Setouchi Triennale

Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held once every three years since 2010 on islands of Japan’s Seto Inland Sea. The festival was founded with the aim of bringing back vitality to the islands amid the trends of shrinking in size and the aging of the island populations. The festival is organized by the Setouchi Triennale Organizing Committee. The general producer is Soichiro Fukutake, president of the Fukutake Foundation, and the general director is Fram Kitagawa. The festival offers a new type of art appreciation experience in which visitors travel from island to island in the Seto Inland Sea by boat to see the unique culture, lives of the people and the natural environment of each island.