The Biennale of Sydney, Australia’s prime biennial, has revealed the complete artist record for its 2026 version, which is because of open on March 14, 2026.
The exhibition is intently watched by curators and has accordingly introduced on as its organizer a curator who’s herself broadly acclaimed: Hoor Al Qasimi, the president and director of the Sharjah Artwork Basis. It’s her second biennial-style present up to now yr, after the Aichi Triennale in Japan.
Al Qasimi’s Biennale of Sydney is named “Rememory,” a time period from Toni Morrison’s legendary 1987 novel Beloved. Morrison used the phrase to check with states wherein traumatic previous occasions are recalled piecemeal by teams of individuals preventing erasure.
“Working with artists to convey ‘Rememory’ to life, I’m struck by the profound timeliness of this version. The Biennale has all the time been a web site for essentially the most very important, pressing, and resonant artwork of its second,” Al Qasimi stated in a press release. “But this version feels particularly current, even insistent—an irony, maybe, as ‘Rememory’ turns to the written, visible, and oral histories of tradition, context, household, and nation.”
Whereas the Biennale of Sydney often locations an emphasis on Indigenous artwork, her present will improve its focus in that space, partnering with the Fondation Cartier pour l’artwork contemporain to facilitate 15 commissions by First Nations artists. These artists embody Edgar Calel, Warraba Weatherall, and Gabriel Chaile.
Included alongside them on this biennial might be artists who repeatedly seem in recurring reveals akin to this one, together with Emily Jacir, who received the Golden Lion on the 2007 Venice Biennale, and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, who not too long ago received a MacArthur “genius” fellowship.
The total artist record follows under.
Abdul Abdullah (Australia / Thailand)
Ángel Poyón (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Angélica Serech (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Behrouz Boochani (Kurdistan / Iran / Aotearoa (New Zealand), Hoda Afshar (Iran / Australia) and Vernon Ah Kee (Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr, Australia)
Benjamin Work (Tonga / Aotearoa New Zealand)
Bouchra Khalili (Morocco / Austria)
CAMP (India)
Cannupa Hanska Luger (Standing Rock Indian Reservation, North Dakota / New Mexico, USA)
Carmen Glynn-Braun (Kaytetye, Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Australia)
Chang En Man (Paiwan, Taiwan)
Chen Chieh-jen (Taiwan R.O.C.)
Daisy Quezada Ureña (USA)
DAAR (DECOLONIZING ARCHITECTURE ART RESEARCH) (Palestine)
Deirdre O’Mahony (Eire)
Dennis Golding (Kamilaroi/Gamilaraay, Australia)
Dread Scott (USA)
Edgar Calel (Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Elverina Johnson (Yarrabah, Australia)
Ema Shin (Japan / Australia)
Emily Jacir (Palestine / Italy)
Fernando Poyón (Maya Kaqchikel, Guatemala)
Frank Younger & The Kulata Tjuta Mission (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Australia)
Gabriel Chaile (Argentina / Lisbon)
Gunybi Ganambarr (Yolŋu (Ŋaymil) folks, Australia)
Helen Grace (Australia)
Hou I-Ting (Taiwan)
John Harvey (Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Australia) & Walter Waia (Kalaw Kawaw Ya/Saibai Island, Torres Strait, Australia)
John Prince Siddon (Walmajarri, Australia)
Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige (Lebanon / France)
Joe Namy (USA / UK/ Lebanon)
Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada / France)
Kiri Dalena (Philippines)
Kuba Dorabialski (Poland / Australia)
Lamia Joreige (Lebanon)
Marian Abboud (Australia)
Maritea Dæhlin (Norway / Mexico)
Massinissa Selmani (Algeria / France)
Merilyn Fairskye (Australia) & Michiel Dolk (Netherlands / Australia)
Michael Rakowitz (USA)
Monica Rani Rudhar (Australia)
Nahom Teklehaimanot (Ethiopia / Kenya)
Nancy Yukuwal McDinny (Garrwa / Yanyuwa, Australia)
Natalie Davey (Australia)
Nikesha Breeze (United States)
Richard Bell (Kamilaroi/Kooma/Jiman/Gurang Gurang, Australia)
Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, USA)
Sandra Monterroso (Maya Q’qchi’, Guatemala)
Tania Willard (Secwepemcúlecw, Canada)
Taysir Batniji (Gaza, Palestine / France)
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn (Vietnam / USA)
Warraba Weatherall (Kamilaroi, Australia)
Wendy Hubert (Yindjibarndi Nation, Australia)
Yaritji Younger (Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands, Australia)
