To build an art platform for contemporary international cultural exchanges, and to set a benchmark for the culture and art of the central region. From December 2022 to May 2023, the 2022 Wuhan Biennale will be held in Wuhan. To communicate with the world, "Art is the thoroughfare", this biennial invites outstanding artists from all over the world. Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai Museum), Wuhan Art Museum (Hankou Museum) and He Art Museum, which are located in three towns of Wuhan, will exhibit their excellent works at the same time.
"Biennale" is one of the most internationally influential large-scale art exhibitions with the characteristics of openness, modernity and innovation. Wuhan Biennale 2022 is sponsored by China Artists Association, Wuhan Municipal People's Government and Hubei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, and undertaken by China Federation of Arts and Art Center, Publicity Department of Wuhan Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wuhan Culture and Tourism Bureau and Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Circles. Co-organized by Wuhan International Cultural Exchange Center, Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai Museum), Wuhan Art Museum (Hankou Museum) and He Art Museum.
The theme of this exhibition is "Art leads to Thoroughfare". Five exhibition sections are set up: "Cultural patterns", "Urban forms", "Innovative dynamics", "Green ecology" and "Open Attitude". It covers painting, sculpture, video installation art, new media art, science and technology art, art design and other forms of modern art creation.
The 2022 Wuhan Biennale plans to invite more than 300 outstanding Chinese and foreign artists from all over the world to participate in the exhibition, about 1/3 of which are foreign artists.
In addition to the linkage of the three pavilions, the 2022 Wuhan Biennale will also hold a series of cultural and artistic activities, such as aesthetic education volunteer activities, academic forums, and artists' style collection. The exhibition will also be combined with cultural tourism activities such as Wuhan cherry blossom appreciation season, to create a comprehensive effect and rich experience of the exhibition driven by the city and the integration of culture and tourism in a specific time. Let Wuhan Art Museum (Qintai Museum) become the national art lovers "punch in" the holy land and tourists must visit, Wuhan will be built into the "art city without walls", promote the vigorous development of Wuhan cultural tourism industry.