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36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice. Part II
36th Bienal de São Paulo
Irmandade Vilanismo: Bringing Peripheral Poetry into the Bienal

»What does it really mean to be in a community that holds and supports one another?«

Marta Moreno Vega
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Coming October 23
Introducing the C& Cyclopedia
Search differently – a living archive on contemporary art that insists on discoverability.
Installation View
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice. Part II
With 120 participants at the Bienal Pavilion and 5 more at Casa do Povo, this edition proposes an urgent reflection on humanity, nature and deep listening.
36th Bienal de São Paulo
Irmandade Vilanismo: Bringing Peripheral Poetry into the Bienal
Find out what motivated this collective to set up their studio at the Bienal de São Paulo
Curatorships
Esperanza de León: Curating Through Community Knowledge
A Guatemalan curator devoted to mediation, education, and symbolic justice.
Installation View
2nd Bienal das Amazônias
Exhibition in Belém do Pará brings together works by artists and collectives from eight Pan-Amazonian countries.
Installation View
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
With 120 participants at the Bienal Pavilion and 5 more at Casa do Povo, this edition proposes an urgent reflection on humanity, nature and deep listening.
Inside the Library
Librería Ireti, Havana, Cuba
In this series, C&AL explores special book collections. This time, Mónica Gabarito shares her five favorite titles from Ireti, Cuba’s first Black-centered bookstore.
In Conversation with
Eva de Souza: Textile Experimentation as Poetic Protest
Eva de Souza is a Swiss-Brazilian artist who moves physically, emotionally, and spiritually between Salvador and Bern.
Trinidad and Tobago
A k u z u r u: Art, Post-humanism and Healing
Rooted in ecological awareness and post-human perspectives, the artist’s practice addresses humanity’s role in Earth’s suffering.
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Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous
Afro-Indigenous Memory in the Work of Maria Lira Marques
An essay on the works of Brazilian artist Maria Lira Marques, ancestral memories, and the impact of globalization on traditional communities.
Studio Visit
Remaking Afro-Indigenous Archives with Julianny Ariza Vólquez
Our Managing Editor Marny Garcia Mommertz, visited the studio of mixed-media artist Julianny Ariza Vólquez in Santo Domingo.
In Conversation with
Johan Samboni: Rewriting Urban Histories
A talk with the Afro-Indigenous Colombian artist on the parallels between real Life and the digital realm.
Coffee, Rhum, Sugar & Gold
A Postcolonial Paradox
As a system of oppression, colonialism never ceased, but re-branded – as an exhibition in San Francisco shows.
In conversation with Anita Ekman
An Archeology of Afro-Indigenous Issues
Anita Ekman reclaims rock art and pre-Colombian history to decolonize the way we look at the present.
In Conversation with
Francisco Pinto and Venezuelan Afro-Indigenous History
A chat with the Afro-Venezuelan artist about his artistic practice, which incorporates elements of pop culture to talk about the Cimarrón (Maroon).
events
Exhibitions
Carlos Jacanamijoy: Ambi Yaku (Água que cura)
A Gentil Carioca
São Paulo, Brazil
03 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
Exhibitions
Nazarethana
Wendes Wood DM
São Paulo, Brazil
01 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
Exhibitions
Here Lives the Origin
Josh Lilley
London, United Kingdom
13 October 2025 - 20 November 2025
Exhibitions
Dan Oracle
Various
London, United Kingdom
10 October 2025 - 31 October 2025
Exhibitions
O Bestiário de Kixelô
Aura
São Paulo, Brazil
03 October 2025 - 04 November 2025
Exhibitions
Our Red Devils, Our Drifting Upheavals 
Mendes Wood
Brussels, Belgium
04 September 2025 - 25 November 2025
Exhibitions
Claudia Andujar - cosmovisão
Museu da Imagem e do Som do Pará
Belém, Brazil
08 October 2025 - 18 January 2026
Exhibitions
In the Life: Black Queerness - looking back, moving forward
the Carr Center
Detroit, United States
05 September 2025 - 11 November 2025
Performances
Arró con Mango
Antic Teatre
Barcelona, Spain
02 October 2025 - 05 October 2025
Exhibitions
14ª Mostra 3M de Arte
Parque da Luz
São Paulo, Brazil
27 September 2025 - 26 October 2025
Exhibitions
Oríkì Ìwòran – Ayrson Heráclito
Portas Vilaseca
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
09 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
Exhibitions
Me ‘n’ Mines
Tern Galery
Nassau, Bahamas
11 September 2025 - 25 October 2025
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Grada Kilomba: Opera to a Black Venus
The first comprehensive institutional solo exhibition in Germany of Grada Kilomba nterrogates concepts of violence and repetition.
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Anaïs Cheleux : Relier l’identité caribéenne par la photographie et la performance
Marny Garcia Mommertz rend visite à Anaïs Cheleux dans son studio en Guadeloupe pour discuter du sirop de canne à sucre et de la Dak’art.
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C& News
