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
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
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
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
No end in sight: artists and curators flee Russia and build new lives in exile as Ukraine war rages on
Georgia has become a major centre of refuge for Russians who oppose the war
Value for money? UK’s ‘Brexit’ festival organisers justify £120m cost of public funds with audience of 18 million
The National Audit Office will release detailed data on the eight-month "Unboxed" event next week
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