From 31 May to 13 September 2026, the tenth edition of Biennale Gherdëina, (Future) Paradise Gardens, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, will take place across three locations in Val Gardena.
This edition’s design is once again rooted in a collaboration between a participating artist and Biennale Gherdëina — as previously in 2024 with Atelier dell’Errore, in 2022 with Giles Round, and in 2020 with Marcello Maloberti. The identity of this tenth edition has been developed together with Alice Bucknell, whose work evocatively interprets the central theme: (Future) Paradise Gardens explores multiple themes and concepts related to the paradise garden.
The visual concept was created by Studio XXY in Milan, led by Massimo Lafronza. The design not only highlights Bucknell’s work as the main subject but also captures key elements of it, creating a direct visual dialogue with the Biennale theme: organic shapes and lines, letters that deform and grow, and a continuously blooming gradient that accompanies visitors across different communication channels – moving, blossoming, and eventually dissolving.
“(Future) Paradise Gardens is a recipe for conjuring many worlds and a song that carries us back to earth. Across its interwoven chapters is a many-headed story both rooted in the unique ecosystem of the Dolomites where the Biennale unfurls and also, a heady scent on the breeze that rustles through landscapes both real and imagined, anthropogenic and autonomous, near and far. It’s an honor to see the wriggling aliveness of ecosystemic play from the worlds of my work flow into Biennale Gherdëina 10, and I can’t wait to see the unruly germinations this pollination event will spawn in the months to come”.
Alice Bucknell on collaborating with Biennale Gherdëina 10.
Biennale Gherdëina 10 – (Future) Paradise Gardens will take place from May 31 to September 13, 2026 in Val Gardena, in the heart of the Dolomites, welcoming visitors in its three main exhibition venues, in a continuous exchange between art, nature and landscape.
The opening will take place on May 30, starting at 10am from the center of Ortisei.