Art and madness at the Bienal de São Paulo
The psychoanalyst and researcher Flavia Corpas relates different editions of the Bienal to what is understood as madness at that time. Read more.
The psychoanalyst and researcher Flavia Corpas relates different editions of the Bienal to what is understood as madness at that time. Read more.
Artist Fabio Morais reflects on the use of texts – sometimes small, sometimes gigantic – in works of art and how the word merges with the image, using works by artists such as Leonilson, Carmela Gross, Rubens Gerchman and Regina José Galindo to exemplify the use of words and poetry in art.
Livia Benedetti and Marcela Vieira, creators of the art projects website aarea, comment on the challenges of conservating and creating a platform for digital art.
Journalist, literature curator and writer Joselia Aguiar recounts her experience of coming across and studying the life of Djanira (1914-1979), an artist whose career has been revalued in recent years, in order to prepare a biography of the painter.
The conceptual team assembled by chief curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung is made up of five professionals. The team is currently working on the curatorial project, which will be unveiled in the second half of this year
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is pleased to announce that Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung will be the chief curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, scheduled for the second half of 2025
Brazil renews its presence at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Ka’a Pûera: we are walking birds. The exhibition features the resistance and artistic production of Brazil’s native peoples, updating the problematic issues of colonization
After critical and public success at the Bienal Pavilion, the choreographies of the impossible are ready to travel to fifteen cities, both in Brazil and abroad
The new president will begin on January 2, 2024 with a proposal to restructure the way the curatorial team of the Bienal de São Paulo is appointed; Maguy Etlin is elected first vice-president of the Board, which is also made up of seven other members
For the first time, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is collaborating with the iconic Italian brand Bulgari to launch a podcast produced by Trovão Mídia: Em obras. The podcast marks the closing of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion and the start of its tour of Brazil and the world.
Through in-depth research in the Bienal Archive, the artist Gustavo Caboco, with Tipuici Manoki, produced a digital artwork and a publication commissioned by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.
danie valencia sepúlveda writes an essay for +bienal based on provocations by the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
An interview with the Brazilian artist about her participation in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo
This year, a new evaluation system has been adopted for the selection of the curatorial and artistic program for the Brazilian Pavilion, with a committee formed by representatives of the three organizing bodies evaluating projects by guest curators, making the process more open and participatory. As part of the selected proposal, the Brazil Pavilion will be renamed during the exhibition
Anyone who has visited the 35th Bienal de São Paulo can imagine the excitement behind the scenes of an exhibition of such proportions. To share some of that moment with you, we invited photographer Leo Eloy to create a visual essay of the assembly of the choreographies of the impossible.
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