Venice Biennale 2017

Lorenzo Quinn to follow in Christo’s footsteps by creating work for Lake Iseo

Italian artist known for submerging a giant pair of hands in Venice’s Grand Canal plans to install the steel sculpture next year

Venice Biennale: triumphs and talking points

Leading figures give their impressions of Christine Macel’s main show, Viva Arte Viva, and their pick of the national pavilions

Former V&A director Martin Roth defends co-curating Azerbaijan pavilion

Co-curator of Venice Biennale show says calling country "a blueprint of tolerance" might have been a mistake

The road to the Venice Biennale is paved with good intentions

Curator Christine Macel’s worthy aims of saving the planet and helping refugees has seriously backfired

Kenya works a miracle to bring its exhibition to the Venice Biennale

Pavilion organisers put on a show despite receiving no government money

Activism is top of Venice Biennale’s agenda

Mark Bradford is among artists using the event to spread humanitarian message

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Size matters: the large and very small art of Alighiero Boetti

Fondazione Cini’s Minimum/Maximum exhibition reconsiders the Arte Povera maverick

Venice diary: Rosy Lee dispenses fortunes at the Hotel Metropole to Ai Weiwei and Gavin Turk

Gavin Turk has installed his mechanical fortune-telling sculpture Rosy Lee and more

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Collaterals and extras: the Venice Biennale’s other shows

Don't miss the ambitious events outside the national pavilions and the main exhibition open across Venice

Venice diary: New Zealand’s Lisa Reihana makes a grand Biennale entrance

A dramatic waterborne entrance at the new Tese dell’Isolotto Arsenale location and more

From here to eternity: the nine trans-pavilions at the Venice Biennale

A journey that starts on the artist’s couch and ends with a meditation on the infinite nature of time: what to expect from the main show

Artists strike a chord as music fills the Venice Biennale

Audio installations and sound sculptures take centre-stage at the 57th International Art Exhibition

'Reinventing the world': Venice Biennale gives older and lesser-known artists their due

Christine Macel’s Viva Arte Viva raises reputations and social awareness

State of the nations: our pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions

Highlights from the Giardini and Arsenale as the art world's biggest event gets underway

Vatican gives Venice Biennale a miss this year

The Holy See participated in the 2013 and 2015 editions of the biennial

Rachel Maclean uses Pinocchio to reflect on post-truth politics in Venice

The Scottish artist’s new film was inspired by the Italian fairy tale and Venice’s Baroque glitter

German artist to light up Venice church with images of Martin Luther

Philipp Geist previously projected images onto Cologne Cathedral to make the area more secure after spate of sexual attacks

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Art world's tips for the Venice Biennale

Leading figures tell us what they're looking forward to and how they unwind in the Italian city

National anthems, national myths, national crises: pick of the Venice Biennale pavilions

Official pavilions in the Giardini and the Arsenale that are already talking points, plus national presentations across Venice that are part of the collateral programme

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The path to other dimensions: Christine Macel’s Viva Arte Viva at the Venice Biennale

The French curator behind this year’s main show discusses her belief in art’s transcendent power and her desire to create a focused exhibition

Memories from the director’s chair: five curators look back on their Venice Biennale shows

Selecting dozens of artists, dealing with a quirky organisation and navigating an idiosyncratic city—all under the gaze of a rapt art world—make curating the greatest art show on earth a test. Here, the five most recent artistic directors recall their experiences

Phyllida Barlow: folly in the British pavilion

The sculptor has chosen Folly as an ambiguous title and taken a typically bold and absurd approach to her work for the British pavilion, which is—however obliquely—mindful of the UK’s Brexit vote

Cosa? UK artist John Smith uses translation app in Venice show

Video will feature alongside key works from 1970-80s in artist's first solo exhibition in Italy

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Diary of a pavilion: Wales in Venice

James Richards’s contribution to the Welsh presentation at the Biennale is a multifaceted installation set in a Castello church. Here, the entire process, from application to installation, is described by the exhibition’s curator— the director of visual arts for Chapter, in Cardiff

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Monochrome mania: Boetti’s obsession with the Xerox machine

Colour = Reality show lights up artist’s photocopy fetish

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Doyenne of feminist art Carolee Schneemann awarded Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion

Lifetime achievement accolade recognises her work in performance and body art over six decades