Dates: 19 September – 13 December 2026 (press days 16–18 September)
Location: Multiple venues across Lyon, France, including the Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs, macLYON, and Grandes Locos
Type: International Contemporary Art Biennial (18th edition)
Theme: “To pass from one dream to another”
Curator: Catherine Nichols, under artistic director Isabelle Bertolotti

Lyon’s biennial takes its title, and its conceptual framework, from the city’s traboules — the hidden passageways that let residents cut between streets — using that idea of a threshold to explore how societies shift from one collective imagination to another, across economy, ecology, and social practice.

Official website: labiennaledelyon.com

Image: Interior of the Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs, Lyon, one of the Biennale’s venues. Source: Wikimedia Commons.