Venice Biennale: Ai Weiwei, Milla Jovovich and the best of the rest - in pictures

Visitors view Ai Weiwei's installation Bang, at the German pavilion Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

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

Interior of one of the boxes in Ai Weiwei's SACRED Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

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

A detail of the Welcome to Iraq installation Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian

A visitor looks at the installation Working Table by Mark Manders in the Dutch pavilion Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Part of an installation using spices called Campo de Color by Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone, in the Latin American pavilion Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

Tara Subkoff's artwork Future/Perfect, for which Milla Jovovich performs in a plexiglass box in the Barnabò garden Photograph: Barbara Zanon/Getty Images

A closeup of Jovovich performing Photograph: Barbara Zanon/Getty Images

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

Mathias Poledna represents Austria with his work Imitation of Life Photograph: Daniele Resini/EPA

Chinese artist He Yunchang (left) talks to a visitor beside his installation Transfiguration at the China pavilion Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters

A general view of Qiu Zhijie's installation The Unicorn and the Dragon, at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

Jacob Hashimoto's Gas Giant – an installation composed of 7,500 kites – at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia Photograph: Marco Secchi/Getty Images

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

A visitor takes a picture of the installation The Garbage Patch State by Italian artist Maria Cristina Finucci Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/Reuters