Biennials & festivals

What is the role of the liberal biennial in a conservative world?

Curators meet in Miami to consider why America needs more of these sprawling exhibitions

Whitney Biennial artist list announced

The 63 participants are grouped into a show focusing on art in a turbulent world

Art the antidote to political poison at Shanghai Biennale

Crashed spaceships and Theory Opera performances help provocative show deal with the uncertainties of a Trump world

Work censored as art world descends on Shanghai

As Shanghai Biennale, two art fairs and scores of exhibitions open, Sun Xun's video work shut down<br>

Singapore Biennale reflects on the ties between Asian countries

Atlas of Mirrors features works by 63 artists and collectives, from a loudspeaker made out of woks to a jackfruit timber dwelling

New York culture festival celebrates Antigone, an ancient heroine as relevant as ever

A new work by Carrie Mae Weems kicks off the Onassis Foundation’s four-day event

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