The Thirtieth Bienal de São Paulo will take place from 7th September to 9th December 2012.
Curated by Luis Pérez-Oramas (chief curator), André Severo and Tobi Maier (associated curators) and Isabella Villanueva (curator assistant), under the title The Imminence of Poetics, the Thirtieth Bienal de São Paulo takes its curatorial coordinates from the multiplicity, trans-nationality, recurrence and permanent mutability of artistic poetics.
With a view to establishing itself as a platform upon which to encounter this diversity of poetics, the fundamental tool the Thirtieth Bienal São Paulo – The Imminence of Poetics has chosen to adopt is the notion of Constellation – the main leitmotiv for which is articulation.
More than an exhibition of individual works and singular artists, the Thirtieth Bienal envisages an event that has the capacity to produce constellations of works and artists that dialogue amongst themselves, both within or beyond their programmatic reasonings; a platform for brokering approximations between works and artists that serve as effective tools for the renewal and production of meaning and signification.
In brief, the Thirtieth Bienal is about discursive acts – including modalities for the suspension and interruption of discourse – that feed off earlier discursive densities, off an organic memory of anteceding and nourishing enunciative or expressive acts which these discursive successors inevitably alter, deform and assimilate.
List of participant artists
1. Absalon, Israel
2. Alair Gomes, Brazil
3. Alberto Bitar, Brazil
4. PPPP (Productos Peruanos Para Pensar), Peru
5. Alejandro Cesarco, Uruguay
6. Alexandre da Cunha, Brazil
7. Alexandre Moreira, Brazil
8. Alfredo Cortina, Venezuela
9. Ali Kazma, Turkey
10. Allan Kaprow, USA
11. Ambroise Ngaimoko (Studio 3Z), Angola
12. Andreas Eriksson, Sweden
13. Anna Oppermann, Germany
14. Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Brazil
15. Athanasios Argianas, England/Greece
16. August Sander, Germany
17. Bas Jan Ader, Netherlands
18. Benet Rossell, Spain
19. Bernard Frize, France
20. Bernardo Ortiz, Colombia
21. Bruno Munari, Italy
22. Cadu Costa, Brazil
23. Charlotte Posenenske, Germany
24. Christian Vinck, Venezuela
25. Ciudad Abierta, Chile
26. Daniel Steegmann, Spain
27. Dave Hullfish Bailey, USA
28. David Moreno, USA
29. Edi Hirose, Peru
30. Eduardo Berliner, Brazil
31. Eduardo Gil, Venezuela
32. Eduardo Stupía, Argentina
33. Elaine Reichek, USA
34. Erica Baum, USA
35. Fernand Deligny, France
36. Fernanda Gomes, Brazil
37. f.marquespenteado, Brazil/Portugal
38. Fernando Ortega, Mexico
39. Franz Erhard Walther, Germany
40. Franz Mon, Germany
41. Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, Ivory Coast
42. Gego, Venezuela
43. Guy Maddin, Canada
44. Hans Eijkelboom, Netherlands
45. Hans-Peter Feldmann, Germany
46. Hayley Tompkins, England/Scotland
47. Helen Mirra, USA
48. Hélio Fervenza, Brazil
49. Horst Ademeit, Germany
50. Hreinn Fridfinnsson, Iceland/Netherlands
51. Hugo Canoilas, Portugal
52. Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scotland
53. Icaro Zorbar, Colombia
54. Ilene Segalove, USA
55. Iñaki Bonillas, Mexico
56. Ivan Argote & Pauline Bastard, Colombia
57. Jerry Martin, Peru
58. Jiří Kovanda, Czech Republic
59. John Zurier, USA
60. José Arnaud-Bello, Mexico
61. Juan Iribarren, Venezuela
62. Juan Luis Martínez, Chile
63. Juan Nascimiento & Daniela Lovera, Venezuela
64. Jutta Koether, Germany
65. Katja Strunz, Germany
66. Kirsten Pieroth, Germany
67. Kriwet, Germany
68. Leandro Tartaglia, Argentina
69. Lucia Laguna, Brazil
70. Marcelo Coutinho, Brazil
71. Marco Fusinato, Australia
72. Maryanne Amacher, USA
73. Mark Morrisroe, USA
74. Martín Legón, Argentina
75. Meris Angioletti, Italy
76. Michel Aubry, France
77. Mobile Radio, England/Germany
78. Moris, Mexico
79. Moyra Davey, Canada
80. Nicolás Paris, Colombia
81. Nino Cais, Brazil
82. Nydia Negromonte, Brazil
83. Odires Mlaszho, Brazil
84. Olivier Nottellet, France
85. Pablo Accinelli, Argentina
86. Pablo Pijnappel, Brazil/Netherlands
87. Patrick Jolley, Ireland
88. Paulo Vivacqua, Brazil
89. Ricardo Basbaum, Brazil
90. Robert Filliou, France
91. Robert Smithson, USA
92. Roberto Obregón, Venezuela
93. Rodrigo Braga, Brazil
94. Runo Lagomarsino , Sweden
95. Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Chile
96. Saul Fletcher, England
97. Savvas Christodoulides, Cyprus
98. Sergei Tcherepnin with Ei Arakawa, USA
99. Sheila Hicks, USA
100. Sigurdur Gudmundsson , Iceland
101. Simone Forti, USA
102. Sofia Borges, Brazil
103. Tehching Hsieh, Taiwan
104. Thiago Rocha Pitta, Brazil
105. Thomas Sipp, France
106. Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Brazil
107. Viola Yesiltaç, Germany
108. Waldemar Cordeiro, Brazil
109. Xu Bing, China
110. Yuki Kimura, Japan