Scotland + Venice

“It’s just an incredible opportunity to work in an international context in a multitude of ways” - Laura McSorley

Dundee-based Curator + Producer and Glasgow-based artist, producer + DJ have been in Venice since the opening of Shame Parade as part of the Professional Development Programme, their four weeks at La Biennale di Venezia is in partnership with .

Here, they speak about spending time in Venice during the opening, working with the Scotland + Venice team to prepare Shame Parade for the public and getting to know the artists.

Part one of two.

📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

“I’m really interested in how they navigate the complexity around q***r and trans existence. And there’s just loads of layers of meaning and ideas and references, so it’s really dense and exciting.” - Lily Lavorato, Senior Exhibition Associate

Lily is one of the three Senior Exhibition Associates selected in partnership with Outer Spaces from their studio network. They have been in Venice since the opening of Shame Parade learning about the work and its themes and leading the team of Exhibition Associates to support visitors to engage with the exhibition.

This 10 week paid opportunity also allows time for participants to develop their own work and spend time at La Biennale di Venezia developing international networks and engaging with contemporary art. Following Lily’s time in Venice, Calum Rennie and Jj Fadaka will travel to Venice as Senior Exhibition Associates during Shame Parade’s run.

📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

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“The practice is bold, courageous, playful, collective. I suppose holistic and just really, really fun and exciting.” - Lucia Pietroiusti on the selection of Bugarin + Castle and their presentation Shame Parade, curated by Mount Stuart, for Scotland + Venice.

Lucia Pietroiusti stewards research and experimentation in art, ecology and systems. She is Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam, opening in 2028 and the Curator of the 6th Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, Kosovo, 2027).

Part 2/2
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📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

During Shame Parade’s opening event Lucia Pietroiusti, Head of Research & Emergence at Hartwig Museum, Amsterdam (opening in 2028) and the Curator of the 6th Autostrada Biennale (Prizren, Kosovo, 2027), speaks to the importance of La Biennale di Venezia as an international platform:

“From the point of view of national representation, I think it speaks a little bit to what a foot forward that particular kind of place and cultural environment wants to present and say this is who we are and this is what we represent”

Lucia Pietroiusti was part of the panel that selected Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia. She founded Serpentine’s General Ecology project (2018-2025); edited The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish (2025, with Filipa Ramos), and curated Sun & Sea by Rugile Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė and Lina Lapelytė (58th Venice Biennale and tour, 2019-2025). Pietroiusti is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Forma, London.

Part 1/2
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📣 Shame Parade by Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

☀️ Highlights from the afternoon preview event for Scotland + Venice, when we came together to celebrate the opening of Shame Parade, Bugarin + Castle’s exhibition curated by Mount Stuart to represent Scotland at La Biennale di Venezia.

Amongst the speeches were Artists, Bugarin + Castle; Mount Stuart Curator, Dr Morven Gregor; Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland, Emma Nicolson and Chair of the Creative Scotland Board, Robert Wilson who said: “Ask what’s happened when those who were shamed pick up those instruments and transform them into drag, into song, into solidarity”.

Shame Parade is now open to the public in Venice at Olivolo, visit to explore a multi-layered exhibition that uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice.

📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

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📍 We are a short walk from Arsenale, and can also be easily reach by Vaporetto!

Follow the chalk on the road walls from the San Pietro stop, walking past our friends at Catalonia and Iceland, to reach Scotland + Venice.

Preview today, 3-5pm, all welcome.

Location:
What three words: ///solids.sensial.amuses
Google map: Scotland + Venice, link in bio

📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart for La Biennale Di Venezia
📍 Olivolo, Castello 65A 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

The Scotland + Venice Preview takes place tomorrow 3 - 5pm 📣

Join us at Olivolo to be among the first to experience Bugarin + Castle’s Shame Parade, curated by Mount Stuart for the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia.

In Shame Parade, the concept of shame is used as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice in a multi-layered exhibition that features new film ‘Submit to Sound’, produced with Forma, and new works across the space; ‘Set Upon’, ‘Soundtrack for a clock and a jeepney’, ‘Nocturnal Amusements’ and ‘At Certayne Tymes’.

Location:
What three words: ///solids.sensial.amuses
Google map: Olivolo

📣 Scotland + Venice: Bugarin + Castle curated by Mount Stuart for La Biennale Di Venezia
📍 Olivolo, Castello 59/C 30122, Venice
📅 Saturday 9 May to Sunday 22 November 2026
⏰ Open Tuesday - Sunday, 10am - 6pm.

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