The Icelandic Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale will feature *Pocket Universe*, a new multidisciplinary project by the artist, poet, composer, and filmmaker Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir. Curated by Margrét Áskelsdóttir with Unnar Örn, the exhibition will be on view from ## May 9 through November 22, 2026, at Docks Cantieri Cucchini in Venice’s San Pietro di Castello district, a former shipyard located between the Biennale’s Giardini and Arsenale sites. The presentation will span a series of indoor and outdoor spaces and combine performance, sound, moving image, sculpture, and installation. Sigurðardóttir’s work often moves between these mediums, bringing together different stories and timelines rather than following a single narrative. At the center of the exhibition is a moving-image work that follows a character called Creature Zero as it sets out to find the “original rock,” imagined as the first step in the creation of the earth.…