Bienal de Curitiba

14th Curitiba Biennial

21 Sep 2019 - 23 Feb 2020

14th Curitiba Biennial 2019: Open Borders

The concept of border does not only belong to territory or geography anymore. It has been conceptually expanded and is now part of a bigger universe, one made of broader questions and, overall, more transversal ones. There is already a plural imagination that touches aspects of understood natures. Far away, that is, from commensurate; tranquilizing; pertaining in geographic limits answering to a thematic narrative physics – and closer to the important meaning distortions of social, technological, cognitive and contemporaneous nature. Especially amidst our times, ripe with changes and transformations of multiple signs (with the concurrency of new time and space coordinates, globalization, post-history, the worldwide technologization, environmental crisis, the search for new cosmologies etc.), which moves the meaning of old semantics, mono-dimensionally fixated in a single meaning.

On the one hand, contemporary history – that which belongs to our most recent times – has not only been modifying the idea of limits and frontiers; it has been also detracting some older ones, spatially, in the very plane of territory. A fruit of historical conflicts of many kinds, changes in borders, regions, countries have been happening; swapping signs and realities from entire populations’ lives. Our times live under such a degree of uncertainty that physical and symbolical notions of place have been suffering great erosion and transformation, for both good and bad. We now know that real borders exist, but so do invisible ones – they contradict one another, and they establish very unpeaceful conflicts. A border may be many things at the same time.

On the other hand, however, art has always been a space of frontiers, a hiatus between the realms of language and reality, a borderline state of fluctuating, non-fixated nature. When, after all, has art not been such double vigil, such atavistic split from representation, from language? The possibility of naming habitat from language, or even linking oneself to a new place?

We have two movements in front of us: the mutating geography of history and its spatial correlates and the mutating geography of art and its linguistic derivations, in line and difference, convergence and divergence. And it is in such a scope that some contaminating aspects are offered: the 21st century subject lives in a new border condition, with counterposing experiences, faced with alterity and self-absorption. Experiences of violence, domestication and xenophobia (the so-called refugee crisis, or new intercontinental emigratory waves, and the planetwide communication reveal how much the frontier is imploded and exploded and, in consequence, in need of new evaluations and updates). We are, thus, in a new situation of reborders and unborders, new spatial and social, territorial groups, as well as of new artistic experiences of border-art, presence of nomadic (or far from their origins) artists, counting on the existence of works in multicultural partnerships, as well as amplifying even more the field of borders between languages and their connection.

The 2019 Curitiba Biennial intends to incorporate said instigating contemporary condition, opening even more its expositive borders, creating partial venues, convergent with other countries – windows to another platform –, linking itself to artists in the entire world, to artistic production from every cardinal point in the globe and, in this edition, highlighting countries from another emerging geopolitics like the BRICS, with its new intercontinental orbit, as well as symbolic and meaningful European countries , an indispensable cartography and so strictly linked, both historically and culturally to the Americas, to Latin America, to Brazil, and materially to Curitiba. Not only the European cultural melting pot, but its richness and diversity have had a never seen transculturalization in the American continent, an autonomous creation – unprecedented anthropophagy and miscegenation – always worthy of independence, but also of new links and interworld dialectics, such as the new cultural and territorial interconnections of our globalized age. And the artists’ recognized vocation was of revaluating their roles as connectors, contributing to the work in progress that is every process of artistic research, imagery to attain new states of consciousness regarding the surrounding reality and the timeless problems of human condition. And, in consequence, contributing with new thoughts on the construction and the process of another history.

Art, especially when fulfilling a symbolic and speculative function – one of translation and interpretation – inside a Biennial is a high profile social and reflexive task. It has a great responsibility in our aestheticized society, be it as a showcase where art and culture are linked or as a place of action which also reflects the spirit of its time. The Biennial, the border-art, reveals in its turn its own perception of things, of contexts, since it never stops being art and its circumstances. And its chimerical dream of open borders or, even better, of expanding borders, for it is a frank utopia in the making, the openness of a critic hope. What will bring another sensorium, a new contact with what’s sensory, a free production of the being. An antidote-language against fundamentalism, the instrumentalized visuals which still host a singular spiritual benefit. As a space for revelations and image analysis, art also works as a compass of another map in movement, on course, a better cartography: it offers a unique repertoire of signals, a new signage.

