During the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Anish Kapoor unveils an ambitious new exhibition at Palazzo Manfrin, a Venetian landmark in Cannaregio with layers of history dating back to the 16th century. The exhibition brings together large-scale installations and architectural models spanning the last 50 years, alongside a series of mirror and stainless-steel works.

Kapoor has become world renowned for making sculptural objects on an architectural scale, and for architecture that exists as sculptural object; from monumental works such as At the Edge of the World (1998) and Descent into Limbo (1992), both included in the show, to the world’s first inflatable concert hall Ark Nova (2013) and the recently opened Monte Sant’Angelo Metro Station in Naples, Italy; the genesis of such monumental works is always the sketchbook and the model.