• Laura Burocco

The theme for this year’s Venice Biennale, the ‘olympics of the art world’ is ‘Foreigners Everywhere.’ But beyond representation, what are the barriers to participation?

• Delinda Collier

The 2022 Venice Biennale shows that despite the lack of investment from African nations or the occasional hijacking by mercenary curators, African artists are finding ways to be seen.

• Laura Burocco

At the world’s most prestigious art exhibition, all is not well when it comes to relative newcomers from the African continent.

• Serubiri Moses

Okwui Enwezor’s “All the World's Futures” is a radical attempt at shifting the paradigms of biennale models to create a more democratic society of artists and exhibition spaces.

• Phoebe Boswell

How an Italian hotelier came to represent Kenya at the Venice Biennale.

• Paulo Moreira

A conversation with the curators of the Angolan Pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

• Megan Eardley

It is hard to find critics asking what Angolan artist Edson Chagas’s work does, the context through which it was produced, or the social conditions it draws attention to.

• Shamira Muhammad
• Orlando Reade

An interview with Abdellah Karroum is the artistic director of the Biennale Regard Benin 2012, which premise is “Inventing the World: the Artist as Citizen.”

• Elliot Ross