Venice Biennale 2022

Even a snatched wallet couldn't dim the joy of my return to Venice | Joan Bakewell

As the city came to life after the pandemic, gondoliers and tourists alike sat back, laughed and let fun and pleasure prevail, says writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell

Joan Bakewell

26, Dec, 2022 @2:00 PM

Sonia Boyce’s Venice Biennale winner to be exhibited in UK next year

Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds

Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent

26, Oct, 2022 @3:00 PM

Venice Biennale Musica review – things old, new, borrowed and bleurgh

The contemporary music strand of the Italian festival brought a typically elegant and thoughtful music theatre work by Michel van der Aa; less successful was Yvette Janine Jackson’s ‘radio opera’ Left Behind

Andrew Clements

26, Sep, 2022 @11:06 AM

Venice Dance Biennale review – Wayne McGregor delivers sinners and shapeshifters

The British choreographer’s programme includes beguiling digital dance created by Tobias Gremmler, a reckoning with desire from Rocío Molina and seven visions of vice

Chris Wiegand

29, Jul, 2022 @2:27 PM

Culture matters around the world. What a shame it has been toxically weaponised in the UK | Charlotte Higgins

There are so many examples of the arts being used to unite and galvanise people. Here it is being deployed as a tool of division, says Charlotte Higgins, the Guardian’s chief culture writer

Charlotte Higgins

20, Jun, 2022 @11:14 AM

The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale: sensuous and serious | Editorial

Editorial: The latest edition of the art exhibition feeds all the senses. It feels exactly right for now

Editorial

28, Apr, 2022 @5:26 PM

Cyborgs, sirens and a singing murderer: the thrilling, oligarch-free Venice Biennale – review

The Russian pavilion is closed and you can’t speak in the Italian one. Thank goodness for the opium-smoking cat and the human turning into a mobile phone. Our writer reports from the groundbreaking arts spectacular

Adrian Searle

25, Apr, 2022 @4:19 PM

British artist Sonia Boyce wins Golden Lion at Venice Biennale

Winning piece, Feeling Her Way, described as ‘perfect selection for this time in UK history’

David Connett

23, Apr, 2022 @8:43 PM

Venice Biennale: women outnumber male artists in main halls for first time

Black women occupy prominent pavilions with some venues showing work from non-binary, disabled and trans artists

Charlotte Higgins in Venice

22, Apr, 2022 @6:44 PM

Emin’s nudes, Sickert’s bedroom and fictional photography – the week in art

Tracey Emin’s first show since her illness, an overdue retrospective for Walter Sickert and Rodney Graham dips his toe in cubism

Jonathan Jones

22, Apr, 2022 @2:49 PM

Venice in Vantablack: Anish Kapoor’s disappearing act

The artist learned of the technology that absorbs nearly all visible light in the Guardian. As two shows featuring it open, he talks of a ‘stupid’ spat, his new foundation and dismay with England