The Climate Biennial is a meeting place that proposes to use the power of culture and artistic experimentation to generate reflections, debates and actions that can contribute to just climate transition processes. The project rethinks the traditional art biennial model to adapt it to the current moment of environmental emergency. Designed to address the challenges of climate change in different national and European territories, its first edition is scheduled for May 2026 in the city of Avilés and other parts of the Principality of Asturias.
The Climate Biennial is a meeting place that proposes to use the power of culture and artistic experimentation to generate reflections, debates and actions that can contribute to just climate transition processes. The project rethinks the traditional art biennial model to adapt it to the current moment of environmental emergency. Designed to address the challenges of climate change in different national and European territories, its first edition is scheduled for May 2026 in the city of Avilés and other parts of the Principality of Asturias.
Map of areas of interest in Avilés, 2024
Image: Elisa Cuesta
A new biennial model
Promoting sustainable artistic creation
Supporting new projects that imagine desirable futures in a context of climate emergency, and promoting environmentally friendly forms of production.
Bringing together art, science and public policy
Encouraging interdisciplinary research applied to the public sector, with artistic residencies in government agencies such as the National Meteorological Agency (AEMET) or the Just Transition Institute.
Raising awareness of new territorial models
Linking art and architecture with urban and rural territorial projects in line with European green policies, while addressing global governance issues.
Encouraging citizen participation
Promoting the collectivisation and participation of civil society in climate debate and action through artistic mediation.
In a global context of environmental emergency, growing inequalities and the radicalisation of discourses of hate and polarisation, what utopias can we still explore today? Focusing on the climate emergency, the Climate Biennial proposes to work from the idea that utopia is not a distant future horizon, but a possible practice in the present, and to affirm the role of art in this process.
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