Bienal de Sao Paulo

27th Sao Paulo Bienal
How to Live Together
7 October - 17 December 2006

Chief curator:
Lisette Lagnado

Artists:
Adel Abdessemed
Lida Abdul
Jane Alexander
Lara Almarcegui
Narda Alvarado
Armando Andrade Tudela
Claudia Andujar
Juan Araújo
Vladimir Arkhipov
Atelier Bow-Wow
Alberto Baraya
Yael Bartana
Aya Ben Ron
Mabe Bethônico
Marcos Bonisson
Monica Bonvicini
Mark Bradford
Júlio Bressane
Marcel Broodthaers
Ivan Cardoso
Nikos Charalambidis
Loulou Cherinet
Lu Chunsheng
Raimond Chaves & Gilda Mantilla
Marcelo Cidade
Cláudia Cristóvão
Minerva Cuevas
Marilá Dardot
Tacita Dean
Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain
Eloísa Cartonera
Esra Ersen
Simon Evans
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Fastwürms
Jeanne Faust
Didier Fiuzu Faustino
León Ferrari
Meschac Gaba
Maria Galindo
Shaun Gladwell
Jean-Luc Godard
Dominique Gonzalez – Foerster
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Dan Graham
Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen
Cao Guimarães
João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva
Bregtje van der Haak
Diango Hernández
María Teresa Hincapié
Thomas Hirschhorn
Pieter Hugo
Jamac - Jardim Miriam Arte Clube
Francesco Jodice
Lucia Koch
Servet Koçyigit
Konono no 1
Jaroslaw Kozlowski
Miki Kratsman
Marcellvs L.
Antal Lakner
Laura Lima
Ann Lislegaard
Long March Project
Jarbas Lopes
Renata Lucas
Len Lye
Jorge Macchi
Goshka Macuga
Mustafa Maluka
Marepe
Gordon Matta-Clark
Andrew McLeod
Virginia Medeiros
Hélio Melo
Ana Mendieta
Antoni Miralda
Mario Navarro
Rivane Neuenschwander
Roman Ondák
Damian Ortega
Fernando Ortega
Pepón Osório
PAGES
Martinho Patrício
Ola Pehrson
Tadej Pogacar
Marjetica Potrc
Florian Pumhösl
Lars Ramberg
Marwan Rechmaoui
Mauro Restiffe
Tomas Saraceno
Gerry Schum
Randa Shaath
Ahlam Shibli
Shimabuku
Jack Smith
Michael Snow & Carl Brown
Kristina Solomoukha
Sanghee Song
SUPERFLEX
Taller Popular de Serigrafia
Guy Tillim
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Paula Trope
Susan Turcot
Barbara Visser
Vangelis Vlahos
Lawrence Weiner
Brendon Wilkinson
Zafos Xagoraris
Haegue Yang
Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
Wang Youshen
Akram Zaatari
Hector Zamora


Following a reorientation of its objectives, this year’s edition of the São Paulo Biennial abandoned the concept of national representations. Chief curator Lisette Lagnado and her curatorial team, consisting of Adriano Pedrosa, Cristina Freire, José Roca and Rosa Martínez, as well as Jochen Volz as guest curator, were in sole charge of choosing the 118 international participants.

The Biennial’s concept "Como viver junto" (How to Live Together) was inspired by Roland Barthes lecture series "Comment vivre ensemble", which he presented at the Collège de France in 1967-77. An ethical definition of Living Together shall be searched through the conceptual emphasis of the construction of shared spaces, the questioning of coexistence, differences, rhythms of production and cooperative practices. Hence, the 27th Biennial incorporates two lines of thought developed by Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980): the meaning of "construction", at the base of neoconcrete experimentation, and the "farewell to aesthetics". These ideas practically translate into the exhibition as "Constructive Projects" and "Programs for Life".