Biennials

The biennial, returning to the Senegalese capital for its 14th edition, offers visitors multiple perspectives of contemporary art practice in West Africa and further afield

With tens of thousands of pro-democracy, anti-monarchy protestors on the streets, should the second Bangkok Art Biennale have opened?

Susanne von Falkenhausen on this summer’s 10th Berlin Biennale, Manifesta 12 and the future of biennials

In further news: former Venice Biennale director calls biennial model ‘stale, if not dead’; photographer Shahidul Alam charged over ‘provocative comments’

Jan Verwoert considers the history of Manifesta, European politics and whether an art exhibition can unlock the historical potential of a place

Japan’s growing number of art festivals tread a precarious path between state-sponsored leisure-culture and soft-power machinery

The rise of the artist-curated biennial