The 33rd Bienal de São Paulo – Affective Affinities seeks to create an alternative model to thematic exhibitions by favouring the artists’ gaze upon their own creative contexts. The event introduces twelve individual projects and seven group shows organised by artist-curators.
tue, wed, fri, sun and holidays: 9am - 7pm (last entry 6pm)
thur, sat: 9am - 10pm (last entry 9pm)
closed on mondays
Sofia Borges
The infinite history of things or the end of the tragedy of one
Ana Prata / Antonio Malta Campos / Bruno Dunley / Jennifer Tee / Leda Catunda / Rafael Carneiro / Sara Ramo / Sarah Lucas / Tal Isaac Hadad / Thomas Dupal / Tunga / among others
See moreWaltercio Caldas
The Appearances
Anthony Caro / Antonio Calderara / Antonio Dias / Armando Reverón / Bruce Nauman / Cabelo / Gego / Jorge Oteiza / José Resende / Miguel Rio Branco / Milton Dacosta / Oswaldo Goeldi / Richard Hamilton / Sergio Camargo / among others
See moreWura-Natasha Ogunji
always, never
Lhola Amira / Mame-Diarra Niang / Nicole Vlado / ruby onyinyechi amanze / Wura-Natasha Ogunji / Youmna Chlala
See moreClaudia Fontes
The Slow Bird
Ben Rivers / Claudia Fontes / Daniel Bozhkov / Elba Bairon / Katrín Sigurdardóttir / Pablo Martín Ruiz / Paola Sferco / Roderick Hietbrink / Sebastián Castagna / Žilvinas Landzbergas
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Stargazer II
Åke Hodell / Bruno Knutman / Carl Fredrik Hill / Dick Bengtsson / Ernst Josephson / Gunvor Nelson / Henry Darger / Ícones Russos / Ladislas Starewitch / Lim-Johan / Mamma Andersson/ Miroslav Tichý
See moreAntonio Ballester Moreno
common/sense
Andrea Büttner / Antonio Ballester Moreno / Escola de Vallecas: Alberto Sánchez & Benjamín Palencia / Friedrich Fröbel / José Moreno Cascales / Mark Dion / Matríztica (Humberto Maturana & Ximena Dávila) / Rafael Sánchez-Mateos Paniagua
See moreAlejandro Cesarco
To Our Parents
Alejandro Cesarco / Andrea Büttner / Cameron Rowland / Henrik Olesen / Jennifer Packer / John Miller / Louise Lawler / Matt Mullican / Oliver Laric / Peter Dreher / Sara Cwynar / Sturtevant
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Siron Franco (BRA, 1950) records a radiation accident that took place in 1987, when a neighbourhood of Goiania called Bairro Popular was contaminated with Caesium 137.
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Lucia Nogueira's (BRA, 1950 – UK, 1998) sculptures and installations subvert the utilitarianism of objects with subtle humour.
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Bruno Moreschi (BRA, 1982) is creating an archive of experiences that are not those of an official archive.
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Luiza Crosman's (BRA, 1987) project is linked to the current of institutional critique and move away from traditional art mediums.
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Feliciano Centurión (PAR, 1962 – ARG, 1996) express elements of his personal history based on a family tradition common in Paraguayan culture.
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Brazilian popular music and the everyday life are the inspiration behind the artworks produced by Vânia Mignone (BRA, 1967).
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Denise Milan (BRA, 1954) creates sculptures and installations with large stones and crystals.
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Tamar Guimarães (BRA, 1967) merges a critical institutional approach with poetic and narrative concerns in a new video.
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Alejandro Corujeira (ARG, 1961) has a light and fluid formal perception, which appears to want to capture the movement of nature.
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The everyday is the inspiration behind the artworks produced by Maria Laet (BRA, 1982), who is exhibiting a new video.
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