The Belarus Free Theatre, an underground theater group in exile since 2020, announced Wednesday that it will stage the exhibition “Official.

Unofficial. Belarus.” as an official collateral event of the 61st Venice Biennale.

The show, to be staged at the more than 1,000-year-old La Chiesa di San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, will open

May 9

, with a pre-opening during vernissage week from

May 6

–8.

It will run through November 22.

Curated by Belarus Free Theatre cofounder Natalia Kaliada and curator of art projects Daniella Kaliada—who have been in exile from Belarus since 2011—the exhibition “will explore how art is made, censored, and experienced under authoritarian power and constant surveillance.”

“‘Official.

Unofficial.…