Yokohama Triennale Reveals Artistic Directors for 2027 Edition
52Dec. 9, 2025
Writer and criticCosmin Costinasand art historianInti Guerrerohave been named joint artistic directors of the NinthYokohama Triennale, set to take place April 23–September 12, 2027, at the Yokohama Museum of Art and at other venues across the Japanese city. The Triennale’s six-person organizing committee chose the pair—who co-curated the Twenty-Fourth Biennale of Sydney in 2024 and served as guest curators of the 2018 Dakar Biennale—on the basis of their proposal, which hewed to the Triennale’s goal of “organiz[ing] dialogues with many regions around the world in a sustainable way, ” per Yukie Kamiya, chief curator of the National Art Center, Tokyo, and the chair of the Triennale’s selection committee.
The Satu Mare, Romania–born Costinas since 2022 has served as senior curator at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt. He was executive director and curator of Para Site contemporary art center in Hong Kong from 2011 to 2022, and earlier served as curator at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Costinas in 2022 directed the Kathmandu Triennale and, alongside Viktor Neumann, co-curated the Romanian pavilion at the Fifty-Ninth Venice Biennale.
Guerro, who was born in Bogotá, is an adjunct professor at Hong Kong’s City University and a PhD supervisor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Among his past curatorial projects are the 2022 exhibition “Myth Makers: Spectrosynthesis III” at Hong Kong’s Tai Kwun and “Institute for Tropical and Galactical Studies” at the 2020 Yokohama Triennale.
“[Costinas and Guerro’s] blueprint suggests a new vision of the Yokohama Triennale: one that takes in the local realities and challenges of our time through vast and deep metaphors of the ocean, allowing for slow and thoughtful reflection,” said Kamiya a statement. “In an age when unexpected forces are dividing what was once a connected world, we sincerely hope this will give rise to a practice that enables a sustainable form of interconnection.”