Arriving in Venice during the opening days of the Biennale, the ArtWorld Passport continues its journey as a conceptual artwork, cultural tool, and living archive of movement through the global art world.

Following earlier iterations in New York, Basel, and Cape Town, the Venice Edition marks the fourth chapter of the ArtWorld Passport. Conceived as a participatory artwork, the passport is activated through stamps, signatures, notes, artwork visas, and encounters collected across exhibitions, institutions, events, and conversations. In Venice, it becomes both a record of presence and a reflection on access, mobility, and belonging within one of the art world’s most important international gatherings.

The ArtWorld Passport is not a state document. It is an artwork issued by artHARARE that invites artists, curators, collectors, institutions, and visitors to take part in a shared act of cultural passage. Each passport holder becomes part of a growing archive shaped by the places they enter, the people they meet, and the marks they gather along the way. In this sense, the passport is both personal and collective: a portable exhibition, a living document, and a conceptual gesture that asks who gets to move freely through the art world, and on what terms.

For Venice, the ArtWorld Passport will be issued during the opening period of the Biennale, where it will circulate through exhibitions, forums, collateral events, and independent spaces across the city. This edition extends the project into a landscape where questions of visibility, access, borders, and international participation are especially charged. Venice offers a powerful setting for the passport to operate not only as an object, but as a way of marking cultural presence and mapping artistic exchange in real time.