More than 100 artists are threatening legal action against the Venice Biennale Foundation for ignoring their demands that the foundation withdraw their names from consideration for the “Visitors’ Lion” awards at the current edition over the inclusion of national pavilions by Israel and Russia. The threat is included in a new announcement published on e-flux.

A May 20 letter addressed to the foundation and its president, Pietrangelo Buttafuoco, is published in the announcement. It is signed by some 67 artists whose work appears in curator Koyo Kouoh’s exhibition “In Minor Keys,” including prominent figures like Laurie Anderson, Alfredo Jaar, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Walid Raad. Also among the signatories are 39 artists representing their countries, including Denmark (Maja Malou Lyse, Chus Martínez, and Commons Accounts), Britain’s Lubaina Himid, and Austria’s Florentina Holzinger, all among the star national pavilions.