July 4th, 2025
Coventry Biennial attracts local, national and international audiences who are eager to see lots of art and to learn more about our local area. With this in mind, we are pleased to be coordinating a pilot of a new Coventry Biennial fringe called the City’s Programme! The City’s Programme aims to spotlight creative, diverse and […]
July 4th, 2025
We’re pleased to announce that the Coventry Biennial 2025 exhibitions will take place in a wide range of museums and galleries as well as significant historic sites across Coventry. We had previously shared that four major exhibitions will be presented at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, but as is traditional for our exhibitions programme, […]
June 18th, 2025
Birmingham-based artist, musician and educator, Niall Singh is delivering a participatory project with local, working class young people as a part of Coventry Biennial 2025. Called The Recyclopaedia, this project will use collaborative collage and printmaking workshops to recycle materials from out-dated encyclopaedias into new artworks and publications that replace the kinds of imperial, colonial, […]
June 2nd, 2025
Today we are delighted to announce the title, dates, curatorial focus, a venue and the first participating artists of the fifth Coventry Biennial! The fifth Coventry Biennial is called Obsessions, Possessions and will take place from the 3rd October 2025 to the 25th January 2026 across Coventry and Warwickshire including at the Herbert Art Gallery […]
May 19th, 2025
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been successful in securing a National Lottery Project Grant from Arts Council England to support Coventry Biennial 2025! Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants is an open access grant programme for arts, libraries and museums projects. The fund supports thousands of individual practitioners, community and cultural organisations and […]
May 13th, 2025
In January we announced that we had been awarded a Biennial’s Connect grant by the British Council to support us to develop new relationships with artists based in India. With the support of our Kolkata-based partners Emami Art we have now completed a programme of professional development focused studio visits where we got to know […]
April 28th, 2025
We were delighted to hear that Rene Matić has been nominated for the Turner Prize! Rene’s work was included in the most recent Coventry Biennial programme where we presented a newly commissioned sound and sculptural installation called Mid Land at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum. Ryan Hughes (Artistic Director and CEO, Coventry Biennial) said: […]
March 21st, 2025
We’re delighted to announce that following a successful partnership in 2023, we have renewed our relationship with the Warwickshire County Council’s Library Service, supporting an artist to work with their Local Studies collections and community groups. In 2023, Nuneaton-based artist Jo Gane worked onsite at Nuneaton Library in partnership with Compton Verney and following that […]
March 14th, 2025
We’re delighted to introduce and welcome Zoe Dickinson, the newest member of our small team. She joins us as Executive Assistant with the generous support of Midlands Four Cities (M4C). She comments: “I am excited to join the Coventry Biennial team as an Executive Assistant on a placement facilitated by Midlands Four Cities (M4C). I […]
March 10th, 2025
For the fourth year, Art Fund and London Gallery Weekend are partnering to offer grants to support travel and accommodation costs for curators working at regional museums (or festivals) across the UK to visit London Gallery Weekend between the 6th and 8th June 2025. The partnership aims to create new and stronger connections between UK […]