Biennials & festivals

Riga biennial cancelled after outcry over organisers' Russian links

The third Riboca had already been delayed twice because of the war in Ukraine

A Mata of Factory: Manchester's footballing legend goes avant-garde

The footballer turned curator Juan Mata makes a star turn at Manchester International Festival, which opens in the city's new Factory International venue

Venice Biennale curator unveils vision for next year's exhibition

The focus of the show will be foreign artists—including refugees, émigrés and members of a diaspora

Can biennials really be sustainable? Helsinki Biennial looks at issues around the climate crisis

Artists and curators grapple with creating works that draw attention to the problem while also relying on travel and shipping to share them

Liverpool Biennial takes on the city’s unique role in the transatlantic slave trade

The South African curator Khanyisile Mbongwa has some home truths for the people of Liverpool—but do the points land?

Venice Architecture Biennale curator criticises Italian government for denying visas for three Ghanaian curators

Lesley Lokko, the curator of the 18th edition of the event, said the decision showed the “ugly rear” of Italian immigration policy but should not be "the defining story of this exhibition"

French curator Nicolas Bourriaud appointed artistic director of 15th Gwangju Biennale

The South Korean exhibition has come under fire for its Park Seo-Bo art prize which has now been abolished

St Louis’s Counterpublic triennial puts action and land repatriation at the fore

The triennial considers the city’s history of displacement with public works by New Red Order, Anita Fields and Jordan Weber, among others

Soft power triumphs at this year's Gwangju Biennale

Many of the works are deeply but not overtly political in a festival created to commemorate the 1980 Gwangju Uprising and Massacre

Trio of Salvador Dalí sculptures to headline UK summer art festival

Shrewsbury Arts Trail in the west of England has secured the works on loan from the Swiss-based Dalí Universe

Greatest hits of Asia Pacific Triennial to tour to London's V&A in 2026

The exhibition is being co-produced with the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, home of the flagship Brisbane festival

Mindful of its footprint, Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley and mulls expansion

The California biennial, which controversially expanded to Saudi Arabia, is eyeing another international edition

The New Museum selects curators for its next triennial, the first following its $89m expansion

The triennial’s sixth edition, scheduled for 2026, will be co-organised by one in-house curator and another from Brazil’s Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand

Abu Dhabi seeks to make waves with first major art biennial

The first "direct commission" unveiled by Public Art Abu Dhabi is a multimedia crashing wave display by the Seoul-based collective d’strict

Football's coming...to Manchester International Festival (with a little help from soccer player Juan Mata)

This summer's edition will also feature Yayoi Kusama’s monumental inflatables at Factory International's new building

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Is Lithuania set to become the new centre of performance art?

The launch of the Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art builds on the Baltic country's success at the 2019 Venice Biennale, where its operatic art installation scooped the Golden Lion

Sharjah Biennial 15 delivers important postcolonial narrative—but loses its experimental edge

Exhibition "Thinking Historically in the Present" in the United Arab Emirates is the final brainchild of the late Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor

First Nations artist Archie Moore to represent Australia at 2024 Venice Biennale

The exhibition, curated by Ellie Buttrose of the Queensland Art Gallery’s Gallery of Modern Art, will be the third in the Australian pavilion selected via an open call process

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What will happen to Ukraine's museum collections after the war?

Plus, Okwui Enwezor’s Sharjah Biennial and Ming Smith at New York's Museum of Modern Art

Hosted by Ben Luke. With guest speakers Martin Bailey and Nadine Khalil. Produced by David Clack and Aimee Dawson
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Venice Biennale 2024: all the national pavilions, artists and curators

The latest news of the key players taking part in the 60th International Art Exhibition

John Akomfrah to represent Britain at 2024 Venice Biennale

The British-Ghanaian artist is well known for searing video installations examining issues ranging from climate change to colonialism

Art Night contemporary art festival moves out of London to the Scottish city of Dundee

The Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani has been confirmed for a new commission

From Sharjah to São Paulo: 2023's most interesting biennials

From Okwui Enwezor’s final project to an Indigenous-inspired Liverpool Biennial, here are some key dates for your exhibition calendars

Adriano Pedrosa named curator of Venice Biennale 2024

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand artistic director is the first Latin American curator to take up the position

At the last hour, Kochi-Muziris Biennale in India postpones opening citing 'organisational challenges'

Exhibition's fifth edition has been met with a number of issues, ranging from shipping delays to adverse weather

Farewell to contemporary art in Russia: the cancellation of the Moscow Biennale marks the end of an era

Dozens of contemporary art shows have been forced to close since the outset of the war with Ukraine—but this one was meant to serve Putinist propaganda

Feeling fragile? Lyon Biennale returns after a three-year break and forges ties to the city and its past

Works by more than 200 artists are on show across French city, in sites that range from Renaissance courtyards to a former household appliance factory

The 58th Carnegie International explodes and expands the global contemporary art exhibition format

The latest edition of the longest running biennial-style exhibition in the Americas overwhelms its curatorial framework, forming a resonant, poetic meditation on the interplay of life and art