Japan’s Yokohama Triennale has announced Cosmin Costinaș and Inti Guerrero as co-artistic directors for its 9th edition, set to open at the Yokohama Museum of Art on April 23, 2027.
Costinaș, from Romania, is a writer and critic. He is a senior curator at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, an art center in Berlin; at the end of the year, he will transition from his current role and become a curatorial adviser to the museum. Guerrero, from Bogotá, is a professor in the School of Creative Media at City University in Hong Kong and has taught internationally.
Costinaș and Guerrero have worked together on several projects in the past. They were co-artistic directors of “Ten Thousand Suns,” the 2024 Biennale of Sydney, and jointly organized the Dak’Art Biennale in 2018. They also collaborated for the traveling exhibition “Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs” in 2016–17 and 2013’s “A Journal of the Plague Year,” about the 2003 SARS epidemic, at Para Site in Hong Kong.
Individually, Costinaș served as artistic director of the 2022 Kathmandu Triennale in Nepal and curator of the Romanian pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. At Haus der Kulturen der Welt this year, he has organized exhibitions like “Global Fascisms” and “Musafiri: Of Travellers and Guests.”
Guerrero was previously a curator of Latin American art at Tate Modern and has also worked with the Museum of Art of Rio in Brazil, Kadist in San Francisco, and many other art spaces around the globe.
Costinaș and Guerrero were chosen from a pool of 22 candidates by a six-person selection committee whose members represent organizations in Japan, Indonesia, and France. Kuraya Mika, director of the Yokohama Museum of Art and one of the committee members, said in a statement that the 2027 Triennale “will aim to organize dialogues with many regions and cultures, but with a focus on sustainability. Hence, this became the starting point of the process of selecting the next artistic director.”
The finalists, the statement notes, were all based outside Japan and have experience “articulating art of the present day through the lens of both contemporary society and historical reflection.”
