
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY
COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MONIQUE MELOCHE GALLERY
Today the organizers of the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo revealed the 81 artists they have invited to their show. Making the cut are Pierre Huyghe, Pope.L, Park McArthur, and Pia Lindman—and those are just a few of the names starting with the letter P! The full list, which follows below (intriguingly alphabetized according to first name by the biennial), augments an incomplete roster of 54 names released in early December. The press statement with the news emphasized that more than half of the artists are women—gender parity remains something of a rarity in major international art exhibitions—and that a significant percentage were born after 1970, making them in their mid-40s or younger.
The curator of this year’s biennial is Jochen Volz, along with co-curators Gabi Ngcobo, Júlia Rebouças, Lars Bang Larsen, and Sofía Olascoaga. Titled “Incerteza Viva” (Live Uncertainty), it will run this year from September 10 through December 11 at São Paulo’s Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion. And now, the list.
Alia Farid
Born in Kuwait, 1985. Lives and works in Kuwait and Puerto Rico
Alicia Barney
Born in Cali, Colombia, 1952. Lives and works in Bogota, Colombia
Ana Mazzei
Born in São Paulo, 1980. Lives and works in São Paulo
Anawana Haloba
Born in Livingstone, Zambia, 1978. Lives and works in Oslo, Norway
Antonio Malta Campos
Born in São Paulo, 1961. Lives and works in São Paulo
Bárbara Wagner
Born in Brasília, Brazil, 1980. Lives and works in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Bené Fonteles
Born in Bragança, Pará, Brazil, 1953. Lives and works in Brasília, Brazil
Carla Filipe
Born in Aveiro, Portugal, 1973. Lives and works in Porto, Portugal
Carlos Motta
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, 1978. Lives and works in New York
Carolina Caycedo
Born in London, 1978. Lives and works in La Jagua, Colombia and Los Angeles
Cecilia Bengolea and Jeremy Deller
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984. Lives and works in Paris
Born in London, 1966. Lives and works in London
Charlotte Johannesson
Born in Malmö, Sweden, 1943. Lives and works in Skanör, Sweden
Cristiano Lenhardt
Born in Itaara, Brazil, 1975. Lives and works in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Dalton Paula
Born in Brasília, Brazil, 1982. Lives and works in Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Dineo Seshee Bopape
Born in Polokwane, South Africa, 1981. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Donna Kukama
Born in Mafikeng, South Africa, 1981. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Ebony G. Patterson
Born in Kingston, Jamaica, 1981. Lives and works in Kingston, Jamaica, and Lexington, Kentucky
Eduardo Navarro
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1979. Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Em’kal Eyongakpa
Born in Mamfe, Cameroon, 1981. Lives and works in South West Cameroon and Amsterdam
Erika Verzutti
Born in São Paulo, 1971. Lives and works in São Paulo
Felipe Mujica
Born in Santiago, Chile, 1974. Lives and works in New York
Francis Alÿs
Born in Antwerp, Belgium, 1959. Lives and works in Mexico City
Frans Krajcberg
Born in Kozienice, Poland, 1921. Lives and works in Nova Viçosa, Bahia, Brazil
Gabriel Abrantes
Born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1984. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal
Gilvan Samico
Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 1928 – Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, 2013
Grada Kilomba
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1968. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Güneş Terkol
Born in Ankara, Turkey, 1981. Lives and works in Istanbul
Heather Phillipson
Born in London, 1978. Lives and works in London
Helen Sebidi
Born in Marapyane, South Africa, 1943. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Henrik Olesen
Born in Esbjerg, Denmark, 1967. Lives and works in Berlin
Hito Steyerl
Born in Munich, 1966. Lives and works in Berlin
Iza Tarasewicz
Born in Kolonia Koplany, Poland, 1981. Lives and works in Bialystok, Poland, and Berlin
Jonathas de Andrade
Born in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, 1982. Lives and works in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Jordan Belson
Born in Chicago, 1926 – San Francisco, 2011
Jorge Menna Barreto
Born in Araçatuba, São Paulo, 1970. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
José Antonio Suárez Londoño
Born in Medellín, Colombia, 1955. Lives and works in Medellín, Colombia
