Manifesta 11 Venues include the Löwenbräukunst-Areal culture complex, Zurich
11 June-18 September
The German artist Christian Jankowski aims to pair artists with local workers as part of his curatorial plan for Manifesta 11 this year in Zurich. The roving European biennial, founded in 1993, will include 35 commissioned works under the title What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures.
Jankowski will link local tradespeople and working professionals, such as police officers and dentists, with the as yet unannounced participating artists, who will “‘help themselves’ to various aspects of diverse trades, their processes and protagonists as artistic material”, the organisers say.
One of the most striking venues will be the Pavilion of Reflections, based on Lake Zurich, near Bellevue. The floating platform, which will be constructed by students from ETH Zurich university, incorporates a swimming pool and a screening area where visitors can view films documenting the production process behind certain works. Other exhibition venues include the Löwenbräukunst-Areal culture complex and the Cabaret Voltaire, the historic home of the Dada movement. “As with each edition of Manifesta, the respective host, in this case the city of Zurich, is responsible for the basic funding and drumming up support from public and private sponsors,” the organisers say.
5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art Trekhgornaya Manufactory
1 July-10 August
This emerging biennial stands out with its global, open-call format to artists aged under 35. The curator of its main exhibition is UK-born Nadim Samman, 32. His theme, Deep Inside, “is inspired by the fields of biology and communication technologies, the blurring of real and virtual space, and our present ecological situation”, he says. “It embraces short circuits, cryptology, occupation, mutation, acts of hybridisation and infection.” The Moscow-based National Centre for Contemporary Arts and the Moscow Museum of Modern Art are responsible for the biennial budget.
Made in L.A. 2016 The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
12 June-28 August
“The Hammer’s biennial exhibition series Made in L.A. focuses exclusively on artists from the L.A. region with an emphasis on emerging and under- recognised artists,” the organisers say. The third edition is organised by the Hammer museum curator Aram Moshayedi and Hamza Walker, the director of education and associate curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. They bring with them “rich regional and national perspectives”, says the Hammer director Ann Philbin. The poet and novelist Aram Saroyan has written a super-minimal poem that will serve as the subtitle for the biennial: “Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only.”
20th Sydney Biennale Venues include Carriageworks and Cockatoo Island
18 March-5 June
Seventy-three artists will show works across seven venues, or “embassies of thought”, at the 20th Sydney Biennale, which is being organised by Stephanie Rosenthal. Cockatoo Island will host the Embassy of the Real, featuring works by Camille Henrot, Xu Zhen and Lee Bul. Artists showing at the Embassy of Spirits (the Art Gallery of New South Wales) will focus on the “intersection between the spiritual and the philosophical”, the organisers say; they include Sheila Hicks and Sudarshan Shetty. Absence and memory will be explored at Carriageworks’ Embassy of Disappearance through works by US-born Neha Choksi and Yannick Dauby of France.
6th Marrakech Biennale Venues include the Palais El Badi and the Palais Bahia
24 February-8 May
Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Magic Object Venues include the Art Gallery of South Australia
27 February-15 May
Glasgow International Various venues
8 April-25 April
15th International Architecture Exhibition, Venice Venues include the Giardini and the Arsenale
28 May-27 November
9th Berlin Biennale Various venues
4 June-18 September
Liverpool Biennial Venues include Tate Liverpool and Bluecoat
9 July-16 October
Aichi Triennale: Rainbow Caravan Venues include Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan
11 August-23 October
Gwangju Biennale
Venues include the Gwangju Biennale Exhibition Hall
2 September-6 November
32nd Bienal de São Paulo Venues include Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
10 September-11 December
Busan Biennale Venues include Busan Museum of Art, South Korea
September-November
3rd Istanbul Design Biennial: Are We Human? The Design of the Species Various venues
22 October-4 December
Singapore Biennale Venues include Singapore Art Museum
28 October-26 February 2017
3rd Kochi-Muziris Biennale Venues in Kochi, India, including Fort Kochi
Opens 12 December
