Bienal do Mercosul
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 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1st Bienal 1997 | 290,000 | 275 | 842 | 7th | Venezuela |
Xul Solar (Argentina), Mário Pedrosa (Brazil) |
Frederico Morais | Justo Werlang |
2nd Bienal 1999 | 295,000 | 200 | 370 | 7th | Colombia | Iberê Camargo (Brazil) | Fábio Magalhães | Ivo Abrahão Nesralla |
3rd Bienal 2001 | 604,000 | 129 | 400 | 7th | Peru | Rafael França (Brazil) | Fábio Magalhães | Ivo Abrahão Nesralla |
4th Bienal 2003 | 1,000,000 | 84 | 16 | Mexico | Saint Clair Cemin (Brazil) | Nelson Aguillar | Renato Malcon | |
5th Bienal 2005 | 169 | no | Amilcar de Castro (Brazil) | Paulo Sergio Duarte | Elvaristo Teixeira do Amaral | |||
6th Bienal 2007 | 500,000 | 67 | 350 | 23 | no |
Öyvind Fahlström , Jorge Macchi , Francisco Matto (Brazil) |
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro | Justo Werlang |
7th Bienal 2009 | 266,000 | 338 | 533 | 29 | no |
Victoria Noorthoorn , Camilo Yáñez |
Mauro Knijnik | |
8th Bienal 2011 | 600,000 | 105 | 186 | 31 | no | Eugenio Dittborn (Chile) | José Roca, Colombia | Luiz Carlos Mandelli |
9th 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
- Website of the Fundação Bienal do Mercosul (Portuguese, partly English)
- Fundação Bienal do Mercosul: Artistas . List of exhibited artists
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 2ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 3ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 4ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 5ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 6ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 7ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 8ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 9ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 10ª Bienal . Retrieved March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese).
- ↑ 10ª Bienal do Mercosul Mensagens de Uma Nova América encerra com visitação superior a 400 mil.Retrieved on March 12, 2017 (Brazilian Portuguese; PDF).
- ↑ 11ª Bienal . Retrieved June 23, 2019 (Brazilian Portuguese).