2025 Bienal De São Paulo Lines Up 120 Artists, Including Olu Oguibe, Firelei Báez, Precious Okoyomon, and Forensic Architecture

Bienal de São Paulo Announces Artists for 2025 Edition

The Fundação Bienal, which organizes the Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the 120 artists who will be participating in the event’s thirty-sixth iteration, to launch on September 6. Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the director and chief curator of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, with assistance from cocurators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta […]

2025 Bienal de São Paulo Lines Up 120 Artists, Including Olu Oguibe, Firelei Báez, Precious Okoyomon, and Forensic Architecture

The Bienal de São Paulo has named the 120 artists who will be included in the upcoming 2025 edition, which will open on September 6 at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion. Taking the title “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice,” the exhibition is “founded on active listening to humanity as a practice of constant displacement, encounter, and negotiation,” according to a press release. The Bienal’s curatorial team, led by Bonavent…

Traversing landscapes: artists announced for Bienal de São Paulo

Hamid Zénati, photograph, 1990s. © Hamid Zénati Estate. Courtesy the artist The list of 120 artists that will participate in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo is out. This edition, titled Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice will be curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung. The Bienal theme and title is inspired by Conceição Evaristo’s poem Da calma e do silêncio (Of Calm and Silence). The conceptual team, which is also composed o…