Curators:
Adolfo Montejo Navas and Tereza de Arruda

People / Places

A.C.Machado
Brasil

Abraham Palatnik
Brasil

Adel Alloush
Síria

Adolfo Montejo Navas
Espanha/Brasil

Adriana Affortunati
Brasil

Adriana Amodei
Itália

Adriana Córdova
Brasil

Adriana Maria dos Santos
Brasil

Adriana Tabalipa
Brasil

Adriane Guimarães
Brasil

AES+F
Rússia

Agnese Purgatorio
Itália

AIREZ Galeria

Alastair MacLennan
Irlanda/Inglaterra

Alberto Salvetti
Itália

Alejandro Lloret
Cuba

Alessandra de Andrade
Brasil

Alessandro Zannier
Itália

Alex Caminiti
Itália

Alex Flemming
Brasil

Alexandre Brandão
Brasil

Alexis Minkiewicz
Argentina

Alexis Pike
Estados Unidos

Aline Dias
Brasil

Alvaro de Sá
Brasil

Amanda Melo da Mota
Brasil

Ana Ayala
Paraguai

Ana Beatriz Artigas
Brasil

Ana Dantas
Brasil

Ana Itália Paraná Mariano
Brasil

Ana Sabiá
Brasil

Ana Vitória Mussi
Brasil

André Nacli
Brasil

André Vallias
Brasil

Andrea Eichenberger
Brasil

Andressa Argenta
Brasil

Andrey Roca
Brasil

Angela Lima
Brasil

Angelo Utrabo
Brasil

Anna Bella Geiger
Brasil

Anna Maiolino
Itália/Brasil

Anna Moraes
Brasil

Anne Le Troter
França

Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Índia

Antoni Muntadas
Espanha

António Franchini
Portugal

Antonio Trimani
Itália

Ariana Assumpção
Brasil

Arnd Christian Müller
Alemanha

Arthur Omar
Brasil

Associação Profissional dos Artistas Plásticos do Paraná ̵...

Atomic Shadows Art
Brasil

Aurélio Peluso
Brasil

Bai Xiaogang
China

Beatriz Rodrigues
Brasil

Bento Ribeiro B’Ro
Brasil

Berna Reale
Brasil

Bia Leite
Brasil

Bianca Scliar e Lab. Ei. Laboratório de Ensaios e Imprevistos
Brasil

Biblioteca Pública do Paraná

Bill Lundberg
Estados Unidos

Bjarne Fostervold
Bolívia

Boiler Galeria

BRDE Palacete dos Leões

Brigitte Waldach
Alemanha

Brugnera
Brasil

Bruna Alcantara
Brasil

Bruna Ribeiro
Brasil

Buhlebezwe Siwani
Africa do Sul

C.L. Salvaro
Brasil

Cabelo
Brasil

CAC – Centro de Ação Cultural

Caio Villa de Lima
Brasil

Camilotti
Brasil

Cao Guimarães
Brasil

Cao Jigang
China

Carla Linhares
Brasil

Carlo Bonfà
Itália

Carlos Alberto Franzoni
Brasil

Carlos Asp
Brasil

Carlos Clémen
Argentina

Carlos Pasquetti
Brasil

Carmela Gross
Brasil

Casa da Imagem

Casa Frederico Kirchgässner

Catalina León
Argentina

Celestino Dimas
Brasil

Central Galeria

Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK)

