Notes related to Bienal

In the run-up to the Venice Biennale, the Ecuador Pavilion project offers solar-powered boat tours and intimate conversations about extractivism, rivers, territories, and ways of life in the Amazon.

By: María Galarza and Álvaro de Benito

The Venice Art Biennale is approaching the inauguration of its 61st edition amid resignations, protests, and controversies. Never indifferent to its time, its launch also converges within an intense context of wars, genocides, and geopolitical crises. From Arte al Día, we ask ourselves: how can we trace the relationships between politics and art?

Open call to participate in a new installation by internationally renowned artist Chiharu Shiota at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer.

The proposal selected for the Chilean pavilion brings an immersive experience in Venice that addresses contemporary tensions.

The Central American country will bring Oscar Molina's work to the Biennale, paying tribute to displaced communities and the global diaspora.

The Uruguayan Pavilion in Venice will present Whyte’s work, which combines textiles, obsolete machines, and scraps of waste to demonstrate that disorder does not destroy.

Matías Duville's installation proposes a traversable landscape where light and shadow, permanence and transformation coexist without resolution.

The exhibition offers a political reading through paintings that bring together sacred, industrial, and domestic textiles within a single visual field.

Cuban artist Roberto Diago presents a sculptural installation that turns the scar into an emblem of identity and precariousness into an act of sovereignty.

Curated by Diane Lima, the exhibition brings together Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino for the first time to rewrite the wounds of colonialism.

As curator of the Peruvian pavilion in Venice, Andrade examines how the Shipibo-Konibo artist transforms a visual thinking system into an all-encompassing experience —and why that gesture reshapes the scale of what contemporary art can hold.

This May, the Ecuador Pavilion will present an exhibition curated by Manuela Moscoso that explores territory, knowledge, and coexistence.

The exhibition evokes a present marked by oppression, where bodies, sensibilities, and politics are deeply intertwined.

Combining science, music, and theatricality, Jenna Sutela’s work—curated by Stefanie Hessler—explores the unpredictable nature of the wind and its connection to the contemporary environmental crisis.

An exhibition at the 2026 Venice Biennale that revisits television archives to reflect on coexistence as both a social promise and a contested field.

The intergenerational selection traces a sensitive map of practices connected to the United States, where affective, political, and technological ties intertwine through an experimental lens.

Lucía Sanromán and Aimee Harrison to co-curate the 14th edition of the festival, taking place from 5 June 2027 until 12 September 2027.

The event will bring together 46 Indigenous artists from different regions of Argentina and neighboring countries, with exhibitions and activities taking place between February and April.

Curated by Josefina Barcia, the project was selected among 69 submissions and will occupy the Argentine Pavilion from May 9 to November 22, 2026.

The 25th edition, curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, announced new projects which will explore memory and history through works from around the world.

Curated by Diane Lima, the project Comigo ninguém pode will bring together two of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian art around themes of colonial memory, resilience, and poetic imagination in Brazil’s Pavilion.

The International Art Biennial returns after 44 years, bringing together over 120 artists from 25 countries, 300 artworks, and a free program spanning 15 municipalities.

The world’s largest art bienniale returns with a curatorial proposal inviting artists to explore the meeting point between technology and imagination—without geographic or entry barriers. Application deadline: September 15, 2025.

This edition unfolds in Belém as a poetic and political reflection on Amazonian and Caribbean territories. More than 80 artists explore the notions of dream, memory, and accent as forces that reconfigure geography, time, and resistance.

BIENALSUR Week 2025 opened with a diverse and expansive program at key venues in the city of Buenos Aires. It will continue throughout July and run until December at various venues.

MOMENTUM, the Nordic Biennale of Contemporary Art, inaugurated its 13th edition, Between/Worlds: Resonant Ecologies, curated by Danish curator and academic Morten Søndergaard. The show invites the public to tune into the quiet, the overlooked, the unheard; presents sound as a way to reorient how we live and as a medium for unprepared listening.

The 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, titled passing the fugitive on, opens on the evening of June 13, 2025, 7–10pm, at four locations in Berlin with over 170 works by more than 60 artists. More than half of the artworks are newly commissioned. 

Rememory, as coined by Toni Morrison in her novel Beloved is the theme and title for the 25th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, which will take place from March 17 until June 17, 2026. Expanding from the understanding of memory as information retention with the passing of time, rememory works in the dark, from the residues and amputations of the past. In Morrison’s own context and research, it relates to chronicling African American history and how it upturns what is canonised as American history.

The 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective., will be an immersive exploration of how architecture can adapt to a rapidly changing world. Curated by Carlo Ratti, the exhibition will run from May 10 to November 23, 2025, across the Giardini, Arsenale, and Forte Marghera.

The board of La Biennale di Venezia appointed Koyo Kouoh as Director of the Visual Arts Department, with the specific task of curating the 61st International Art Exhibition to be held in 2026.