Marcello Dantas is an award-winning multi-disciplinary curator, who has worked widely
across Brazil and abroad. He works on the boundary between art and technology, producing
exhibitions and museum and multifaceted projects that aim to produce immersive multi-
sensory experiences.
Marcello Dantas has been behind the design of several museums, including
the Museum of the Portuguese Language and the Japan House, in São Paulo, the Museum
of American Man and the Museum of Nature, in Piauí, and the Museum of the Caribbean, in
Colombia. He has curated exhibitions by renowned foreign artists such as Ai Weiwei, Anish
Kapoor, Jenny Holzer, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Peter Greenaway, Rebecca Horn, Bill Viola
and Laurie Anderson. He was also the artistic director of the Brazilian Pavilion at Expo
Shanghai 2010, the Brazilian Pavilion at Rio+20, at the Pelé Station, in Berlin, at the 2006
World Cup and has been the curator of the Vancouver Biennial since 2014.
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