Choreographer and dancer Botis Seva, architect Jayden Ali, fashion designer Steve O Smith, biodesigner Natsai Audrey Chieza and chef and restaurateur Tomos Parry talk about craft, community and the places that shape their work, from a Dagenham youth club to an open-fire kitchen in Shoreditch.

A few canals from the Arsenale and Giardini and its freight of geopolitics, the eighth edition of Personal Structures gathers more than 150 artists across two palazzos and a garden under the theme of ‘Confluences’. The European Cultural Centre Italy’s parallel show holds its contradictions in the same room.

Puerto Rican artist Angel Otero explores the concept of memory and place in his layered paintings, and across film and installation in ‘Agua Salada’ (Salt Water) at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

Hauser & Wirth and Comité Picabia present ‘Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons’ at the Mayfair gallery spanning five decades of work for a rare glimpse into the career of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and exciting artists.

The new Rolls-Royce Black Badge Cullinan gives little away outside. A gradient coachline and a tag on the umbrella canopy are the only hints at the Kongoverse within. Cyril Kongo, the French-Vietnamese artist who came up through 1980s Parisian street art, worked alongside Goodwood's craftspeople on five privately commissioned Cullinans, each with more than seventy paint colours on the headliner and 1,344 stars in every ceiling.

The 61st Venice Biennale arrives charged with the moment, with pavilion closures, boycotts and demonstrations gathered alongside the art. At its centre is 'In Minor Keys', this year's main international exhibition, imagined by the late Koyo Kouoh and realised by her trusted curators after her death last May. What unfolds at the Arsenale, around a poem by the Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, is ultimately a show about hope — a quieter kind of politics, a stage for softer voices gathered in chorus.