The Medina Triennial
Medina Triennial 2026
- Dates: June 6 - September 7, 2026
- Title: All That Sustain Us
- Curators: Kari Conte & Karin Laansoo
- 5% Discount for CIMAM Members at the bookstore and shop
- Admission is free for CIMAM members.
- Email us at institutions@cimam.org by May 20 if you want to attend the preview on June 5th.
The inaugural Medina Triennial will bring together 39 artists and collectives from across the globe from June 6 to September 7, 2026, to realize a town-wide exhibition and public programs that are both expansive in scale and grounded in the local context.
All That Sustains Us, the inaugural edition features more than 100 artworks. The curatorial framework of the Triennial sits at the intersection of art, ecology, architecture, and rural contexts and considers maintenance not only as a physical act of upkeep, but also as a social, political, and environmental process shaped by fragility and resilience. The Triennial brings together artistic practices that examine how civic and ecological systems are structured by labor, regulation, extraction, and repair. At its core, the Triennial asks: What essential efforts and commitments are required to sustain life in our fractured world?
Artist-led and community-centered, the Triennial is co-curated by Karin Conte and Karin Laansoo will reimagine how contemporary art can live in—and grow from—rural environments. Taking place every three years, it supports long-term research, site-responsive commissions, and collaborations that position small-town geographies as vital sites of cultural and critical imagination.