C& Launches Patreon Membership
An invitation to our extended community to join and support us!
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C& Opinion
Five Things You Need to Know About the John Randle Center Before It Opens
C& author Obidike Okafor shares what to expect from the new architectural marvel in Nigeria’s art capital.
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C& On Racism
Every Straw Is a Straw Too Much
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on the psychological burden of being racialized while doing art.
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Thoughts on Collective Archives
Four collectives discuss perspectives on collective publishing and archiving.
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The Netherlands: Untold Tales
Analyzing the Past and Decolonizing the Future
In the exhibition Afterlives of Slavery artists share their thoughts on how to deal with the legacies of the Dutch colonial empires.
Afro-Brazilian Manifestations
“Territories” Exhibition
The exhibition set out to highlight the importance of artists of African descent in the history of Brazilian art.
In Conversation with
Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku
The artist speaks about her project “Queenmothers”, in which she explores the links between Ghana and Brazil.
Performance in Martinique
Excellence, Audacity and Transgression​
FIAP is Martinique’s own festival dedicated to performance art. C&AL spoke to the curators Annabel Guérédrat and Henri Tauliaut.
In Conversation with enorê
Brazilian Artist enorê Explores the Creative Language of Data
enorê, whose work challenges the idea of fluidity by connecting digital and non-digital art, speaks to C&AL about visible and invisible realities.
Brazil
Waleff Dias and the Identity of Black Male Bodies
Artist presents his appearance/performance “Even Vultures Are Born White” at SESC in São Paulo.
Muntú Bantú, Colombia
Memory Is at the Heart
The only Afrodiasporic Memory Center in Colombia is located in Chocó, the department with the largest Afro-descendant population in the country.
Catrileo+Carrión
Mapuche Non-Binary Utopias
Mapuche artists formed the Catrileo+Carrión Community, dedicated to research investigative practices and multidisciplinary creation.
Installation View #museumshutdown
Manuela Ribadeneira, Objects of Doubt and Certainty
This exhibition in Quito brings together works from the last twenty years of production of the Ecuadorian artist.
opportunities
Residencies
La Nueva Fábrica
2026 - 2027 Residency Cycle
Antigua, Guatemala
Call for applications
Maré Foto Festival
Maré Foto Festival 2025
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Call for applications
Art Omi
Art Omi: Artist
New York, Worldwide
Call for applications
Sharjah Art Foundation Photography Gallery
Vantage Point Sharjah 13
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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more editorials
Installation View
Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects
Show presents four decades of artistic production by Montserrat-born, British artist Veronica Ryan.
Asia and Latin America
The Forgotten Asian Histories of Latin America
Mimian Hsu and Caroline Ricca Lee are two artists whose works unveil global capitalism’s devaluation of Black, indigenous, and Asian life.
Installation View
Raíces y renacimiento: Mujeres Dominicanas en el Arte
Exhibition in New York presents 22 contemporary Dominican artists that reinterpret tradition.
Asia and Latin America
Duality as an Invitation to Multiplicity
Exhibition in Hong Kong brings together contemporary artists from Latin America, Europe, mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Afterlives of History
Cabo Verde’s Layered Temporalities Emerge in the Work of César Schofield Cardoso
Ana Nolasco explores César Schofield Cardoso’s work, examining Cabo Verde’s colonial past, memory, and the impact of global capitalism on identity.
Brazil
What’s Behind Decolonial Movements in Brazil?
Our editor-in-chief analyzes sociocultural changes in the Brazilian art field and highlights the central contribution of Black women thinkers.

Brasil
MASP inaugura novo edifício
Edifício Pietro Maria Bardi vai abrigar cinco novos espaços expositivos.
Brazil
MASF: An Art Museum that Connects Territory and Communities
The Simões Filho Art Museum (MASF) is a community-based initiative in the Brazilian state of Bahia, created by artist Augusto Leal in 2023.
Installation View
LGBTQIA+ Diversity Stories
MASP exhibition presents over 150 works of art and hundreds of national and international documents.
In Conversation With
Biophillick: Connecting Ancestries Through Technology
An interview with the indigenous Mexican multimedia artist based in Brazil.
News
Atlantic Threads
This residency programme brings together Brazilian, Beninese, and Ivorian artists addressing themes such as memory, Afro-Atlantic movements, and Afro-diasporic thought.
In Conversation With
The ancestral travels of Gladys Kalichini and Maritea Dæhlin
The artists’ work individually underscores the human need to reconcile with the intangible aspects of existence.
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