Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro to Curate 37th São Paulo Biennial
Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro have been chosen as curators for the 37th Bienal de São Paulo, which will take place in the latter half of 2027 at Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo in Ibirapuera Park. This decision marks a return to Brazilian curatorial leadership, made through a thorough selection process involving the foundation's presidency and its international advisory council. The curatorial project is scheduled for presentation in the second half of 2025. Since 2018, Carneiro has served as a curator at MASP, focusing on Brazilian narratives and holding a degree in Social History from the University of São Paulo. Fonseca, a curator at Culturgest and the Denver Art Museum, recently worked on the Taiwan Pavilion for the 2026 Venice Biennale.
Key facts
- Raphael Fonseca and Amanda Carneiro are the curators of the 37th Bienal de São Paulo.
- The Biennial will take place in the second half of 2027 at Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Ibirapuera Park.
- The selection was conducted by a committee led by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo's presidency.
- Amanda Carneiro has been a curator at MASP since 2018 and worked on the 60th Venice Biennale.
- Raphael Fonseca is curator of visual arts at Culturgest and curator at large at Denver Art Museum.
- Fonseca curated the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2026 Venice Biennale and the 14th Mercosul Biennial.
- The curatorial project will be presented in the second half of 2025.
- The Biennial is over 70 years old and considered the largest visual arts event in Latin America.
Entities
Artists
- Beatriz Milhazes
- Sonia Gomes
- Leonor Antunes
- Amanda Carneiro
- Raphael Fonseca
- Adriano Pedrosa
- Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
- Oscar Niemeyer
- Rosana Paulino
- Adriana Varejão
- Santiago Yahuarcani
- Hulda Guzmán
- Kang Seung Lee
- Abdias Nascimento
- Madalena Santos Reinbolt
- Conceição dos Bugres
- Yina Jiménez Suriel
- Andrea Pinheiro
- Santiago Ayahuarcani
- Maguy Etlin
- José Olympio da Veiga Pereira
- Ligia Fonseca Ferreira
- Marcelo Mattos Araujo
- Susana Leirner Steinbruch
- Pamela J. Joyner
- Antonio Lessa
- Emanoel Araujo
Institutions
- Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
- Bienal de São Paulo
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP)
- Bienal de Veneza
- Culturgest
- Denver Art Museum
- MAC Niterói
- Bienal do Mercosul
- Bienal Sesc_Videobrasil
- Universidade de São Paulo
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP)
- Venice Biennale
- Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo
- Taiwan Pavilion
- Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói
- Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
- MASP
- Counterpublic Triennial
- Sequences festival
- Sequences biennial art festival
- documenta de Kassel
- The Whitworth
- American Folk Art Museum
- Museo Universitario del Chopo
- Itaú Cultural
- Afterall Journal
- Bienal SESC_Videobrasil
- Bienal do Barro
- Galeria Municipal do Porto
- Haus der Kunst
- Museu de Arte do Rio
- Framer Framed
- Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore
- Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil
- UERJ
- Unicamp
- Colégio Pedro II
- Masp
- Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
- Sequences
- ArteRef
- MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand
- Biennale di Venezia
Locations
- São Paulo
- Brazil
- Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
- Parque Ibirapuera
- Lisbon
- Portugal
- Porto
- Denver
- United States
- Niterói
- Taiwan
- Venice
- Italy
- Latin America
- Europe
- Asia
- Rio de Janeiro
- Argentina
- Africa
- St. Louis
- Reykjavik
- Iceland
- Porto Alegre
- Kassel
- Germany
- Reykjavík
- Singapore
- USA
- Brasil
- Lisboa
- Veneza
- Itália
- Alemanha
- Islândia
- Estados Unidos
- Singapura