During the 2026 Venice Biennale’s opening week, NG produced and co-hosted a party where 35 artists from all over the world each brought an ingredient from home. These found their way onto pizzas, handcrafted by TOCIA!, the Venice-based collective that explores food as a way of understanding the lagoon and its many landscapes.
The Venice Biennale brings worlds together, but somehow, through its distinct social rituals, these worlds often do not quite converge. Pizzalo Mundo proposed something different: bringing worlds together through the love of pizza.
Diana Campbell and Chomwan Weeraworawit
Diana Campbell and Chomwan Weeraworawit
Guests at the event
Guests at the event
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Penang coconut base arrived crowned with Precious Okoyomon’s flowers and Daria Kim’s wild honey.
Tarek Atoui replaced tomato paste entirely with za’atar on hummus.
Belgium Pavilion artist Miet Warlopbrought artichoke hearts; Nordic Pavilion artist Tori Wrånes contributed self-grown potatoes pulled from Randesund soil.
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka finished a pizza with the unexpected combination of fig leaf oil and yuzu salt.
The evening’s most quietly dramatic offering? A peculiar pizza built around Campbell’s pepper from Pohnpei, Micronesia (a place sometimes dubbed the Venice of the Pacific). — Cultured
Miet Warlop
Miet Warlop
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