A group of people demonstrated against Israel in front of the closed Israeli pavilion at the Venice Biennale art exhibition on Wednesday.
The group then moved on to the US pavilion and the German pavilion.
The activists called for a boycott of Israeli art in Venice. Speakers called Israel a "terrorist state" and a "totalitarian state" and also harshly criticized Germany.
Representatives of the so-called Art Not Genocide Alliance (ANGA) were also involved in the protest. They distributed flyers.
In light of the Gaza war, Israel is increasingly being criticized internationally for its actions in the Gaza Strip. Israel responded to the unprecedented massacre by the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement with more than 1,200 dead and kidnapped hostages with massive airstrikes and a ground offensive.
At the end of February, there were already calls from ANGA for Israel to be excluded from the art biennale in the northern Italian city.
Israel's exhibiting artist, Ruth Patir, and the curators decided on Tuesday not to open the pavilion as planned. They will only open the exhibition once an agreement had been reached on a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of the hostages being held, they said.