The 2026 Venice Biennale, titled In Minor Keys, asks the art world to slow down. In a city overwhelmed by beauty and tourism, Koyo Kouoh’s final curatorial vision feels quietly radical.

Inside a 400-year-old samurai residence in Kanazawa, history reveals itself not through spectacle, but through stillness. Between Zen gardens, handwritten letters, and delicate motifs, the myth of the warrior begins to soften.