Venice Biennale 2022

Venice Biennale 2022: all the national pavilions, artists and curators

The latest details about the key participants of the 59th International Art Exhibition

José da Silva and Lee Cheshire

All the top exhibitions to see during the Venice Biennale in 2022

From Anselm Kiefer and Anish Kapoor to oceanography and neuroscience: our round-up of the most exciting museum and other temporary exhibitions in Venice during the Biennale

Lee Cheshire

Venice Biennale 2022

Venice Biennale 2022: all the official collateral events

A full list of the official collateral events taking place during this year's Venice Biennale

Lee Cheshire

Investigationnews

Revealed: the surreal dispute over Leonora Carrington’s late bronze sculptures

Scholars and heirs are divided over bronze editions attributed to the British-Mexican Surrealist’s final years

Hannah McGivern

Exhibitionspreview

A twisted tale of sugar and slaves: Alberta Whittle uncovers awkward truths in UK show

The Barbados-born artist confronts the unpalatable past of Guy Ball, the great-grandfather of the Holburne Museum’s founder

Hannah Clugston

The Year in Review 2022analysis

Exhibitions in 2022: the best shows and major trends of the year

Big hitters were the subject of major shows, from Donatello in Florence to Faith Ringgold in New York and Alice Neel in Paris

José da Silva

Venice Biennalenews

Adriano Pedrosa named curator of Venice Biennale 2024

The Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand artistic director is the first Latin American curator to take up the position

Gareth Harris

Art fairsnews

Next year—for the first time—a Miami gallery is going to Art Basel in Switzerland

David Castillo Gallery will become the only local dealer to make the jump to the mothership in its more than 50-year history

Helen Stoilas

Sonia Boycenews

Missed it in Venice? See it in Margate: Sonia Boyce’s Golden Lion exhibition tours to two UK venues

The award-winning installation will be shown next year at Turner Contemporary before travelling to Leeds Art Gallery and will also be explored in the BBC art series Imagine

Gareth Harris

Art marketnews

Major galleries sign Venice Biennale’s women artists—at last

Commercial representation is growing for leading women who launched and sustained careers before the art market cared

Anny Shaw. With additional reporting by Kabir Jhala

Warcomment

Art in the shadow of war: curating a show at Latvia's Mark Rothko Art Centre

Signs of the Russia-Ukraine conflict are everywhere in Latvia—and there's a growing number of culturally disenfranchised citizens, too

Philip Dodd

A brush with...podcastinterview

‘It sounds like a cliché to say you’ve fallen in love with Italy’: artist Emma Talbot on her greatest influences

The artist tells us about her favourite music, artists and the cultural experience that changed the way she sees the world

Ben Luke

Museumsanalysis

People with disabilities are the world’s largest minority, but disabled artists remain underrepresented in European museums. Is that about to change?

Projects on disability still remain peripheral in institutional programming—and the pandemic threatens what progress has been made

Charlotte Jansen

Exhibitionspreview

What is in the largest ever Documenta exhibition? No one is quite sure

The 15th edition of Documenta will be a sprawling show with around 1,500 participants—and it is already embroiled in a scandal before it has even started

Kabir Jhala

Venice Biennale 2022feature

The show must go on: how artists and curators battled with global crises to reach the Venice Biennale

The pandemic, immigration problems and the fall out of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to chaos for organisers of the world's leading art exhibition

Osman Can Yerebakan

Obituariesnews

Artist Paula Rego—known for her mythical depictions of modern femininity—has died, aged 87

The British-Portuguese artist, a key figure in The London Group collective, gained a huge retrospective at Tate Britain last year and is a key presence in this year's Venice Biennale

Tom Seymour

Artist interviewpodcast

A brush with... Emma Talbot

An in-depth interview with the artist on her cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Sassetta to Klimt

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David. Clack and Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall

A brush with… Stan Douglas

An in-depth interview with the artist on his cultural experiences and greatest influences, from Agnes Martin to Samuel Beckett

Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David. Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall

Venice museums send supplies to help save Ukraine’s art

As part of the Save Ukraine Art network, essential materials to protect works from bombs, fire and damp are heading to Lviv National Art Gallery

James Imam

Venice Biennalepreview

At the Venice Biennale, Bosco Sodi’s pigments spur a historical reckoning

Sodi’s muscular, primordial works form a stark contrast to a Venetian palazzo’s ostentatious elegance

Daniel Cassady

Venice Biennale 2022comment

The women-dominated Venice Biennale has been criticised for sacrificing quality—revealing just how necessary such progressive projects really are

Described by some as a “politically correct” move, around 90% of the artists in Cecilia Alemani's exhibition 'The Milk of Dreams' are female

Ben Luke

Venice Biennale 2022news

Sonia Boyce's British pavilion wins Venice Biennale's coveted Golden Lion for best national exhibition

Simone Leigh, Zineb Sedira and Ali Cherri also receive awards

Gareth Harris

Venice Biennale 2022review

Venice Biennale 2022: the worst art on show in the city

There's a lot to see in Venezia—save precious time and skip these

Alison Cole, José da Silva, Gareth Harris, Hannah McGivern and Tom Seymour

Venice Biennale 2022blog

The gossip from the Venice Biennale: Tinie Tempah takes on Tintoretto and totes too many totes

Plus, Sir Normal Rosenthal and Macron becomes an art meme

The Art Newspaper

Venice Biennale 2022review

The stuff of dreams: Cecilia Alemani delivers a perfectly judged Biennale

The Milk of Dreams is a "show of ripples and resonances, one that honours its artists"

Ben Luke

Venice Biennale 2022news

Ukrainian actor performs with Putin mask on his crotch outside the Venice Biennale’s Russian pavilion

A police presence awaited the performance, which was only announced yesterday evening

José da Silva and Hannah McGivern

The Week in Artpodcast

The best of the Venice Biennale: our critics’ review

Plus, artists Francis Alÿs, Sonia Boyce, Shubigi Rao and Na Chainkua Reindorf on their national pavilion shows; and a Bellini masterpiece

Hosted by Ben Luke. with guest speakers Louisa Buck and Jane Morris. Produced by Julia Michalska, David. Clack, Aimee Dawson and Henrietta Bentall

'Support this fight with your art': Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Venice Biennale artists and visitors

The president and his wife addressed attendees gathered at an exhibition of Ukrainian and international artists co-organised by the PinchukArtCentre and Victor Pinchuk Foundation

Gareth Harris and José da Silva