Biennials & festivals

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

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

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

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

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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