Unique to the Biennale are its venues, which include beautiful historic buildings with interiors, art and artefacts that put many museums to shame

Josèfa Ntjam‘s exhibition depicts a fantasy world inhabited by AI-created creatures that recalls both the deep ocean and outer space

The American artist’s prolific career included two spells in Italy, ten years apart. An exhibition in Venice explores the impact these visits had on his work

From cocoa-covered creations, to spaceships and rotting fruit, here is our selection of top shows from the first preview day

The artist says artistic director Adriano Pedrosa’s "dangerous slogan" reinforces the Italian government’s anti-migrant stance

Religious works, restored by conservation experts, will be returned to the historic cathedral on the Seine

The exhibition space, international residency and workshop has given early platforms to now major names like Tania Bruguera, Sonia Boyce and Subodh Gupta

His "Pack a Punch" paintings are inspired by Thai boxers

Ignacy Czwartos will present 15 paintings in an exhibition entitled Polonia Uncensored—close to the Giardini site

From a retrospective of Chicago Imagist Christina Ramberg to a group show of Native American photography and video

The commission for the controversial Unravel show reflects geopolitical themes

The dealer will show 12 works by the German-British painter spanning 50 years of his career

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula painting will take centre stage in a forthcoming show at the National Gallery

The Berlin-based curator has previously held roles at Documenta and the Dak’Art biennial in Senegal

The Russian pavilion will host a group exhibition of artists from South America organised by Bolivia’s Ministry of Cultures, Decolonisation and Depatriarchalisation

The French artist has embraced robotics and machine learning for his latest works, which are being premiered at his sprawling exhibition in Venice

A thought-provoking exhibition of work by the late photojournalist the Imperial War Museum

A London exhibition of the Expressionist movement aims to show that “there is more to the early Modernist period than starry, solitary male artists”

Show focuses on the golden age of collecting between France and China in the 17th and 18th centuries

The exhibition in Beijing of 17th- and 18th-century objects from the Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles will look at how artisans on opposite sides of the world influenced each other

Musée National Picasso in Paris to loan more than 60 works to M+ museum

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Simon Roberts’s work incorporates mortality figures and contributions from key politicians

The Centre Pompidou in Paris is staging a huge exhibition of the Romanian artist’s work with a “lively and joyful” thematic hang

An arresting and endearing retrospective of the trailblazing performance artist that you will want to see again and again

The Whitney Museum’s flagship contemporary art showcase turns on questions of identity, authenticity and mutability, which play out across more than a handful of interrelated topics

At the newly expanded Ortuzar Projects, the artist's enduring exploration privacy and spying takes on new meanings in the age of drones and smartphones

Around 120 drawings will be on show at the Oxford museum for a limited time

The biennial’s curators were unaware of the statement in a work by Demian DinéYazhi’ prior to the exhibition preview