Venice Biennale 2022: Official Collateral Events Guide

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.”