A joint initiative of local institutions and cultural practitioners from the Ruhr Area wrote the Bid for Manifesta 16. The initiators, among them well-known curators, institutions and foundations from the …

Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana took on the challenge of expanding from one single Host City to an extended regional scale of more than 5 million inhabitants. The ambition of the …

Prishtina, one of the youngest capital cities of Europe and the capital city of Kosovo, has become the epicentre of an alternative biennial model. Manifesta’s 14th edition rethinks the relevance …

The 13th edition of Manifesta was an unprecedented enterprise, marked by Covid-19 and its two different national French lockdowns which prevented almost any visits from our international audience. However, Manifesta …

The city of Palermo was chosen to host Manifesta 12 because of its representation of two important themes that identify contemporary Europe and have an enormous impact on our cities: …

The site for Manifesta 11 was the City of Zürich, the heart of a dynamic and ever-changing urbanity. Once an agricultural country, Switzerland developed into an international centre of finance and …

Celebrating the biennial’s second decade, Manifesta 10 was hosted by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg on the occasion of its 250th birthday. The museum was an appropriate location from …

The 9th edition of Manifesta took place in Genk and fostered a complex dialogue between disciplines and generations, rooted in the city’s history, heritage and collective imagination. This was the …

The biennial focused on the historical relationship between Europe and Northern Africa  through both the colonial and the post-colonial periods, as well as in the context of communist and post-communist …

For the first time an entire region, instead of a city, hosted a Manifesta edition - the Autonomous Provinces of Trentino and Alto Adige in South Tyrol, Italy. The region …

Manifesta 6 was planned to be hosted in the divided city of Nicosia, the culturally and politically divided Turkish-Greek capital of Cyprus, geographically isolated from Europe and located close to …

Moving away from the original aim to build bridges between East and West  in post-communist Europe and its historically isolated artistic communities, Manifesta 5 focused on the historical North-South divide …

Frankfurt was selected to host the fourth edition of Manifesta, with over 90 international artists and collectives, on account of its excellent cultural infrastructure, the city’s role as financial centre …

Manifesta’s 3rd edition was hosted by Ljubljana, a city belonging to the former territory of the Republic of Yugoslavia. This was the first Manifesta to be explicitly thematic. Ljubljana was …

The city of Luxembourg hosted the second edition of Manifesta, thereby asserting its presence on the European and international cultural scene. Manifesta 2 included works  by 47 artists from all …

Manifesta 1 was founded by the Dutch art historian Hedwig Fijen as a platform for bringing together artists and curators from both Eastern and Western Europe in the decade after …