In 2025, the Bombay Beach Institute, a 501(c)3 organization, is the official fiscal sponsor of the Bombay Beach Biennale.

The Bombay Beach Biennale (BBB)

The Bombay Beach Biennale is a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy that takes place on the literal edge of western civilization - the shores of the Salton Sea.

It was founded in 2015 as a public arts event untethered from the commercial art world of galleries, museums, and art fairs, and as a tool to amplify the largely unknown and ignored ecological crisis that is the Salton Sea.

The Biennale is an entirely free and public happening. Everything we do is open to anyone who can manage to find their way to Bombay Beach. Public offerings include weekly programming of workshops, performances, community meetings, and screenings. During our climactic weekend, we have three full days of programming with open gallery exhibits, a film festival, a literary festival, a philosophy conference, live music, and dance/theater performances.

The Official Biennale Season begins January 1st of each year, and concludes in a celebratory weekend in the spring, the dates of which are spread only by word-of-mouth. While in season, the Bombay Beach Biennale transforms the abandoned housing, vacant lots, and decaying shoreline of the Salton Sea into a unique canvas for creative expression, social practice, and critical thought.

The Bombay Beach Institute for Industrial Espionage & Post-Apocalyptic Studies (BBI)

The Bombay Beach Institute is a cultural laboratory and think tank dedicated to experiments in social terraforming, creative world building, and alternative governance.

The Institute is a driving force behind the facilitation of community organizing and the Bombay Beach hivemind, creating a living archive of our resources, innovations, and programming for our local community and the world at large. Through engagement with artists and thinkers, The Institute cultivates theoretical frameworks and practical experiments to reimagine societal structures in a place defined by environmental catastrophe and socioeconomic collapse.

The Bombay Beach Biennale

The Bombay Beach Biennale is a renegade celebration of art, music, and philosophy that takes place on the literal edge of western civilization - the shores of the Salton Sea.

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