Biennials & festivals

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

Opera-loving artist Raqib Shaw to show new paintings at Glyndebourne

Artist is the second to be selected for White Cube pop-up gallery at the music festival

Gillian Wearing asks for a peek through people’s windows

The UK artist will unveil her new film project, including submissions from the public, at the House festival in Brighton

Turkey’s answer to Burning Man takes shape in remote Cappadocia region

Cappadox contemporary art festival to include site-specific works by 15 artists, focusing on tourism in the country’s centre

Scratch videos, film and sound works to explode across Sheffield this spring

Art festival takes place in electricity substations, defunct pubs and a former funeral parlour

Heritage lost: how two art and design exhibitions frame southern China’s transformation

Lisa Movius on the Guangzhou Triennial, Asia Biennial and Shenzhen Urban Biennale

Paris photography biennial Photoquai cancelled

The event, organised by the Musée du Quai Branly, highlighted contemporary photography of Africa and Asia

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Three good reasons why Brisbane’s Asia Pacific Triennial is the tops

No commercial influence, no contemporary-art imperialism and no diva curator

A return to the object: Biennale de Montréal announces theme for 2016 edition

While the 2014 event centred on socially engaged work, this year’s exhibition will look at aesthetics and materiality

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Art among the cacti: recurring exhibition to launch in the Southern Californian desert

Site-specific works will be dotted around Coachella Valley for the new Desert X show

The Year Ahead: international biennials in 2016

The top art, design and architecture exhibitions around the world this year

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Swiss scholar Corinne Diserens to curate Taipei Biennial

Tenth edition will focus on the role of museums and institutional bureaucracy

São Paulo Bienal takes on uncertain times for 2016 edition

Exhibition theme is particularly apt as Brazil faces corruption scandals and severe recession

Lyons light festival cancelled in wake of Paris attacks

Candlelight ceremony will continue in honour of terror victims

Good things come out of Vienna Art Week

The 11th edition’s theme Creating Common Good could be a description for the city-wide festival, which takes a socially engaged angle this year

Migration and climate change the focus of Palermo-based Manifesta in 2018

City’s outspoken mayor is backing the biennial, which could transform the island’s identity

Over 35s not allowed: Moscow Biennale for Young Art turns to emerging curators

Curator Nadim Samman will choose participating artists through a “transparent” selection procedure

New home, new blood: Whitney appoints young curators for 2017 biennial

Thirty-somethings Christopher Y Lew and Mia Locks will lead a curatorial team that looks beyond the New York scene and institutional shows

Performa’s ten-year balancing act

Latest edition of performance art biennial launches this month, bringing new works to venues across New York