BIENNIAL CATALOGUES
Major Biennials with complete issues (or sequential issues for the last 20 years) are listed first - Biennials for which there are only one or two issues are listed separately below.
Biennials Discussed in: Curating Subjects, Occasional Table, 2007
| BERLIN BIENNIALS [Complete] | |||
| Berlin Biennial # 1 - Berlin / Berlin | Biesenbach, Klaus | 1998 | Kunts-Werke / Postfuhramt |
| Berlin Biennale # 2 - Beyond the Self | Bos, Saskia | 2001 | Kunts-Werke / Postfuhramt |
| Berlin Biennial # 3 - Migration, Urban Conditions, Fashions and Scenes and Other Cinemas [partial list] | Bauer, Ute Meta | 2004 | Kunts-Werke / Postfuhramt |
| Berlin Biennial # 4 - Of Mice and Men [partial list] | Cattelan, Maurizio, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick | 2006 | Various locations, Berlin |
| DOCUMENTA [lacking only #2] | |||
| Documenta 1 (reprint) | Bode, Arnold / Werner Haftmann | 1955 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 3 | Bode, Arnold / Werner Haftmann | 1964 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 4 | Bode, Arnold / + team of curators | 1968 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 5 | Szeemann, Harald | 1972 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 6 [partial list] | Schneckenburger, Manfred | 1977 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 7 | Fuchs, Rudi | 1982 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 8 [partial list] | Schneckenburger, Manfred | 1987 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 9 [partial list] | Hoet, Jan | 1992 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 10 | David, Catherine | 1997 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 11 | Enwezor, Okwui | 2002 | Kassel, Germany |
| Documenta 12 | Buegel, Roger M. and Ruth Noack | 2007 | Kassel, Germany |
| Also: DVD - Documenta 1-9 [1955-1992] | Profiling four decades of exhibition history. | 1997 | CIS GmbH / documenta Archiv |
| HAVANA BIENIALS [Complete] | |||
| Havana Bienal # 1 - 1 Bienal de la Habana | Diego, Eliseo | 1984 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 2 - Segunda Bienal de la Habana | Llanes Godoy, Lilian | 1986 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 3 - Tradicion y Contemporaneidad en las Artes Plasticas y el Ambiente del Tercer Mundo [review by Dore Ashton in Contemporanea. April, 1990] | Llanes Godoy, Lilian | 1989 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 4 - El Desafio a la Colonization | Llanes Godoy, Lilian | 1991 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 5 - Quinta Bienal de la Habana: Art/Sociedad/Reflexion | Llanes Godoy, Lilian | 1994 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 6 - El Individuo y su Memoria | Llanes Godoy, Lilian / Nelson Herrera Ysla | 1997 | Centro Wilfredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 7 - Comunicacion en Tiempos Dificles: Uno Mas Cerca del Otro | Herrera Ysla, Nelson | 2000 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 8 - El arte con la vida | Nelson Herrera Ysla, Hilda Maria Rodriguez Enriquez, RAIN, and others | 2003 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| Havana Bienal # 9 - Dynamics of the Urban Culture | Herrera Ysla, Nelson / Antonio Zaya / Hilda Maria Rodriguez / RAIN / among others | 2006 | Centro Wifredo Lam |
| INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY TRIENNIALS [Complete] | |||
| International Center of Photography Triennial - Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video | Lehan, Joanna | 2003 | International Center of Photography, New York |
| ISTANBUL BIENNIALS [Lacking # 1 & 2] | |||
| Istanbul Biennial # 3 | Kartun, Vasif | 1992 | Istanbul |
| Istanbul Biennial # 4 The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World | Block, Rene | 1995 | Istanbul |
| Istanbul Biennial # 5 On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulities | Martinez, Rosa | 1997 | Istanbul |
| Istanbul Biennial # 6 - The Passion and the Wave | Colombo, Paolo | 1999 | Istanbul |
| Istanbul Biennial # 7 - Egofugal | Hasegawa, Yuko | 2001 | Istanbul |
| Istanbul Biennial # 8 Poetic Justice | Cameron, Dan | 2003 | Istanbul |
| MANIFESTA [Complete] | |||
| Manifesta #1 - Foundation European Art Manifestation [partial list] | Martinez, Rosa, Viktor Misiano, Katalin Neray, Hans-Ulrich Obrist and Andrew Renton | 1996 | Rotterdam |
| Manifesta # 2 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art | Fleck, Robert, Maria Lind and Barbara Vanderlinden | 1998 | Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain |
| Manifesta # 3 - Bourderline Syndrome: Energies of Defence [partial list] | Bonami, Francesco, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajova and Kathrin Rhomberg | 2000 | Ljubljana |
| Manifesta # 4 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art [partial list] | Boubnova, Iara, Nuria Enguita Mayo, Stephanie Moisdon Trembley | 2002 | Frankfurt |
