São Paulo Biennial

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Inside the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion , 2004
Insight into the 27th São Paulo Biennale, 2006

The São Paulo Biennale in São Paulo , Brazil , officially Portuguese Bienal Internacional de Arte de São Paulo , in the plural also Bienais de São Paulo, in short: Bienal de São Paulo , English also São Paulo Art Biennial , is a world art exhibition that has been held since 1951 and next to the Venice Biennale the second largest art biennale in the world.

history

It was founded by the Italian-Brazilian industrialist Ciccillo Matarazzo . Since 1957 it has been held in the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion (Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo) in the Parque do Ibirapuera . The large Biennale pavilion was designed by a team of architects led by Oscar Niemeyer and Hélio Uchôa and offers an exhibition area of ​​30,000 m².

It is the second oldest regular art biennial in the world and has been in its 60th year of existence in 2011 since it was founded. A partnership with the Venice Biennale has existed since August 2009.

It is supported and organized by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo .

Both Brazilian and international art is shown at the São Paulo Biennale. As in Venice, there are both country curators and an exhibition to which central invitations are sent. The São Paulo Biennale is one of the most important art exhibitions in the country and is internationally recognized. Since admission is free, enormous numbers of visitors are regularly reached.

The Arquivo Histórico Wanda Svevo under the current direction of Adriana Villela is responsible for the history of the Biennale .

The biennials

1st Biennale 1951

In terms of art history, the awarding of a graphic prize to Tetsuro Komai for an etching and Saito Kiyoshi (1907–1997) for a woodcut that helped the Sōsaku hanga movement achieve its international breakthrough is worth mentioning .

5th Biennale 1959

Germany was represented at the fifth biennale with artists from the Brücke such as Erich Heckel , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Otto Mueller , and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff as well as Emil Nolde . The work of Karl Hartung was most strongly represented with over forty works. Other artists from Germany were Hermann Bachmann , Hubert Berke , Manfred Bluth , Joseph Fassbender , Rupprecht Geiger , Karl Hartung, Ernst Wilhelm Nay , Hans Platschek , Emil Schumacher , KRH Sonderborg , Fred Thieler , Hann Trier , Heinz Trökes and Gerhard Wind .

7th Biennale 1963

At the 7th Biennale, Werner Schmalenbach was the German commissioner responsible for the selection of artists and their presentation for the second time . Schmalenbach consciously concentrated on a few artists and presented Emil Nolde as a modern classic in a special room. As representatives of contemporary painting, he chose KRH Sonderborg and Emil Schumacher.

9th Biennale 1967

Sao Paulo 9 (1967)

In the 1967 exhibition called "São Paulo 9", important artists from the early days of American Pop Art were represented, such as: B. Edward Hopper , James Gill and Andy Warhol .

13th Biennial 1975

The 13th Biennale took place from October 17 to December 15, 1975 with the participation of 42 countries. Germany was represented by Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke , Austria by Cornelius Kolig , Gotthard Muhr and Hans Staudacher .

25th Biennale 2002

The 25th Biennale took place from March 23rd to June 2nd, 2002. The group monochrom created a fictional artist named Georg Paul Thomann and sent him to the Biennale as the official representative of Austria.

26th Biennale 2004

At the Biennale, which ran from September 25 to December 19, 2004, Austria was represented by Leo Schatzl with the Autorotation project , which was carried out in cooperation with David Moises and Severin Hofmann.

29th Biennale 2010

The interior of the pavilion in the typical Niemeyer style

The 29th Biennale took place from September 25th to December 12th 2010 under the main curation of Moacir dos Anjos and Agnaldo Farias. A total of around 160 world-famous artists exhibited.

German holdings
Swiss participation

Architecture Biennale

Since 1973, in addition to the art biennale in the Biennale Pavilion, the International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo ( Portuguese Bienal Internacional de Arquitetura e Design , or BIA for short); English also organizes Sao Paulo International Biennial of Architecture . After 1973 there was a long interruption until the second exhibition in 1993, the third took place in 1997 and it is only from 2001 that it takes place every two years.

Germany's official participation was only established for the sixth Biennale in 2005. The motto of the 7th BIA 2007 was Ready for Take-Off . The German contribution was then shown in 2008 in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt. The feld72 group made the Austrian contribution . The 8th BIA 2009 had the motto: Ecos Urbanos - Urban Echoes .

literature

  • Agnaldo Farias (Ed.): Bienal 50 anos, 1951-2001. Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo 2001.
  • Ulrike Groos , Sebastian Preuss (eds.): German art in São Paulo: German art at the Biennial 1951 - 2012. Institute for Foreign Relations. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2013, ISBN 978-3-7757-3694-7 .

Web links

Commons : Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fundação Bienal de São Paulo: XIII Bienal de São Paulo . São Paulo 1975, pp. 25-28, 43-50
  2. ^ Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts: Art Report 1975 ( Memento from August 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), p. 3
  3. ↑ derstandard.at of September 28, 2004: Leo Schatzl represents Austria with the installation "Autorotation" ; accessed on December 2, 2017
  4. ↑ FAZ of November 27, 2010, p. 38: A glass full of sea for sailing , quotation from Jorge de Lima
  5. ↑ List of participants 2010 ( memento of November 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 29, 2011
  6. ↑ IFA biennial database  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.ifa.de  
  7. ^ Article by the responsible Federal Ministry ( memento of March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 29, 2011
  8. ↑ Official website ( Memento of February 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Catalog: Ready for Take-Off. Current German export architecture. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7757-2146-2
  10. ^ The Austrian contribution to the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale. on: bmukk
  11. ↑ Subversive at the Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale: "feld72" . In: der Standard.at of October 26, 2007, accessed on January 29, 2011
  12. ↑ 8th International Architecture Biennale São Paulo ( Memento from May 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at www.detail.de/Architekturportal, accessed on January 29, 2011
  13. ↑ www.baukultur-made-in-germany.de ( Memento from October 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), microsite of the Federal Chamber of Architects ( BAK) for the 9th São Paulo International Architecture Biennale in November 2011