This article was originally published on April 27, 2023, with the initial 43-artist list. It was been updated on June 29, 2023, with the complete artist list.
The Bienal de São Paulo has announced the complete list of artists that will take part in its upcoming 35 edition, slated to open in September.
The exhibition’s four curators—Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes, and Manuel Borja-Villel—have selected 120 participants. This iteration will likely be its most diverse, with 92 percent of the artists announced so far identifying as Black, Indigenous, and/or non-white and 76 percent coming from the Global South or “locations outside the hegemonic circuit,” according to a press release.
A number of closely watched artists will feature in the exhibition, including Igshaan Adams, Julien Creuzet, Torkwase Dyson, Ellen Gallagher, Duane Linklater, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Dayanita Singh, and Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz. The exhibition, which carries the title “choreographies of the impossible,” will also include several deceased artists, such as stanley brouwn, Elizabeth Catlett, Wifredo Lam, and Santu Mofokeng.
Contemporary artists added in June include Charles White, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ibrahim Mahama, Kapwani Kiwanga, Senga Nengudi, Simone Leigh, Sônia Gomes, and Will Rawls. The exhibition will also now include deceased outsider artists like Arthur Bispo do Rosário and Judith Scott, historical ones like José Guadalupe Posada and Juan van der Hamen y León, and late Chicana scholar and poet Gloria Anzaldúa.
This edition of the Bienal, the curators said in a statement in April, “wants to build spaces and times of perception that challenge the rigidity of western time linearity. What we see in this choreographic horizon are the strategies and policies of the movement that these practices have been creating in order to imagine worlds that confront the ideas of freedom, justice and equality as impossible achievements.”
The complete artist list follows below. Names with asterisks were announced in the initial artist list.
- Luiz de Abreu*
- Igshaan Adams*
- Ricardo Aleixo
- Kamal Aljafari
- Amador e Jr. Segurança Patrimonial Ltda.
- Sidney Amaral
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- Deborah Anzinger*
- Diego Araúja & Laís Machado
- Emanoel Araújo
- Archivo de la Memoria Trans (AMT)
- Elena Asins
- Sammy Baloji*
- Denilson Baniwa*
- Yto Barrada
- Arthur Bispo do Rosário
- Anna Boghiguian*
- Marilyn Boror Bor*
- Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz*
- M’barek Bouhchichi
- Nadir Bouhmouch and Soumeya Ait Ahmed*
- stanley brouwn*
- Carlos Bunga
- Cabello/Carceller
- Quilombo Cafundó
- Edgar Calel
- Rolando Castellón*
- Elizabeth Catlett*
- Elda Cerrato*
- Benvenuto Chavajay
- Manuel Chavajay*
- Colectivo Ayllu
- Cozinha Ocupação 9 de Julho
- Julien Creuzet*
- Aurora Cursino dos Santos
- Maya Deren
- Stella do Patrocínio
- Katherine Dunham
- Torkwase Dyson*
- Carmézia Emiliano
- Inaicyra Falcão*
- Ubirajara Ferreira Braga
- Denise Ferreira da Silva
- flo6x8
- Frente 3 de Fevereiro*
- Ellen Gallagher* & Edgar Cleijne
- Rosa Gauditano
- Amos Gitaï
- Patricia Gómez & María Jesús González
- Sônia Gomes
- Grupo de Investigación en Arte y Política (GIAP)
- Ayrson Heráclito and Tiganá Santana*
- George Herriman
- Nikau Hindin
- Morzaniel Ɨramari
- Januário Jano
- Geraldine Javier*
- Kapwani Kiwanga
- Wifredo Lam*
- Simone Leigh
- Daniel Lie*
- Raquel Lima
- Daniel Lind-Ramos
- Duane Linklater*
- The Living and the Dead Ensemble*
- Ibrahim Mahama
- MAHKU
- Rubiane Maia
- Sarah Maldoror*
- Malinche
- Xica Manicongo
- Guadalupe Maravilla
- Leopoldo Méndez
- Melchor María Mercado
- Trinh T. Minh-ha*
- Santu Mofokeng*
- Aline Motta*
- Nontsikelelo Mutiti*
- Senga Nengudi
- Eustáquio Neves
- Niño de Elche*
- Bouchra Ouizguen*
- Rosana Paulino*
- Ana Pi and Taata Kwa Nkisi Mutá Imê*
- Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira
- José Guadalupe Posada
- Will Rawls
- Jorge Ribalta
- Marlon Riggs
- Philip Rizk*
- Jesús Ruiz Durand
- Citra Sasmita
- Sauna Lésbica por Malu Avelar com Ana Paula Mathias, Anna Turra, Bárbara Esmenia & Marta Supernova
- Anne-Marie Schneider
- Judith Scott
- Tejal Shah*
- Ahlam Shibli
- Dayanita Singh*
- Mounira Al Solh*
- Ceija Stojka
- Tadáskía*
- Kidlat Tahimik
- Taller 4 Rojo
- Taller NN
- Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs
- Francisco Toledo
- Gabriel Gentil Tukano*
- Rubem Valentim
- Juan van der Hamen y León
- Ventura Profana
- Rommulo Vieira Conceição
- Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro*
- Luana Vitra
- Nadal Walcott*
- Leilah Weinraub*
- Charles White
- John Woodrow Wilson
- Ilze Wolff
- Aida Harika Yanomami, Edmar Tokorino Yanomami & Roseane Yariana Yanomami
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