São Paulo Biennial 2025

São Paulo Biennial 2025: Schedule and Highlights of Latin America's Largest Contemporary Art Exhibition

The Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion will feature exhibitions by more than 120 artists from approximately fifty countries, as well as multisensory and augmented reality experiences.

The São Paulo Biennial, Latin America's largest contemporary art exhibition, opens its doors this Saturday (6) in Ibirapuera Park. Traditionally, the event runs through December. However, this year's exhibition will be extended for four more weeks. It will be open to the public free of charge until January 11, 2026.
The Biennial's president, Andrea Pinheiro, and the event's board of directors decided to further expand the exhibition's reach, covering the school holidays. In total, works by 120 artists from approximately 50 countries will occupy the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion.

The fair is open from Tuesday to Sunday, and entry is through Gate 3 of the park.

Art as a Resource for Humanity

"There are submerged worlds, which only the silence of poetry penetrates." This reflection concludes the poem "Da calma e do silêncio" (Of Calm and Silence), by Conceição Evaristo, and inspires this year's exhibition.

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Entitled "Not Every Traveler Walks the Roads – Of Humanity as Practice," the exhibition evokes humanity in times when the meaning of being human seems more distant. This is the point made by the general curator, Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, who created the exhibition concept, along with co-curators Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, curator at large Keyna Eleison, and communications and strategy consultant Henriette Gallus.

"The exhibition is an invitation to think about and express humanity as a verb and a practice, as well as an encounter(s) and negotiations on the convergence of diverse worlds," states the Biennial program.
This concept is reflected in the exhibition's structure, which will be divided into three main curatorial axes divided into six chapters—or sectors. All of them intertwine under the metaphor of an estuary, where water currents, philosophies, and mythologies meet and create a space for coexistence.
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