Notes related to Biennial

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.

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 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 82nd edition brings together 56 artists and collectives in an exhibition that privileges atmosphere, sensibility, and contemporary forms of coexistence. Within this framework, Latin American artists play a key role, weaving together memory, technology, body, and territory.

By Manuel Vásquez Ortega

Bogotá and Mexico City are among the cities with the greatest bird diversity in the world: Bogotá is home to 550 species, while Mexico City has 365. Inspired by this observation, Mexican artist, poet, and educator Yunuen Díaz presented a series of ten habitable nests at the International Biennial of Art and the City, BOG25—a collaborative creation with basket weavers from Apulo, Colombia, installed in the plaza of the Gabriel García Márquez Cultural Center of the Fondo de Cultura Económica.

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

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.

Under the general curatorship of Bonaventure by Soh Bejen Ndikung, the 36th São Paulo Biennial announces its title, curatorial concept, collaborators and visual identity, in addition to informing about an important change in its exhibition period. The title will be: Nem todo viandante anda estradas / Da humanidade como prática [Not All Travelers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice].

The eighty-first edition of the Whitney Biennial—the longest-running survey of contemporary art in the United States—features seventy-one artists and collectives grappling with many of today’s most pressing issues.

For its participation at the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale through its national pavilion, France chose to be represented by the project Ball Theater.

2086: Together now? asks why there is so much isolation at an era where humans are supposed to be hyper-connected through globalization of information, finance, and event culture.

Ghost Stories: The Carrier Bag Theory of Architecture will be presented at the Türkiye Pavilion as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale between May 20 and November 26, 2023. 

The 18th International Architecture Exhibition, titled The Laboratory of the Future, will be open to the public from Saturday May 20 to Sunday November 26, 2023 at the Giardini and the Arsenale, and at Forte Marghera; it will be curated by Lesley Lokko and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.

The Future Generation Art Prize is a biannual global contemporary art prize to discover, recognize and give long-term support to a future generation of artist. Deadline to apply April 30^th, 2023.

Conceived between a pandemic and a war in Europe, the 16th edition of the Biennale de Lyon "Manifesto of fragility", affirms fragility as intrinsically linked to a form of resistance initiated in the past, in tune with the present and capable of facing the future.

The 10^th edition of the Architecture Biennale Rotterdam showcases the work of 50 spatial designers, architects and researchers who are addressing the future of our planet in an inspiring way.

If the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil once had what was called the “Biennial of the Void” (2008), it could be said, bridging the gap, that Santa Cruz de la Sierra involuntarily experienced the “Biennial without public” (2020).

If the São Paulo Biennial in Brazil once had what was called the “Biennial of the void” (2008), it could be said, bridging the gap, that Santa Cruz de la Sierra involuntarily experienced the “Biennial without an audience” (2020).

The 24th Biennale of Sydney will take place March 9–June 10, 2024.

The National Pavilion UAE exhibitis Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset at the Biennale Arte 2022 (Venice Biennale). Curated by Maya Allison, Executive Director of The New York University Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, the exhibition presents an installation of human-sized, abstract and organic sculptural forms.

Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña is a recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - The Milk of Dreams.

In this 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, the largest contemporary art event in the world, the artist selected to represent Argentina is Mónica Heller, who will show in the Argentine pavilion the video installation entitled The Origin of Substance Will Matter the Importance of Origin. The project, which has the curatorship of Alejo Ponce de León, was chosen among the 40 proposals that were presented in a public and open call.

Correction is the project presented by artist Ignasi Aballí (Barcelona, 1958) for the Pavilion of Spain at the 59th International Venice Biennale, curated by Bea Espejo. Aballí's proposal consists of two actions: a 1:1 scale architectural intervention of the pavilion and the publication of six guides.

The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first details of Marco Fusinato’s presentation at the Venice Biennale 2022, curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor and titled ‘DESASTRES’.

For the 59th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, the Belgian Pavilion (Flemish Community) has invited curator Hilde Teerlinck and artist Francis Alÿs to develop an exhibition project. For the Belgian Pavilion, Alÿs will present The Nature of the Game, an exhibition featuring a selection of films and a series of paintings. Almost all of the films will be new productions.

For the Austrian Pavilion in Venice in 2022, Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl have conceived stage-like installations, entitled Invitation of the Soft Machine and Her Angry Body Parts, in which they unfurl their entire artistic cosmos – from paintings, sculptures, textile works, photographs, text and video to a fashion collection and a publication in the form of a magazine. These “spaces of desire” upset conventional notions of museum presentations and subvert the hierarchies of art and design, of high and low.