The eighth Changwon Sculpture Biennale is entering its final week in the industrial city on South Korea's southern coast, with about 200 works by 74 teams involving 81 artists on show across four venues, including a working fish market. The biennale, which runs until 15 November, brings together artists including Kimsooja, Aernout Mik and Pedro Reyes.

The venues span Seongsan Art Hall, the House of Changwon, the Changwon History and Folklore Museum, the former railway station area at Jinhae, and Masan Fish Market, a market still in daily use in the heart of the city. The overarching theme, Resonance Field, draws on sociologist Hartmut Rosa's theory of resonance to ask how sculpture might open up relationships between people and their surroundings, rather than simply occupying space.

The biennale grew out of the 2010 Moonshin International Sculpture Symposium, held to mark the merger of industrial Changwon, the port city of Masan and the naval city of Jinhae into a single municipality. A digital map and archive, the Changwon Sculpture Atlas, assembled by co-artistic director Jiang Jun, documents the works and their sites across the merged city.

Looking ahead, the Changwon Cultural Foundation will launch an open call in May 2027 for domestic and international artistic directors, formally beginning preparations for the 2028 edition. For now, the current biennale's mix of museum halls, a disused station and a fish market offers an unusually grounded setting for large-scale sculpture, placing the work among the daily commerce and routines of the city that hosts it.