Alongside the main exhibition and the national pavilions at Venice Biennale are 30 official collateral events which have been admitted by the curator. They are all organised by non-profit international and national institutions. There are also other exhibitions planned to run at the same time as the Biennale.
Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-27 November
Angels Listening
Loggia del Temanza, 23 April-27 November
Apollo, Apollo
Calle del Ridotto, 23 April-27 November
Bosco Sodi Photo: Alex Krotkov
Bosco Sodi: What Goes Around Comes Around
Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, 23 April-27 November
The Mexican artist Bosco Sodi has been in Venice since February, turning part of the ground floor of the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani into a temporary studio. He has been producing his characteristic paintings using wood dust, cellulose pulp, glue and pigment, which will be exhibited in the imposing rooms of the piano nobile. Downstairs will be 195 spheres of red Mexican clay.
Catalonia in Venice_Llim
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November
Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh
Palazzo Cavanis, 23 April-27 November
Alberta Whittle Photo: Matthew A Williams
Scotland + Venice
Alberta Whittle: deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November
The Barbados-born Scottish artist's work will address oceanic histories and the city’s traumatising images of enslaved Black people hidden in plain sight.
Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 23 April-27 November
Ewa Kuryluk: I, White Kangaroo / Io, il Canguro Bianco
Palazzo Querini, 23 April-27 November
From Palestine With Art
Palazzo Mora, 23 April-27 November
This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom @Venice 2022
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, 23 April-7 August
Ha Chong-Hyun
Palazzetto Tito, 23 April-24 August
A retrospective of the Korean painter Ha Chong-Hyn, a leading artist of the postwar reconstruction in Korea, including more than 20 works from the 1960 to the present day.
Heinz Mack: Vibration of Light
Sale Monumentali della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 23 April-17 July
Impossible Dreams
Palazzo delle Prigioni, 23 April-27 November
Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 23 April-24 July
Artist of the moment Kehinde Wiley comes to Venice with new monumental paintings and sculptures which expand on his DOWN series from 2008. Inspired by Hans Holbein's painting of a dead Christ in his tomb and classical sculptures of fallen soldiers, Wiley's work shows young Black men and women in prone positions, alluding to the "spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.”
Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light
Olivolo, San Pietro di Castello, 23 April-27 November
Louise Nevelson: Persistence
Procuratie Vecchie, 23 April-11 September
Artists (from left) Lucio Fontana and Antony Gormley, with curator Luca Massimo Barbero
Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley
Negozio Olivetti, 23 April-27 November
A rare 20th century gem in Venice, the former Olivetti showroom on St Mark's Square is a perfect setting for two artists whose work concerns themselves with space and light. The show will concentrate on drawings, sculptures and graphic works.
Pera + Flora + Fauna: The Story of Indigenousness and the Ownership of History
Archivi della Misericordia, 23 April-27 November
Road of Faith
Palazzo Zen, 23 April-27 November
Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings
Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, 23 April-27 November
Thirty years of the US artist’s ‘Italian paintings’, many made in his studio near Parma.
Take Your Time
Salone Verde, 23 April-27 November
Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 23 April-27 November
Made from glowing uranium glass using a new casting technique, this large sculpture by Czech artist Rony Plesl sits in front of the altar of Venice's Santa Maria della Visitazione © Rony Plesl Photo: Petr Krejci
Rony Plesl: Trees Grow from the Sky
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, 23 April-27 November
Czech artist Rony Plesl has used a new technique for casting glass as if it were bronze to create four large-scale glass sculptures for the church of Santa Maria della Visitazione. The work placed in front the altar is made from glowing uranium glass and covered with bas-reliefs of the body of Christ.
Tue Greenfort: Medusa Alga Laguna
Castello 1228 (Ca' Sarasina), 23 April-1 November
Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, 23 April-27 November
The former London contemporary art gallery Parasol unit presents work by 11 artists including Darren Almond, Rana Begum, Bharti Kher and Teresa Margolles. The work, in many different media, responds to the “various unfavourable phenomena” taking over our lives.
Vera Molnár: Icône 2020
Atelier Muranese, New Murano Gallery, 23 April-27 November
With hands signs grow
Palazzo Donà Brusa, 23 April-27 November
Zinaida: Without Women
Spiazzi, 23 April-27 November
YiiMa Art Group: Allegory of Dreams
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-20 October