Biennials & festivals

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

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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

Artists Elmgreen & Dragset turn curators, taking on the 15th Istanbul Biennial

Pair hint that their presentation in Turkey will be political and provocative

Glasgow International festival tackles demise of UK's once-great, heavy industries

As Welsh steelworkers in Port Talbot await fate of giant steelworks, do the arts have anything to offer?<br>

French novelist Michel Houellebecq to undergo medical exam at Manifesta

Provocative writer will also shows works at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this summer

Cairo art festival opens amid cultural clampdown

Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival is taking place in Egyptian capital but also Beirut

Lucky number 13: Edinburgh Art Festival announces packed programme

The city will be taken over this summer by exhibitions and artist projects, including new work by Damián Ortega and Christian Boltanski

Call to action at the heart of sixth Marrakech Biennale

Palestinian curator’s ‘living art’ project draws on colonialism, conflict and activism

Fourth edition of New Orleans’ Prospect triennial to focus on colonialism in the ‘global south’

The international contemporary art exhibition will also coincide with the port city’s 300th anniversary

Can a biennial really prosper in Pakistan?

The Lahore Biennale is due to launch next year amid security issues and a meagre art scene