The biennale calendar, 2027.
31 editions, month by month: what is on view, what opens next, and who is curating it.
This calendar lists every biennale, triennial and recurring survey we track with dates in 2027, checked against official sources on October 1, 2026. Editions marked Expected have a month but no published dates; Unconfirmed means we could not verify that the edition will take place. Each entry links to our guide and to the organizer.
For commercial fairs see the art fairs calendar; for each region, start with Europe, Asia or Latin America.
Carried over from 2026
May 2026
- May 2, 2026 to January 3, 2027
59th Carnegie International On view
Pittsburgh, USA · If the word we · Curated by Ryan Inouye, Danielle A. Jackson, Liz Park
October 2026
- October 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027
5th Bangkok Art Biennale Opens October 29
Bangkok, Thailand · Angels and Mara · Curated by Apinan Poshyananda (CEO and artistic director), with Adulaya Hoontrakul, Rémy Jarry, Melanie Pocock, Kulapat Yantrasast
November 2026
- November 26, 2026 to January 26, 2027
15th Bamako Encounters Opens November 26
Bamako, Mali · Refabulation(s) · Curated by Armelle Dakouo
December 2026
- December 10, 2026 to January 10, 2027
6th Casablanca International Biennale Opens December 10
Essaouira, Morocco · Fabriquer l'Impossible · Curated by Marisa Caichiolo (international commissioner)
Opening in 2027
January 2027
- January 21 to June 13, 2027
Sharjah Biennial 17 Opens January 21
Sharjah, UAE · What remains, sits restive · Curated by Angela Harutyunyan and Paula Nascimento
- Dates to be announced; expected January 2027
6th New Museum Triennial Dates to comeExpected
New York, USA · The Outside Expands · Curated by Vivian Crockett and Isabella Rjeille
March 2027
- March 23 to November 7, 2027
9th Beaufort Triennial (Beaufort27) Opens March 23
Belgian coast (ten coastal communes), Belgium · A Shared Horizon · Curated by Léo Marin
- March 27 to April 25, 2027
Lahore Biennale 04 Opens March 27
Lahore, Pakistan · The Shape of Coexistence · Curated by Nav Haq
April 2027
- April 2 to June 27, 2027
8th Athens Biennale Opens April 2
Athens, Greece · STASIS/ECSTASIS · Curated by Thiago de Paula Souza (curator); Poka-Yio (artistic director)
- April 23 to September 12, 2027
9th Yokohama Triennale Opens April 23
Yokohama, Japan · Curated by Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero (artistic directors)
May 2027
- May 8 to November 21, 2027
20th International Architecture Exhibition Opens May 8
Venice, Italy · Do Architecture: For the Possibility of Coexistence Facing a Real Reality · Curated by Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu
June 2027
- June 5 to September 12, 2027
14th Liverpool Biennial (Liverpool Biennial 2027) Opens June 5
Liverpool, UK · Curated by Lucía Sanromán and Aimee Harrison
- June 6 to September 19, 2027
4th Helsinki Biennial Opens June 6
Helsinki, Finland · Unknowns · Curated by Mami Kataoka and Arja Miller
- June 8 to June 17, 2027
16th Prague Quadrennial Opens June 8
Prague, Czech Republic · Absences and Silences as Spaces of Potential for New Scenographic Futures · Curated by Barbora Příhodová (artistic director)
- June 12 to September 19, 2027
documenta 16 Opens June 12
Kassel, Germany · Curated by Naomi Beckwith (artistic director), with Carla Acevedo-Yates, Romi Crawford, Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro and Xiaoyu Weng
- June 13 to October 3, 2027
Skulptur Projekte 2027 (6th edition) Opens June 13
Münster, Germany · Curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW (Ivet Ćurlin, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović)
August 2027
- August 16 to November 14, 2027
- August 21 to October 17, 2027
12th Ballarat International Foto Biennale Opens August 21
Ballarat, Australia
- August 27 to October 24, 2027
September 2027
- Opens September 4, 2027
- September 18 to November 14, 2027
19th Istanbul Biennial Opens September 18
Istanbul, Turkey · Curated by Liu Ding and Carol Yinghua Lu
October 2027
- October 23 to October 31, 2027
16th Florence Biennale Opens October 23
Florence, Italy · Beyond the Sense of Time: Memory, Caducity and Eternity in Contemporary Art and Design
- October 30, 2027 to May 7, 2028
Desert X 2027 Opens October 30
Coachella Valley, USA · Curated by Neville Wakefield (artistic director) and Kaitlin Garcia-Maestas (curator)
November 2027
- Dates to be announced; expected November 2027
16th Shanghai Biennale Dates to comeExpected
Shanghai, China · Curated by Ferran Barenblit (chief curator)
December 2027
- Dates to be announced; expected December 2027
5th Thailand Biennale, Rayong Dates to comeExpected
Rayong, Thailand · Sin-Samudr, Turning Currents · Curated by jiradej and pornpilai meemalai / BAAN NOORG (artistic director)
2027, month to be announced
- Dates to be announced
37th Bienal de São Paulo Dates to comeExpected
São Paulo, Brazil · Curated by Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca
- Dates to be announced
7th Kochi-Muziris Biennale Dates to comeExpected
Kochi, India · Curated by Kader Attia
- Dates to be announced
14th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art Dates to come
Berlin, Germany · Curated by Vasyl Cherepanyn
- Dates to be announced
16th Baltic Triennial Dates to come
Vilnius, Lithuania · Curated by Nikita Kadan and Natalia Sielewicz
- Dates to be announced
15th Taipei Biennial Dates to comeExpected
Taipei, Taiwan · Curated by Cecilia Alemani
- Dates to be announced
10th Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale Dates to come
Tokamachi and Tsunan, Niigata Prefecture, Japan · Curated by Fram Kitagawa (general director)
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