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‘This biennale seems cursed’, texted my friend. Despite feeling hypocritical about the environmental burden, I booked a flight to Venice.
Rather than existing outside politics, the Venice Biennale has become a site where geopolitical tensions are actively staged and contested.
The Venice Biennale is the most prestigious recurring event in contemporary art. What does it mean that the 2026 edition will take place without a jury?
Flanked by stone colonnades, wooden roof beams, and situated, in true Venetian style, on a bed of water – the Gaggiandre is a sound artist’s dream.
Creative Australia has reinstated Khaled Sabsabi and Michael Dagostino as the creative team for the 2026 Venice Biennale – after facing much criticism.
Khaled Sabsabi has been reinstated as Australia representative for the Venice Biennale. A review offers a damning but restrained post-mortem.
Chosen to direct the world’s most important art show next year, she leaves a legacy of building institutions, uplifting artists and educating through art.
What does ‘peer review’ and ‘arm’s lenth funding mean’? And what’s next for Creative Australia’s relationship with artists?
Contentious figures have always featured in Australian art – and this fact is what makes Khaled Sabsabi’s removal from the Venice Biennale so confronting.
Creative Australia has said artist Khaled Sabsabi will no longer represent Australia at the Venice Biennale. The artistic community has condemned this decision.
This year, much of the art addresses exile, diaspora, migration and colonial violence.
Archie Moore is the first Australian to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, given to the best national pavilion at the world’s oldest and most renowned art biennale.
Pledges on gender parity are not worth the paper they are written on if selection processes remain secret.
Often called the ‘Olympic Games of art’, the Venice Biennale’s national pavilions are an outlier in a globalised world. This year’s strongest works explore global issues like refugees and climate change.
Sixty two countries are represented at this year’s International Architecture Exhibition. In the Australian Pavilion, 65 species of grassland plants fill a black cube.
From now through November 27, architects and enthusiasts from around the globe will descend upon Venice, Italy, for the 15th International Architecture Exhibition organised by La Biennale di Venezia. The…
Sarah Lucas’s show is a (resolutely cheerful) cry of frustration at the overwhelmingly male exhibition history of the British Pavilion.
Okwui Enwezor’s central show delivers an undisguised history lesson about Venice’s past.
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