The interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art steirischer herbst, based in Graz and Styria, Austria, is pleased to announce the publication of the catalogue of its 55th edition, A War in the …
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The Bienal de São Paulo was created in 1951, following the model of the Biennale di Venezia, with the aim of putting local artists into dynamic contact with the international …
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OBOE Journal invites proposals for articles that examine National Pavilions at the Venice Biennale from diverse perspectives. Many scholars have discussed the National Pavilions in the Venice Biennale, but their potential and contradictions still need to be fully addressed. A complex web of interests and administrative matters raises a whole set of questions: What advantages do National Pavilions bring to the show? How much do national political agendas matter? Can we dismiss them for simply being an obsolete formula?
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To mark the publication of his new book, Biennials: The Exhibitions We Love to Hate, author Rafal Niemojewski is joined by art historian Jacky Klein to discuss contemporary biennials.
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by Amy Bruce

A larger history of biennials risks establishing an edition in relation to a narrative of historical progress that could negate a particular institutional and local biennial history. The concern of this paper is the consideration of how contemporary biennial editions impact institutional biennial historiographies, given that biennials are an exhibition format that are continually negotiating with the present.
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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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EVA’s Book Launch – Better Words: A Field Guide To Contemporary Art and Culture
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PAM 2018 Book Launch ‘A City Curating Reader’
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2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics examines the intersection of electoral politics and nonprofit art institutions in the United States at a pivotal historical moment. In a massive volume that …
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The Ghetto Biennale is a cross-cultural arts festival held in two adjacent informal neighbourhoods in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, called Lakou Cheri and Ghetto Leanne. It is hosted by …
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The Global Work of Art Book Launch
Wednesday 4 October 2017, 6 – 8 pm

Biennial Foundation Advisory Board Member, Professor Caroline A. Jones presents her latest book The Global Work of Art: World’s Fairs, Biennials, and the Aesthetics of Experience, newly published by The University of Chicago Press. Introduction by Rafal Niemojewski, Director of the Biennial Foundation. Followed by drinks reception.
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Edited by Daiva Citvarienė

The tension between the locality of the region and the globality of the art world remains a key aspect of contemporary art biennials. In order to once again reflect on the phenomenon of global culture, this publication dedicated to the 10th Kaunas Biennial presents articles and interviews from Lithuanian and international art historians, curators and culture managers analysing the paradox of locality vs. globality in the history of the phenomenon of biennials.
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