05/05/2026
Heartfelt congratulations to AHVA alum Abbas Akhavan (MFA ’06) for representing Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale!
Akhavan’s installation ‘Entre chien et loup’ will be on view from May 9 until November 22, 2026.
Akhavan is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice reflects on the relationships between place and history and attends to the geopolitical forces that define spaces. He gave an artist talk “Variations on a Garden” in March 2025 as part of AHVA’s Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series, co-sponsored with Green College and the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery.
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Representing Canada at the 61st Venice Biennale, Abbas Akhavan’s ‘Entre chien et loup’ — a pink-hued and humid greenhouse — is home to Victoria water lillies, referencing the plant’s display at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London’s Crystal Palace.
