The title of this biennial poses a question that points to the tension at the core of contemporary democratic culture: participation in society on the basis of “difference” understood— as Denise Ferreira da Silva puts it — as multiplicity rather than separation.
It looks as well to the questions Nelly Richard asked in her book Masculino/Femenino (1993) in the context of the democratic transitions in Latin America. Her questions interrogate the social place of the feminine, its constructions and gaps, and the radical departure from exclusive binary logics. These questions are as relevant as ever at a time when feminism is revisiting agendas—and still unmet goals—first formulated in the sixties and voiced again in the nineties, while also responding to a series of pressing issues: growing violence against women and LGBTT+ collectivities; rising poverty and other systems of exclusion and discrimination; and worldviews that imperil the planet’s natural resources.
This biennial attempts to devise a contract of sensibility, a zone to exchange visualities, actions, and affects, and confirm the bounties of democratic life without eliding its complexities.
STATIONS
CURATORS
ANDREA GRACIELA GIUNTA
General Curator
A writer, curator, and professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she received her Ph.D. She is a researcher at the CONICET, Argentina, and a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of several books on Latin American art, including Avant-garde, Internationalism and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007). In 2018, she published Feminismo y arte latinoamericano: Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo (Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI, 2018, and forthcoming in translation by the University of California Press). She was a co-curator of Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 (2017–2018, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Brooklyn Museum, New York, and the Pinacoteca de São Paulo).
DOROTA MARIA BICZEL
Assistant Curator
(Poland/USA) holds a Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin. She is currently a visiting assistant professor of art history at the University of Houston. Her research, writing, and curatorial projects focus on contemporary Latin American art seen in the global context, particularly at the intersections of material experimentation, social practice, and politics. She has published articles and essays in academic journals such as Caiana, Buildings & Landscapes, Art Journal, ARARA, and alter/nativas, and in exhibition catalogs. She curated Moving Mountains: Extractive Landscapes of Peru at the UT’s Visual Arts Center (2016) and co-curated Teresa Burga’s Chronology: Reports, Diagrams, Intervals (2011, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart), among other projects.
FABIANA LOPES
Assistant Curator
A New York- and São Paulo-based independent curator, writer, and Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at New York University, where she is a Corrigan Doctoral Fellow. Her research centers on the contemporary production of artists of the African diaspora in Brazil and the Americas in general. Her writings have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar Art, O Menelick 2o Ato, ARTE!Brasileiros, Contemporary And (C&), and in exhibition catalogs such as Rosana Paulino: The Sewing of Memory, Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2018), Lucia Laguna: Neighborhood, MASP, São Paulo (2018), Of Darkness and Of Light, Minnette Vári, Johannesburg (2016), Territories: Artists of African Descent at Pinacoteca’s Collection, Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2015).
IGOR SIMÕES
Curator of the educational program
A PhD in Visual Arts - Art History, Theory and Criticism from the PPGAV (Graduate Program in Visual Arts) at UFRGS. Assistant professor in the Art History, Theory and Criticism and Art Teaching Methodology and Practice course at UERGS. Member of the curating committee of the National Association of Plastic Art Researchers-ANPAP, and member of the UERGS-MARHS Education Hub. Member of the collection committee at the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art-MARGS. He works with articulations between exhibitions, film editing/montage, art history, and the racialization of Brazilian art and the visibility of black individuals in the visual arts world. Author of thesis Film Montage and exhibitions: Black Voices in the White Cube of Brazilian Art. Member of Flume - Education and Visual Arts Research Group.
FULL STAFF
CURADORIA
CURADORIA GERAL
Andrea Graciela Giunta
CURADORES ADJUNTOS
Dorota Maria Biczel
Fabiana Lopes
Igor Moraes Simões
PRODUÇÃO
DIREÇÃO DE PRODUÇÃO EXECUTIVA
Carina Dias
COORDENAÇÃO DE PRODUÇÃO EXECUTIVA
Adauany Zimovski
SUPERVISÃO
Carolina Grippa
PRODUTORAS
Fernanda Almeida
Liege Ferreira
Taís Cardoso
ASSISTENTES
Bruna Anele
Isabella Mendonça
Kailã Isaias
Laís Werneck
Renata Signoretti
DESIGN DAS EXPOSIÇÕES
Ceres Storchi
Laura Hagel
COLABORAÇÃO
Natan Arend
MONTAGEM
COORDENAÇÃO
Alexandre Moreira
CENOTÉCNICO
FAKE Cenografia
PROJETO LUMINOTÉCNICO
André Domingues
Hamilton Leite
Maurício Moura
EQUIPAMENTOS
Images
LOGÍSTICA/TRANSPORTE
FINK Mobility
SEGURO
Affinité Corretora de Seguros
SEGURANÇA DO TRABALHO
Sergio Ussan
PROGRAMA EDUCATIVO
ASSISTENTE E PRODUTOR GERAL
Lucas Vilela Souza
COORDENADORA DE MEDIAÇÃO
Renata Sampaio
PRODUÇÃO
Katiana Ribeiro
PESQUISA DE CONTEÚDO ARTÍSTICO
Cristina Barros
PESQUISA DE MATERIAIS EDUCATIVOS
Carolina Mendoza
CÂMARA DE PROFESSORES
TITULARES
Cristina Barros
Ilana Peres Azevedo Machado
Juliana de Lima Veloso
Maria Margarita Santi de Kremer
Natalia Brock Reginato
Raquel Sampaio Alberti
Rejane Reckziegel Ledur
Renan Silva do Espirito Santo
Silvana Taquatia Ribeiro
Walter Karwatzki
SUPLENTES
Celi Teresinha Reinhardt
Claiton Gonçalves da Silva
Débora Stifelmann Sukster
Lenira Costa dos Santos
Mari Lucie da Silva Loreto
COMUNICAÇÃO
ASSESSORIA DE IMPRENSA
Thais Leidens
Liege Heck
REDES SOCIAIS
Thais Leidens
Liege Heck
WEB DESGIN E VÍDEOS
EROICA conteúdo
CRIAÇÃO DO LOGOTIPO DA BIENAL 12
Márcia Valadão
FOTOGRAFIA
Thiéle Wiest
DESIGN
Néktar Design
GESTÃO DE PARCERIAS
COORDENAÇÃO
Roberta Manaa
ASSISTENTE DE MARKETING
Viviane Kuhn
CATÁLOGO
COORDENAÇÃO EDITORIAL
José Francisco Alves
DESIGN GRÁFICO E DIAGRAMAÇÃO
Néktar Design
ADMINISTRAÇÃO
COORDENAÇÃO GERAL
Volmir Luiz Gilioli
FINANCEIRO
Ana Carolina Verdun
Jéssica Tairine Rodrigues
Liverson Renan Quadros Souza
Luisa Schneider
AUDITORIA
Capital Auditores e Consultores Empresariais S/S