Busan Biennale Names Artists for 2026 Edition
12July 9, 2026
The organizers of theBusan Biennalehave announced the forty-six artists and collectives from twenty-two countries participating in the 2026 edition, set to take place August 29–November 1. Participants include those working across sound, music, performance, choreography, club culture, archival research, moving image, installation, sculpture, painting, drawing, and social activism. The cohort will respond to the theme “Dissident Chorus,” as set out by the event’s co–artistic directors,Amal KhalafandEvelyn Simons.
Of note, the Biennale eschews primarily visual work in favor of “voices, bodies, scores, images, archives, radio broadcasts, maps, and live situations,” per a press release, with these treating “sound as material, the body as archive, and assembly as a political form.”
The exhibition is divided into three parts, with each envisioned as a part of a polyphonic score existing within the larger symphony of Busan itself. The Busan Museum of Contemporary Art will host the first so-called movement “at an ecological threshold where river, sea, and bird migration routes converge, gathering practices of care, regeneration, and worldbuilding.” Space OneZ, a hundred-year-old marine warehouse in Yeongdo, will house the exhibition’s second second movement, investigating port histories and aquatic myth, as well as concepts of labor and resistance. The onetime Busan Nam High School will host the third movement, imagined as “a rehearsal space for bottom-up knowledge, oral histories, censored materials, and futures still forming.”
A full list of participants is below.
5D (Sammy Lee, Mark Lowe, Sarah Shin) (Canada and United Kingdom)
Aliaskar Abarkas (Iran / United Kingdom)
Alison Nguyen (United States)
Bhenji Ra (Australia)
Brahim Tall (Belgium)
Dew Kim (South Korea)
Drexciya / Gerald Donald (United States)
Éric Baudelaire (France)
Eunji Cho (South Korea)
Fatima Kaleem Khan (Pakistan)
Guely Morató Loredo (Bolivia)
Heaven Baek (South Korea)
Hyunsung Park (South Korea)
Jantsankhorol Erdenebayar (Mongolia)
Joar Songcuya (Philippines)
Joon Yoo (South Korea)
Joshua Serafin (Philippines)
Jota Mombaça (Brazil)
Julian Abraham “Togar” (Indonesia)
Julien Creuzet (France)
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag (Sudan)
Lala Rukh (Pakistan)
Lara Ögel (Türkiye)
Lee Dong-Keun (South Korea)
Luiz Roque (Brazil)
Minouk Lim (South Korea)
Mira Mann (Germany)
Moe Satt (Myanmar)
Natasha Tontey (Indonesia)
Nkisi (Belgium)
R.I.P. Germain (United Kingdom)
Shuang Li (China)
Sojung Jun (South Korea)
Suki Seokyeong Kang (South Korea)
Sungeun Kim (South Korea)
Sungsil Ryu (South Korea)
Tai Shani (United Kingdom)
Tanat Teeradakorn (Thailand)
The House of Korean Protest Songs (South Korea)
Tianzhuo Chen (China)
Tom Hallet (Belgium)
Ultra-red (Multinational)
Umi Ishihara (Japan)
Ursula K. Le Guin (United States)
Yazan Khalili (Palestine)
Zahra Malkani (Pakistan)