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Country hubs · Free to read · Updated October 5, 2026

Country hubs · Eleven to start

Art, Country by Country

The market, the politics and the places, one country at a time. Eleven to begin with; more as they are reported.

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North AmericaUnited StatesPaid for privately, argued over publicly.Photo: Dllu, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. EuropeUnited KingdomPromises made without a budget attached.Photo: Ilya Grigorik, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. EuropeFranceA growing market, a retrenching state.Photo: Yann Caradec, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0. EuropeItalyA looser trade and a tighter grip on the Biennale.Photo: kallerna, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. EuropeSwitzerlandThe infrastructure is asked who pays, and who answers.Photo: Kuhnmi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. AsiaIndiaAn art economy that has outrun its public institutions.Photo: Rutiknatekar, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. AsiaSouth KoreaRecord public money, a market below its peak.Photo: Eunmi Park, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. AsiaJapanGreat audiences, a small market, unfinished reform.Photo: Morio, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Europe and AsiaTurkeyPrivate foundations built it. Inflation is testing it.Photo: Hunanuk, Wikimedia Commons, CC0. OceaniaAustraliaFragile institutions, a sturdy public.Photo: Benh LIEU SONG, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Middle EastUnited Arab EmiratesA coronation year that became a stress test.Photo: Firoze Edassery, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Each hub is original editorial, free to read, linked to the cities, biennales, fairs and museums in the My Biennale directory.

What a country hub is

The Editorial Side of the House

The directory says what is on and where. A country hub says why it looks the way it does: who pays for culture, who governs it, what the market did this year, and which arguments are still open.

Each page carries the same nine parts: the state of things now, the market, politics and money, society, the cities, a calendar of biennales and fairs, the institutions and people to know, how to go, and what to watch next year. Figures are sourced and dated. Where something could not be confirmed, the page says so.

The regional pages remain the quickest way to scan a continent: Europe, Asia, North America, Oceania and the Middle East. For the practical side of any trip, start with Biennale Traveller.

Interlude

“The central question was not whether art should be political, but how.”

The Biennale Book, on the Berlin Biennale

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