Trump Mausoleum Proposed by Andres Serrano for US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

Believe me, I think this idea is a winner: “I can think of no one better to represent America than the president himself.” -- Andres Serrano



Trump Mausoleum Proposed by Andres Serrano for US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

by Francesca Aton
ArtNews, July 23, 2025

A new proposal for the the US pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale just dropped: This time, irreverent artist Andres Serrano is throwing his hat in the ring, proposing a mausoleum for the country’s current president Donald Trump.

Serrano began amassing a collection of thousands of Trump-signed and branded objects in 2019, with the purchase of a miniature chocolate wedding cake for $1,880 that was gifted to guests at Trump’s nuptials with current wife Melania in 2005. The artist has since spent more than $200,000 on the collection.

As such, Serrano’s US pavilion would present a multi-media portrait of the president. The project, titled The Game: All Things Trump, is also already a book, published in 2020 by Booth-Clibborn Editions. The angle of his Biennale proposal, however, arguably differs, with the compendium offered as a mausoleum—a nod not only to a past time, but to a very different version of Trump and America, which next year celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding.

In Italy, the work takes on added meaning, with a nod to those like the Mausoleum of Augustus erected for ancient Roman dictators not far from Venice in Rome.

Serrano’s proposal also involves the inclusion of his 2022 film Insurrection on Trump supporters’ storming of the US capitol on January 6, 2021, for which the artist spent months finding photographs and video footage from conservative social media platforms. It also offers an overview of archival and historical footage on US history.

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Ya know, that new Donald J Trump Ballroom as a mausoleum would become the busiest urinal ever built in the world.