Held every two years, the Tokyo Biennale is an international art festival that sets the city of Tokyo as its main stage. The festival is a new type of event that aims to dig deep into the city, as it is created together with the area’s local citizens, as well as a wide variety of artists and creators from around the world.
The theme of the second Tokyo Biennale 2023 is “Create Linkage.” Linkage is a “relationship” that is found not only in human relations, but also in the ever-changing physical world we live in, in which all kinds of entities, including places, time, people, organisms, plants, events, things, and information, are intricately related to each other.
One of the social roles of art today may be its ability to relate to changes in the social environment due to the Corona pandemic from a free perspective. Based on this trust in the “power of connection” through art, the Tokyo Biennale 2023 will be a place where artists, companies, communities, participants and visitors become aware of the “linkages” that surround them and create new connections to join in.
The Tokyo Biennale aims to become the foundation of activities to create linkages that will last for the next 100 years, as these linkages through art shed light on the formation process of the underlying culture of Edo Tokyo and the local communities.