Notes related to Bienal San Pablo

Chief Cipassé Xavante leads this unprecedented performance, which combines ritual, music, and public dialogue to reflect on climate, territory, and indigenous knowledge.

It is not easy to compose a path through monumental works inside a monumental space. At the 36th São Paulo Biennial, the artists invited by Bonaventure de Soh Bejen Ndikung and his team, present large-scale works whose textures and forms sometimes speak to each other linearly, and other times through oblique movements.

In Casa do Povo's basement, Marcelo Evelin’s performance unleashes a ritual of bodies, rhythms, and nudity that allows no anticipation. An experience that demands looking, breathing, and moving through the present without guide or return.

Like any big city, in São Paulo everything happens at once: galleries, residencies, studios, and exhibitions weave together in an electric network that nurtures local artists and connects them with global circuits. The city works like a node: intense, vibrant, inexhaustible.

The São Paulo Biennial opened its 36th edition with a mix of proposals that invite a return to the senses: textures are highlighted, sounds resonate, and at times even scents appear. With a large number of commissioned works, the curatorial approach—led by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung—was guided by several threads, all centered on the idea of “humanity as practice”.

With public activations across multiple cities, Invocations anticipates the Bienal with programs that explore breath, movement, improvisation, and relationships between the human and non-human.

From different disciplines and territories, the invited artists propose the Biennial as a space of crossing, listening, and shared transformation.

Under the general curatorship of Bonaventure by Soh Bejen Ndikung, the 36th São Paulo Biennial announces its title, curatorial concept, collaborators and visual identity, in addition to informing about an important change in its exhibition period. The title will be: Nem todo viandante anda estradas / Da humanidade como prática [Not All Travelers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice].

The 35th São Paulo Biennale, Choreographies of the Impossible, gathered more than 1100 works by 121 participants focused on exploring new perspectives of the world.

The São Paulo Biennale opened its doors for its 35th edition. Choreographies of the Impossible focuses on exploring new perspectives of the world from the urgency of the present times.