Istanbul Biennial - Past Biennals

Past Biennals

• 1987 "Contemporary Art in Traditional Spaces" General Coordinator: Beral Madra
• 1989 "Contemporary Art in Traditional Spaces" General Coordinator: Beral Madra
• 1992 "Production of Cultural Difference" Director: Vasif Kortun
• 1995 "Orient-ation - The Image of Art in a Paradoxical World" Curator: René Block
• 1997 "On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulties" Curator: Rosa Martinez
• 1999 "The Passion and the Wave" Curator: Paolo Colombo
• 2001 "Egofugal - Fugue from Ego for the Next Emergence" Curator: Yuko Hasegawa
• 2003 "Poetic Justice" Curator: Dan Cameron
• 2005 "İstanbul" Curators: Charles Esche and Vasif Kortun
• 2007 "Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War" Curator: Hou Hanru
• 2009 "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
• 2011 "Untitled" Curators: Adriano Pedrosa and Jens Hoffmann