A twelve-week event held every two years, the Toronto Biennial of Art commissions artists to create new works for a city-wide exhibition in dialogue. Building upon past editions and offering new ways of seeing and listening, each Biennial connects people to engage in meaningful dialogues and imagine new futures.

Things Fall Apart carries the theme of water, introduced in the first Toronto Biennial. Led by Indigenous thinking, the 2019 and 2022 Biennials explored the many histories of the cityâ s ever-changing shoreline by asking: What does it mean to be in relation? The 2026 Biennial continues this trajectory outward, tracing expansive but interconnected relations from the geography of Toronto through the waters of the Great Lakes and the Great Loop to vast global waterways of the Atlantic Ocean, the Middle Passage, the Nile, and the Persian Gulf.

Conceived and curated by New York-based curator and writer Allison Glenn, known for realizing ambitious and experimental exhibitions and sitespecific projects around the globe, Things Fall Apart features more than 30 artists from Canada, the US, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, including 100 reproductions of work by the participating artists as well as Glennâ s own in-depth curatorial essay. It will also include a multitude of voices and approaches from curators, artists, and writers, offering a compendium of ideas, insights, and thinking.