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Venice and the institutional exhibitions that set the curatorial weather.
BiennialsThe 18th edition opened in September 2025, spends all of 2026 as an academy programme, and returns for a third leg in September 2027. Venice runs to November, the Whitney ran six months, and a biennial is quietly becoming a duration rather than an event.
BiennialsNaomi Beckwith was appointed in December 2024, the first Black artistic director in the exhibition's 65-year history. Kassel opens June 12 and closes September 19, 2027, and the edition before hers is the reason the appointment carried so much weight.
BiennialsThe 61st International Art Exhibition runs from May 9 to November 22, realized exactly as its late curator defined it. 110 participants, and a title that argues against everything a biennial is usually built to do.