The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo will be opening its 25th Biennial at 11 a.m. on March 23, 2002. There will be no press preview. With the theme of Iconografias Metropolitanas [Metropolitan Iconographies], the exhibition will be held in 30,000 square meters of exhibition space on the three floors of the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion, home of the Fundação Bienal, portão 3, Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.

This edition of the biennial – which is considered to be one of the three most important events of its kind in the world – features 190 artists from 70 different countries. The chief curator is Alfons Hug, with curator Agnaldo Farias in charge of the Brazilian representation.

The 25th Bienal de São Paulo is divided into 5 main segments: “11 Metropolises”, “National Representations”, “Brazilian Nucleus”, Special Project Rooms and “Web Art”. The “11 Metropolises” are: São Paulo, Caracas, New York, Johannesburg, Istanbul, Beijing, Tokyo, Sydney, London, Berlin and Moscow. Each metropolis is represented by five artists. The so-called 12th City is “the design of a Utopia”, according to the curators.

The “National Representations” segment presents the works of artists from 70 countries (one artist per country). The Bienal has encouraged the participation of a large number of African and Asian countries, which usually get little exposure in contemporary art shows.

For the “Brazilian Nucleus”, curator Agnaldo Farias selected 30 artists from 10 different Brazilian states with the aim of showing the cutting edge of the national production. According to him, “it is a mapping of a complex and fascinating universe; the ancient polis exploded and gathered in unexpected versions”.

25th BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO

Period: March 23 to June 2, 2002

Venue: Pavilhão da Bienal (Ciccillo Matarazzo), portão 3, Parque do Ibirapuera, CEP 04098-900 São Paulo, Brazil

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(Regis Motisuki and Alexandre Ribeiro)

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25TH BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO: SELECTED ARTISTS

Chief Curator: Alfons Hug

Brazilian Representation Curator: Agnaldo Farias

BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATION

Alexander Pilis (resident of Barcelona, Spain), Ana Miguel (DF), Brígida Baltar (RJ), Cao Guimarães (MG), Chelpa Ferro (RJ), Daniel Acosta (RS), Eduardo Frota (CE), Eliane Prolik (PR), Fábio Cardoso (SP), Gil Vicente (PE), José Bechara (RJ), José Damasceno (RJ), José Rufino (PB), Carina Weidle (PR), Marcelo Solá (GO), Marcos Chaves (RJ), Marepe (BA), Oriana Duarte (PE), Paulo Whitaker (SP), Ricardo Basbaum (RJ), Sérgio Sister (SP), Helmut Batista, Carmela Gross (SP).

11 METROPOLISES

Berlin: Olaf Metzel, Katharina Grosse, Frank Thiel, Michael Wesely, Franz Ackermann.

Caracas: Alexander Apostol, Luis Molina Pantin, José Antonio Hernández-Diez, Emilia Azcárate, Marcel Odenbach.

Istanbul: Ayse Erkmen, Kutlug Ataman, Ebru Özseçen, Haluk Akakçe, Kemal Önsoy.

Johannesburg: David Goldblatt, Ruth Motau, Santu Mofokeng, Bonita Alice, Jo Ratcliffe.

London: Michael Landy, Gillian Wearing, Glenn Brown, Keith Tyson, Richard Wentworth.

Moscow: Boris Mikhailov, Dmitrij Gutov, Vinogradov/Dubosarskij, A. Osmolovsky, Valery Koshliakov.

New York: Sarah Morris, Nancy Davenport, Lucinda Devlin, Shirin Neshat, Doug Hall.

Beijing: Qiu Zhijie, Gong Xin Wang, Yan Lei, Lu Hao, Zeng Hao.

São Paulo: Raquel Garbelotti, Lina Kim, Artur Lescher, Rubens Mano, Vânia Mignone.

Sydney: John Barbour, Adam Cullen, Rodney Glick & Lynnette Voevodin, Jan Nelson, Raquel Ormella.

Tokyo: Mariko Mori, Tatsumi Orimoto, Aida Makoto, Tabaimo, Kyoichi Tsuzuki.

12TH CITY – “UTOPIAN CITY”

Armin Linke (Italy), Arthur Omar (Brazil), Bodys Isek Kingelez (Congo), Carsten Hoeller (Germany), Huang Yong Ping & Shen Yuan (China), Isay Weinfeld & Marcio Kogan (Brazil), Los Carpinteros (Cuba), Maurício Dias & Walter Riedweg (Brazil), Robert Cabot (France), Sarah Sze (USA), Yutaka Sone (Japan), Spencer Tunick (USA).

