Biennial
How Manifesta 15 plans to decentralise Barcelona's art scene
Across 12 cities and 92 artists, the nomadic biennial this year places a renewed focus on reaching diverse communities and creating lasting cultural change
Among the seemingly endless round of biennials, eco-minded Klima Biennale in Vienna offers something genuinely new
Austrian capital is working with a local and international artists to provide some fresh perspectives on confronting the world’s environmental crises
Saudi Arabia’s Desert X AlUla biennial announces new curators for 2024 edition
The theme of the third iteration will be “In the Presence of Absence”
As the Fagradalsfjall volcano threatens Iceland, an art biennial in Reykjavik explores societal collapse
Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives
A biennial in Oregon explores the role of art in political and social critique
Converge 45 returns to Portland with more than 50 projects at 15 venues across the city
Mindful of its footprint, Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley and mulls expansion
The California biennial, which controversially expanded to Saudi Arabia, is eyeing another international edition
India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale turns ten—and gears up for its long-delayed fifth edition
Curator Shubigi Rao says this edition represents the resilience of art practices that have weathered the pandemic's storm
Farewell to contemporary art in Russia: the cancellation of the Moscow Biennale marks the end of an era
Dozens of contemporary art shows have been forced to close since the outset of the war with Ukraine—but this one was meant to serve Putinist propaganda
Artists for the next Sharjah Biennial, initiated by late curator Okwui Enwezor, revealed
The biennial’s 2023 edition will feature more than 140 artists including Kader Attia, Hassan Hajjaj, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid and Carrie Mae Weems
London's Brent Biennial to explore immigrant, feminist and queer traditions
North-west London borough of Brent will host 12 artists’ projects in 12 different venues and public spaces
Turner Prize and Sobey Award winners and Judy Chicago highlight Toronto’s second biennial
Whereas the inaugural biennial focused on the city’s lakefront shoreline, this pandemic-delayed sophomore edition is organised along Toronto’s creeks and ravines
São Paulo Bienal foregoes a chief curator in favour of a 'horizontal curatorial model' for 35th edition
The exhibition will be jointly curated by the artist Grada Kilomba, the art historian Manuel Borja-Villel and the curators and critics Diane Lima and Hélio Menezes
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art highlights ‘marginalised artists on the precipice of being the next establishment’
Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia opening today aims to provoke discussions around Aboriginal heritage
In the Bronx Museum’s biennial, artists grapple with constraints on creativity during Covid-19
A meditation on the practice of everyday life in uncertain times, the show features 68 artists who participated in the museum’s fellowship
Art in motion: Autrostrada Biennale takes visitors on a journey through Kosovo
Third edition is spread between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja
Venice Biennale 2022 title inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington
The exhibition’s president and curator also announced the main exhibition’s three themes
Three years on, Manifesta 12 workers are still waiting to be paid
Dozens of staff and freelancers who worked at the 2018 exhibition in Palermo have been left in the lurch
Our guide to the top biennials and triennials coming up in 2021
Previews of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Prospect.5 and the 11th Liverpool Biennial—plus, lots of dates for your diary
Wham! London's first Brent Biennial to launch with a nine-metre high George Michael mural
The inaugural exhibition in the north-west borough opens in September and will include 23 new commissions
Sydney Biennale puts climate emergency and Indigenous struggle front and centre
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
Desert X AlUla—the inaugural art biennial in a historic Saudi Arabian valley—announces participants
Wael Shawky, Superflex and eL Seed are among the artists who will base works on the ancient history of the region
The biennial refurbishing a Unesco World Heritage city one building at a time
The third edition of Anozero in Coimbra includes works by Steve McQueen, Anna Boghiguian, and the Portuguese duo João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
History of indigenous American people takes centre stage at Site Santa Fe Biennial
New York-based artist Pablo Helguera has created a work based on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680