The Biennale of Sydney is an international festival of contemporary art, held every two years in Sydney, Australia. It is a large and well-attended contemporary visual arts event in the country. Alongside the Venice and São Paulo biennales and Documenta, it is one of the longest running exhibitions of its kind and was the first biennale to be established in the Asia-Pacific region. History In 1973 the Biennale of Sydney held its first exhibition of 37 artists in the exhibition hall of the then newly opened Sydney Opera House. 1973, The Biennale of Sydney, Coordinator: Anthony Wintherbotham 1976, Recent International Forms in Art, Artistic Director: Thomas G. McCullough 1979, European Dialogue, Artistic Director: Nick Waterlow 1982, Vision in Disbelief, Artistic Director: William Wright 1984, Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, Artistic Director: Leon Paroissien 1986, Origins, Originality + Beyond, Artistic Director: Nick Waterlow 1988, From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c1940–1988, Artistic Director: Nick Waterlow 1990, The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, Artistic Director: René Block 1992/3, The Boundary Rider, Artistic Director: Tony Bond 1996, Jurassic Technologies Revenant, Artistic Director: Lynne Cooke 1998, Every Day, Artistic Director: Jonathan Watkins 2000, International Selection Committee: Nick Waterlow (Chair), Fumio Nanjo, Louise Neri, Hetti Perkins, Sir Nicholas Serota, Robert Storr, Harald Szeemann. 2002, (The World May Be) Fantastic Richard Grayson, Artistic Director 2004, On Reason and Emotion, Curator: Isabel Carlos 2006, Zones of Contact, Artistic Director & Curator: Charles Merewether 2008, Revolutions - Forms That Turn, Artistic Director: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev 2010, THE BEAUTY OF DISTANCE, Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age, Artistic Director: David Elliott 2012, all our relations, Artistic Directors: Catherine de Zegher and Gerald McMaster 2014, You Imagine What You Desire, Artistic Director: Juliana Engberg 2016, The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed, Artistic Director: Stephanie Rosenthal 2018, SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, Artistic Director: Mami Kataoka 2020, NIRIN, Artistic Director: Brook Andrew 2022, rīvus, Artistic Director: José Roca 13th Biennale of Sydney (2002) The 2002 Biennale of Sydney titled (The World May Be Fantastic) investigated 'artists and practices using fictions, narratives, invented methodologies, hypotheses, subjective belief systems, modellings, fakes and experiments as a means to make works'. Writing in Art in America in October, 2002, Michael Duncan said of the exhibition that it "gave free rein to complex, often offbeat works predicated on alternate realities." Artists included: Mike Nelson, Chris Burden, Susan