Chasing Rainbows

29 SAO PAULO BIENAL. ARTIST LIST.


by Pablo Leon de la Barra



Tuesday, June 1, 2010





“Há sempre um copo de mar para um homem navegar”

“There is always a cup of sea to sail in”



Curadores-chefe / Chief curators: Moacir dos Anjos, Agnaldo Farias

Curadores convidados / Invited curators: Chus Martinez, Fernando Alvim, Rina Carvajal, Sarat Maharaj, Yuko Hasegawa



Opening: September 21, 2010



1. Adrian Piper / EUA / Germany / 1948

2. Aernout Mik / Netherlands / Netherlands / 1962

3. Ai Weiwei / China / China / 1957

4. Albano Afonso / Brasil / Brasil / 1964

5. Alberto Greco / Argentina / 1931 - 1965

6. Alessandra Sanguinetti / EUA / EUA / 1968

7. Alfredo Jaar / Chile / USA / 1956 (Woo!)

8. Alice Miceli / Brasil / Brasil / 1980

9. Allan Sekula / USA / USA / 1951

10. Allora & Calzadilla – Allora / USA / Puerto Rico / 1974 and Calzadilla / Cuba / Puerto Rico / 1971

11. Amar Kanwar / India / India / 1964

12. Amélia Toledo / Brasil / Brasil / 1926

13. Ana Gallardo / Argentina / Argentina / 1958

14. Andrea Büttner / Germany / Germany / 1972

15. Andrea Geyer / Germany / Germany and USA / 1971

16. Andrew Esiebo / Nigeria / Nigeria / 1978

17. Anna Maria Maiolino / Italy / Brasil / 1942

18. Anri Sala / Albania / Germany / 1974

19. Antonieta Sosa / USA / Venezuela / 1940

20. Antonio Dias / Brasil / Brasil / 1944

21. Antonio Manuel / Portugal / Brasil / 1947

22. Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand / Thailand / 1970

23. Archigram Group / England / 1960s

24. Artur Barrio / Portugal / Brasil / 1946

25. Artur Zmijewski / Poland / Poland / 1966

26. Bofa da Cara - Pere Ortín / Spain / 1968 and Nástio Mosquito / Angola / 1981

27. CADA - Colectivo Acciones de Arte / Chile / 1979

28. Carlos Bunga / Portugal / Spain / 1976

29. Carlos Garaicoa / Cuba / Cuba

30. Carlos Teixeira / Brasil / Brasil / 1966

31. Carlos Vergara / Brasil / Brasil / 1941

32. Carlos Zilio / Brasil / Brasil / 1944

33. Chantal Akerman / Belgium / France / 1950

34. Cildo Meireles / Brasil / Brasil / 1948

35. Cinthia Marcelle / Brasil / Brasil / 1974

36. Claudia Joskowicz / Bolivia / USA

37. Claudio Perna / Venezuela / 1938-1997

38. Daniel Senise / Brasil / Brasil / 1955

39. David Claerbout / Belgium / Belgium / 1969

40. David Cury / Brasil / Brasil

41. David Goldblatt / South Africa / South Africa / 1930

42. David Lamelas / Argentina / Argentina and USA / 1946

43. David Maljkovic / Croatia / Croatia / 1973

44. Deimantas Narkevicius / Lithuania / 1964

45. Dora Garcia / Spain / Belgium / 1965

46. Douglas Gordon / Scotland / Germany, Scotland and USA / 1966

47. Eduardo Coimbra / Brasil / Brasil / 1955

48. Eduardo Navarro / Argentina / Argentina /1979

49. Efrain Almeida / Brasil / Brasil / 1964

50. Emily Jacir / Palestine / USA and Palestine / 1970

51. Enrique Jezik / Argentina / Mexico / 1961

52. Ernesto Neto / Brasil / Brasil / 1964

53. Fernando Lindote / Brasil / Brasil / 1960

54. Filipa César / Portugal / Germany / 1975

55. Fiona Tan / Indonesia / Netherlands / 1966

56. Flávio de Carvalho / Brasil / 1899 - 1973

57. Francis Alÿs / Belgium / Mexico / 1959

58. Gabriel Acevedo / Peru / Germany /1976

59. Gil Vicente / Brasil / Brasil / 1958

60. Graziela Kunsch / Brasil / Brasil /1979

61. Gustav Metzger / Germany / England / 1926

62. Guy de Cointet / France / 1934 – 1983

63. Guy Veloso / Brasil / Brasil / 1969

64. Harun Farocki / Germany / Germany / 1944

65. Hélio Oiticica / Brasil / 1937 - 1980

66. Henrique Oliveira / Brasil / Brasil / 1973

67. Ilya Kabakov / Russia / Russia / 1933

68. Isa Genzken / Germany / Germany / 1948

69. Jacobo Borges / Venezuela / Venezuela and USA / 1931

70. James Coleman / Ireland / Ireland / 1941

71. Jeremy Deller / England / England / 1966

72. Jimmie Durham / USA / Italy / 1940

73. Joachim Koester / Denmark / USA / 1962

74. Jonas Mekas / Lithuania / Lithuania / 1922

75. Jonathas de Andrade / Brasil / Brasil

76. José Antonio Vega Macotela / Mexico / Mexico / 1980

77. José Leonilson / Brasil / 1957 - 1993

