Detail: The "Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale (Fukuoka Triennale, FT)" is the largest exhibition presented by the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum. The word "triennale" is an Italian word that means "every three years". However it is now commonly used in the art world as a pronoun for an international art exhibition held every three years after the Milan Triennale and the Venice Biennale ("biennale means "every other year") came to be acknowledged as authoritative international contemporary art exhibitions.
The reason for having such exhibitions every two or three years is to introduce a trend of the most up to date tendency of contemporary art under a specific theme. As these exhibitions gather the latest art trends from different places of the world periodically and continuously, they can reflect and represent contemporaneity and internationality.
The Fukuoka Triennale sets a different theme for each exhibition focusing on the most remarkable movements in Asian art of a particular time to introduce original creativities of Asia and the original activities of the museum in the context of the history, society and culture of Asia of that time. It is for this reason that the Fukuoka Triennale attracts so much attention.