Biennials & festivals
Chicago hits an architectural high
Our pick of the inaugural biennial, which opened to towering expectations
Sydney Biennale takes on race issues with tent embassy
Richard Bell’s homage to the 1972 Aboriginal protest site will host speakers from black activist groups
Why the Dhaka Art Summit only lasts for four days
Founders explain that $2m production costs and import fees limit the length of ‘the world’s largest non-commercial platform for South Asian art’
Artists should be ‘feared by the powerful’, says former Greek finance minister
In his keynote speech at the Moscow Biennale, Yanis Varoufakis discussed the perils of cultural collapse and why the euro is doomed—from an artistic standpoint
Art Licks Weekend: London’s emerging art scene from Peckham to Bethnal Green
A hairdresser’s, a billboard, a café and a mum’s car, are among the unusual locations in this city-wide event
Istanbul biennial confronts Armenian genocide
Curator chooses work directly referring to deaths and deportation
Lyons is all about the big issues of modern life
Immigration, consumerism and the downside of the digital revolution are among the topical themes of the 13th biennial
Beirut-based Christine Tohmé named curator of 13th Sharjah Biennial
Event is due to take place in 2017
Artists to work with Zurich’s workforce for Manifesta 2016
Christian Jankowski’s plans for the roving European biennial include a floating water venue, projects with local tradesmen and sumptuous Swiss dishes
Moscow Biennale brings hope to grim symbol of Russia’s past
Contemporary art exhibition sends homegrown and foreign artists to country's industrial centres
A grass-roots biennial for the new Ukraine
The School of Kiev opened against the odds to focus on knowledge rather than art and breathe new life into old institutions
What to see during Berlin Art Week
The normally slow-paced city kicks into art overdrive this week with around 100 exhibitions and projects
Ural biennial turns to face the East
The third edition of the contemporary art exhibition in Yekaterinburg has a focus on China, but also reflects the city's industrial history
Futile in the face of so much suffering: Anny Shaw on the Istanbul Biennial
The exhibition opened amid political and humanitarian crises
National identity and post-colonial politics are on the agenda at the 13th Lyons biennial
New commissions include piece by Kader Attia based on Charlie Hebdo attack
Istanbul Biennial commemorates Armenian genocide
Exhibition opens amid rising political tensions in Turkey
Paranoid visions: Simon Hewitt on the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
This year’s edition of Momentum explores the anxiety of contemporary life
Edinburgh Art Festival: exploding meteors, Greek drama and dolphin dialogues
Twelfth edition launches this week with more than 40 shows across the city's galleries and museums
Venice court to decide fate of Biennale “mosque”
Art world figures rally for Christoph Büchel’s Icelandic Pavilion project which closed after only two weeks
Artists take a politcal standpoint at Denver's Biennial of the Americas
Robert Longo, Adam Pendleton and Kari Altmann, among others, feature in third edition of the event, which opened this week
Greek museums forced to close as funding runs out
“Cultural institutions on brink,” says curator of main exhibition at Thessaloniki Biennale
Curators of Kiev biennial send Europe back to the class room
Eight-week event is structured around "schools" addressing key social and artistic issues
Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis to speak at sixth Moscow Biennale
Ten-day event at historic Soviet-era site will include public forums, daily keynote speeches and performances
V&A’s first steps in southern China
London institution introduces contribution to biennial in Shenzhen ahead of 2017 opening of its new gallery in the city
Budapest’s anti-government Off biennial draws 35,000 visitors
Organisers say they started the art festival, which closed today, in direct response to the political interference at Hungary’s cultural institutions
China hosts first photography biennial
Event helps to establish Chongqing as a major Chinese centre of art