78. José Spaniol / Brasil / Brasil / 1960

79. Joseph Kosuth / USA / USA / 1945

80. Juliana Stein / Brasil / Brasil

81. Julie Ault and Martin Beck / USA and Austria / USA / 1957 and 1963

82. Karina Skvirsky Aguilera / USA / USA / 1967

83. Kboco e Roberto Loeb / Brasil / Brasil / 1978 and 1941

84. Kendell Geers / South Africa / Belgium / 1968

85. Kiluanji Kia Henda / Angola / Angola / 1979

86. Kutlug Ataman / Turkey / England / 1961

87. Livio Tragtenberg / Brasil / Brasil

88. Luiz Zerbini / Brasil / Brasil / 1959

89. Lygia Pape / Brasil / Brasil / 1927 - 2004

90. Manfred Pernice / Germany / Germany / 1963

91. Manon de Boer / India / Belgium and Netherlands / 1966

92. Marcelo Silveira / Brasil / Brasil / 1962

93. Marcius Galan / EUA / Brasil / 1972

94. Maria Thereza Alves / Brasil / Germany / 1961

95. Marilá Dardot and Fábio Morais / Brasil / Brasil / 1973 and 1975

96. Mário Garcia Torres / Mexico / Mexico / 1975

97. Marlene Dumas / South Africa / Netherlands / 1953

98. Marta Minujin / Argentina / Argentina / 1943

99. Mateo López / Colombia / Colombia / 1978

100. Matheus Rocha Pitta / Brasil / Brasil / 1980

101. Miguel Angel Rojas / Colombia / Colombia / 1946

102. Miguel Rio Branco / Spain / Brasil / 1946

103. Milton Machado / Brasil / Brasil / 1947

104. Mira Schendel / Switzerland / 1919 -1988

105. Moshekwa Langa / South Africa / Netherlands / 1975

106. Nan Goldin / USA / USA and France / 1953

107. Nelson Leirner / Brasil / Brasil / 1932

108. NS Harsha / India / India / 1969

109. Nuno Ramos / Brasil / Brasil / 1960

110. Oscar Bony / Argentina / 1941-2002

111. Oswaldo Goeldi / Brasil / 1895 –1961

112. Otobong Nkanga / Nigeria / France and Belgium / 1974

113. Otolith Group / England / England / 2000

114. Palle Nielsen / Denmark / Denmark / 1942

115. Paulo Bruscky / Brasil / Brasil / 1949

116. Pedro Barateiro / Portugal / Portugal / 1979

117. Pedro Costa / Portugal / Portugal / 1959

118. Pixação SP / Brasil / Brasil

119. Qiu Anxiong China / China / 1972

120. Raqs Media Colective / India / India / 1992

121. Rex Time / Brasil / Brasil / 1966

122. Roberto Jacoby / Argentina / Argentina / 1944

123. Rochele Costi / Brasil / Brasil / 1961

124. Rodrigo Andrade / Brasil / Brasil / 1962

125. Ronald Duarte / Brasil / Brasil / 1963

126. Rosangela Rennó / Brasil / Brasil / 1962

127. Runa Islam / Bangladesh / England /1970

128. Sandra Gamarra / Peru / Spain / 1972

129. Sara Ramo / Spain / Brasil / 1975

130. Simon Fujiwara / England / Germany / 1982

131. Sophie Ristelhueber / France / France / 1949

132. Steve McQueen / England / England and Netherlands / 1969

133. Sue Tompkins / England / Scotland / 1971

134. Superstudio / Italy / 1966

135. Susan Philipsz / Scotland / Germany / 1965

136. Tacita Dean / England / Germany / 1965

137. Tamar Guimarães / Brasil / Denmark

138. Tatiana Blass / Brasil / Brasil / 1979

139. Tatiana Trouvé / Italy / France / 1968

140. Tobias Putrih / Slovenia / USA / 1972

141. UNStudio / Netherlands / 1998

142. Wendelien van Oldenborgh / Netherlands / Netherlands / 1962

143. Wilfredo Prieto / Cuba / Spain / 1978

144. Yael Bartana / Israel / Israel and Netherlands / 1970

145. Yoel Vazquez / Cuba / Germany / 1973

146. Yonamine Miguel / Angola / Portugal / 1975

147. Yto Barrada / France / Morroco / 1971

148. Zanele Muholi / South Africa / South Africa / 1972



29th Bienal de São Paulo



The 29th Bienal de São Paulo is anchored on the notion that it is impossible to separate art from politics. Such impossibility is expressed in the fact that art, through ways of its own, is capable of blocking the sensorial coordinates through which we understand and inhabit the world by bringing into it themes and attitudes that did not previously fit in, thus making it different and wider.