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIONS

COUNTRY ARTIST CURATOR

Albania Anri Sala Corinne Diserens

Argentina Dino Bruzzone Jorge Glusberg

Armenia Azat Sargsyan Garo Keheyan

Australia Robert MacPherson Trevor Smith

Austria Georg P. Thomann Zdenka Badovinac

Belgium Richard Venlet Moritz Küng

Bolivia Raquel Schwartz Pedro Querejazu

Bulgaria Marran Gosov Bozhidar Boiadzhiev

Camaroon Pascale Marthine Tayou Alfons Hug

Canada Stan Douglas Daina Augaitis

Chile Pablo Rivera Justo Pastor Mellado/Luisa Ulibarri

China Wang Jian Wei Fan Di An

Colombia Luiz Fernando Peláez Maria Belén Saéz de Ibarras

Congo Chéri Samba André Magnin

Costa Rica Andres Carranza Joaquim Rodriguez de Paso

Croatia Ivan Faktor Leonida Kovac

Cyprus Yioula Hadjigeorghiou Nicos Nicolaou

Denmark Ingar Dragset / Michael Elmgreen Dorthe Abildgaard

Ecuador Manuel Amaru Cholango Lenin Oña

Egypt Abd El Salam Eid Mohamed Ghoneim

El Salvador Rodolfo Molina Astrid Bahamod

Finland Seppo Renvall Paula Toppila

France Jean-Luc Moulène Corinne Diserens

Germany Rupprecht Geiger Helmut Friedel

Great Britain Willie Doherty Richard Riley

Greece Maria Papadimitriou Efi Strousa

Guatemala Melanie Ríos Rosina Cazali

Honduras Johanna Montero Matamoros Bayardo Blandino

Hungary Tamás Komoróczky Julia Fabényi

Indonesia Arahmaiani Astri Wright

Ireland Clare Langan Patrick Murphy

Israel Gal Weinstein Tali Tamir

Italy Margherita Manzelli Paolo Colombo

Japan Kimio Tsuchiya Kazuo Yamawaki

Latvia Famous Five (F5) Ojars Peterson

Lebanon Nabil Nahas David Leiber

Mexico Abraham Cruzvillegas Luis Gallardo

New Zealand Gavin Hipkins Robert Leonard

Nicaragua Patricia Belli Raúl Quintanilla Armijo

Norway Ole Jorgen Ness NOART

Palestine Sliman Mansour Khaled Hourani

Panama Gustavo Araujo Adrienne Samos

Paraguay Jesús Ruiz Nestosa Margarita Morselli

Peru Philippe Gruenberg/Pablo Hare Frederick Cooper Llosa

Poland Katarzyna Kozyra Anda Rottenberg

Portugal João Tabarra Miguel von Hafe Peréz

Puerto Rico Charles Juhasz-Alvarado Marimar Benítez

Russia Sergey Bratkov Joseph Backstein

Singapore Hong Sek Chern Bridget Tracy Tan

Slovenia Art Center Metelkova Mesto Aleksander Bassin

South Africa Pitso Chinzima Prince Dube

South Korea Kim Atta Jin-Sup Yoom

Spain Rogelio López Cuenca Alicia Chillida

Sweden Annika Eriksson Maria Lind

Switzerland Fabrice Gygi Pierre-André Lienhard

Taiwan Chien-Chi Chang Fang-wei Chang

The Netherlands Atelier van Lieshout Lily van Ginneken

Trinidad & Tobago Edward Bowen Charlotte Elias

Turkey Canan Beykal Hüsamettin Koçan

Ukraine Taras Polataiko Jerzy Onuch

United States Kara Walker Robert Hobbs

Uruguay Marco Maggi Clever Lara

Venezuela Carlos Cruz-Diez Elida Salazar

Vietnam Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba Le Thi Hong Gam

Yugoslavia Mrdjan Bajic Vesna Milic

SPECIAL PROJECT ROOMS (Brazil)

Carlos Fajardo (SP), Karin Lambrecht (RS), Nelson Leirner (RJ).

SPECIAL PROJECT ROOMS (Foreign Artists)

Julião Sarmento (Portugal), Sean Scully (Ireland), Thomas Ruff (Germany), Andreas Gursky (Germany), Jeff Koons (United States), Vanessa Beecroft (Italy).

AFRICAN VIDEO-ART (National Representations)

Mawuli Afatsiawo (Ghana), Moshekwa Langa, Zwelethu Mthethwa (South Africa), Goddy Leye (Cameroon), Ingrid Mwangi (Kenia), Papisthione (Senegal).

WEB-ART

INTERNATIONAL REPRESENTATION

Curator: Rudolf Frieling, ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany)

artists:

1) Bunting & Lialina (England / Russia)

http://www.teleportacia.org/swap

2) Carol Flax & Trebor Scholz (USA)

http://www.arts.arizona.edu/cflax

3) CALC & Johannes Gees (Spain / Switzerland)

http://www.communimage.ch/

4) Francesca da Rimini (Italy)

http://www.thing.net/~dollyoko/title.htm

5) Gruppo A12, Udo Noll & Peter Scupelli (Germany / Italy / USA)

http://parole.aporee.org//work/

6) Jody Zellen (USA)

http://www.ghostcity.com/

7) Kristin Lucas (USA)

http://www.diacenter.org/lucas/

8) Marina Grzinic & Aina Smid (Slovenia)

http://www.ljudmila.org/quantum.east

9) Shi Yong (China)

http://www.shanghart.com/artists/shiyong/syw/index.htm

10) Stanza (England)

http://www.thecentralcity.co.uk/

11) Roberto Cabot (France / Brazil / Germany)

http://www.mediamorphose.org/

BRAZILIAN REPRESENTATION

Curator: Cristine Mello

artists:

1) Kiko Goifman & Jurandir Muller

(site under construction)

2) Lucia Leão

http://www.lucialeao.pro.br/mirror.htm

(site being revamped for the 25th Bienal)

3) Lucas Bambozzi

http://www.comum.com/diphusa/meta

(site under construction)

4) Diana Domingues

http://artecno.ucs.br/insnakes

(site being revamped for the 25th Bienal)

5) Gilberto Prado

http://www.itaucultural.org.br/desertesejo

6) Giselle Beiguelman

http://www.desvirtual.com

(site under construction)

7) Artur Matuck

http://www.teksto.com.br

(site being revamped for the 25th Bienal)

8) Enrica Bernardelli

(site under construction)

9) Ricardo Barreto

http://www.satmundi.com