The 2027 Triennial’s title, The Outside Expands, takes partial inspiration from a July 1979 urban intervention by the Brazilian collective 3NÓS3 (3US3), X Galeria (X Gallery), in which the artists branded the entrances of several São Paulo galleries with duct-taped “X”s accompanied by a message: “O que está dentro fica, o que está fora se expande” (“What is inside remains, what is outside expands”). Taking place amidst the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil, the action invited artists and cultural workers to think beyond institutions during a period of extreme repression. In 2018, another phrase “O que não tem espaço está em todo lugar” (“What has no space is everywhere”) was cut out from a temporary museum wall in Rio de Janeiro by the artist and writer Jota Mombaça, leaving the traces of its extraction visible, reminiscent of a ruin. Mombaça later used the phrase as the title of a 2020–21 video project, developed before and during early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic, mapping rituals of care and connection and chronicling the global travel of a transgender, non-binary, and Black artist navigating daily and persistent experiences of systemic violence. These interrelated phrases and the actions they reflect affirm the expansive potential to move beyond defined institutional spaces, and by extension, beyond structural logics that aim to delineate and distinguish.

The “X” also symbolizes a crossroad to allow critical reflection on the past and carves out a space for envisioning other futures. The Outside Expands turns towards artists that destabilize fixed notions of territory, identity, gender, and sexuality and who foster alternate ways of forging relationships, kinships, and collaborations.

This edition will present new and recent work by a majority of artists who are exhibiting in a US museum for the first time. 

ARTIST LIST
Jean Barth (b. 1993, Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Brisbane)
Luz Broto (b. 1982, Barcelona, Spain. Lives and works in Barcelona)
Virginia Chihota (b. 1983, Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe. Based in Pretoria, South Africa)
Omyo Cho (b. 1984, Seoul, South Korea. Lives and works in Seoul)
Paloma Contreras Lomas (b. 1991, Mexico City, Mexico. Lives and works in Mexico City)
Biraaj Dodiya (b. 1993, Mumbai, India. Based in Mumbai)
Mandy El-Sayegh (b. 1985, Selangor, Malaysia. Lives and works in London)
Hamishi Farah (b. 1991, Melbourne, Australia. Lives and works in Berlin)
Fehras Publishing Practices (Founded 2015, Berlin. Based in Berlin)
Levi van Gelder (b. 1995, Beneden-Leeuwen, Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam)
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork (b. 1982, Long Beach, California. Lives and works in Los Angeles)
Léann Herlihy (b. 1994, Waterford, Ireland. Lives and works in Dublin)
Jesús Hilario-Reyes (b. 1996, San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lives and works in New York)
Nour Jaouda (b. 1997, Cairo, Egypt. Lives and works in Cairo and London)
Josi (b. 1983, Itamarandiba, Brazil. Lives and works in Belo Horizonte)
Li Yong Xiang (b. 1990, Changsha, China. Lives and works in Berlin)
Maria Louizou (b. 1988, Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Athens)
Dakota Mace (Diné; b. 1991, Albuquerque, NM. Lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin)
Rui Magalhães (b. 1985, Luanda, Angola. Lives and works in Luanda)
Rene Matić (b. 1997, Peterborough, UK. Lives and works in London)
Jota Mombaça (b. 1991, Natal, Brazil. Lives and works in Lisbon and Natal)
Cem Örgen (b. 1996, Istanbul, Turkey. Lives and works in Istanbul)
Linda Pongutá (b. 1989, Bogotá, Colombia. Lives and works in Bogotá)
Agnes Questionmark (b. 1995, Rome, Italy. Lives and works between Rome and New York)
Liesl Raff (b. 1979, Stuttgart, Germany. Lives and works in Vienna)
Sofía Salazar Rosales (b. 1999, Quito, Ecuador. Lives and works between Paris and Quito)
Florencia Sadir (b. 1991, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Lives and works in Salta)
Akane Saijo (b. 1989, Hyogo, Japan. Lives and works in Kyoto)
Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, Canada. Lives and works in London)
Tiempo de Zafra (Founded in 2016, New York. Based in Santo Domingo)
Thato Toeba (b. 1990, Maseru, Lesotho. Lives and works in Cape Town and Amsterdam)
Paz Ulloa (b. 1986, San José, Costa Rica. Lives and works in San José)
T. Vinoja (b. 1991, Kilinochchi, Sri Lanka. Based in Kilinochchi)
Sun Woo (b. 1994, Seoul, South Korea. Lives and works in Seoul)
Inês Zenha (b. 1995, Lisbon, Portugal. Lives and works in Lisbon)
Kukay Bautista Zinampan (b. 1998, Antipolo, Philippines. Lives and works in Antipolo)