Birdy to Perform at Charlotte Colbert’s Venice Biennale Exhibition During Regata Storica
12 June 2026 • Mark Westall
Charlotte Colbert’s Venice exhibition Possible Landscapes hosts a special event featuring a live performance by Birdy
Art News Venice
Art News Venice is where you can find all the cool art stuff: exhibitions, and events we have found coming out of Venice. Interviews and thought pieces.
A Brief, Brilliant Flash: Review of Arch Hades’ Return/Ritorno
2 June 2026 • Paige Miller
In Return | Ritorno, Arch Hades combines sculpture, poetry and installation to explore memory, mortality and human existence
Interview: Wallace Chan sculpts time, light, life and rebirth in Venice
1 June 2026 • Tabish Khan
Titanium sculptures and spirituality in Venice.
Every National Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Reviewed in One Sentence by Tabish Khan
21 May 2026 • Tabish Khan
Tabish Khan takes on nearly every national pavilion at the Venice Biennale with fast, funny and brutally concise one-sentence reviews
Review: The Good, The Bad and The Venice Biennale
13 May 2026 • Tabish Khan
A review covering the highlights of this year’s Venice Biennale.
FAD’s Fab Five: 5 Must-See Highlights at the 2026 Venice Biennale
5 May 2026 • Lee Sharrock
Lee Sharrock selects five standout exhibitions and pavilions not to miss at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2026.
FAD News: Contxt Venice launches as a new way to navigate the 2026 Venice Biennale
1 May 2026 • Mark Westall
Contxt Venice launches as a new way to navigate the 2026 Venice Biennale, helping visitors discover artists, exhibitions and ideas across the city.
The Venice Biennale 2026: the Pavilion hit list
27 April 2026 • Toby Üpson
A focused preview of the Venice Biennale 2026, highlighting five national pavilions that resonate most strongly—
Venice Biennale gets its own radio station – RADIO GAMeC – PEDAGOGY OF HOPE
24 April 2026 • Mark Westall
RADIO GAMeC brings a new radio station to the Venice Biennale, broadcasting conversations on art, education and culture throughout 2026.
Ceal Floyer’s posthumous exhibition Unfinished to open in Venice at Palazzo Diedo
9 March 2026 • Mark Westall
Berggruen Arts & Culture will present a major exhibition of works by the late British conceptual artist Ceal Floyer, opening at Palazzo Diedo in Venice
First major exhibition of Jenny Saville’s work in Venice to open during the Venice Biennale.
25 February 2026 • Mark Westall
First major Venetian exhibition of British artist Jenny Saville, tracing more than three decades of her uncompromising engagement with the human body.
Judy Chicago Brings Six Decades of Material Experimentation to Venice
9 February 2026 • Mark Westall
Timed to coincide with the 2026 Venice Biennale, Alberta Pane presents The Materiality of Judy Chicago, a focused solo exhibition… Read More
TBA21–Academy announces its 2026 exhibition, Tide of Returns, a new exhibition by the Repatriates Collective at Ocean Space, Venice
26 January 2026 • Mark Westall
TBA21–Academy presents Tide of Returns, an immersive exhibition
Arthur Jafa & Richard Prince to Share a Major Two-Person Show at the 2026 Venice Biennale
12 January 2026 • Mark Westall
Fondazione Prada will present Helter Skelter: Arthur Jafa and Richard Prince at its Venice space during the 2026 Venice Art Biennale
Rarely and never-before-exhibited works by Matthew Wong to be presented in major solo exhibition at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, coinciding with the 61st International Art Exhibition in Venice
3 November 2025 • Mark Westall
Matthew Wong: Interiors, a major solo exhibition to be shown concurrently with the 61st International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
SMAC presents The Quantum Effect, co-curated by Daniel Birnbaum & Jacqui Davies
9 September 2025 • Mark Westall
SMAC, the pioneering new arts venue in the heart of Venice presents The Quantum Effect, co-curated by Daniel Birnbaum & Jacqui Davies.
Julian Schnabel to donate exclusive commissioned plate portrait to amfAR Venezia auction and be honored with award of inspiration
21 August 2025 • Mark Westall
amfAR supporter Julian Schnabel is offering an extremely rare opportunity to acquire a commissioned plate portrait
Standout Pavilions from La Biennale di Venezia, 19th Architecture Exhibition.
14 May 2025 • Marta Bogna-Drew
Standout Pavilions from La Biennale di Venezia, 19th Architecture Exhibition
As Venice Biennale Opens Today, Pavilion of Applied Arts Brings the Concept of Storage to the Forefront.
10 May 2025 • Marta Bogna-Drew
As Venice Biennale opens today, Pavilion of Applied Arts brings the concept of storage to the forefront ahead of V&A Storehouse opening in London.
Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation Launches Transformation of Historic Venetian Building with an Installation by Tolia Astakhishvili
16 April 2025 • Mark Westall
The opening installation, taking over the entire building, is created by Tolia Astakhishvili and curated by Serpentine Gallery Director, Hans Ulrich Obrist
Vanya Balogh solo exhibition Distant Pleasures to open in Venice.
16 November 2024 • Mark Westall
A solo exhibition by London based artist Vanya Balogh devised for the closing week of 60th Venice Biennale.
The Venice Biennale press preview taught me that the European art world is done.
13 May 2024 • James Marshall
I went to the Venice Biennale for the first time in my life, often dubbed as the ‘art world olympics’…. Read More
Interview: Wallace Chan in Venice
9 May 2024 • Tabish Khan
To create is to live and to live is to create – titanium sculptures in Venice.
The @LondonArtCritic guide to the Venice Biennale – Part II
29 April 2024 • Tabish Khan
Highlights from the pavilions outside the two main sites of the Venice Art Biennale and exhibitions across wider Venice
