September 6, 2025—January 11, 2026
Wolfgang Tillmans is pleased to participate in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, in Brazil, on view from September 6, 2025—January 11, 2026. Entitled Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, this edition of the biennial will be led by chief curator Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung with his conceptual team of co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz ,and Thiago de Paula Souza, as well as co-curator at large Keyna Eleison and strategy and communication advisor Henriette Gallus. The exhibition takes its cue from Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo’s enigmatic poem Da calma e do silêncio (Of calm and silence). Other participating David Zwirner artists are Oscar Murillo and Isa Genzken.
The central proposal of this Bienal is to rethink humanity as a verb, a living practice, in a world that requires reimagining relationships, asymmetries and listening as the basis for coexistence, based on three curatorial fragments/axes. The metaphor of the estuary—a place where different water currents meet and create a space for coexistence—guides the curatorial project, inspired by Brazilian philosophies, landscapes and mythologies. This concept reflects the multiplicity of encounters that have marked Brazil’s history and proposes that humanity comes together and transforms itself through an attentive ear and negotiation between different beings and worlds.
Learn more at Bienal de São Paulo.