In August 2026, curator Galina Shevchenko (@instantgalina) opened Augmented Liminalities, an AR pavilion with no building and no borders. It opened in Venice, Italy, on August 1 under the banner “Biennale on the go!”, then carried on in Venice, California. The whole pavilion is powered by illust.
- When: August 1 to 15, 2026
- Where: Venice, Italy, then Venice, California
- Curator: Galina Shevchenko (@instantgalina)
- Artists: More than 20
- Follow: @augmentedliminal on Instagram
Transmedial, transtemporal, aterritorial
That is how the pavilion describes itself. Instead of a room in a national pavilion, Augmented Liminalities exists wherever its artworks are opened on a phone. Each work was placed in AR around the city and shared one by one, from a figure soaring above Venice to a fairy, a crystal stream and a forgotten archive, then the show moved across the world to the other Venice.
Selected works
- Chase your Dream by Sven Schölermann (the pavilion’s first feature)
- Rebellious Fairy by Galina Shevchenko
- Equilibr by Yulia Kosyak
- Spark of Creation by Rosemary Marchetta
- Echo of Thresholds. Forgotten Archive by Ramadzo
- Multidimensional Transcendence II by Tina Alberni
- Crystal Stream by AttaBotty
- In the Threshold Garden by FotoGraaG Hanneke
- Haiku Loop by Valeria del Vacchio
- Behind Those Eyes by Trish Gianakis
- At a Crossroads by Madam Memoticon
- Recycled Flower by Carolina Kleine Samson
- Murakami Man by @renatajiji_
- Bedeviled by my Angel: Seeing Something it says Nothing by Zen Materialist
- To Do List. I didn’t know You were an expert in my field by Ariel Baron Lapciuc
- Plus work by @jasonzeh, @nstgrm_cha, @akabotat, @i.day.dream.in.summer, @blackmoldhouse, @aradhna_07, @clareesehill and LM Designs8
Many of these artists also show with Balanced Forces, another community that builds its exhibitions on illust.
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Augmented Liminalities traveled from Venice, Italy, to Venice, California, without a building. With illust, curators can open a show in any city and take it with them.
