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Venice Biennale announces artists for 2022 edition

Among the 213 names announced are five Brazilians: Jaider Esbell, Lenora de Barros, Luiz Roque, Rosana Paulino and Solange Pessoa.
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Brazilian choice in Venice reflects authoritarianism of Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Once again, the nomination of the Brazilian representative at the Venice Biennale is the result of an undemocratic choice, as it has been characterized since...
Vertical, color photo. Portrait of Grada Kilomba

The boycott of Grada Kilomba in the official Portuguese representation of the Venice Biennale 2022

By Ana Teixeira Pinto* On November 11, 2021, DGARTES (Direção Geral das Artes) announced the result of the competition for the...

Paulo Mendes da Rocha: Brazil's last great modern architect

After his death, the arte!brasileiros recalls an interview given by Paulo Mendes da Rocha in 2016, in which the architect made it clear that, more than a specialist, the architect must be a thinker of the world, attentive to human needs and desires 
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Lina Bo Bardi receives the Golden Lion in Venice

Author of famous projects and owner of a radical thought, the Brazilian architect did not fit into standards and posthumously receives one of the most important awards in world architecture.
Detail of the work Sem “Untitled”, from the series “Torção” (2015), by Sonia Gomes

2015 | 56th Venice Biennale: “Transgression in Venice”

Remember an interview with curator Solange Farkas about the 2015 Italian Biennale, entitled "All the World's Futures", which was directed by the Nigerian Okwui Enwezor
"A Sacred Place", Ernesto Neto. Photo: Disclosure

2017 | 57th Venice Biennale: “Edition of the Italian event loses boldness”

Remember Vivian Mocellin's critique of the 2017 Venice Biennale; for her, the edition brought a politically correct exhibition to the limit, without power and with a "more museological temperature"

Just picturing is no longer enough

Because Swinguerra, by Barbara Wagner and Benjamim de Burca, is a work that dialogues with the concept of “standpoint”

Just portraying is no longer enough

Because Swinguerra, by Barbara Wagner E Benjamim de Burca, is a work that dialogues with the concept of “place of speech”
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2019 | 58th Venice Biennale empties into “interesting times”

New edition of the Italian biennial, curated by Ralph Ruggof, brings together works that illustrate urgent issues without complexity