The choice of this organizing principle for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo curatorial project rests on two major reasons. Firstly, because we live in a world of diverse conflicts, where sociability paradigms are being constantly challenged and on which art stands as a privileged means of understanding and, at the same time, reinventing reality. Secondly, the movement towards bringing art and politics closer together has been so intense in the past two decades that again emphasis should be placed on the uniqueness of the former over the latter, as they are very often confounded to the point of indistinctness.



In this sense, the title chosen for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo “There is always a cup of sea to sail in” - a quote borrowed from the Brazilian poet Jorge de Lima’s major work Invenção de Orfeu (1952) – singularly epitomizes what the forthcoming Bienal de São Paulo edition seeks to achieve: to assert that the utopian dimension of art is contained within itself, not without it or beyond it. It is in the “cup of sea” – or in this near infinite where artists insist on producing their works in – that in fact lies the power to move forward, despite everything else. As Jorge de Lima’s poem goes “the power to sail on even without ships / even without waves and sand.”



As a space where this commitment resonates in many different ways, the 29th Bienal exhibition will put visitors in touch with ways of thinking and inhabiting the world that go beyond the consensus building that organizes it and make it a small place to live, where not everything or everyone fits in. The 29th Bienal will bring visitors in touch with the politics of art.



Therefore, it is the 29th Bienal de São Paulo’s intention to be at once a celebration of art making and an assertion of its responsibility before life; a moment of disconcerting the senses while generating knowledge that is nowhere else. For this reason, it intends to instill its audience with the sensitive experience that emerges from the mesh of displayed works and their ability to critically reflect the world in which they are inscribed. In short, to provide examples of how art weaves a politics that is deeply entrenched into it.



Curatorial Team



The 29th Bienal de São Paulo is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias and by a team of guest curators from various backgrounds who contribute their experience to the curatorial project, so that its reach and density are on par with the international vocation of the Bienal de São Paulo at its very inception. And they are: Fernando Alvim (Angola), Rina Carvajal (Venezuela / USA), Yuko Hasegawa (Japan), Sarat Maharaj (South Africa / UK), and Chus Martinez (Spain).



The Exhibit within Place and Time



The 29th Bienal de São Paulo exhibition will display works of art by approximately 145 artists from all over the world. The so-called national representations - a typical trait of the Bienal de São Paulo until recently - have been abolished as they no longer convey the complex network of migrations and cultural flows that characterize modern life. However, it is important for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo to emphasize the place and time in which it is organized: from Brazil and from a time of rapid geopolitical reorganization of the world.



Bienal Extended



The curatorial project described herein does not exhaust itself merely in the presentation of an articulated set of works of art, even though they are clearly its core and purpose. Nor does it limit itself to the dates when the exhibition will take place. The 29th Bienal de São Paulo will be extended into different parts, starting now, through its educational program, discursive activities, art residencies, and its website. It proposes to be a multi-faceted project where art is a means to get to know and change the world in a unique manner.



29ª Bienal de São Paulo artists



General Information



September 20th and 21st

Press preview



September 22nd, 23rd and 24th

Private previews



September 25th

10AM : Official Opening of the 29th São Paulo Biennial



December 12th

Closing of the 29th São Paulo Biennial



Opening hours

Mon-Wed: 9 AM to 7 PM.

Thu & Fri: 9 AM to 10 PM.

Sat & Sun: 9 AM to 7 PM.



http://www.fbsp.org.br/29_bienal-en.html