Biennials & festivals
Venice Art Biennale delayed until 2022, now the same year as Documenta
Organisers say "it is impossible to move forward within the set time limits in the realisation of such a complex and worldwide exhibition"
‘In two and a half years, who knows where the world will be’—Lyon Biennale curators reveal why exhibition was pushed back from 2021 to 2022
Pressure on resources play a part as well as ethical issues in the wake of coronavirus
Why we cancelled the 2020 FotoFocus Biennial and dispersed its $800,000 budget as arts grants
As the coronavirus pandemic raised concerns about their 10th anniversary event plans, the leaders of the Cincinnati festival explain why they decided to support the local arts community instead
Prospect New Orleans Triennial postponed until 2021
And Asia Society Triennial in New York pushed to October this year
Galway City of Culture programme abandoned
The board of the festival has cancelled its contract with arts production company Artichoke, which was organising the ambitious schedule of outdoor events and public art
Coronavirus: Manifesta 13 in Marseille on hold and Sydney Biennale goes virtual with Google Arts & Culture
Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art has also been postponed
Sydney Biennale puts climate emergency and Indigenous struggle front and centre
Show’s 22nd edition aims to be as much a conversation as an exhibition, with hundreds of public events including bushwalks with aboriginal elders and campfire talks
Resistance, subversion and identity at the heart of Fotofest's first African focus
The complicated kinship between photography and colonialism is exposed at this year's festival in Houston
Folkestone Triennial to include Gilbert & George billboards, an amusement arcade and the largest dance floor in town
The 20 artists taking part have been announced, with major installations heading for the seaside town
The 34th edition of the Bienal de São Paulo explores ‘calls to resilience’
The biennial launches this month with “kunsthalle-sized” exhibitions ahead of the main show in September
Desert X AlUla—the inaugural art biennial in a historic Saudi Arabian valley—announces participants
Wael Shawky, Superflex and eL Seed are among the artists who will base works on the ancient history of the region
Honolulu Biennial switches to triennial format
The next exhibition curated by Hirshhorn director Melissa Chiu will open in February 2022, with a preview symposium held the year before
Mali's reputation for insecurity challenged by the 25th Bamako Encounters
This year's edition of the photography festival showed "there are many Africas", as 85 artists portrayed a multifaceted, self-aware continent
Art on a Finnish island and Manifesta in Marseille: our guide to the brightest biennials and festivals in 2020
Prospect.5 commemorates the 15th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its all change as Liverpool Biennial gets a new director
Arts commentators question Conservative Party's controversial £120m ‘festival of Brexit’
Will artists and institutions participate in “national celebration” planned for 2022?
The biennial refurbishing a Unesco World Heritage city one building at a time
The third edition of Anozero in Coimbra includes works by Steve McQueen, Anna Boghiguian, and the Portuguese duo João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
Moscow Biennale opening marred by 2017 controversy
Event’s president Julia Muzikantskaya accused of allegedly threatening artists and withholding payments
Performa 19 to take viewers on a utopian journey back to the Bauhaus
The latest edition of New York’s performance art biennial commemorates the centenary of the ground-breaking art school
Bubbling pools and animatronic snakes in Pierre Huyghe's Okayama Art Summit
Second edition of the Japanese triennial includes works by 18 artists that interact and overlap with each other
The first Toronto Biennial takes a long view of human relations
Among the highlights of the city-wide exhibition is a “panoramic pantomime” of Cook’s Pacific expeditions by the New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana
Cod’s country: the 2019 Lofoten International Art Festival in pictures
Biennial in northern Norway takes the “intertidal zone” as its theme, with artists rustling up cod fish dinners and recording the sounds of the sea
Art films worth seeing from the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival
Claes Bang takes the lead in two art dramas, while Cunningham dances through the decades
Work of art advertised on Airbnb lets visitors stay for free in the Arctic Circle—but there’s a twist
The installation by Czech artist Kateřina Šedá is part of the Lofoten International Art Festival in Norway
Chicago Architecture Biennial reckons with displacement, privation and segregation
Artists’ works address a history of colonialisation and marginalisation and its impact on contemporary urban realities
Art world impact just 'a drop in the ocean': Istanbul biennial curator takes on climate crisis
Nicolas Bourriaud examines the Anthropocene in 16th edition of the exhibition and says the “real issue is mass tourism"
‘Post-industrial’ Biennale de Lyon to examine shifting social and economic experience of the region
As the largest edition of the biennial expands into an abandoned factory, we also roundup new festivals sprouting up around the world
Top of the Pods: The best of the Venice Biennale
A look back at our coverage of the contemporary art event, including interviews with Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Ralph Rugoff
Eleven artists withdraw or modify their works at Aichi Triennale in ongoing censorship row
Cuban activist Tania Bruguera closes down her exhibit while other artists reconfigure works to reflect the controversy
Inaugural Rabat Biennale to be made up (mainly) of female artists
Curator Abdelkader Damani explains the reasons behind launching Moroccan show in already saturated biennial landscape
Scattered over 12 islands, Japan’s Setouchi Triennale offers poignant reflections of local life by the sea
Triennial features more than 200 sculptures and installations scattered across a dozen islands in the region