Venice Biennale: Ai Weiwei, Milla Jovovich and the best of the rest - in pictures
From the Chinese artist's piece about his 2011 imprisonment to Hollywood actress Jovovich performing in a glass box, via waterside acrobatics, a multicoloured spice landscape and 7,500 kites, here's a selection of the most memorable works on show at the Biennale.
• Watch an exclusive video of Jeremy Deller's British pavilion show
• Read Charlotte Higgins's take on the Iraq pavilion
• Watch an exclusive video of Jeremy Deller's British pavilion show
• Read Charlotte Higgins's take on the Iraq pavilion
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Visitors view Ai Weiwei's installation Bang, at the German pavilion
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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A general view of Ai Weiwei's SACRED installation in Venice's Church of Sant'Antonin. The six iron boxes contain dioramas of scenes from the 81 days in 2011 that the artist spent incarcerated in a Chinese prison
Photograph: Domenico Stinellis/AP
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Interior of one of the boxes in Ai Weiwei's SACRED
Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images
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Inside the Iraq pavilion, the art collective Wami (comprising Yaseen Wami and Hashim Taeeh) present their cardboard landscape Welcome to Iraq
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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A detail of the Welcome to Iraq installation
Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
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A visitor looks at the installation Working Table by Mark Manders in the Dutch pavilion
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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Part of an installation using spices called Campo de Color by Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone, in the Latin American pavilion
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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Tara Subkoff's artwork Future/Perfect, for which Milla Jovovich performs in a plexiglass box in the Barnabò garden
Photograph: Barbara Zanon/Getty Images
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A closeup of Jovovich performing
Photograph: Barbara Zanon/Getty Images
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Czech photographer Josef Koudelka poses next to his works at the Pavilion of the Holy See. This is the first time the Roman Catholic church has hosted a pavilion
Photograph: Andrea Merola/EPA
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Mathias Poledna represents Austria with his work Imitation of Life
Photograph: Daniele Resini/EPA
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Chinese artist He Yunchang (left) talks to a visitor beside his installation Transfiguration at the China pavilion
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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A general view of Qiu Zhijie's installation The Unicorn and the Dragon, at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images
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Jacob Hashimoto's Gas Giant – an installation composed of 7,500 kites – at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia
Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images
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Chinese artist Li Wei and an assistant perform above the water with St Mark's Campanile and the Doge's Palace visible in the background
Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images
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A visitor takes a picture of the installation The Garbage Patch State by Italian artist Maria Cristina Finucci
Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters
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