From February 10 to April 9, 2021, Driving the Human invites designers, artists, scientists, initiatives, and agents from any fields of expertise from anywhere in the world, to join the project in shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach.
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Any Future for Biennials? Panel discussion. The many canceled large-scale international exhibitions of the past year raise serious questions about the viability of such spectacular events. At the same time, travel restrictions and localized lockdowns may recall a time when such venues for cultural and artistic exchange held a crucial utopian promise.
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Glasgow International is undertaking market research to obtain notes of interest in the role of Production Manager. This Production Manager will play a leading role in the development and delivery of the 2022 Scotland + Venice project.
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Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) has announced the curatorial team for the 17th edition of the Istanbul Biennial: curator Ute Meta Bauer, artist Amar Kanwar, and art historian David Teh.
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Aichi Prefecture established a new organizing committee to manage Aichi Triennale 2022 with Takeo Obayashi (Chairperson of the Board, Obayashi Corporation) appointed as Chairperson. Mami Kataoka (Director of the Mori Art Museum and President of the CIMAM) was selected as Artistic Director of Aichi Triennale 2022.
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LIAF now seeks a curator or curators for LIAF 2022, with a project period extending from 1 April 2021 to 1 November 2022. The application deadline is 1 January 2021.
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OBOE Journal On Biennials and Other Exhibitions launches its first issue with a focus on the Venice Biennale. Born in 1895, the Venice exhibition, although the criticism for its limitations, is still one of the most significant and defining events of the contemporary art calendar.
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by Maria Lind and Anca Rujoiu

So, what do biennials do? Or more specifically, what did this biennial – the Art Encounters Biennial 2019 – do? Some possible answers are already on the tips of our tongues; others will come over time. We’d like to think that this biennial made possible a wide variety of encounters between art, the inhabitants of Timișoara and visitors, alike – not only throughout 2019, but also beyond, for a number of artworks will remain in the city, and new relationships have been forged.
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Our correspondent Michaela Bear had a chance to visit the 22nd Biennale of Sydney days before it closed to the public on Tuesday, 24 March 2020. Her reports describes an exhibition giving voice to under-represented communities, issues and histories…
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by Melissa Gronlund

When Desert X – a young biennial from California – announced it would be producing an exhibition in the Saudi desert site of Al-Ula, it ignited a firestorm of international opposition. Three board members resigned, including Ed Ruscha, in order to protest the collaboration with the Saudi state. Discussions about boycotts dominated coverage…
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The Bangkok Biennial 2020 will take place from October to December, 2020. It will maintain the open source structure with no central curator or dictation. The organizers believe that this reflects and echoes the mood and general exasperation in regard to power mongering in every sphere of top-down dictatorial structures seen in contemporary Thailand, the region and perhaps the entire world at this moment.
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The exhibition After ‘Freedom of Expression?’ organized as part of the Aichi Triennale which caused controversy last year will be re-staged this Spring in Taiwan, the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art in announced.
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