Charlotte Colbert:
Possible Landscapes

Curated by Yasmine Helou
Organised by Chiara Bordin

Presented during La Biennale di Venezia
6 May – 30 September 2026
Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda & Aman Venice

Opening cocktail
Tuesday 5 May, 6pm (by invitation)
Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda, Venice

“Il faut cultiver notre jardin”
Voltaire

Charlotte Colbert brings her latest installation, “Possible Landscapes”, to the Venice Biennale Arte 2026. This promises to be a visionary journey through dream and imagination presenting surrealist sculptures that blur the boundaries between reality, fiction, and symbolism. Curated by Yasmine Helou, the exhibition unfolds along the Grand Canal, beginning with a monumental sculpture installed in the garden of Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda. This initial work conceptually extends to four additional installations situated in the manicured gardens of Aman Venice at Palazzo Papadopoli, together forming an expanded, almost mystical garden dispersed along the canal.

The British-French artist and filmmaker will engage with the city, unfolding in what will appear to be startling installations suspended between dream and imagination, substance and symbolism, fiction and reality. This project conceived specifically for Venice, is the tangible results of Charlotte Colbert’s spirited approach to life and positive exuberance. Richly adorned in meaningful gestures, “Possible Landscapes” is a mystical lend of Nature’s appreciation, beliefs and spiritual awakening, bringing the audience back to familiar references while pushing the boundaries of the multiple ways of perceiving reality in a context built by contrasts – a reflection of Venice itself – the epitome of the contemporary paradox.

The exhibition brings together works in stainless steel, each conceived as a distinct threshold between the visible and the imagined. At Palazzo Corner della Ca’ Granda, the titular sculpture Possible Landscapes anchors the show: a monumental arch surmounted by a single eye – symbol of consciousness, vision and creative potential – that stands as a portal between inner and outer worlds, inviting the viewer to cross into new imaginative territories. Celebrated musician BIRDY devised a lyrical soundscape in collaboration with Colbert to be played within the space for the opening event.

In the gardens of Aman Venice, Where Angels Live – a polished steel tree adorned with votive-like forms, relics, milagros, and amulets – evokes the healing power of belief and the sacred mystery of natural forms, drawing on Colbert’s own journeys through Mexico and along the Camino de Santiago. Supernatural Tendencies reinterprets the fairy-tale wishing well as a site of intention, projection, and desire: cast in reflective metal, the sculpture mirrors both its surroundings and the viewer. Finally, There is Light Somewhere – a sculptural lantern accompanied by a series of hanging pendants dispersed throughout the garden – extends the work into the landscape, creating an immersive environment.

On the occasion of Possible Landscapes, Count Giberto Arrivabene Valenti Gonzaga invites Charlotte Colbert to curate and intervene on the window of his boutique in Venice on Rialto Bridge n2, where a selection of her sculptures will be installed in conversation with his designs. The display window will be visible starting from the opening week and will remain on view for one month.