Art Review
The São Paulo Biennial Is the Calm Before a Storm
Even as it privileges quiet reflection, the show’s 36th edition cannot fully contain the frictions and instabilities that surround and infuse it.
São Paulo Biennial
Opinion
Remembering Jaider Esbell and How His Activism Challenged Art Institutions
Jaider Esbell showed us that future biennials will need to look to art activists and ethnic collectives not as contingent collaborators but as authoring agents.
Art
The São Paulo Biennial Captures a Perpetually Discontinuous World
Many works take disruption and repetition as their themes, and many artists resurface in different sections, creating multiple affinities.
Art
Winds of Change at the São Paulo Biennial's Introductory Show
Emphasizing obscured histories, Vento inspires hope that the biennial programs to come will be potent enough to raise some dust in Niemeyer’s drafty halls.
Test 2018 posts
How Art Fails at the São Paulo Biennial
Recognizing that art can and does fail gave me room to think about my own tendencies and predilections as I walked through the exhibition.
Test 2018 posts
At This Year’s São Paulo Biennial the Curator Prioritizes Feeling Over Discourse
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro discusses the impact of rejecting overwrought political themes in a show that welcomes everyone to slow down and focus on their own experience of the art.
Art
Art for an Uncertain World at the São Paulo Biennial
SÃO PAULO — Critics in major Brazilian newspapers have been calling the 32nd São Paulo Biennial too “politically correct,” all ideas and no art.
News
São Paulo Biennial Removes General Israeli Sponsorship
After registering objections from 61 participating artists that were supported by the entire curatorial delegation of its 31st São Paulo Biennial, the Fundaçao Bienal São Paulo has agreed to "clearly disassociate" Israeli funding from the general sponsorship of the exhibition.
News
São Paulo Biennial Curators Join Artists in Repudiating Israeli Sponsorship
The curators of the 31st São Paulo Biennial have supported the artists' call on the organization to return Israeli sponsorship funds, a demand they believe "should be a trigger to think about the funding sources of major cultural events."
News
São Paulo Biennial Participants Demand Organizers Return Israel Funding (Updated)
Artists participating in the 31st São Paulo Biennial have signed an open letter calling on the organizers to return sponsorship funds accepted from the Israeli state, Hyperallergic has learned.