Biennials & festivals

New York’s Performa festival announces new commissions by Barbara Kruger

The artist will also design marketing materials for the biennial of performance art

Five works to see at the Lofoten Islands International Art Festival

The remote fishing village of Henningsvær hosts this year's edition of the peripatetic event

Five works to see at the Folkestone Triennial

Public art exhibition includes a giant jelly mould, minarets and a lightbulb moment

Setback for Lahore Biennale as artistic director Rashid Rana quits

Inaugural edition of Pakistan’s biggest ever contemporary show has now been postponed until next year

Documentareview

Boom and bust in Kassel and Athens

Documenta 14 sets itself in opposition to neoliberalism and the art market — but will it pave the way to greater excess?

City-wide festival aims to revive Venice’s glass industry

Inaugural Venice Glass Week will include more than 140 exhibitions on the delicate medium

Folkestone Triennial returns to the Kentish coast

The town has been slowly blossoming into a hub for art since the establishment of the triennial, and the fourth edition hopes to continue this trend

New UK sculpture triennial gains momentum for 2019 opening

Yorkshire Sculpture International exhibition at four partner venues secures Arts Council backing

BienalSur—a biennial without borders—launches this autumn

The show, centred in Buenos Aires but with projects around the world, aims to rethink the current biennial format

Edinburgh Art Festival: artists look to Maori traditions, 19th-century botany and jellyfish

Jupiter Artland’s new permanent piece by Pablo Bronstein joins two ten-metre-high pavilions in a Gothic and Chinoiserie style

The arts festival erupting in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

Walk & Talk includes exhibitions and performances on the Portuguese volcanic islands of the Azores

Forged in war, revolution and turmoil, works head for Les Rencontres d’Arles

The annual photography festival assembles works that open up doors closed by political turbulence

Edinburgh Festival salutes their 70th year with a giant dragon

Edinburgh comes alive with 45 exhibitions city-wide

Shubbak, London’s Arab arts and culture festival, opens this weekend

This year’s programme promises to look to the future while reflecting on “fragility, resilience and challenges of artists in times of crisis”

Bangkok joins the biennial bandwagon

Thai capital to launch its first ever biennial as government and corporates lend support to contemporary art festival

Northern exposure: artists explore theme of alienation for Nordic biennial

Geographic, political and social alienation all part of mix in event's ninth edition

Documenta 14 in Kassel: an instrument of soft power

Artistic director Adam Szymczyk builds on highly-political themes of earlier opening in Athens

Aros Triennial unveils swathe of new commissions along five kilometres of Danish coastline

Works in the inaugural exhibition include an “anger room” and a safe haven for bees

Liverpool celebrates The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper album with a little help from artist friends

Among the 13 new commissions, Judy Chicago has designed a giant psychedelic mural while Jeremy Deller has produced a series of billboards and a secret performance

Documenta & Münster 2017

Our guide to the influential German exhibitions, which only coincide once every ten years

New Orleans biennial Prospect.4 announces artist lineup and focus

With the theme The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, artistic director Trevor Schoonmaker stays in tune with the history of the city, the birthplace of jazz

Sharon Lockhart gives voice to Polish girls and Jewish orphans at the Venice Biennale

For her project in the Polish pavilion, the photographer pays tribute to a pediatrician and writer who pioneered children’s rights