Bienal do Mercosul

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The Bienal do Mercosul ( Spanish Bienal del Mercosur , Bienal de Artes Visuales del Mercosur , German Biennale des Mercosur ) is an international art exhibition for contemporary art that has been taking place every two years since 1997 in Porto Alegre , Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil .

Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Paraguay , Uruguay and Venezuela were the first Latin American countries to take part in the biennial . From 2003 guests from other countries were invited. One million visitors have already been registered this year. Along with the São Paulo Biennale, it is the second largest art biennial in South America.

The event takes place i. A. takes place over two to two and a half months in late autumn and winter. Entry is free. It is run by the Fundação Bienal do Mercosul foundation , which is supported by the government of the state of Rio Grande do Sul and other organizations. Particular emphasis is placed on conveying art to children and young people, for whom special programs are developed.

The main exhibition venues are the Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli (MARGS), the Memorial do Rio Grande do Sul , the Santander Cultural and the Usina do Gasômetro, with a total of 20,000 to 24,500 m² of exhibition space available.

Since the 1st Biennale in 1997, sculptures have been exhibited in the Jardim das Esculturas Porto Alegre sculpture park as permanent art in public spaces.

The 11th Biennale, scheduled for 2017, was postponed to early summer 2018 due to the poor economic situation in Brazil.

output Visitors Artist Works countries Homage
land 		Tribute
artist 		Chief curator president
01st Bienal 1997 290,000 275 842 7th Venezuela Xul Solar (Argentina),
Mário Pedrosa (Brazil) 		Frederico Morais Justo Werlang
02nd Bienal 1999 295,000 200 370 7th Colombia Iberê Camargo (Brazil) Fábio Magalhães Ivo Abrahão Nesralla
03rd Bienal 2001 604,000 129 400 7th Peru Rafael França (Brazil) Fábio Magalhães Ivo Abrahão Nesralla
04th Bienal 2003 1,000,000 84 16 Mexico Saint Clair Cemin (Brazil) Nelson Aguillar Renato Malcon
05th Bienal 2005 169 no Amilcar de Castro (Brazil) Paulo Sergio Duarte Elvaristo Teixeira do Amaral
06th Bienal 2007 500,000 67 350 23 no Öyvind Fahlström , Jorge Macchi ,
Francisco Matto (Brazil) 		Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro Justo Werlang
07th Bienal 2009 266,000 338 533 29 no Victoria Noorthoorn ,
Camilo Yáñez 		Mauro Knijnik
08th Bienal 2011 600,000 105 186 31 no Eugenio Dittborn (Chile) José Roca, Colombia Luiz Carlos Mandelli
09th Bienal 2013 500,000 59 101 28 no Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy Patricia Fossati print
10th Bienal 2015 420,000 263 646 20th no Gaudêncio Fidelis José Antonio Fernandes Martins
11th Bienal 2018 626.357 73 252 29 no Alfons Hug Gilberto Schwartsmann
12th Bienal 2020 in planning
Note: Visitor numbers are mostly rounded.

literature

  • Gaudêncio Fidelis: Uma história concisa da Bienal do Mercosul. Fundação Bienal de Artes Visuais do Mercosul, Porto Alegre 2005, ISBN 85-99501-01-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  2. ↑ 2ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  3. ↑ 3ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  4. ↑ 4ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  5. ↑ 5ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  6. ↑ 6ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  7. ↑ 7ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  8. ↑ 8ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  9. ↑ 9ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  10. ↑ 10ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
  11. ↑ 10ª Bienal do Mercosul Mensagens de Uma Nova América encerra com visitação superior a 400 mil.Retrieved on March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese; PDF).
  12. ↑ 11ª Bienal . Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).