The exhibition (7 May–30 August 2026) presents more than 30 new paintings in an immersive installation conceived specially for Ca' Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art.
Drawing inspiration from Venice, a city uniquely attuned to tourism and continually shaped by its consequences, Hernan Bas has created a new body of work featuring tourists in scenarios both imagined and real.
With the fundamental disconnection between these 'visitors' and the worlds they traverse, Bas exposes the absurdity of iconic clichés of tourism. Part of this new body of work was created whilst the artist was in residence in Venice, in close contact with the lagoon, its light, its paintings and its tourists.
Hernan Bas: The Visitors is organised by Ca' Pesaro – International Gallery of Modern Art, Venice, in collaboration with Victoria Miro, Lehmann Maupin and Perrotin.
Image: Hernan Bas, The Romeo of last resort, 2025Acrylic on linen
127 x 101.6 cm
50 x 40 in
© Hernan Bas
Courtesy the artist, Lehmann Maupin, Perrotin and Victoria Miro
