November 30 to December 6, 2026 · Miami and Miami Beach

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Biennale Editorial · 2026

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On viewVenice Biennale61st International Art Exhibition, In Minor KeysMay 9 to November 22, 2026On viewWhitney Biennial82nd edition, final floor on viewThrough October 12, 2026On viewManifesta 16 RuhrThis is not a church, twelve churches, four citiesThrough October 4, 2026On viewBusan Biennale13th edition, Dissident ChorusThrough November 1, 2026On viewGwangju Biennale16th edition, You Must Change Your LifeThrough November 15, 2026On viewLyon Biennale18th edition, To pass from one dream to anotherThrough December 13, 2026On viewToronto Biennial of Art4th edition, Things Fall ApartThrough December 20, 2026On viewCarnegie International59th edition, If the word weThrough January 3, 2027Opening soonBangkok Art Biennale5th edition, Angels and MaraOpens October 29, 2026Opening soonDak’Art16th edition, artistic director Morad MontazamiOpens November 19, 2026Opening soonBamako Encounters15th edition, Refabulation(s)Opens November 26, 2026Opening soonMiami Art WeekArt Basel Miami Beach and 17 fairsNovember 30 to December 6, 2026Opening soonSharjah Biennial 17What remains, sits restiveOpens January 21, 2027
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Venice Biennale

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The five-yearly show that resets the field.

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America's recurring read on its own art.

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Biennale of Sydney

The Asia-Pacific's leading contemporary gathering.

Founded 1973 Havana · Cuba

Havana Biennial

The biennial that re-centred the Global South.

Founded 1984 Istanbul · Türkiye

Istanbul Biennial

Contemporary art on a complex political stage.

Founded 1987 Gwangju · South Korea

Gwangju Biennale

Asia's oldest, born of democratic memory.

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A pivotal platform for the Global South.

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Kara Walker

Cut-paper silhouettes confronting American histories of race and memory.

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Arthur Jafa

Filmmaker whose moving-image work reframes Black aesthetics.

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Pierre Huyghe

Living systems and speculative ecologies that blur art and organism.

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Trevor Paglen

Photography and research mapping surveillance and the unseen state.

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Forensic Architecture

Reconstructing human-rights events through spatial evidence.

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Meriem Bennani

Animation and installation on diaspora, technology and the everyday.

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El Anatsui

Bottle-cap tapestries turning discarded metal into shimmering history.

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Firelei Báez

Riotous colour over colonial maps: folklore reclaiming the archive.

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John Akomfrah

Multi-screen films where oceanic beauty carries histories of migration.

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

Painted figures of sovereign interiority, indebted to Manet, wholly modern.

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