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Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.

Manifesta 16 Ruhr, upcoming
– , Germany
Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana
– , Spain
Manifesta 14 Prishtina
– , Kosovo
Manifesta 13 Marseille
– , France
Manifesta 12 Palermo
– , Italy
Manifesta 11 Zurich
– , Switzerland
Manifesta 10 St. Petersburg
– , Russian Federation
Manifesta 9 Genk
– , Belgium
Manifesta 8 Murcia – Cartagena
– , Spain
Manifesta 7 South Tyrol – Trentino
– , Italy
Manifesta 6 Nicosia, Cancelled
Cyprus
Manifesta 5 Donostia-San Sebastian
– , Spain
Manifesta 4 Frankfurt/Main
– , Germany
Manifesta 3 Ljubljana
– , Slovenia
Manifesta 2 Luxembourg
– , Luxembourg
Manifesta 1 Rotterdam
– , Netherlands

  • Community project

    The Community programme of Manifesta follows the mediation approach. Following the findings of the pre-biennial urban research and citizens’ consultations, it aims at engaging with the existing practices and knowledges of communities and offering space and support for their development in dialogue with the project of Manifesta.

    Community-driven programmes requires time, safe environment, creative independency and openness to unexpected outcomes. In recent editions we put significant resources in community programmes, setting up physical spaces and facilitating collective projects with shared agency. The outcome of community programmes cannot be pre-defined, it goes beyond institutional categories and disciplinary divisions and can be described as educational, curatorial, research or artistic, but always developed in a collective process.

    Manifesta 12 Palermo: Un Grande Giardino

    The most ambitious and challenging persuits of Manifesta lie in the realm of urban commons of the host city. The path to commons consciousness in Palermo is very twisted, but no cultural initiative can develop successfully and meaningfully there without …

  • Education and Community spaces

    Manifesta 12 Palermo: Education Hub

    For the first time in Manifesta, the education space of the biennial has not been isolated in one the exhibition venues but took form of a travelling platform connecting the programme of Manifesta 12 with the neighbourhoods of Palermo, and …

  • School Project

    Formal education is an important social institute, that forms our society, its values, social behaviour, and cultural norms. In each Manifesta edition we investigate in what way artistic and/or critical pedagogical practices can contribute to the curricular of primary, secondary, or high schools. Projects are focused on exploring subjective gaps in the curricular and/or teaching methods and offer proposals for tackling them. These proposals are results of collaboration between students, teachers and schools’ management, guest artists/educators and Manifesta’s Education team.

    Manifesta 12 Palermo: If you dig, you always find the sea

    This artistic and pedagogical project was initiated as a collaboration between architect Valentina Mandalari and artist and anthropologist Lorenzo Bordonaro as part of the education research programme of Manifesta 12.

Education, education and community spaces

Tiers QG

Tiers QG, the headquarters of Le Tiers Programme (Third Programme), was the first space Manifesta 13 opened to public almost a year before the official opening of the biennial in Marseille.

Proposed by the Education team, Le Tiers Programme is a mediation initiative between the main curatorial programme and the citizens of Marseille. At the core of the programme is the notion of voicing the unheard, including multiple histories and unrepresented narratives of the city’s common heritage, giving an insight into what Marseille is today and where its complexities come from. It studies remarkable histories of local resistance and community cooperation across the city, investigating “universal” cultural canons, in which not everybody recognises themselves.

Housewarming party for Archive#1 at Tiers QG.

Originally thought as a non-institutional venue for Invisible Archives project and its public programme, it has been developed as a space where archives exhibitions become a starting point for encounters between people who made Marseille’s histories of resilience and those who are interested in them. The space anchored in Belsunce neighbourhood in a former snack close to the train station. Entering and passing through the exhibition hall, the visitors found themselves in the agora meeting space with a kitchen and an access to a big back garden. The meeting space has often been used independently by associations and the garden hosted numerous social gatherings. The welcoming team of Tiers QG did a great work in co-creating the identity of the space and community around it, its functioning and programme, that went far beyond the Invisible Archives project.

After Manifesta 13, Tiers QG has been taken over by some members of education team and our collaborators from the neighbourhood with the idea to build a sustainable cultural space addressing the neighbourhood needs and realities under the name Twali. Partly following the Invisible Archives process, this space in the making aims to bring inhabitants, neighbours, stakeholders and audiences together to explore and reflect on the different narratives coexisting in Belsunce.