Company Biennale is a new category for culture, belonging, and organisational pride.
As work becomes more hybrid and engagement harder to sustain, many organisations are investing heavily in culture but seeing little that lasts. Initiatives create momentum, then disappear. Culture is talked about, but rarely felt.
Company Biennale turns culture into something visible, shared, and enduring. It is a private art exhibition, co-created with employees, that captures the organisation’s lived experience and evolving identity. Employees’ stories are transformed into a professionally curated exhibition, launched digitally and as physical pop-ups, and culminating in a vernissage and a beautifully designed catalogue or book. What remains is not a campaign, but a cultural landmark people recognise as ours.
Inspired by world-class cultural Biennales, this becomes a recurring moment inside the organisation. It creates an annual or biannual rhythm employees anticipate and feel proud of. Over time, each edition builds a living cultural archive that strengthens belonging, identity, and connection across hybrid teams.
This is not training about culture. It is culture made visible.
What you get A co-created exhibition that reflects your people’s voices and stories. A digital and physical launch that works in hybrid environments. A vernissage that creates a shared moment of pride. A lasting cultural artefact in the form of a catalogue or book. Optional collaboration with contemporary guest artists to elevate artistic quality and cultural credibility.
How it works Discovery sessions surface stories, themes, and material from across the organisation. Creative workshops transform these into artistic expressions. Everything is professionally curated into an exhibition experience, launched digitally and as pop-ups in key locations, and anchored by a vernissage. The process is repeatable, scalable, and designed to become a cultural rhythm rather than a one-off initiative.
Company Biennale sits between organisational development and cultural curation. It complements HR, employer branding, and internal communications rather than competing with them. Budgets typically sit within People and Culture, Internal Communications, Employer Branding, or Workplace Experience.
The work is led by Jenny Theolin, a practitioner with over 20 years of experience in learning, development, and culture building, combined with a background in design and photography. Previous exhibitions include work for HSBC, H&M Foundation, and WaterAid.
