Venice Biennale

Design highlights at Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

By Bethan Ryder Last updated 17 October 22

Tuft love: R & Company and Amini bring fun to the floor with artistic rugs

By Natalia Rachlin Last updated 17 October 22

The Milk of Dreams: inspiring women artists headlining the Venice Biennale 2022

Curator Cecilia Alemani focuses the long-awaited 59th edition of the Venice Biennale on contemporary women artists,  embracing, ‘symbiosis, solidarity and sisterhood’

By Flora Vesterberg Last updated 14 October 22

Chinese arts and ecology campus Valley XL launches in Venice

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 14 October 22

Debut show: we visit the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale’s newcomers

By Sara Sturges Last updated 14 October 22

Tour the 2021 National Pavilions at Venice Architecture Biennale

Stuck at home? We got you. Our virtual tour of the 2021 National Pavilions at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale will help transport you to the avant-garde of contemporary architecture from across the globe

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22

Discussing ‘Freespace’ with the curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 13 October 22

Designers unveiled for British Pavilion at 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

Jayden Ali, Joseph Henry, Meneesha Kellay and Sumitra Upham are revealed as the team to lead the design of the British Pavilion at the upcoming 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Last chance to see: Studio NYALI's Venice pavilion on African futures

ArchiAfrika Pavilion by Studio NYALI traverses historic and contemporary architectural design coming from practitioners in Africa and its diaspora

By Nasra Abdullahi Last updated 12 October 22

British mosques explored: 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale preview

Previewing the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, we catch up with Shahed Saleem, one of the curators at the Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project. Titled ‘Three British Mosques', this exciting collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and London's Victoria & Albert Museum focuses on adapted mosque spaces in London

By Ellie Stathaki Last updated 12 October 22

Venice Architecture Biennale 2021: a year late but somehow right on time

Hashim Sarkis' main show ‘How Will We Live Together?' at the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale opens a year later than originally expected, but ponders on questions that are more timely than ever

By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated 12 October 22

Venice Biennale looks back on 125 years of exhibitions

Formafantasma designs ‘The Disquieted Muses, When La Biennale di Venezia Meets History’, a show that displays works from all six artistic disciplines, looking back to 125 years of Biennale exhibitions and events

By Rosa Bertoli Last updated 12 October 22

Sean Scully delivers sermon of stripes at Venetian church

The Irish-born painter and printmaker will transform every corner of the 16th-century San Giorgio Maggiore church with new paintings, sculptures and drawings during the Venice Biennale

By Emma O'Kelly Last updated 12 October 22

Brigitte Niedermair puts fashion in focus at Venice retrospective

By Tom Seymour Last updated 11 October 22

Vatican Chapels steal the glory at the Venice Architecture Biennale

By Bethan Ryder Last updated 11 October 22

Animal instinct: Robert Wilson taps into his wild side in Venice

By Julie Baumgardner Last updated 9 October 22

Stan Douglas in Venice: a hypnotic chronicle of youth, revolt and liberation

Stan Douglas’ captivating two-part exhibition for the Canada Pavilion in Venice is a haunting and meticulous reconstruction of historical events

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 7 October 22

Lesley Lokko announced as curator of 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

Academic, educator and novelist Lesley Lokko will be the director of the architecture sector for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition

By Hannah Silver Last updated 7 October 22

Jes Fan: the artist probing the intersections of biology, identity and creativity

Multidisciplinary artist Jes Fan uses fungi, bacteria and hormones to produce thought-provoking sculptures that explore how art and biology come together to break down social constructs. This article originally appeared in the August 2022 Issue of Wallpaper*, on newsstands now and available to subscribers

By Drew Zeiba Last updated 7 October 22

Fondazione In Between Art Film: a cinematic celebration of time-based media in Venice

Beatrice Bulgari’s new foundation, championing time-based media, takes over a disused hospital with a surreal group exhibition during the Venice Biennale 2022

By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated 6 October 22

Venice Biennale 2022: 15 national pavilions on our radar

With the 59th Venice Biennale almost upon us (23 April - 27 November 2022), watch this space for live reporting on the must-see pavilions arriving this year

By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated 6 October 22

Stanley Whitney’s Italian paintings reveal an art practice in transition

American abstract painter Stanley Whitney’s works from the 1990s to mid-2000s, made in Italy and now on display as a collateral event of the Venice Biennale 2022, show an evolution of form and colour 

By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated 6 October 22

Primeira pedra: Venice show explores the virtues of natural stone

By Sara Sturges Last updated 5 October 22

David Adjaye designs first national pavilion for Ghana at the Venice Biennale

By Harriet Thorpe Last updated 28 September 22