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
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