José Bento
Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1962. Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Kathy Barry
Born in Christchurch, New Zealand, 1969. Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Katia Sepúlveda
Born in Santiago, Chile, 1978. Lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Tijuana, Mexico
Koo Jeong A
Born in Seoul, South Korea, 1967. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Lais Myrrha
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1974. Lives and works in São Paulo
Leon Hirszman
Rio de Janeiro, 1937 – Rio de Janeiro, 1987
Lourdes Castro
Born in Funchal, Portugal, 1930. Lives and works in Ilha da Madeira, Portugal
Luiz Roque
Born in Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1979. Lives and works in São Paulo
Luke Willis Thompson
Born in Auckland, New Zealand, 1988. Lives and works in Auckland, New Zealand
Lyle Ashton Harris
Born in New York, 1965. Lives and works in New York
Maria Thereza Alves
Born in São Paulo, 1961. Lives and works in Berlin
Mariana Castillo Deball
Born in Mexico City, 1975. Lives and works in Berlin and Mexico City
Maryam Jafri
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, 1972. Lives and works in New York and Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael Linares
Born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1979. Lives and works in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Michal Helfman
Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, 1973. Lives and works in Tel Aviv, Israel
Misheck Masamvu
Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe, 1980. Lives and works in Harare, Zimbabwe
Naufus RamírezFigueroa
Born in Guatemala City, 1978. Lives and works in Berlin and Guatemala City
Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
Born in Kaunas, Lithuania, 1968. Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Trondheim, Norway
Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1966. Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Trondheim, Norway
Oficina de imaginação política
Created in 2016. Based in São Paulo
OPAVIVARÁ!
Created in 2005. Based in Rio de Janeiro
Öyvind Fahlström
Born in São Paulo, 1928 – Stockholm, Sweden
Park McArthur
Born in North Carolina, 1984. Lives and works in New York
Pia Lindman
Born in Espoo, Finland, 1965. Lives and works in Fagervik, Finland
Pierre Huyghe
Born in Antony, France, 1962. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile, and New York
Pilar Quinteros
Born in Santiago, Chile, 1988. Lives and works in Santiago, Chile
Pope.L
Born in Newark, New Jersey, 1955. Lives and works in Chicago
Priscila Fernandes
Born in Coimbra, Portugal, 1981. Lives and works in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rachel Rose
Born in New York, USA, 1986. Lives and works in New York, USA
Rayyane Tabet
Born in Ashqout, Lebanon, 1983. Lives and works in Beirut
Rikke Luther
Born in Aalborg, Denmark, 1970. Lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Berlin
Rita Ponce de León
Born in Lima, Peru, 1982. Lives and works in Mexico City
Rosa Barba
Born in Agrigento, Italy, 1972. Lives and works in Berlin
Ruth Ewan
Born in Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 1980. Lives and works in Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sandra Kranich
Born in Ludwigsburg, Germany, 1971. Lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Sonia Andrade
Born in Rio de Janeiro, 1935. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Susan Jacobs
Born in Sydney, 1977. Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia, and London
Till Mycha
(Helen StuhrRommereim and Silvia Mollicchi)
Born in Lawrence, Kansas, 1986. Lives and works in Philadelphia
Born in Sansepolcro, Italy, 1983. Lives and works in St. Erme, France, and London
Tracey Rose
Born in Durban, South Africa, 1974. Lives and works in Johannesburg
Ursula Biemann and Paulo Tavares
Born in Zurich, 1955. Lives and works in Zurich
Born in Campinas, São Paulo, 1980. Lives and works in São Paulo and Quito, Ecuador
Víctor Grippo
Born in Junín, Argentina, 1936 – Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2002
Vídeo nas Aldeias
Created in 1986. Based in Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil
Vivian Caccuri
Born in São Paulo, 1986. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Wilma Martins
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1934. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Wlademir DiasPino
Born in Rio de Janeiro, 1927. Lives and works in Rio de Janeiro
Xabier Salaberria
Born in DonostiaSan Sebastián, Spain, 1969. Lives and works in DonostiaSan Sebastián and Barcelona, Spain