Artist Maja Malou Lyse will represent Denmark at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026 with her project 'Things To Come'. The work is a video created in collaboration with DIS, starring actresses from the porn industry, and explores the intersection of science, fiction, and pornography, inspired by a study on how virtual sexual stimuli affect the body.
Lyse's participation highlights the Biennale's role as a platform for examining marginal narratives, as her work focuses on sex workers who are highly visible yet culturally peripheral. Her comments also underscore the enduring, if sometimes fraught, significance of national pavilions in reflecting the entanglement of culture and geopolitics on a global stage.