New collaboration platforms for contemporary art seek to revise Biennials

Diana Wechsler, Argentine researcher at Conicet (National Council for Scientific and Technical Research) and director of the art and culture area at the National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF), has been following BIENALSUR since its inception and now in its second edition, comments on the results. this challenge

A triennial in progress

In the midst of a pandemic and political crisis context, what are the curatorial and exhibition possibilities? This was one of the questions that...
David Magna, T3c36, 2019. acrílico colorido.

The challenge of the possible makes 13ª Havana Biennial breathes

With this theme, the exhibition appears after four years, interrupted by the hurricane Irma in 2017
Cozinha Aberta

A place where to remember is to act

Founded in the 1940s by progressive Jews, Casa do Povo overcomes 30 years of crisis and consolidates itself as a prolific cultural center, experimental space of coexistence and performance of multidisciplinary artistic collectives and autonomous movements
Overview of the "Língua Solta" exhibition, in the foreground "Olha Minha Lingua", by Alex dos Santos. Photo: Ciete Silverio.

Words in the world of things

The first exhibition opened at the Museum of the Portuguese Language, Língua Solta is curated by Moacir dos Anjos and Fabiana Moraes and puts contemporary works of art in dialogue with objects, posters and other elements of everyday life
Pontes sobre Abismos #17

Aline Motta and the personal diving into collective memory

The multimedia artist, one of the winners of the 7th Marcantonio Vilaça Award, departs from a thorough research on his family history to address major topics such as slavery, African heritage and a patriarchal structure that remains in Brazil today

FAMA takes art brut to Itu

With the opening of Bispo do Rosário exhibition, art as worldbuilding seminar takes to itu discussions around art brut, or outsider art, and presents international artists and experts integrating the movement

The impulses of Iole de Freitas

Book launched by Cobogó and organized by Paulo Venancio Filho shows the artist’s work from the perspective of body and space

Working with memory is working with present

Portuguese curator João Fernandes, new artistic director of the Moreira Salles Institute – ims, wants to work with the institution’s collections to reflect the current times
O assassinato de Piersanti Mattarella, Governador da Sicília, em 1980.

Witnesses of evil, of good, of life

Works and trajectories of Letizia Battaglia and Sergio Larrain are at exhibitions at the Moreira Salles Institute in São Paulo