Sao Paulo Biennial, established by the Sao Paulo Biennial Foundation, is one of the most important international institutions in the promotion of contemporary art and is hailed as one of the leading contemporary art events. It showcases the output of both Brazilian and foreign artists.
The 32nd edition of Sao Paulo Biennial will take place from 10 September to 11 December 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion and will be curated by Jochen Volz, head of programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London, with the assistance of Lars Bang Larsen, Julia Rebouças, Gabi Ngcobo and Sofia Olascoaga. This team of curators have chosen as the theme of this year’s biennial ‘live uncertainty’ to explore different ways of living with the unknown through ecology, the cosmology of beginnings and ends, extinction, collective knowledge, evolutionary myths and vital practices. The works of art featured in this edition, more than objects or expressions in time and space, must represent a vision of the world that can offer everyone tools and strategies for living with uncertainty.
The biennial features 90 artists and groups, among them the Spaniard Xabier Salaberría, who has the support of Acción Cultural Española. Salaberría’s sculptural practice is based on both research and the experimental spirit and is fully in tune with the theme of the event. He has produced a new work specifically for the biennial – an installation that is both an artwork and an element that both hinders and guides visitors on their way around.
The 32nd edition of Sao Paulo Biennial will take place from 10 September to 11 December 2016 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo pavilion and will be curated by Jochen Volz, head of programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London, with the assistance of Lars Bang Larsen, Julia Rebouças, Gabi Ngcobo and Sofia Olascoaga. This team of curators have chosen as the theme of this year’s biennial ‘live uncertainty’ to explore different ways of living with the unknown through ecology, the cosmology of beginnings and ends, extinction, collective knowledge, evolutionary myths and vital practices. The works of art featured in this edition, more than objects or expressions in time and space, must represent a vision of the world that can offer everyone tools and strategies for living with uncertainty.
The biennial features 90 artists and groups, among them the Spaniard Xabier Salaberría, who has the support of Acción Cultural Española. Salaberría’s sculptural practice is based on both research and the experimental spirit and is fully in tune with the theme of the event. He has produced a new work specifically for the biennial – an installation that is both an artwork and an element that both hinders and guides visitors on their way around.
