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Bienalsur Opens Calls for Fourth Edition with May 27 Deadline

festival-fair · 2026-04-23

Bienalsur – the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South – has opened calls for its fourth edition, with submissions accepted until May 27. Artists and curators can submit works or curatorial research projects for free across four categories: individual artist, group artist, individual curator, and group curator. The biennial aims to foster cultural citizenship from the Global South, ensuring regional art is presented on equal footing based on its singularities rather than as mere diversity quotas. After the submission period, the curatorial council will evaluate proposals, with selected entries advancing to a second evaluation stage. Final selections will form the fourth edition's program. Previous curatorial axes have included Ecological Consciousness, Ways of Inhabiting, Art Politics, Transits and Migrations, Fluid Constellations, Gender Issues, Memories and Forgetting, and Ways of Seeing. The event's collaborative format emphasizes decentralized artistic circuits.

Key facts

  • Submission deadline is May 27
  • Free application process
  • Four submission categories: individual artist, group artist, individual curator, group curator
  • Bienalsur aims to promote cultural citizenship from the Global South
  • Curatorial council evaluates proposals for a second selection stage
  • Previous themes included Ecological Consciousness and Gender Issues
  • Emphasis on presenting regional art with equality and singularity
  • Collaborative and decentralized operational model

Entities

Institutions

  • Bienalsur – Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporánea do Sul

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