Though it’s dark, still I sing: the 34th Bienal de São Paulo launches its digital edition

The 34th Bienal de São Paulo has launched its bilingual website, where it is possible to access details of the Bienal’s main group show and its various solo shows, as well as its educational publication and new texts on the participating artists. The Bienal will hold its group show from October 3 through December 13, 2020 (dates may change due to the Covid-19 pandemic) and announces three further participants: Carmela Gross, Daniel de Paula and Gustavo Caboco.

The website will remain as a living platform until the end of the program of traveling shows (which traditionally takes place the year after each edition).

José Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo stated: “Working to ensure that an increasing number of people have access to contemporary art is one of the main missions of the Fundação Bienal and, in a country of the scale of Brazil, digital media are important to achieving this goal. In our view, the sites of the various editions of the Bienal are tools that can complement the visitor’s physical experience of the exhibition space: they do not substitute it, but they offer additional content and other ways of relating with the shows. Art is an innate part of being human. Now, when our society is facing an enormous challenge, cultural and symbolic production is more necessary than ever. And, at least while we cannot physically attend the exhibitions, the digital initiatives gain relevance as possible sources of aesthetic experience”.

34th Bienal de São Paulo
Faz escuro mas eu canto [Though it’s dark, still I sing]
3 October – 13 December 2020
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion (Bienal Pavilion), Ibirapuera Park
São Paulo, Brazil