Lobina Hyde will represent the UK in the Venice Biennial 2026.
Lubiana Hyide, the British artist born in Zanzibar, will represent the United Kingdom of the thirty -first Phenicia Biennial in 2026. The British Council announced that Hyde, winner of the 2017 Turner Award known for her contributions to the British Black Arts Movement, will make a major individual offer in the British bell next year.
“I laughed loudly with both disbelief and pleasure when I discovered this wonderful invitation to represent Britain in the Venice Biennial in 2026,” Heida said in a press statement. “It is a great honor and at the same time a wonderful and exciting opportunity to make something special in particular, which resonates with many fans, communicates with a complex history and looks at a more cooperative future.”
He was born in 1954 in the Sultanate of Zanzibar, then a British reserve, Hyde moved to Britain at an early age. There, I studied theater design at Wimbledon College of Arts in London, from which she graduated in 1976. Later, she obtained a master’s degree in cultural history from the Royal College of Art in 1984.
Himid, which extends on paintings, graphics and sculptural installations, focused on colonialism, racism and sexual discrimination, among other topics. A prominent position in the eighties of the last century has gained with complex mirror works like Modern marriage (1986), a complex theater painting made of plywood characters. This piece depends on Marriage mode à la (1743-1745), a series of inscriptions by British publications and social critic William Hoggareth, to criticize the conservative policy of Margaret Tishcher and Ronald Reagan.
“Himid pays the limits of drawing by drawing through the installation of sound and sculpture, the merge of new materials, tissues, novels, and coordination in its work,” said Emma Dixter, Director of the British Council of the British Council and the British Pavilion Commissioner. “The combination of radical optimism and social criticism, the wing will turn into its vibrant artistic and spatial artistic works. Himid’s visitor exhibitions take on an exploratory trip, which is why it is extremely exciting to imagine how Enfilade will use six distances in the British wing.”
Besides her visual artistic practice, Himid is famous for her wide music work, through which black sounds are raised in the arts. Some of the notable exhibitions sponsored by London include “Five Black Women” at the African Center in 1983 and “The Thin Black Line” at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London in 1985. The artist will re-look at the latter with “Connecting Thin Black Lines 1985-2025, a new exhibition sponsored by Ica London, a group in June 24.
