The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has launched the total checklist of artists taking part within the thirty sixth São Paulo Bienal, which opens September sixth and runs by means of January 11, 2026. Titled “Not All Travellers Stroll Roads – Of Humanity as Follow,” the exhibition will function 120 contributors, together with Dominican artist Firelei Báez, British painter Frank Bowling, Nigerian American artist Valuable Okoyomon, and Chinese language artist Tune Dong. The Bienal will happen on the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion situated in São Paulo’s Ibirapuera Park.
The 2025 version is curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, director of Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, alongside co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator at massive Keyna Eleison, and advisor Henriette Gallus. The group drew inspiration from Brazilian author Conceição Evaristo’s poem “Da calma e do silêncio,” inviting reflection on migration and humanity.
“Hen migration patterns” impressed the curators’ strategy to deciding on artists for the Bienal, in keeping with the press launch. Birds’ migratory routes—just like the red-tailed hawk’s flight between the Americas, the ruff’s actions between Central Asia and North Africa, and the Arctic tern’s transpolar journey—guided the way in which the curators discovered artists to incorporate within the exhibition.
“This methodological course of helped us keep away from classifications based mostly on nation-states and borders,” Ndikung defined. “By finding out birds’ navigation expertise, their impulse emigrate throughout land and water, their survival instincts, their expanded sense of house and time, and their urgency and company, we have been in a position to interact with inventive practices in numerous geographic areas whereas reflecting on the that means of bringing humanity collectively within the context of the thirty sixth Bienal de São Paulo.”
The biennial will function a slate of worldwide artists, with outstanding names like Japanese Swiss artist Leiko Ikemura, Moroccan painter Mohamed Melehi, and Cuban artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Nonetheless, numerous contributors characterize Brazil’s artwork group. Among the many native artists are established names, akin to Alberto Pitta and the late Heitor dos Prazeres, proven alongside rising artists like Aislan Pankararu and Nádia Taquary.
The exhibition format and design, by architects Gisele de Paula and Tiago Guimarães, is impressed by river estuaries. The house is conceived as a “sensory journey” with sinuous paths, natural types, and fluid margins that invite pauses and encounters. “Like travellers, it doesn’t repeat the trail, however reinvents itself in a steady ceremony of transformation and presence,” the architects mentioned in a joint assertion.
The total checklist of artists could be discovered right here.
