Personal Structures gives voice to communities often overlooked by the art world's main stage. Running alongside Venice Biennale and across three historic Venetian locations, over 200 contributors from 51 countries explore pressing contemporary challenges, from Gaza to Roma heritage to female sexuality. I speak with the director Sara Danieli on the importance of curatorial freedom.

Pioneering AI artist Refik Anadol creates living, breathing artworks that blur the boundaries between technology and ecology, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human in the age of machine intelligence. His immersive installations, built from billions of images of rainforests and coral reefs, challenge us to see AI not as nature's replacement but as a tool for deeper ecological understanding.

At almost 90, Esther Mahlangu remains a fearless force in contemporary art. Her first retrospective at the Iziko Museums of South Africa celebrates six decades of work that transforms traditional Ndebele geometric designs into a bold contemporary practice, anchored by the iconic 1991 BMW 525i Art Car that made her the first woman and first African artist in the celebrated series.

Tomás Saraceno asks visitors to surrender their phones at the entrance to his Serpentine exhibition—a small sacrifice for full immersion into his intricate world of spider webs and environmental activism. The Berlin-based artist has spent over a decade observing spiders, questioning who truly owns this planet. His practice moves between art, science, and indigenous knowledge, weaving urgent questions about how we might better cohabit Earth with other species.

Pietro Ratti was only 20 when his father Renato passed away, inheriting not just a winery but a legacy. Now Pietro continues that vision at the family estate in La Morra, where Nebbiolo comprises 60 percent of plantings across sixty hectares. His approach honours his father's philosophy: long maceration, large barrels for elegant aging, intimate guest experiences. I went to Piedmont to meet the winemaker.

When Bernardino Sani and agronomist Francesco Monari arrived at Argiano a decade ago, the historic Montalcino estate was making wines vastly different from today. Their approach was methodical: GPS soil mapping to identify optimal parcels, egg-shaped concrete fermentation tanks, shifting from barrique to large botti for gentler aging. The philosophy: respect the fruit, understand the land, don't over-extract. I met Sani at the estate.