26th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo
German representant
The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo will be opening its 26th Biennial on September 25, 2004. With the theme of Território Livre [in English, "Image Smugglers in a Free Territory], the exhibition will be held in 25,000 square meters of exhibition space on the three floors of the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, home of the Fundação Bienal, portão 3, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.
This edition of the biennial – which is considered to be one of the three most important events of its kind in the world – features 140 artists from 60 different countries. The chief curator is Alfons Hug, who was in charge of the previous edition, in 2002.
The theme proposed derives from the idea of the no-man's land, not only geographically, politically and socially speaking, but mainly as an aesthetic field, where art defies the boundaries of reality.
The 26th Bienal de São Paulo is divided into 3 main segments: "National Representations", Special Project Rooms and "Invited Artists".
The "National Representations" segment presents the works of artists from 55 countries (one artist per country). The Bienal has encouraged the participation of a large number of African and Asian countries, which usually get little exposure in contemporary art shows. This year's edition also provides a special exhibition on African Photography, with a selection of 8 artists.
AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY
curator: Simon Njami
South Africa
Zwelethu Mthetwa
Togo
Cornelius Augustt Azzaglo
Nigeria
Otobong Nkanga
Great Britain/Ghana
Eileen Perrier
Democratic Republic of Congo
Jean Depara
Cameroon
Samuel Fosso
Senegal
Abderramane Sakaly
Senegal
Mama Casset
NATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS
BELGIUM
Cristine Felten & Véronique Massinger
BULGARIA
Albena Kazakova
CHILE
Patrick Hamilton
CHINA
Qu Yan
COLOMBIA
Jaime Avila
FRANCE
Melik Ohanian
GERMANY
Thomas Demand
HUNGARY
Peter Szarka
ITALY
Francesco Vezzoli
MEXICO
Miguel Calderón
NORWAY
Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén
PARAGUAY
Juan Britos
PERU
Carlos Runcie-Tanaka
POLAND
Piotr Uklanski
SINGAPORE
Ho Tzu Nyen
SPAIN
Fernando Sanchez Castillo
SWEDEN
Jonas Dahlberg
SWITZERLAND
Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
UKRAINE
Victor Marushchenko
URUGUAY
Martin Sastre
INVITED ARTISTS
Curator: Alfons Hug
Karim Aïnouz & Marcelo Gomes
Brazil
Edward Burtynsky
Canada
René Francisco
Cuba
Simryn Gill
Australia
Naoya Hatakeyama
Japan
Vera Lutter
Germany
Fabiano Marques
Brazil
Aernout Mik
The Netherlands
Moataz Nasr
Egypt
Neistat Brothers
USA
Catherine Opie
USA
Rassim
Bulgaria
Caio Reisewitz
Brazil
Lois Renner
Austria
Julian Rosefeldt
Germany
Song Dong
China
Alec Soth
USA
Su-Mei Tse
Luxemburg
Veronika Zapletalová
Czech Republic
Krzysztof Zielinski
Poland
SPECIAL ROOMS
Curator: Alfons Hug
Thomas Struth
Germany