tokyo biennale 2027: social dive open call

Tokyo Biennale invites artists, curators, researchers, collectives, and practitioners to propose art projects for “Social Dive 2027.”

“Social Dive” is an art project in which artists immerse themselves in neighborhoods across Tokyo to discover the traditions held by local residents and the new values emerging there. For Tokyo Biennale 2027, the programme will create spaces for cross-border encounters and dialogue under the theme “From ‘Me’ to ‘Us’.”

Selected projects will be developed across 11 locations, including historic temples, business districts, traditional back alleys, old wooden buildings, a train station, and entertainment and shopping areas.

Theme: From ‘Me’ to ‘Us’

Today, the world is in an age of conflict and division. One single “me” may not be able to build the future or overcome the anxieties and divisions of the world. Yet when “me” encounters others and reconnects relationships, a new consciousness of “us” begins to emerge.

Projects must take individual experiences, memories, bodies, perspectives, and inquiries as their starting point while opening themselves to others, local areas, society, the city, and communities.

Proposals should engage with the people, history, culture, daily life, and social issues of Tokyo. They must demonstrate originality, social relevance, an experimental spirit, and feasibility.