Centro Cultural SESI Heitor Stockler de França

Centro de Criatividade de Curitiba

Centro Juvenil de Artes Plásticas – CJAP

César Meneghetti
Brasil

Chang Chi Chai
Taiwan

Chen Shuxia
China

Choque Cultural Galeria de Arte

Christian Balzano
Itália

Christopher Livingston
Estados Unidos

Cildo Meireles
Brasil

Claiton Biaggi
Brasil

Clara Fernandes
Brasil

Claudia Zimmer
Brasil

Clemens Krauss
Áustria

Coletivo Duas Marias
Brasil

Coletivo Inço (Diana Chiodelli e Audrian Cassanelli)
Brasil

Cristina Brattig Almeida
Brasil

Cyntia Werner
Brasil

Dagmar Diekmann
Alemanha

Dai Hua
China

Dai Yun
China

Dailor Varela
Brasil

Daniel Canogar
Espanha

Daniel Duda
Brasil

Daniel Faust
Suiça

Daniel Mullen
Escócia

Daniela Soares
Brasil

Davide Boriani
Itália

Débora Ling
Brasil

Diana Aisenberg
Argentina


Diego de Los Campos
Uruguai

Diego Rayck
Brasil

Dirce Körbes
Brasil

Dora Naspolini
Brasil

Eduardo Kac
Brasil

Eduardo Scala
Espanha

Elaine Tedesco
Brasil

Elena Dahn
Argentina

Eliane Prolik
Brasil

Elke Hülse
Brasil

Embaixada do Brasil em Roma

Emmanuel Bornstein
França

Erik Winkowski
EUA

Ernestine White-Mifetu
África do Sul

Ernie Koela
África do Sul

Escola de Música e Belas Artes do Paraná (EMBAP)

