For the twenty-fourth edition, which opened in November and took place across sites in Guatemala City and Antigua, the Paiz Foundation, which organizes the biennial, for the first time plunked down the cash to fly in a group of international journalists, curators, collectors, and other art-world denizens, hoping to bring attention to the exhibition, and to the region writ large.
At Il Bottaccio, the Relais & Châteaux located between the Apuan Alps and the Versilian coast, the work of Italian painter Sossio forms an exhibition integrated throughout the property, turning the into a cohesive and continuous artistic environment. The project places the Sossio Art Collection across corridors, salons, private suites, and transitional spaces, creating a steady visual presence that accompanies guests through the building's stone architecture and historic .
Now open through November 15, the exhibition transforms the East Village laundromat into an unlikely gallery, reimagining a space of everyday labor as a site for reflection on work, care and the invisible economies that keep life running. "Gloria Maximo's paintings depict an economy of care," reads the exhibition text. "They adjust our perception to the reality of need-the need for services, the need for employment, even the need for a place to be."
The Unconformity, a biennial four-day arts and culture event taking place in remote Queenstown, western Tasmania, opens with a particular feeling of resilience attached to it this year. Having evolved from a community-run art festival in 2016, in late 2023 it became the only festival to receive multi-year federal funding. For 2025, it is putting on its most ambitious programme to date.
I got a letter from the Turk X Taylor Initiative inviting members of the community to sign on to support their mission. They are a collective driven by architects, designers, artists, and activists ['researching material to collaboratively envision a speculative design proposal that decarcerates the Turk and Taylor historic building and its vacant storefront to resurface its legacy of resistance'].
The inaugural edition of the Bukhara Biennial opened on September 5, 2025, bringing over 70 site-specific commissions by more than 200 participants from 39 countries to the historic core of the Uzbek city. Commissioned by the Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) and Commissioner Gayane Umerova, the Biennial is described as the largest and most diverse cultural event in Central Asia to date. Curated by Diana Campbell under the theme
The abandoned, Soviet-era Palace of Culture in the spa town of Jermuk, Armenia, hosts Architecture: Ghostly Past and Unrevealed Present, a site-specific art program by ToC Cultural Organization that explores architectural abandonment as a form of ongoing presence. Over the course of a one-week residency in April 2025, three Armenian artists, photographer Armen Ter-Mkrtchyan, sculptor Manvel Matevosyan, and printmaker Sophie Musoyan, inhabited the building, creating works directly within its walls using salvaged materials, dust, light, and shadow.
Rachel Hayes transforms architectural spaces and natural landscapes into shifting compositions of color and movement with large-scale textile-based installations that are site-specific and vibrant.