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Venice Biennale

A spacious gallery installation with suspended vertical wires, colorful curved glass panels arranged across the floor, and large wall-mounted glass works.

Su Xiaobai’s Meditative Material Practice Is the Focus of One of the Biennale’s Most Commanding Shows

The artist's magmatic lacquer works slow the viewer down by inviting them to investigate, appreciate and understand the temporal process each work embodies.
By Elisa Carollo
A portrait photograph shows Manuel Mathieu standing in front of a large abstract painting with purple, orange and white forms, framed by hanging strips of textured material.

Manuel Mathieu’s Venice Biennale Debut Asks How We Carry the Past

The Haitian-Canadian artist is one of the few in this year's Biennale showing in both the Arsenale and the Giardini—a feat that speaks to the breadth and ambition of his practice.
By Elise Morton
An ornate museum gallery with dark curtains, glass cabinets and classical busts displays several white pillow-like sculptural figures positioned across the floor.

Erwin Wurm Transforms the Fortuny Museum into a Theater of the Absurd

"Absurdity allows us to see things differently. If we look at the same chair every day, eventually we stop seeing it. But if we shift perspective and look at it through absurdity or paradox, suddenly the social conventions behind it become visible."
By Elisa Carollo
An indoor garden installation fills a gallery with soil, rocks, trees and plants.

Global Art Biennials: Renovation, Revelation—or Repetition?

By Paco Barragán
A red-accented booth shows a suspended assemblage sculpture made of wire, translucent red materials and found objects, with visitors looking at works in the background.

Frieze New York Opens Strong, But the Real Test Is Just Beginning

By Elisa Carollo
Paintings and sculptural busts by Edouard Duval-Carrié are displayed against vivid blue walls in an installation exploring Haitian vodou cosmologies and colonial history at the Venice Biennale.

Koyo Kouoh’s Venice Biennale Looks to Ancient Wisdom to Mend a Fractured Present

By Elisa Carollo
A group of tall clay and organic sculptures resembling human figures stand in a dimly lit formation inside Chiara Camoni’s Italian Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale.

The Venice Biennale’s Most Powerful Pavilions Tune into Shared Consciousness

By Elisa Carollo
A close-up of a widescreen monitor embedded in gray panels shows a black-and-white image of a hand, with a small metal cart positioned to the left against the installation.

The Philippines Pavilion Turns the Country’s Maritime History into an Archive of Universal Longing

By Elisa Carollo

LAS Art Foundation Pushes Quantum Art Forward in a New Venice Commission

By Elisa Carollo

In the Polish Pavilion, “Liquid Tongues” Rewrites Our Hierarchy of the Senses

By Elisa Carollo
An older woman sits at a table painting a geometric pattern on fabric while a small monkey stands on her arm, with a large patterned textile hanging behind her.

Sara Flores On Bringing Shipibo-Konibo Cosmology to Peru’s Venice Pavilion

By Elisa Carollo
A bald, bearded man in a black jacket sits on a couch designed like oversized Ionic column capitals, posed in a living room with bookshelves behind him.

In Venice, Andreas Angelidakis Is Queering the Idea of a National Pavilion

By Sarah Moroz
A portrait of a woman artist seated in her studio, surrounded by paint tubes and brushes, with two of her paintings visible behind her—one a monochrome seascape and the other a surreal composition of headless figures with floating fruit.

As Venice Nears, Arch Hades Traces Her Shift from Verse to Visuals

By Aisling O'Leary
Artists and curator pose together outdoors against a brick and stone wall

India Returns to Venice With a Pavilion Rooted in Memories of Home

By Elisa Carollo
Exterior of a building covered by a colorful wall painting

The Venice Biennale Announces 111 Artists for Its 2026 Edition, Koyo Kouoh’s “In Minor Keys”

By Elisa Carollo
A side-by-side pairing of an abstract painting on the left with organic, almost human lines and a terra cotta statue of a curvy human on the right

Adrian Parr Zaretsky’s Intimate Response to an Unthinkable World

By Christa Terry
Kennedy Center Adds Trump's Name To Building

The Defining Art World Moments of 2025, According to the Art Daddy

By The Art Daddy
Professional portrait of Lina Ghotmeh, founder of LG—A, wearing a red blouse. The image includes "Observer 2025 Art Index" branding with her name and title "Founder & Architect, LG—A," on the right side.

Lina Ghotmeh Is Reimagining Cultural Architecture for a Connected World

By The Editors

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

By The Editors, Christa Terry, Dan Duray, Elisa Carollo, Farah Abdessamad and Merin Curotto
A close-up view of a person’s bare feet entangled in red and white plastic tubing, evoking vulnerability and physical connection.

Chiharu Shiota Weaves Historical Memory, Body and Belonging in “Two Home Countries”

By Elisa Carollo
Rember Yahuarcani’s vivid nocturnal composition where human, insect, and animal forms merge in motion across glowing red and violet bands, evoking mythic continuities between earthly and spiritual realms.

Rember Yahuarcani On Wielding Paint as a Tool of Cultural Preservation and Resistance

By Elisa Carollo
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
The image appears to feature a surreal, haunting scene with figures wearing masks and standing in a snowy, desolate landscape. Some figures are mounted on horses, while others are grouped together, gazing into the distance. There are two dogs in the foreground, and a large hole in the ground that holds an intricately depicted heart symbol, which adds a layer of emotional depth to the scene. The figures' faces are mostly obscured by brightly colored masks, creating a sense of anonymity and eerie detachment. The overall mood is somber, evoking themes of mystery, vulnerability, and loss.

This Fall’s Must-See Gallery Shows in New York

By Elisa Carollo
The image shows an exhibition space with sculptures by François-Xavier and Claude Lalanne. In the foreground, a large blue pig sculpture stands prominently, its geometric form and bright color striking against the historic backdrop. To the left, a bronze figure, possibly from a different artist, with outstretched arms, contrasts the playful nature of the animal sculpture. A smaller sculpture, possibly by the Lalannes, is positioned to the right on a pedestal, completing the eclectic arrangement in the room. The space has a classical ambiance, with ornate mirrors and detailed architecture enhancing the contemporary artwork's impact.

Record Prices, New Buyers and Global Reach: Design’s Moment Has Arrived

By Elisa Carollo
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