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Biennials

A gallery interior filled with textile works, vitrines, and hanging materials is viewed from a wide central aisle.

The Sixth Kochi-Muziris Biennale Foregrounds Human Experience

Here, the human body is understood as the only filter, site of encounter and witness to temporality as we confront the present world.
By Elisa Carollo
Exterior view of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Building, showing its angled steel facade, glass canopy and upper-level cantilever against a partly cloudy sky.

The 2026 Whitney Biennial Aims to Map a New Geography of American Art in ‘a Moment of Profound Transition’

The chosen artists are "intergenerational and international, reflecting the many ways artists remain interconnected through their practices despite geographic distance," co-director Marcela Guerrero told Observer.
By Elisa Carollo
Two people in white robes look up at a night sky filled with intersecting beams of light radiating from a single bright point.

Manar Abu Dhabi Illuminates a Growing Ecosystem of Creativity and Public Engagement

The sweeping open-air exhibition stretches from Al Ain’s 400-year-old fort to the mangrove islands of Jubail, recasting the U.A.E.’s cultural landscape through the elemental language of light.
By Elisa Carollo
A color photograph shows a young man standing upright in floral swim trunks on a crowded beach, with sunbathers, umbrellas and mountains in the background.

LagosPhoto Festival Confronts the Historical Weight of Incarceration

By Gameli Hamelo
A large spherical sculpture with green padding and glowing pink lights is encased in a teal metal frame inside a brightly lit room.

At the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Radical Times Demand Radical Change

By Noah Berlatsky
A large-scale black-and-white video projection of shifting liquid and glass textures fills the gallery wall, enveloping the viewer in an abstract, meditative movement.

An Invitation to Pause: Inside Iceland’s Sequences Festival of Real-Time Art

By Elisa Carollo
A pair of dark, organic-shaped sculptures stand in a sunlit brick courtyard framed by arched walls adorned with blue woven forms.

The First Bukhara Biennial Reveals That the Most Expensive Ingredient Is Time

By Jelena Sofronijevic
A colorful painting on an off-white wall

‘Made in LA’ Captures the Creative Resilience of the Los Angeles Art Scene in a Charged Moment

By Jordan Riefe
An installation view shows a mirrored room filled with hundreds of hanging lamps and chandeliers of different shapes and sizes, creating endless reflections of light.

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo Foregrounds the Necessity of Mutual Obligation

By Mercedes Ezquiaga
A red-lit installation room filled with mounds of dried petals covering the floor and furniture, with a wooden table and chairs partly buried and a tipped-over chair in the background.

Hoor Al Qasimi’s Aichi Triennale Confronts Generative and Destructive Extremes

By Elisa Carollo
Large-scale abstract work with vivid crimson and white forms blending and colliding across a pale background.

Sky High Farm’s Biennial Blends Art, Agriculture and Ecological Urgency

By Elisa Carollo
Five women stand together in a modern interior by a staircase and a row of large windows, posing as the newly appointed all-female artistic team for Documenta 16.

Documenta 16’s Naomi Beckwith Introduces Her Groundbreaking Artistic Team

By Elisa Carollo
An ancient stone sphinx statue with a human head and lion’s body is shown in the foreground, resting on a pedestal, while modern red-brick and concrete apartment buildings rise closely behind it under a clear blue sky.

The Alexandria Biennale Returns With a Mediterranean Focus After a 12-Year Hiatus

By Elisa Carollo
An ink and watercolor painting depicts two stylized black bighorn sheep standing beneath a geometric rainbow and a sun motif, with bright Southwestern colors and sharp outlines.

Speaking Soil and Glowing Skies: What Not to Miss at SITE SANTA FE International

By Brian Karl
Robin Rhode performance-based artwork from 2015, combining drawing and action on a wall.

RoseLee Goldberg On 20 Years of Performa and Why Performance Art Still Matters

By Elisa Carollo
A portrait photograph of Helen Nisbet, a woman with curly hair wearing a red pleated top, looking directly at the camera against a plain background.

A Curator Comes Home: Helen Nisbet Returns to Scotland to Lead Glasgow’s Biennial

By Dan Duray
An expressive portrait of a woman with red hair and handwritten Arabic text drawn on lined yellow paper illustrates a personal story of exile in Mounira Al Solh’s ongoing drawing series shown at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North.

The 13th Liverpool Biennial Celebrates a Vibrant World-City

By Farah Abdessamad
An outdoor sculpture by Gunzi Holmström shows a mushroom-shaped form with a dome-like cap painted with orange geometric patterns and four curved tentacle-like legs, installed on a grassy clearing among trees at the 2025 Helsinki Biennial on Vallisaari Island.

The Slow Biennial: Helsinki’s Gentle Vision for Environmental Art

By Naima Morelli
Two large, spiked, conch-like sculptures hang suspended in a glowing red room, creating a surreal, otherworldly atmosphere.

Invoking the Past to Redefine the Now at Sharjah Biennial 16

By Elisa Carollo

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo Will Confront What It Means to Be Human

By Elisa Carollo
An indoor installation featuring several colorful, totem-like sculptures assembled from industrial pipes, spouts, and containers, placed on low wooden platforms, with two large fabric banners depicting abstract, patterned landscapes hanging behind them, while visitors, including a woman taking a photo with her phone, walk around and observe the display.

In Sharjah, Five Curators and Two-Hundred Artists Confront Global Issues Through a Regional Lens

By Sarah Moroz
Exterior of a building covered by a colorful wall painting

Observer’s Guide to the Must-Visit Biennials and Triennials of 2025

By Elisa Carollo
Portrait of a woman with short hair and yellow jacket.

Cecilia Alemani Reveals Her Curatorial Direction for the 2025 SITE SANTA FE International

By Elisa Carollo
Man in blue suit poses against white wall

Art World Comings and Goings: Marc Spiegler Joins Superblue Board and More

By Alexandra Tremayne-Pengelly
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