The co-directors of the 2026 Busan Biennale, Evelyn Simons, right, and Amal Khalaf, speak during a press conference for the biennale at the Seoul Press Center in Jung District, central Seoul, on May 27. [YONHAP]
The 2026 Busan Biennale will open under the title “Dissident Chorus” on Aug. 29, with 44 artists and teams from 23 countries spread across three venues on two of the city’s islands.
The Busan Biennale this year is conceived as a “polyphonic score” in three movements, according to the organizers. The first will call the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art on Eulsukdo Island its home, with the museum to display works on ecology, care and regeneration, anchored to the island’s status as a protected bird habitat.
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Space One-Z, a former ship-equipment warehouse on Yeongdo Island’s waterfront, will host the second movement focusing on labor, the sea and diasporic memory.
