The Gwangju Biennale is a contemporary art biennale founded in September 1995 in Gwangju, South Jeolla province, South Korea. The Biennale is curated by both Korean and International curators and art critics and is hosted by the Gwangju Biennale Foundation and the city of Gwangju. The Gwangju Biennale Foundation also hosts the Gwangju Design Biennale, founded in 2004.
In 2026, the Chinese government compelled Chinese artists to boycott the event due to the use of the name "Taiwan Pavilion" to represent Taiwan’s National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
History 1995: Beyond Borders 1997: Unmapping the Earth 2000: Man and Space 2002: P_A_U_S_E 2004: A Grain of Dust A Drop of Water 2006: Fever Variations 2008: On the Road / Position Papers / Insertions 2010: 10,000 LIVES 2012: ROUNDTABLE 2014: Burning Down the House, curated by Jessica Morgan, Fatoş Üstek and Emiliano Valdes 2016: The Eighth Climate (What does art do?) 2018: Imagined Borders 2021: Minds Rising Spirits Tuning, curated by Defne Ayas and Natasha Ginwala 2023: Soft and Weak Like Water, curated by Sook-Kyung Lee, Kerryn Greenberg, Sooyoung Leam and Harry C. H. Choi 2024: Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud 2026: You Must Change Your Life, directed by Ho Tzu Nyen with assistant curation by Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee, and Brian Kuan Wood
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