This year, the Venice Biennale offers 30 official collateral events that the curators have sanctioned. They will run at the same time as the Biennale.
The Collateral Events series is a strong tradition of the Art Biennale in Venice, which occurs in parallel with the presentations of the national pavilions in the Arsenale and Giardini during each edition. Selected by exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani, the Collateral Events are an integral part of this year’s main show featuring 31 presentations.
This year’s events deeply engage with the present and reflect on the circumstances that define humanity today. There will be exhibitions that address information overload, environmental protection, global crises and conflicts and the search for spirituality. It is also an opportunity to meet various artists through an extensive range of themes.
Here is the complete list of official collateral events taking place during the 59th Venice Biennale
Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-27 November
Angels Listening
Loggia del Temanza, 23 April-27 November

Apollo, Apollo
Calle del Ridotto, 23 April-27 November
Bosco Sodi: What Goes Around Comes Around
Palazzo Vendramin Grimani, 23 April-27 November
The Mexican artist Bosco Sodi has been in Venice since February, turning part of the ground floor of the Palazzo Vendramin Grimani into a temporary studio. He has been producing his characteristic paintings using wood dust, cellulose pulp, glue and pigment, which will be exhibited in the imposing rooms of the piano nobile. Downstairs will be 195 spheres of red Mexican clay.
Catalonia in Venice_Llim
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November
Claire Tabouret: I am spacious, singing flesh
Palazzo Cavanis, 23 April-27 November

Scotland + Venice
Alberta Whittle: deep dive (pause) uncoiling memory
Docks Cantieri Cucchini, 23 April-27 November
The Barbados-born Scottish artist’s work will address oceanic histories and the city’s traumatising images of enslaved Black people hidden in plain sight.
Eugen Raportoru: The Abduction from the Seraglio
Roma Women: Performative Strategies of Resistance
Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, 23 April-27 November
Ewa Kuryluk: I, White Kangaroo / Io, il Canguro Bianco
Palazzo Querini, 23 April-27 November
From Palestine With Art
Palazzo Mora, 23 April-27 November

This is Ukraine: Defending Freedom @Venice 2022
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, 23 April-7 August
Ha Chong-Hyun
Palazzetto Tito, 23 April-24 August
A retrospective of the Korean painter Ha Chong-Hyn, a leading artist of the postwar reconstruction in Korea, including more than 20 works from the 1960 to the present day.
Heinz Mack: Vibration of Light
Sale Monumentali della Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 23 April-17 July
Impossible Dreams
Palazzo delle Prigioni, 23 April-27 November

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence
Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 23 April-24 July
Artist of the moment Kehinde Wiley comes to Venice with new monumental paintings and sculptures which expand on his DOWN series from 2008. Inspired by Hans Holbein’s painting of a dead Christ in his tomb and classical sculptures of fallen soldiers, Wiley’s work shows young Black men and women in prone positions, alluding to the “spectre of police violence and state control over the bodies of young Black and Brown people all over the world.”
Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light
Olivolo, San Pietro di Castello, 23 April-27 November
Louise Nevelson: Persistence
Procuratie Vecchie, 23 April-11 September
Lucio Fontana / Antony Gormley
Negozio Olivetti, 23 April-27 November
Pera + Flora + Fauna: The Story of Indigenousness and the Ownership of History
Archivi della Misericordia, 23 April-27 November
Road of Faith
Palazzo Zen, 23 April-27 November
Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings
Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, 23 April-27 November
Take Your Time
Salone Verde, 23 April-27 November
Chun Kwang Young: Times Reimagined
Palazzo Contarini Polignac, 23 April-27 November
Rony Plesl: Trees Grow from the Sky
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione, 23 April-27 November
Tue Greenfort: Medusa Alga Laguna
Castello 1228 (Ca’ Sarasina), 23 April-1 November
Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained
Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, 23 April-27 November
Vera Molnár: Icône 2020
Atelier Muranese, New Murano Gallery, 23 April-27 November
With hands signs grow
Palazzo Donà Brusa, 23 April-27 November
Zinaida: Without Women
Spiazzi, 23 April-27 November
YiiMa Art Group: Allegory of Dreams
Arsenale, Campo della Tana, 23 April-20 October