Biennial

Catch them if you can: shows to see before the Venice Biennale closes

Ahead of the Biennale's closing week, we highlight the talking-point exhibitions and events that there's still time to catch

Artist jailed in Cuba invites biennial visitors to 'become part' of his work in prison

Activist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara plans to spend time with a fan of his work at a maximum-security penitentiary during Havana Biennial

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How Manifesta 15 plans to decentralise Barcelona's art scene

Across 12 cities and 92 artists, the nomadic biennial this year places a renewed focus on reaching diverse communities and creating lasting cultural change

Among the seemingly endless round of biennials, eco-minded Klima Biennale in Vienna offers something genuinely new

Austrian capital is working with a local and international artists to provide some fresh perspectives on confronting the world’s environmental crises

Saudi Arabia’s Desert X AlUla biennial announces new curators for 2024 edition

The theme of the third iteration will be “In the Presence of Absence”

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As the Fagradalsfjall volcano threatens Iceland, an art biennial in Reykjavik explores societal collapse

Sequences features works that meditate on the unseen forces that dictate the outcome of our lives

A biennial in Oregon explores the role of art in political and social critique

Converge 45 returns to Portland with more than 50 projects at 15 venues across the city

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

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India's Kochi-Muziris Biennale turns ten—and gears up for its long-delayed fifth edition

Curator Shubigi Rao says this edition represents the resilience of art practices that have weathered the pandemic's storm

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

Artists for the next Sharjah Biennial, initiated by late curator Okwui Enwezor, revealed

The biennial’s 2023 edition will feature more than 140 artists including Kader Attia, Hassan Hajjaj, Mona Hatoum, Lubaina Himid and Carrie Mae Weems

London's Brent Biennial to explore immigrant, feminist and queer traditions

North-west London borough of Brent will host 12 artists’ projects in 12 different venues and public spaces

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Turner Prize and Sobey Award winners and Judy Chicago highlight Toronto’s second biennial

Whereas the inaugural biennial focused on the city’s lakefront shoreline, this pandemic-delayed sophomore edition is organised along Toronto’s creeks and ravines

São Paulo Bienal foregoes a chief curator in favour of a 'horizontal curatorial model' for 35th edition

The exhibition will be jointly curated by the artist Grada Kilomba, the art historian Manuel Borja-Villel and the curators and critics Diane Lima and Hélio Menezes

Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art highlights ‘marginalised artists on the precipice of being the next establishment’

Exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia opening today aims to provoke discussions around Aboriginal heritage

In the Bronx Museum’s biennial, artists grapple with constraints on creativity during Covid-19

A meditation on the practice of everyday life in uncertain times, the show features 68 artists who participated in the museum’s fellowship

Art in motion: Autrostrada Biennale takes visitors on a journey through Kosovo

Third edition is spread between the cities of Prishtina, Prizren and Peja

Venice Biennale 2022 title inspired by Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington

The exhibition’s president and curator also announced the main exhibition’s three themes

Three years on, Manifesta 12 workers are still waiting to be paid

Dozens of staff and freelancers who worked at the 2018 exhibition in Palermo have been left in the lurch

Our guide to the top biennials and triennials coming up in 2021

Previews of the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, Prospect.5 and the 11th Liverpool Biennial—plus, lots of dates for your diary

Wham! London's first Brent Biennial to launch with a nine-metre high George Michael mural

The inaugural exhibition in the north-west borough opens in September and will include 23 new commissions

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

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

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

History of indigenous American people takes centre stage at Site Santa Fe Biennial

New York-based artist Pablo Helguera has created a work based on the Pueblo Revolt of 1680