Biennials & festivals

Documenta to restage Acropolis of banned books

Work by Marta Minujín was originally shown shortly after the collapse of Argentina's dictatorship in the 1980s

Sharjah Biennial looks beyond UAE with a year-long programme across five cities

Off-site events in Beirut, Dakar, Istanbul and Ramallah and a new digital platform will explore environmental themes

Palestine biennial to focus on themes of return and refuge

Richard Bell’s Tent Embassy protest piece will go on show in a refugee camp as part of Qalandiya International <br>

Liverpool’s The World Transformed festival aims to build Momentum on the British left

As the UK’s divided Labour Party meets for its annual conference, a politics and arts event aims for social engagement

Raqs Media Collective get philosophical for 2016 Shanghai Biennale

The main exhibition will pose existential questions, while satellite sections extend the show into the city, with local characters recruited to share the secret of “artful living”

Leading Istanbul galleries join forces for new Gallery Weekend

Fourteen dealers aim to bring “positive energy” to the city in wake of failed coup <br> <br>

Shanghai Project opens first phase with focus on the future

The cross-disciplinary project imagines the issues that will face the human race 100 years from now

Four artists to see at the São Paulo biennial

As the country faces political chaos, the long-running exhibition finds a patch of order with a garden theme

What to see in Korea this biennial season

From Gwangju’s heavily political works to a 30th anniversary show of Korean art in Gwacheon

Wanted: young artists to join the Antarctic Biennale

The art-making expedition will kick off its first edition in March 2017

Three to see: Edinburgh Art Festival

Damián Ortega gets down-and-dirty at the Fruitmarket Gallery, while searing-selfies unsettle at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Iraqi artists commissioned to create works about migrancy for Çanakkale Biennial

September exhibition focuses on the refugee crisis engulfing Turkey and Europe

UK Brexit vote gives the Ruhrtriennale arts festival extra edge

Director Johan Simons says that the programme reflects how “Europe is questioning itself”<br>

Turkey’s Çanakkale Biennale to forge ahead despite attempted coup

Immigrant artists are due to take centre-stage in the September exhibition

Shanghai Project to launch in September as community event, not art exhibition

The biennial organised by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Yongwoo Lee at the Himalayas Museum opens with interactive pavilions and public forums, following reports of poor planning and funding stumbles

Teresa Margolles builds monument to 100 people who died in the streets of Los Angeles

Imposing concrete shelter in Echo Park incorporates debris and residue gathered at homicide scenes

New triennial in Aarhus to include outdoor art along four kilometre-coastline

The Danish city—European Capital of Culture 2017—will host the two-part exhibition focusing on man and nature

Liverpool Biennial: Isil iconoclasm, a Scouse musical and a laser show in a reservoir

Artists mix fiction and reality in the ninth edition that reimagines the city’s past, present and future

Old and new: ancient objects paired with contemporary commissions for Venice Biennale’s 2017 Iraqi pavilion

Presented by the Baghdad based Ruya Foundation, the project will span the history of artistic production in the region

Fairsnews

Manifesta 11 works hard, plays hard

Artist-cum-curator Christian Jankowski makes the most of the Swiss work ethic in Zurich

Fairsnews

Need a biennial curator? Call an artist

Manifesta’s curator Christian Jankowski is among a growing number of artists organising biennials

Three to see at Manifesta in Zurich

Our pick of works from the roving European biennial

Moscow’s Garage Museum launches Russian art triennial

On the centennial of the 1917 Revolution, the young museum hopes to spur the country’s next generation of avant-garde artists

Ask me another: Shanghai Biennale aims to pose life’s big questions

Organised by Raqs Media Collective, the exhibition will take on sci-fi themes and existential quandaries

Berlin cements its lead as Europe’s digital art capital

DIS-curated biennial and the inaugural show of Julia Stoschek’s satellite play to city’s strengths

Indian artist heads up new biennial in northwest China

Bose Krishnamachari has invited 80 international artists including Anish Kapoor and Santiago Sierra to take part

Marseilles to host Manifesta in 2020

After Zurich next month and Palermo in 2018, the roving European biennial heads to France for the first time

Liverpool Biennial will put Ancient Greece into contemporary art show

Port city's collection of antiquities and neoclassical architecture inspires international artists <br>

Barbarians at the gate: Irish biennial finds inspiration in Easter Rising

Artists take on postcolonial themes at Eva International, as Limerick gears up for its bid to be the 2020 European Capital of Culture