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The entire five-member international jury of the 61st Venice Biennale resigned on April 30, 2026 — ten days before the exhibition's opening — after the Biennale Foundation rejected their declaration that countries whose leaders face ICC arrest warrants should be excluded from prize consideration. The crisis, rooted in disputes over the participation of Russia and Israel, has eliminated the Golden Lion awards, drawn condemnation from the Italian government and the EU, and exposed deep fault lines between institutional neutrality and political accountability in international art.