São Paulo Art Biennial

The São Paulo Biennial in São Paulo, Brazil, officially Portuguese Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo, in the plural also Bienais de São Paulo, in short: Bienal de São Paulo, English and São Paulo Art Biennial is an organized since 1951 international art exhibition and next to the Venice Biennale, the second largest art biennale in the world.

History

It was founded by the Italian- Brazilian industrialist Ciccillo Matarazzo. Since 1957 it takes place Matarazzo Pavilion ( Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo ) in the Parque do Ibirapuera in Ciccillo. The large Biennial Pavilion was designed by a team of architects led by Oscar Niemeyer and Hélio Uchôa and offers an exhibition area of ​​30,000 m².

It is the second oldest art biennial regular in the world and is located in 2011 since it was founded in the 60th year of its existence. Since August 2009, a partnership with the Venice Biennale.

Worn and organizes them is by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

On the São Paulo Biennale both Brazilian and international art shows. As in Venice, there are both countries as an exhibition curators will be invited to the center. The Biennial of São Paulo is one of the most important art exhibitions in the country and is recognized internationally. Since admission is free, enormous numbers of visitors are regularly achieved.

For the history of the Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo Biennale is responsible under the current leadership of Adriana Villela.

The biennials

1st Biennial 1951

Art historically noteworthy is the awarding of a prize to Tetsuro Komai graphics for an etching and Saito Kiyoshi (1907-1997) for a woodcut, which helped the Sosaku hanga movement of an international breakthrough.

29th Biennial 2010

The 29th Biennale took place from September 25 to December 12, 2010 held under the Hauptkuratierung Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias. A total set of 160 world-famous artists.

• Maria Thereza Alves
• Andrea Büttner
• Filipa César
• Tacita Dean
• Harun Farocki

• Simon Fujiwara
• Genzken
• Andrea Geyer
• Gustav Metzger
• Manfred Pernice

• Susan Philipsz
• Adrian Piper
• Anri Sala
• Gabriel Acevedo Velarde

• Mira Schendel

Architecture Biennale

Since 1973, in addition to the Art Biennale in the Biennial Pavilion, the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (Portuguese Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura e Design, in short: BIA); English and Sao Paulo International Biennial of Architecture, organized. After 1973, up to the second exhibition in 1993 a long interruption, the third took place in 1997 and only in 2001 it is in the regular two-year intervals.

An official German participation has been established only for the sixth Biennial 2005. The 7th BIA in 2007 under the motto Ready for Take -Off. The German contribution was subsequently shown in 2008 at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. The Austrian contribution denied the group feld72. The 8th BIA 2009 had the motto: Eco Urbano - Urban echoes.