Calendar · Asia/Middle East
What is open in Asia/Middle East
The full list for Asia/Middle East, all of it, whenever you want it. Our weekly rotation decides what we feature; the calendar stays open to every region, all the time.
- Biennial Gwangju Biennale (16th) Gwangju Biennale Foundation · Gwangju, South Korea Deadline 2026-11-15
- Biennial Busan Biennale 2026 Busan Biennale Organizing Committee · Busan, South Korea Deadline 2026-11-01
- Biennial Bangkok Art Biennale (5th) Bangkok Art Biennale Foundation · Bangkok, Thailand Deadline 2027-02-28
- Fair Art Dubai Art Dubai · Dubai, United Arab Emirates Annual; typically spring (April/May), with a MENASA focus
- Biennial Kochi-Muziris Biennale (6th) Kochi Biennale Foundation · Kochi, India India's principal contemporary art biennial; runs across the winter into spring (most recent edition closed March 2026)
- Biennial Taipei Biennial Taipei Fine Arts Museum · Taipei, Taiwan Taiwan's flagship biennial (since 1998); next (15th) edition in 2027, curated by Cecilia Alemani
- Biennial Thailand Biennale Office of Contemporary Art and Culture (OCAC), Ministry of Culture · Phuket, Thailand Government-run biennial that rotates to a new Thai province each edition; next edition Rayong 2027
- Biennial Sharjah Biennial 17 Sharjah Art Foundation · Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Biennial on an odd-year cycle; next edition (SB17) announced for 21 Jan – 13 Jun 2027 (no 2026 edition)
- Residency Khoj International Residency Khoj International Artists' Association · New Delhi, India Themed residency cohorts with periodic open calls through the year
- Prize Jameel Prize Art Jameel with the V&A · Dubai, United Arab Emirates Roughly biennial international award; open call typically in autumn ahead of each edition
- Grant Mophradat: Grants for Artists Mophradat · Brussels, Belgium Open call for artists from the Arab world, typically published in autumn
- Fair Dhaka Art Summit Samdani Art Foundation · Dhaka, Bangladesh Large non-commercial South Asian research platform, held roughly every two years (historically ~February)
- Open call Sharjah Art Foundation: Open Calls / Production Programme Sharjah Art Foundation · Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Rolling open calls through the year (production grants, short film, publishing) with varying deadlines