Biennale
Biennale is Italian for "every other year" and can be used to describe any event that happens every two years. It is most commonly used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art, stemming for the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale, which was first held in 1895 (the phrase has since been used for multiple events, as the "Biennale de Paris", or even as Portmanteau with the Berlin Biennale Berlinale).
The term is most commonly used in the context of major repeating art exhibitions such as:
- Arts in Marrakech (AiM) Internaional Biennale (Arts in Marrakech Festival)
- Beijing Biennale
- BiennaleOnline, First International Biennale Exclusively Online on April 12, 2012
- Bucharest Biennale in Bucharest, Romania
- Bushwick Biennial, in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York
- Chengdu Biennale, in Chengdu, China
- Estuaire (biennale), biennale in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France
- Florence Biennale
- Havana biennial, in Havana, Cuba
- Herzliya Biennial For Contemporary Art, in Herzliya, Israel
- Incheon Women Artists' Biennale, in Incheon, South Korea
- Iowa Biennial, in Iowa, (USA)
- Istanbul Biennial, in Istanbul, Turkey
- International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, in Tehran and Istanbul
- Kortrijk Design Biennale Interieur, in Kortrijk, Belgium
- Kwangju Biennale in Kwangju (also spelled Gwangju), South Korea
- Light Art Biennale Austria, in Austria
- Liverpool Biennial
- Manifesta, European Biennale of contemporary art in different European cities
- Melbourne International Biennial 1999
- Moscow Biennale in Moscow (Russia)
- Munich Biennale, new opera and music-theatre in even-numbered years
- Biennale de Paris
- São Paulo Art Biennial in São Paulo
- Shanghai Biennale
- Sharjah biennial
- Singapore Biennale, held in various locations across the city-state island of Singapore
- Stourbridge Biennale, the UK's major exhibition of contemporary glass
- Biennale of Sydney
- Venice Biennale, which includes
- Visual Art Biennale, Reunion Island, France
- Whitney Biennial, hosted by the Whitney Museum of American Art
- Music Biennale Zagreb
- Vladivostok biennale of Visual Arts, in Vladivostok, Russia