Fifth ARTE!Brasileiros Seminar Explores Art's Boundaries with International Speakers

The fifth international ARTE!Brasileiros seminar, themed 'ARTE ALÉM DA ARTE,' opens with Mario Pfeifer's video 'Again/Noch einmal,' commissioned for the 10th Berlin Biennale. Paulo Tavares, founder of Autônoma and co-curator of the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial, participates in an afternoon panel on advocacy in Latin American visual cultures. The seminar's morning panel on Geopolitics and Art features Aníbal Jozami, director of BIENALSUR and Universidad 3 de Febrero; João Fernandes, deputy director of Museo Reina Sofia; Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa; and Diana Weschler, artistic director of BIENALSUR. Nydia Gutierrez, director of Museo de Antioquia, and Anneliek Sijbrandij, founder of The Verbier Art Summit in Switzerland, also join the afternoon session. The event closes with the Montblanc Cultural Foundation awarding its Arts Patronage Prize to JAMAC (Jardim Miriam Arte Clube) and artist Mônica Nador. Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo and 2018 Italian Capital of Culture, sends a recorded statement discussing art's role in social transformation, referencing Manifesta 12. The seminar examines art's expanding intersections with other fields, citing Forensic Architecture's Turner Prize nomination and historical precedents like Joseph Beuys and Lygia Clark.