Though its theme, “The Passion and the Wave,” might be mistaken for the title of a Yanni album, the sixth installment of the Istanbul Biennial promises to be anything but flaky. Miriam Bäkström, Yuki Kimura, Ugo Rondinone, Arturo Herrera, Kara Walker, and Fatimah Tuggar are among the sixty well-chosen artists assembled by organizer Paolo Colombo, director of the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva. Works will be shown at several venues, principally the Dolmabahçe Cultural Center, along with a smattering of site-specific projects, including an installation of billboards reachable only by ferryboat. The catalogue, which is to document the in situ artworks, will be published after the show closes.

— Matthew DeBord