Venice Biennale 2022
Anish Kapoor will bring the ‘world’s blackest black’ to Venice's Accademia
The first British artist is finally exhibiting his sculptures using the controversial Vantablack.
Duking it out: Anselm Kiefer takes on the Venetian masters at the Palazzo Ducale
German artist creates new works that respond to those created by Tintoretto and others
Brazilian pavilion: Taking on the country’s recent tragedies
The solo presentation by Jonathas de Andrade is inspired by the educational science fairs he visited as a child
Dutch pavilion: artist explores importance of touch and intimacy
melanie bonajo, who often works with groups who are rarely given a voice, says that Covid-19 turned an existing “epidemic of loneliness” into a pandemic
Ghanaian pavilion: returning country's presentation to spill out across Venice
For its second appearance at the Biennale, Ghana will install modular bamboo structures in locations around the city
Italian pavilion: ‘What is the future for humans?’ asks artist Gian Maria Tosatti
For the first time at the Venice Biennale, a single artist has been given the entire Italian pavilion to fill. Tosatti’s sprawling post-industrial installation asks the big questions
Danh Vo in Venice: 'The privilege of installing other artists’ work is you really get to know them'
The Danish-Vietnamese artist has curated an exhibition which brings together his work with that of two acclaimed artists from previous generations, Park Seo-Bo and Isamu Noguchi
Scottish pavilion: Alberta Whittle unravels Venice's often troubling relationship with Blackness
The Barbados-born Scottish artist's work will address oceanic histories and the city’s traumatising images of enslaved Black people hidden in plain sight
British pavilion: Sonia Boyce on being the first Black female artist to represent the UK at the Biennale
"It’s just extraordinary that it’s taken this long"
Sámi pavilion: the Nordic countries give their space to Indigenous artists from the European Arctic
The three exhibiting artists have dedicated themselves to “defending Sámi perspectives”
Finnish pavilion: The artist who became an undercover security guard
The Finnish artist Pilvi Takala assumes identities, from Snow White to a Catholic schoolgirl, to investigate social norms
Icelandic pavilion: The magnetic attraction of light and sound
Sigurður Guðjónsson’s mesmerising work in the cavernous Artiglierie uses the movement of metal particles around a magnet
Saudi Arabian pavilion: Exhibition rings the changes
Choice of artist Muhannad Shono for the national pavilion is a sign itself of the country’s social and political shift
Belgian pavilion: Francis Alÿs explores the world through child’s play
Artist’s film for the Biennale is part of his 20-year examination of human behaviour through children’s games
French pavilion: Once-banned movie about Algerian war of independence inspires cinematic installation
Artist Zineb Sedira puts Algerian film under the spotlight, as country marks 60 years as a sovereign state
'Placing colour at the centre of things': Venice exhibition brings together Stanley Whitney's Italian-inspired paintings
American artist’s practice was transformed when he moved to Rome in the 1990s
Estonian pavilion: Baltic country gets its chance to bloom
In order to mix things up, the Netherlands has given its Giardini pavilion over to Estonia this year
Flamenco, floating stages and a Stravinsky revival: programme for Venice's 2022 dance biennial revealed
Biennale Danza director Wayne McGregor has given the 16th international festival of contemporary dance the title of "Boundary-less" to reflect the current state of global flux
Under a revolutionary, emancipatory spell: Venice exhibition explores Surrealism’s interest in the occult
Major show at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection includes works by leading lights of Surrealism, including Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning
Ukrainian artist’s Venice exhibition to go ahead despite difficulties caused by war
Kyiv-based artist Zinaida was in Venice for a site visit when the invasion began and has been unable to return home
Katharina Fritsch and Cecilia Vicuña awarded Venice Biennale Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
Both artists will feature in the main exhibition titled The Milk of Dreams
Russian invasion puts Ukraine’s Venice Biennale pavilion on hold
The pavilion’s organisers said they are “not in immediate danger” but have been forced to halt work on the planned solo presentation of works by Pavlo Makov in Venice
'Most people won't like my work': Marco Fusinato, artist representing Australia at the Venice Biennale, reveals pavilion plans
Visitors will experience a durational performance featuring a barrage of images including war scenes and defecating dogs
Zineb Sedira—first artist of Algerian heritage to represent France at Venice Biennale—reveals plans for pavilion focused on activist filmmaking
Project shines a light on the cultural exchange between Algeria, France and Italy during the 1960s
Wonder women: curator Cecilia Alemani on what we can expect at the female-dominated Venice Biennale this year
Plus, Van Gogh’s self-portraits in London, and the story of when Dalí met Freud
Time capsules, more women and a room for Paula Rego: curator Cecilia Alemani reveals her plans for this year’s Venice Biennale
The exhibition will include “gender non-conforming artists who are challenging the figure of man as centre of the universe”
Organised ‘under gunfire’, Kazakhstan announces first national Venice pavilion—but will it actually go ahead this time?
This year’s commissioner hopes the absence of government funding might help them avoid the disaster of the nation's 2019 pavilion, which was cancelled amid “corruption” allegations
Taiwan drops Venice Biennale pavilion artist over sexual assault accusations
Allegations against artist Sakuliu Pavavaljung first surfaced last month; his participation in Documenta 15 has also been suspended as a result
Oman to present first national pavilion at next year's Venice Biennale
Five artists will show at the inaugural exhibition, including the late Raiya Al Rawahi
Señor Mustache Mustache and a sinister taco-seller: Leonora Carrington's son on the colourful characters inspiring the next Venice Biennale
Gabriel Weisz Carrington recalls the fantastical tales imagined by his Surrealist artist mother that informed the title for next year’s big art event