André Pitol
Collaboration with the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, one of the most important art exhibitions in Latin America, currently taking place at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion under the title “Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice”, curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and his conceptual team.
Inspired by the poem “Da calma e do silêncio” by Conceição Evaristo, this edition invites us to rethink humanity as a verb — a living practice based on listening, coexistence, and the encounter between different worlds and voices.
In tune with this idea, Veneno and the Bienal come together for a series of mixes and sound selections created by the festival’s curatorial team, exploring sound as a space for reflection, convergence, and dialogue.
About the 36th Bienal de São Paulo
The 36th Bienal de São Paulo — Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice — is held at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in Ibirapuera Park (Gate 3), São Paulo.
The exhibition is free and open to the public from September 6, 2025, to January 11, 2026.
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator at large Keyna Eleison, adjunct co-curators André Pitol and Leonardo Matsuhei, and strategy and communications advisor Henriette Gallus, the Bienal proposes to imagine humanity as a living practice — a space of encounter, listening, and negotiation between different worlds.
More information and the complete program at: 36.bienal.org.br
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Second Selection: André Pitol
The series continues with a sound selection created by André Pitol, researcher, curator, and professor, who holds a PhD from ECA-USP. He teaches at École Intuit Lab and PUC-SP. He curated Edival Ramosa – New Totemic Construction (moraes-barbosa collection, 2024), was associate curator of The Parable of Progress (Sesc Pompeia, 2022), and co-conceptualized the School of Quilombismo program at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (2023). He has written essays for e-flux, The Brooklyn Rail, Photographies, Mídia Ninja, and ZUM. He is adjunct co-curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo (2025).
About the Selection, by André Pitol
In the middle of the song Notícias do Brasil, Milton Nascimento sings that “here lives a people that is sea and that is river / and whose destiny is to one day come together.” If I could recall the many new experiences and challenges that were shared with me over this year and a half of creating the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, I would say there was no other way for it to have been done—it was fate that brought together such an incredible group of Wanderers. Unforgettable. The Inevitable End Version. A space where Milton can coexist with Robyn, allowing me to end by saying: I can say I did it all with love, love, love. All with love, love, love.
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