale. (labiennale.org) (e-flux.com)