| Manifesta # 5 - With all due intent [partial list] | Kuzma, Marta, Massimiliano Gioni and Lourdes Fernandez | 2004 | Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country. |
| SITE SANTA FE [Complete] | |||
| Site Santa Fe # 1 - Longing and Belonging From the Faraway Nearby | Ferguson, Bruce W. | 1995 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe # 2 - Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions [partial list] | Bonami, Francesco | 1997 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe # 3 - Looking for a Place | Martinez, Rosa | 1999 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe # 4 - Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism | Hicky, Dave | 2001-2 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe # 5 - Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque | Storr, Robert | 2004 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe #6 - Still Points of the Turning World | Ottmann, Klaus | 2006 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Site Santa Fe #7 - Lucky Number Seven | Fung, Lance | 2008 | Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| SONSBEEK | |||
| Sonsbeek 71 | Beeren, W.A.L. | 1971 | Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem |
| Sonsbeek 86 | Bos, Saskia | 1986 | Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| Sonsbeek 93 [partial list] | Smith, Valerie / Jan Brand / Catelijne de Muynck | 1993 | Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem |
| Sonsbeek 9 - Locus Focus [partial list] | Hoet, Jan / Dieter Roelstraete | 2001 | Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem |
| VENICE BIENNALES | |||
| Venice Biennale 76 - Environment Participation Cultural Structure | Arroyo, Eduardo, Enrico Crispolti, Raffaele De Grada, Pontus Hulten, Tommaso Trini | 1976 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale 78 - From Nature to Art, From Art to Nature | Ammann, Jean Christophe / Achille Bonito Oliva / Antonio Del Guercio / Filiberto Menna | 1978 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale 82 - Art as Art: The Continunity of the Work | Carluccio, Luigi | 1982 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale XLI - Art and Arts; Current Trends and History | Calvesi, Maurizio | 1984 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale XLIII | Carandente, Giovanni [Aperto curators:Saskia Bos, Dan Cameron, Giovanni Carandente, Fumio Nanjo and Dieter Ronte] | 1988 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale XLIV - Dimensione Futuro: The Artist and Space [also Ambiente Berlin] | Carandente, Giovanni | 1990 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale XLV - Emergency | Oliva, Achille Bonito / Helena Kontova | 1993 | Venice, Italy |
| Venive Biennale XLVI - Identity and Alterity: Imprints of Body and Mind | Clair, Jean | 1995 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale XLVII - Future Present Past | Celant, Germano | 1997 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale # 48 - Operto - over ALL | Szeemann, Harald | 1999 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale # 49 - Plateau of Humankind | Szeemann, Harald | 2001 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale # 50 - Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship od the Viewer | Bonami, Francesco + | 2003 | Venice, Italy |
| Venice Biennale # 51: The Experience of Art / Always a Little Further | Martinez, Rosa and Maria de Corral | 2005 | Venice, Italy |
| WHITNEY BIENNIALS | |||
| Whitney Biennial 1975 | Hanhardt, John G. / Barbara Haskell / James Monte / Elke Solomon / Marcia Tucker | 1975 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1979 | Hanhardt, John G. / Barbara Haskell / Richard Marshall / Mark Segal / Patterson Sims | 1979 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1981 | Hanhardt, John G. / Barbara Haskell / Richard Marshall / Patterson Sims | 1981 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1983 | Hanhardt, John G. / Barbara Haskell / Richard Marshall / Patterson Sims | 1983 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1985 | Armstrong, Richard / John G. Hanhardt / Barbara Haskell / Richard Marshall / Lisa Phillips / Patterson Sims | 1985 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1987 | Armstrong, Richard / John G. Hanhardt / Richard Marshall / Lisa Phillips | 1987 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1989 | Armstrong, Richard / John G. Hanhardt / Richard Marshall / Lisa Phillips | 1989 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1991 | Armstrong, Richard / John G. Hanhardt / Richard Marshall / Lisa Phillips | 1991 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1993 | Sussman, Elisabeth / Thelma Golden / John G. Hanhardt / Lisa Phillips | 1993 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1995 | Kertess, Klaus | 1995 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 1997 | Phillips, Lisa / Louise Neri | 1997 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 2000 | Auping, Michael / Valerie Cassel / Hugh M. Davies / Jane Farver / Andrea Miller-Keller / Lawrence R. Rinder | 2000 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 2002 | Rinder, Lawrence / Chrissie Iles / Christiane Paul / Debra Singer | 2002 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 2004 | Iles, Chrissie / Shamim M. Momin / Debra Singer | 2004 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 2006 | Elisabeth Sussman, John G. Hanhardt, Thelma Golden, and Lisa Phillips | 2006 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Whitney Biennial 2008 | Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin | 2008 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| OTHER BIENNIALS / RANDOM CATALOGUES [LISTED BY CITY OR COUNTRY] | |||
| Busan: Busan Biennale 2004 - Chasm | Tae-Man Choi / Manu D. Park | 2004 | Busan, South Korea |
| Curitiba: XI Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitiba | Herkenhoff, Paulo / Ivo Mesquita | 1995 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| Esslingen: 3rd Internationale Foto-Triennale Essingen / Close to Life | Damsch-Wiehager, Renate / Ulrich Bischoff / Thomas Weski | 1995 | Esslingen, germany |
| Geneve: 9th Biennial of Moving Images | Iten, Andre | 2001 | Centre pour l'image contemporaine Saint-Gervais |
| Granz: Radikale Bilder / Radical Images: 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography [book 2] - Catalogues Cited | Werner Fenz / Reinhard Braun | 1996 | Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum + Kunstlerhaus |
| Helsinki: ARS 95 : Private / Public | Arkio, Tuula / Maaretta Jaukkuri / Asko Makela / Maria Hirvi | 1995 | Museum of Contemporary Art Helsenki |
| Lyon: 5th Biennale d'Art Contemorain de Lyon | Martin, Jean-Hubert | 2000 | Lyon |
| Mexico, D.F.: Fotoseptiembre Latinoamericano | Mendoza, Patricia | 1996 | Centro de la Imagen |
| Mexico, D.F.: Muestra de fotografia latinoamerica [in the context of Fotoseptiembre] | Mendoza, Patricia | 1996 | Centro de la Imagen |
| Munster: Skulptur Biennale Munsterland | Tannert, Christoph | 2001 | Munster |
| Munster: Skulptur Projekte in Munster / Contemporary Sculpture. Projects in Munster 1997 | Bussman, Klaus / Kasper Konig / Florian Matzner | 1997 | Munster |
| Paris: 9th Biennale de Paris | Boudaille, Georges | 1975 | Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
| Paris: 10th Biennale de Paris | Boudaille, Georges | 1977 | Paris |
| Paris: Biennale de l'omage Paris 98 : de tres courts espaces de temps | Durand Regis | 1998 | Centre national de la photographie, Paris |
| Pittsburgh: Carnegie International | Lane, John R. and John Caldwell | 1985 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Pittsburgh: Carnegie International | Caldwell, John | 1988 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Pittsburgh: Carnegie International | Cooke, Lynne and Mark Francis | 1991 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Pittsburgh: Carnegie International | Grynsztejn, Madeleine | 1999 | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Prague: Prague Biennale 1 / Peripheries become the center | Kontova, Helena / Tomas Vlcek + | 2003 | National Gallery, Veletrzni Palac, Prague |
| Rauma: Rauma Biennale Balticum / Distances | Jaukkuri, Maaretta | 1990 | Rauma, Finland |
| Rotterdam: Foto Biennale Rotterdam V [catalogues cited] | Gierstberg, Frits | 2003 | Netherlands fotomuseum |
| Sharjah: Sharjah International Biennial 6 [Guide] | Al-Qasimi, Hoor | 2003 | Sharjah, United Arab Emirates |
| Soa Paulo: 20th Bienal Internacional de Sao Paulo | Schmidt, Carlos von / Joao Candido Galvao / Stella Teixeira de Barros | 1989 | Sao Paulo |
| Sao Paulo: 25th Bienal de Sao Paulo / Iconografias Metropoloitanas / Cities | Hug, Alfons / Agnaldo Farias | 2002 | Sao Paulo |
| Sydney: 12th Biennale of Sydney 2000 | Nanjo, Fumio / Louise Nire / Hetti Perkins / Sir Nicholas Serota / Robert Storr / Harald Szeemann / Nick Waterlow | 2000 | Sydney venues |
| Sydney: 2002 Biennale of Sydney (the world may be) fantastic | Grayson, Richard | 2002 | Sydney Museums and venues |
| Tirana: Tirana Biennale 1 - Escape | Muka, Edi / Gezim Qendro + | 2001 | National Gallery & Chinese Pavilion, Tirana, Albania |
| Tirana Bienale 3 - Sweet Taboos | Muka, Edi and Gezim Qendro + | 2005 | National Gallery & Villa Goldi, Tirana, Albania |
| Valencia: The 1st Valencia Biennial: Communication Between the Arts | Settembrini, Luigi | 2001 | Generalitat Valenciana |
| Valencia: The 2nd Valencia Biennial: The Ideal City | Settembrini, Luigi / Consuelo Ciscar Casaban | 2003 | Generalitat Valenciana |