Esenjia Bannan
Uzbequistão

Espaço Cultural Amazém – Coletivo Elza

Espaço Cultural Renato Russo

Fabio Bustani Carrijo
Brasil

Fabio Dudas
Brasil

Falves Silva
Brasil

Fan Bo
China

Fan Xueyi
China

Farnese de Andrade Neto
Brasil

Fê Luz
Brasil

Fernanda Azou
Brasil

Fernanda Magalhães
Brasil

Fernando Lemos
Portugal/Brasil

Fernando Lindote
Brasil

Fernando Moleta
Brasil

Fernando Ribeiro
Brasil

Fernando Velloso
Brasil

Filipe Lippe
Brasil

Flávia Duzzo
Brasil

Flávia Vazzoler
Brasil


Flávio Carvalho
Brasil

Fran Favero
Brasil

Francine Goudel
Brasil

Franco Mazzucchelli
Itália

Fu Zhongwang
China

Fundação Cultural BADESC

Gabriela Urtiaga
Brasil

Gaëlle Choisne
França

Galeira de Arte Zilda Fraletti

Galeria ARQ/ART

Galeria Municipal de Arte Pedro Paulo Vecchietti

Galeria Ponto de Fuga

Geórgia Kyriakakis
Brasil

Gerda Lepke
Alemanha

Gianfranco Gentile
Itália

Giovana Casagrande
Brasil

Giselle Beiguelman
Brasil

Gu Zhenqing
China

Guilherme Moreira
Brasil

Guilherme Zawa
Brasil

Guita Soifer
Brasil

Gustavo Caboco
Brasil

Gustavo Reginato
Brasil

Gustavo Silvamaral
Brasil

Gustavo Tabares
Uruguai

H-AL Alexandre Linhares e Thifany F.
Brasil

Hannes Egger
Itália

Hannu Palosuo

Hassan Meer
Oman

He Yunchang
China

Helder Martinovsky
Brasil

Helena Wong
Brasil

Hélio Dutra
Brasil

Henry Goulart
Brasil

Hermeto Pascoal
Brasil

Hito Steyerl
Alemanha

Hu Quanchun
China

Hu Wei
China

Huang Keyi
China

Huang Wong Sally
China

Igor Grubić
Croácia

Igreja Universsauria
Brasil

Ilana Bar
Brasil

Ilca Barcellos
Brasil

Ilya e Emilia Kabakov
Rússia

Inés Drangosch
Argentina

Inés Raiteri
Argentina

Isabê
Brasil

Isabelle Borges
Brasil

Isadora Stähelin
Brasil

Jairo Valdati
Brasil

James Webb
África do Sul

Jan M.O.
Brasil

Janaína Corá
Brasil

Jane Katharina di Renzo e Ineke Reinders
Alemanha/Turquia

Janor Vasconcelos
Brasil

Jasmina Metwaly  e Philip Rizk
Egito

Jiao Xingtao
China

Joan Brossa
Espanha

João Miot
Brasil

João Paulo de Carvalho
Brasil

Jorge Macchi
Argentina

Jorge Miño
Argentina

Jorge Pombo
Espanha

José Maria Dias da Cruz
Brasil

Josh DeWeese
Estados Unidos

Juan Luis Moraza
Espanha

Julia Bornefeld
Alemanha

Juliana Crispe
Brasil

Juliana Hoffmann
Brasil

Juliana Stein
Brasil

Juliane Fuganti
Brasil

Júlio Leite
Brasil

Jurgen Ots
Bélgica

Kabe Rodríguez
Brasil

Kang Jianfei
China

Kang Lei
China

Karina El Azem
Argentina

Kelly Kreis
Brasil

Kellyn Batistela
Brasil

Kevin Lustgarten
Venezuela

Khaya Witbooi
África do Sul

Laïs Krücken
Brasil

Leandro Jung
Brasil

Leandro Maman
Brasil

Leandro Serpa
Brasil

Lei Jianhua
China

Leila Alberti
Brasil

Lela Martorano
Brasil

Lena Peixer
Brasil

León Ferrari
Argentina

Leonardo Kossoy
Brasil

Lerato Shadi
África do Sul

Letícia Cardoso
Brasil

Li Bangyao
China

Li Hongbo
China

Li Ronglin
China

Li Xiangning
China

Li Xiangqun
China

Li Yi Hsuan
Taiwan

Lilian Barbon
Brasil

Lilian Döring
Brasil

Liliana Porter
Argentina

Liu Qinghe
China

Liu Zheng
China

Liv Schulman
França

Llorenç Barber
Espanha

Loio-Pérsio
Brasil


Louise Bourgeois
França

Lu Zhengyuan
China

Lu Zhengyuan
China

Luciana Petrelli
Brasil

Lucie Schreiner
Brasil

Lucila Horn
Brasil

Madedi
Lucky Mbonani, Jabulani Luisbeth Ramashilo, Madedi Wilhelminah...
África do Sul

Luigi Dellatorre
Itália

Luis González Palma
Guatemala

Luiz Gustavo Vidal
Brasil

Lavalle
Brasil

Luiz Monken
Brasil

Luo Fahui
China

Lv Pinchang
China

Ma Wenjia
China

Maison du Portugal

Marcelo Cipis
Brasil

Marcelo Conrado
Brasil

Marcelo Moscheta
Brasil

Márcia X.
Brasil

Marco Bertin
Itália

Marco Gradi
Itália

Marcos Amaro
Brasil

Maria Lúcia Cattani
Brasil

Mariana Canet
Brasil

Marica Moro
Itália

Marilyn Arsem
Estados Unidos

Marilyn Green
Reino Unido

Marina Weffort
Brasil

Mário Carneiro
França

Mário Cravo Neto
Brasil

Mario Rubinski
Brasil

Marisa Caichiolo
Argentina

Marivone Dias
Brasil

Marlan Cotrim
Brasil

Marta Berger
Brasil


Marta Facco
Brasil

Martha Ozol
Brasil

Mary Sibande
África do Sul

Massimo Scaringella
Itália

Matheus Abel
Brasil

Matteo Mezzadri
Itália

Mauro Espíndola
Brasil

Meg Tomio Roussenq
Brasil

Meital Katz-Minerbo
Israel

Melvin Quaresma
Brasil

Memorial de Curitiba

Memorial Meyer Filho

Meyer Filho
Brasil

Michele Schiocchet
Brasil

Miguel Rio Branco
Espanha

Mira Schendel
Suíça

Moacy Cirne
Brasil

Munkhjargal Jargalsaikhan
Mongolia

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Rosário (MACRO)

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes – Buenos Aires

Museu Casa Alfredo Andersen

Museu da Escola Catarinense – MESC

Museu da Fotografia de Curitiba

Museu da Gravura

Museu da Imagem e do Som (MIS)

Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Cascavel

Museu de Arte Contemporânea (MACPR)

Museu de Arte da UFPR – MusA

Museu de Arte de Santa Catarina – MASC

Museu de Arte Indígena (MAI)

Museu Guido Viaro

Museu Guido Viaro

Museu Municipal de Arte (MuMA)

Museu Nacional da República

Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes

Museu Oscar Niemeyer

Museu Paranaense

Museu Universitário PUCPR

Museum Experimental Gallery at the University of Electronic Sc...

