This year, the free three-month contemporary art festival explores the reality of the now via seven ’embassies of thought’.

One of Australia’s leading contemporary art events, the Biennale of Sydney, returns this year for its 20th iteration with a program titled The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. Free guided tours, artist and curator talks, lectures, performances and workshops will encourage innovation, experimentation and the communication of ideas across seven ‘embassies of thought’ venues when the 20th Biennale of Sydney takes over the city from 18 March until 5 June.

2016 Biennale Curator Stephanie Rosenthal has used her speciality in movement and performance-based art as a cornerstone of the innovative programme. She’s previously worked at the Haus der Kunst in Munich and London’s Hayward Gallery, and in the past year has drawn together 13 international curators and theorists – from Tokyo to South London, to New York – to co-develop this year’s programme that focuses on the idea of the ‘now’. “If each era posits its own view of reality, what is ours?” asked Rosenthal in an interview with Time Out Sydney. “One of the key ideas this Biennale explores is how the common...