Biennials & festivals
Border Biennial showcases art across the Texas-Mexico border
It’s the first physical iteration of the El Paso and Juárez exhibition in five years, after the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the 2020 edition
Saudi Arabia’s Desert X AlUla biennial announces new curators for 2024 edition
The theme of the third iteration will be “In the Presence of Absence”
German photo biennial cancelled after curator’s posts are deemed antisemitic
The host cities warn that the cancellation jeopardises “the future of the entire event"
Documenta finding panel resigns out of 'grave concern' for show’s future
The committee's mass resignation follows the departure of Ranjit Hoskoté, a writer who came under pressure for signing a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions statement
Spectacular Lumiere art festival lights up UK city of Durham
The latest edition of the popular event includes work by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ai Weiwei
New York’s performance art biennial returns, with a focus on the heyday of conceptual art
The 2023 Performa Biennial takes as its starting point the conceptual art of the 1960s and 70s, across works by 40 contemporary artists
Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Biennale announces programme for 2024
After Rain exhibition, featuring 92 artists, is organised by curator Ute Meta Bauer
Four artists withdraw from 2024 Istanbul Biennial as curator row deepens
The participants invited this year call for "transparent forms of communication"—the biennial foundation says dialogue channels are still open
Kyiv Biennial's main exhibition in Vienna brings together the fragments of conflict
The show—the centrepiece of an event being hosted in several cities across Europe—features work addressing the Russia-Ukraine war as well as examples of authoritarian rule and political subjugation from further afield
Frieze turns 20: what's next for the popular art fair?
Plus, we speak to the artist Hildigunnur Birgisdóttir, who will be representing Iceland in Venice next year, and pick a work from the Matisse show at the Metropolitan Museum in New York
In the latest Made in LA biennial, art and life are one
The latest edition of the Hammer Museum’s closely-watched biennial takes its title, “Acts of Living”, from a comment by revered Southern California assemblage sculptor Noah Purifoy
Istanbul Biennial's governing body draws up new selection guidelines following curator row
İKSV will bar advisory board members from taking up curatorial posts although the 2024 edition will go ahead as planned
‘Who is the decision maker’? Artists and curators push for transparency in wake of Istanbul Biennial curator row
Hito Steyerl and ruangrupa are among the signatories of the open letter
An environmental art festival in Los Angeles seeks to counteract climate despair and inspire action
The organisers of Earth Edition, a new festival at CalArts, are seeking to showcase “what is being done that’s positive, that’s solutions-oriented”
The Guerrilla Girls take on an Arkansas music festival
The activist art collective is bringing an installation of its work and a series of workshops to the Format festival in Bentonville
Bienal de São Paulo restricts access to Ibrahim Mahama installation after child falls and breaks his arm while climbing on it
The installation features a reclaimed Ghanaian railroad track that visitors were previously encouraged to interact with
The 2023 Bienal de São Paulo lodges kinetic critiques of racism and environmental degradation
Titled “Choreographies of the Impossible”, the 35th edition of the world’s second-oldest biennial doesn’t dance around charged topics, it dances about them
California’s Desert X biennial to return in 2025 under Neville Wakefield and Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas
The curators previously worked together on a post-colonial landscape show
Seoul Mediacity biennial to open section early to coincide with Frieze and Kiaf
The exhibition, hosted at Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), focuses on media art
The Week in Art: The British Museum in crisis—an in-depth look
Plus, the Sāo Paulo biennial and Chaïm Soutine in Düsseldorf
Curator chosen for next Istanbul Biennial was told it is ‘not the right time’ for her to organise the show
Defne Ayas has spoken to the online Turkish newspaper T24 about being rejected in favour of Iwona Blazwick
Niger coup upends country’s Venice Biennale plans
Niger, which is participating in the current architecture biennale, had planned to show at next year’s art biennale for the first time
Istanbul Biennial rejected curator recommended by advisory board in favour of Iwona Blazwick
Defne Ayas was unanimously chosen to organise the next edition but was rejected by the foundation that runs the exhibition; Blazwick was selected despite sitting on the biennial advisory board
Iwona Blazwick announced as curator of 18th Istanbul Biennial
The current curatorial lead of Saudi Arabia's Contemporary Art Museum, AlUla, she will now oversee the artistic vision of the Turkish exhibition's 2024 edition
Kyiv Biennial 2023 to travel across Europe with focus on 'war and displacement'
This year's exhibition will first open in the capital and two other Ukrainian cities
Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson will represent the United States at 2024 Venice Biennale
Gibson will be the first Indigenous artist to have a solo exhibition for the US Pavilion
Guatemala’s Paiz Art Biennial considers language's power and limitations in addressing violence
The largest contemporary art exhibition in Central America features more than 130 works at venues in Guatemala City and Antigua
New York's Upstate Art Weekend returns for its biggest edition yet
If you are traveling Upstate New York for the fourth iteration of this sprawling art adventure, keep a look out for these featured exhibitions and events
Smithsonian under fire for abrupt cancellation of Asian American literary festival
The institution cited “unforeseen circumstances”, leaving angry participants with debt and many unanswered questions