Biennials

Performance has always been an important catalyst in the history of twentieth-century art, and the Performa Biennial recognizes its vital and ongoing impact on contemporary art and culture and provides opportunities for both established and emerging artists to present new performance for the twenty-first century.

The unique structure of the Performa biennials, which bring more than 40 of New York’s leading arts and cultural institutions and 25 different curators together to present live work in all disciplines over the course of three weeks, transform the biennial format into something that links minds across the entire city, cross-pollinating diverse audiences among many different venues and turning the biennial into a tool for arts advocacy, since it can only exist as the sum of many parts.

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Performa 11
Performa 09
Performa 07
Performa 05