Biennale

Biennale is Italian for "every other year" and can be used to describe any event that happens every 2 years. It is commonly used within the art world to describe an international manifestation of contemporary art (for example, the "Biennale de Paris" which was created in 1959 by André Malraux. The word is spelled identically ('biennale') in French. English speakers sometimes use the equivalent English word, biennial (for example, the "Venice Biennial") in speaking or writing of such events. The term is most commonly used in the context of major repeating art exhibitions and may refer to:

• Biennale of Sydney
• Bucharest Biennale in Bucharest, Romania
• Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area (CAFKA), Canadian Biennale of Contemporary Art
• Estuaire (biennale), biennale in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France
• FotoFest, The International Month of Photo-related Arts, Houston, Texas
• Herzliya Biennial For Contemporary Art, in Herzliya, Israel
• Iowa Biennial, in Iowa, (USA)
• Istanbul Biennial, in Istanbul, Turkey
• International Roaming Biennial of Tehran, in Tehran and Istanbul.
• Kitakyushu Biennial, held in Kitakyushu, Japan
• Kwangju Biennale in Kwangju (also spelled Gwangju), South Korea
• Liverpool Biennial
• Manifesta, European Biennale of contemporary art in different European cities
• Melbourne International Biennial 1999
• Moscow Biennale in Moscow (Russia)
• Mostra di Architettura di Venezia, International bi-annual Architecture Exhibition in Venice
• São Paulo Art Biennial in São Paulo
• Shanghai Biennial in Shanghai
• Singapore Biennale, held in various locations across the city-state island of Singapore
• Florence Biennale
• Venice Biennale
• Vancouver Biennale, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Biennale de Paris