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Gwangju Biennale

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The Most Important Art Biennials of 2026

As questions of access, locality and relevance grow more urgent, major institutional biennials—from Venice to Gwangju—will have to prove they can engage not just their immediate context but the fractured, shifting world they claim to reflect.
By Elisa Carollo

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
By The Editors,  Christa Terry,  Dan Duray,  Elisa Carollo,  Farah Abdessamad,  and Merin Curotto
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The First American Pavilion in the Gwangju Biennale Questions Notions of National Identity

Titled "Rhythmic Vibrations," the pavilion features a polyphony of Asian, Asian American and Asian Diasporic voices.
By Elisa Carollo
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Nicolas Bourriaud Discusses the Curatorial Approach of the 2024 Gwangju Biennale

By Elisa Carollo
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Frieze and Kiaf Open in Seoul: First Impressions and Early Sales

By Elisa Carollo

The 51 Artists, Curators, Directors and Dealers Changing the Art World in 2018

By Margaret Carrigan, Juliet Helmke and Guelda Voien
Opaque, a film from Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz, in their installation at the 2016 Gwangju Biennale.

South Korea Needs Political Art…and the 11th Annual Gwangju Biennale Delivers It

By Guelda Voien
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Art World Abstracts: Museums Will Take Away Your Power to Selfie, and More!

By Nate Freeman
Monet. (Courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Morning Links: Happy Birthday Impressionism Edition

By Nate Freeman
Morgan. (Courtesy Gwangju Biennale)

2014 Gwangju Biennale Releases Full 105-Artist List

By Gallerist

Gwangju Biennale Taps Six Women to Direct 2012 Edition

By Andrew Russeth
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