Biennale de Lyon - Art contemporain
- Dates: September 19 to December 12, 2026
- Title: Passer d’un rêve à l’autre / To pass from one dream to another
- Artistic Director: Isabelle Bertolotti
- Curator: Catherine Nichols
- Admission is free for CIMAM members with preview days on September 17 & 18, 2026
- Accreditation is required to attend the preview days. Please confirm your attendance at institutions@cimam.org
Accreditation provides:
- Exclusive access to the exhibition during the preview
- Access to the opening of the 18e Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon
- Access to the exhibition on the first two days of the public opening: 19 & 20 September.
- Applications for accreditation will be accepted from June 3rd until September 10th 2026
About the Biennale
“To pass from one dream to another”, the main title of the 18th edition of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, draws on the traboules—those distinctive passageways running through Lyon’s courtyards and buildings—to explore how one moves from one regime of perception to another, from one collective dream to another.
Lyon, a crossroads of trade and industry, becomes the starting point for a reflection on the economy, broadly understood as the set of processes that shape collective life, from the financial to the social and affective. Catherine Nichols, curator of this edition, imagines a narrative in which art engages with labour, care, cooperation, and multiple forms of exchange.
Spread across several emblematic sites in Lyon, the Biennale invites visitors to move through the city differently, to inhabit its passages, and to imagine alternative ways of making and thinking about the economy.