Venice Biennale

Mark Bradford to represent the US at the 57th Venice Biennale

Pavilion’s curator calls Bradford ‘the leading American abstract painter of his generation’

Phyllida Barlow to represent Britain at Venice Biennale

Artist is best known for her large-scale sculptural projects made from plywood, tape, cement and other inexpensive materials

Christine Macel named director of the 2017 Venice Biennale

The chief curator at the Centre Pompidou will organise the 57th International Art Exhibition next year 

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Venice Biennale’s Iraq Pavilion show to travel to Belgium and Brazil

Invisible Beauty exhibition features works by five Iraqi artists

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Büchel’s Venice mosque to stay shut

Court won’t hear case until Biennale ends

Views from the Venice Biennale

Five major art-world figures give their verdicts on Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures exhibition, as well as the national pavilions and other shows

Venice verdicts

Six major art-world figures give their verdict on Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures show for the 56th Venice Biennale, as well as commenting on the national pavilions and other exhibitions

Beautiful brutality: the splendours of violence at the Venice Biennale

The central exhibition at the Venice Biennale is searing but splendid, even if it raises moral concerns

Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire

Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations

Artist Christoph Büchel’s 'Mosque' played frivolously with fire

Far from furthering tolerance, this biennale project has irritated intercultural relations

It’s official: Christoph Büchel’s Venice Biennale mosque is closed to the public

Icelandic commissioner responds with statement saying biennale is no longer the place for free expression

Have Venice authorities shut down Christoph Büchel’s mosque?

Ostensibly an art project that is Iceland’s official contribution to the biennale, it also served as an authentic house of worship visited by more than 100 Muslims a day

See in Venice, buy in New York?

Dealers stand to benefit because the Biennale opened early this year

Back to the future for China pavilion

Interdisciplinary approach draws on tradition, community and cultural memory

Activists occupy Peggy Guggenheim Collection during Venice Biennale

The artist group is fighting for workers’ rights in Abu Dhabi, but US foundation says it is ‘acting in good faith’

Displacement, migration and colonisation the focus of two Polish presentations at Venice

One exhibition is more upbeat, while the other suggests we are on the verge of tragedy

Refuge among dancing trees: Vincent Noce on the French pavilion in Venice

The artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot show is a refuge from the biennale frenzy

Political and cultural endgames collide in the Russian pavilion

Irina Nakhova transforms the space into a series of wildly different environments

Turkish pavilion: more subtle, but still political

Exhibition contemplates the human condition on a global scale

Icelandic pavilion: Venice gets its first (temporary) mosque

Christoph Büchel addresses the lack of a mosque in the Italian city

When dinosaurs roamed

Armando Lulaj’s exhibition is a (cool) reflection on the social history of Albania