Venice Biennale

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

A welcome surprise: Okwui Enwezor's Biennale 'forefronts aesthetics as well as theory'

Critic Franco Fanelli finds All the World's Futures an enticing mix of drama and utopia<br>

Art presented as an affirmation of life in Armenian pavilion

Centenary of Armenian massacre marked in Venice Biennale presentation

Who's bankrolling the Venice Biennale?

Putting on an event of this size is an expensive business—and increasingly it is dealers, collectors and foundations that are stumping up

Argentina and the common cause of the oppressed

Exhibition refers not only to the oppressive authorities of 1970s Argentina, but to torturers and their apologists around the world

Five of the best exhibitions around Venice

Shows worth checking out beyond the Arsenale and Giardini<br>

Iraq War and rise of Islamic State under scrutiny in the Iraq Pavilion

Curator says the show is made in response to the “manifest impossibility of making art in the country”

Actions speak louder than words in the Slovenian Pavilion

The artist senses a pressing need to do something… but it's up to the audience to do it

Sinister sprites and hallucinatory reflections haunt Joan Jonas's US Pavilion

Artist transforms the space into an opulent environment, with readings from Nova Scotian ghost stories