Muzna Al Musafer
Oman

NaCasa – Coletivo Artístico

Navjot Altaf
Índia

Neide de Sá
Brasil

Nelson Leirner
Brasil

Newton Goto
Brasil

Nicanor Parra
Chile

Nino Rezende
Brasil

Nomin Bold
Mongólia

Noria Mabasa
África do Sul

NRabelo
Brasil

O Sitio

Odete Calderan
Brasil

Olaf Nicolai
Alemanha

Palácio Iguaçu

Palácio Itamaraty

Pang Maokun
China

Paolo Mozzo
Itália

Patrícia Claro
Chile

Patricia Di Loreto
Brasil

Patricio Farías
Chile

Paulo Bruscky
Brasil

Paulo Climachauska
Brasil

Paulo Gamma
Brasil

Paulo Pasta
Brasil

Pedro Martins
Brasil

Pedro Paulo Vecchietti
Brasil

Peter Lindenberg
Alemanha

Philipp Messner
Itália

Piero Mottola
Itália

Priscila Costa Oliveira
Brasil

Projeto Fidalga

Rakhi Peswani
Índia

Raquel Fayad
Brasil

Raquel Stolf
Brasil

Raul Mourão
Brasil

Reena Kallat
Índia

Regina Chulam
Brasil

Regina Silveira
Brasil

Regina Vater
Brasil

Rejane Cantoni e Leonardo Crescenti
Brasil

RenderBurger
Irã

Ricardo Ramos
Brasil

Rimon Guimarães
Brasil

Rodrigo Andrade
Brasil

Rogério Ghomes
Brasil

Rômulo Barros
Brasil

Ronald Simon
Brasil

Rosa Luz
Brasil

Rosane Cechinel
Brasil

Rosangela Becker
Brasil

Rosângela Rennó
Brasil

Royce Smith
Estados Unidos

Rubens Gerchman
Brasil

Rubens Oestroem
Brasil

Sandra Fávero
Brasil

Sandra Johnston
Inglaterra

Sandra Makowiecky
Brasil

Sandro Orlandi
Itália

Sara Ramos
Brasil

Sarah Revoltella
Suíça

Sarah Uriarte e Kim Coimbra
Brasil

Sebastião G. Branco
Brasil

Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (SEEC)

Sergei Tchoban
Rússia

Sérgio Adriano H
Brasil

Sergio Racanati
Itália

Sesc Paço da Liberdade

Sethembile Msezane
África do Sul

Shay Frisch
Israel

Shirley Paes Leme
Brasil

Silvana Macêdo
Brasil

SIM Galeria

Simões de Assis Galeria de Arte

Simone Milak
Brasil

Simphiwe Ndzube
África do Sul

Sofia Brito
Brasil

Solar do Rosário

Sonia Loren
Brasil

Sonia Vasconcellos
Brasil

Soyoung Chung
França/Coréia do Sul

Stefano Cagol
Itália

Su Hui-Yu
Taiwan

Sui Jianguo
China

Sun Lu
China

Susan Mckinley
Estados Unidos

Suzana Queiroga
Portugal/Brasil

Talita Virgínia
Brasil

Tan Xun
China

Tarcísio Ullrich
Brasil

Teatro Guaíra

Teatro Guaíra

Teresa Pereda
Argentina

Tereza de Arruda
Brasil/Alemanha

TETRA Gallery

Thalita Caetano
Brasil

Thania Petersen
África da Sul

Thu-Van Tran
Vietnam

TiroTTi
Brasil

Tobias Zielony
Alemanha

Tom Drake Bennett
Reino Unido

Tong Yanrunan
China

Valérie Oka
Costa do Marfim

Vera Chaves Barcellos
Brasil

Verena Smit
Brasil

Verônica Filipak
Brasil

Veronika Kellndorfer
Alemanha

Victor Arruda
Brasil

Vilma Slomp
Brasil

Virginia Ryan
Austrália/Itália

Vivian Villanova
Brasil

Vladimir Potapov
Rússia

Walter Thoms
Brasil

Waltercio Caldas
Brasil

Wang Cheng Yun
China

Wang Dezhong
China

Wang Jingwei
China

Wang Qingsong
China

Wang Shaojun
China

Wang Xiao
China

Wisrah Villefort
Brasil

Wlademir Dias-Pino
Brasil

Wu Yongping
China

Xiong Yu
China

Yan Feng
China

Yan Longjiao
China

Yanbei
China

Yang Chun
China

Yang Lufeng
China

Yang Xuening
China

Yao Jui-Chung
Taiwan

Yara Guasque
Brasil

Yara Osman
Síria

Ybakatu Espaço de Arte

Yiftah Peled
Israel

Yohan Han
Coréia do Sul

Yu Fan
China

Yu Xiangming
China

Zhan Wang
China

Zhang Congyun
China

Zhang Dan
China

Zhang Songtao
China

Zhang Wei
China

Zhang Yong
China

Zhao Guangyi
China

Zhong Biao e Yan Yonghong
China

Zuleika Bisacchi Galeria de Arte

Zurab Tsereteli
Russia