SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL'S TOURING EXHIBITION ADDS BERLIN, MEXICO CITY AND SANTIAGO
The show debuts in Germany and Mexico with curatorial input from Alya Sebti and Anna Roberta Goetz, following a main exhibition in São Paulo that drew over 784,000 visitors.
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is expanding the international reach of the traveling exhibition program of its 36th edition – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice in the second half of theyear: starting in July, the exhibition will travel to three countriesacross two continents, with first-ever stops in Germany and Mexico, and a return visit to Santiago, Chile.
Conceived by chief curator Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz and Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator at-large Keyna Eleison, the show brought together 125 artistic participations over four months of free admission, bringing together 784,399 visitors, roughly 20% more than the previous edition. The educational program, by its turn, grew about 40% over 2023, reaching 113,000 attendances, more than 90,000 of them children and adolescents, while 25,000 teachers took part in training initiatives led by the Bienal in partnership with public agencies, NGOs, universities and schools.
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For this year’s traveling program, the first exhibition opened at Centro Cultural La Moneda, in Santiago, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with co-curator André Pitol. This marks the second time the program has brought a Bienal de São Paulo exhibition to the Chilean capital. The exhibition will then travel to Germany and Mexico: on September 12, it opens at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), in Berlin, curated by Alya Sebti, co-curator of the 36th edition; and on November 12, at Museo Tamayo, in Mexico City, curated by Anna Roberta Goetz, also a co-curator of this edition.
In Brazil, since March, the exhibition has already traveled to Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás, in Goiânia; Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), in Rio de Janeiro; Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON), in Curitiba; Pinacoteca do Ceará, in Fortaleza; Museu Nacional da República, in Brasília; and Sesc Santos, in Santos. It will arrive to six more Brazilian destinations before the end of the year.
Beyond the circulation of the works and their curatorial framing, the touring exhibition program is structured around a cross-cutting educational axis. The Bienal's education team develops training for local teams working on the touring exhibitions, through online and in-person sessions, pedagogical support and ongoing exchange throughout the exhibition period. Programming also includes activities for different audiences, such as talks, workshops for teachers and educational activities for students, strengthening the relationship between the exhibition, local contexts and their audiences.
Carried out programmatically since 2011, the traveling exhibition program has become a fundamental extension of the Bienal de São Paulo, allowing works and debates presented at the Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo to be reconfigured in dialog with diverse local contexts, activating new readings and relationships with audiences.
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