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26th Biennial of São Paulo

"The territory of aesthetics begins where the normal world ends. It describes the space in which reality and imagination are in conflict with each another. Artists are the border guards of a realm that lies beyond the administered world, where politics and economics have no more jurisdiction over interpretation. While the whole world is constantly arguing about what belongs to whom, art clarifies the ownership issue in its own way: in the realm of aesthetics everything belongs to everyone."

Alfons Hug, curator of the 26th Biennial of Sao Paulo

Invited artists

curator: Alfons Hug

Massimo Bartolini (Italy), David Batchelor (Great Britain), Rachel Berwick (USA), Tiago Bortolozzo (Brazil), Fernando Bryce (Peru), Edward Burtynsky (Canada), Cabelo (Brazil), Geysell Capetillo (Cuba), Chelpa Ferro (Brazil), Chen Shaofeng (China), Paulo Climachauska (Brazil), Walmor Correa (Brazil), Ângela Detanico & Rafael Lain (Brazil), Mark Dion (USA), Heri Dono (Indonesia), Leandro Erlich (Argentina), Inka Essenhigh (USA), João Paulo Feliciano (Portugal), Lívia Flores (Brazil), Carlos Garaicoa (Cuba), Simryn Gill (Australia), Henrik Håkansson (Sweden), Naoya Hatakeyama (Japan), Juan Fernando Herrán (Columbia), Sergej Jensen (Denmark), Eduardo Kac (Brazil), Toba Khedoori (Australia), Vera Lutter (Germany), Jorge Macchi (Argentina), Maxim Malhado (Brazil), Fabiano Marques (Brazil), Milton Marques (Brazil), Julie Mehretu (Ethiopia/USA), Aernout Mik (Netherlands), Muntean/Rosenblum (Austria), Victor Mutale (Sambia), Moataz Nasr (Egypt), Neistat Brothers (USA), Albert Oehlen (Germany), Ieda de Oliveira (Brazil), Catherine Opie (USA), Rosana Palazyan (Brazil), Jorge Pardo (USA), Bruno Peinado (France), Pavel Pepperstein (Russia), Jorge Queiróz (Portugal), Hans Hamid Rasmussen (Norway), Rassim (Bulgaria), Neo Rauch (Germany), Navin Rawanchaikul (Thailand), Caio Reisewitz (Brazil), Lois Renner (Austria), Matthew Ritchie (USA), René Francisco Rodríguez (Cuba), Julian Rosefeldt (Germany), Song Dong (China), Tom Sachs (USA), Wilhelm Sasnal (Poland), Thomas Scheibitz (Germany), Santiago Sierra (Spain/Mexico), Alec Soth (USA), Simon Starling (Great Britain), Su-Mei Tse (Luxemburg), Eulalia Valldosera (Spain), Pablo Vargas-Lugo (Mexico), Laura Vinci (Brazil), Yin Xiuzhen (China), Xu Bing (China), Veronika Zapletalová (Czech Republic), Krzysztof Zielinski (Poland)


Special Project Rooms

Artur Barrio (Brazil), Paulo Bruscky (Brazil), Cai Guo Qiang (China), Eugenio Dittborn (Chile), Huang Yong Ping (China), Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil), Thomas Struth (Germany), Luc Tuymans (Belgium)


African Photography
curator: Simon Njami

Cornelius Augustt Azzaglo (Togo), Mama Casset (Senegal), Jean Depara (Congo), Samuel Fosso (Cameroon), Zwelethu Mthetwa (South Africa), Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria), Eileen Perrier (Great Britain/Ghana), Abderramane Sakaly (Senegal)

National Representations

Argentina: Pablo Siquier
Austria: Leo Schatzl
Australia: Joyce Hinterding & David Haines
Belgium: Cristine Felten & Véronique Massinger
Bolivia: Roberto Valcarcel
Brazil: Ivens Machado
Bulgaria: Albena Kazakova
Canada: David Rokeby
Chile: Patrick Hamilton
China: Qu Yan
Columbia: Jaime Avila
Croatia: Zlatko Kopljar
Cuba: Esterio Segura
Denmark: Lars Mathisen
Ecuador: Pablo Cardoso
Finland: Jukka Korkeila
France: Melik Ohanian
Germany: Thomas Demand
Greece: Harris Kondosphyris
Great Britain: Mike Nelson
Hungary: Peter Szarka
Irland: Stephen Loughman, Dennis McNulty, desperate optimists (Christine Molloy/Joe Lawlor)
Israel: Doron Rabina
Italy: Frankreichsco Vezzoli
Japan: Shin Miyazaki
Latvia: Gints Gabrans
Lithuania: Mindaugas & Gintautas Lukosaitis
Mexico: Miguel Calderón
Netherlands: Jennifer Tee
New Zealand: Remember Neuseeland (Gruppenprojekt)
Norway: Ingrid Book & Carina Hedén
Paraguay: Juan Britos
Peru: Carlos Runcie-Tanaka
Poland: Piotr Uklanski
Portugal: Rui Chafes & Vera Mantero
Puerto Rico: José Morales
Russia: POROLON (Sergey Shekhovtsov)
Singapore: Ho Tzu Nyen
Slovak Republic: Three of a Nice Pair: Ivan Csudai, Stanislav Divis, Laco Teren
South Corea: OH Sang-ghil
Spain: Fernando Sanchez Castillo
Sweden: Jonas Dahlberg
Switzerland: Frédéric Moser & Philippe Schwinger
Ukraine: Victor Marushchenko
United Arab Emirates: Abdallah Alsaadi
Uruguay: Martin Sastre
Venezuela: Juan Calzadilla