From November 30, 2024 to March 9, 2025, Porto Alegre will host the last stop on the traveling exhibitions program of the 35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible, an exhibition co-organized by the Fundação Iberê and the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo.

The event will close the cycle of exhibitions that, throughout 2024, toured ten Brazilian cities and three international ones, such as Buenos Aires (Argentina), La Paz (Bolivia) and Luanda (Angola), broadening the discussions proposed by the Bienal in its last edition, held in 2023 at the Bienal Pavilion, in Ibirapuera Park, in São Paulo.

Curated by Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes and Manuel Borja-Villel, the traveling exhibition in Porto Alegre reinforces the Bienal de São Paulo’s commitment to expanding its themes and artists beyond the São Paulo capital, promoting dialogue between cultures and questioning the visible and the invisible, the real and the imaginary.

Among the 121 participants in the 35th Bienal de São Paulo, seven will be showing their works at the Fundação Iberê: Aurora Cursino dos Santos, Katherine Dunham, MAHKU (Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin), Nontsikelelo Mutiti, Rosana Paulino, Ubirajara Ferreira Braga, and the duo Simone Leigh & Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich. The works selected for the latest traveling exhibition reflect dialogues about ancestry, memory and the complex relationships between bodies, territories and resistance, central themes of this edition of the Bienal.

For the curators, it is crucial that the exhibition reaches more cities, transcending the limits of the Bienal Pavilion. According to them, “the debates proposed by the 35th Bienal cross countless territories around the world, so not restricting choreographies of the impossible  to the Bienal Pavilion is extremely important for the work carried out”.

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35th Bienal de São Paulo – choreographies of the impossible
Traveling Exhibition Porto Alegre – Fundação Iberê
Curators: Diane Lima, Grada Kilomba, Hélio Menezes and Manuel Borja-Villel
Nov 30, 2024 – Mar 9, 2025
Thurs – Sun, 2pm – 6pm
Fundação Iberê
Av. Padre Cacique, 2000
Porto Alegre, Brazil
check the entrance policy at iberecamargo.org.br/visite/