56. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte – La Biennale di Venezia

Brazilian Participation

Commissioner: Luis Terepins, President of the Bienal de São Paulo Foundation
Curator: Luiz Camillo Osorio
Assistant Curator: Cauê Alves

Venue: The Brazilian Pavilion
Address: Giardini Castello, Padiglione Brasile, 30122 Venice, Italy
Duration: May 9 – November 22, 2015

Luiz Camillo Osorio (Rio de Janeiro, 1963, Brazil), Professor of Aesthetics in the Philosophy Department at PUC-RJ and Head Curator at Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro (MAM-Rio), has done important curatorial work in Brazil and abroad, including Iberê Camargo: Um trágico nos trópicos (Fundação Iberê Camargo/CCBB-RJ), O desejo da forma (Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2010), MAM 60 (2008) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Copa da Cultura Berlin, 2006). He is the author of Razões da crítica (Zahar) and monographic books about Flavio de Carvalho, Abraham Palatnik and Angelo Venosa (CosacNaify).

Cauê Alves (São Paulo, Brazil, 1977) holds a Master’s and Doctorate in Philosophy from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP). He is a Professor at Pontifícia Unversidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) and Centro Universitário Belas Artes and has worked as Curator at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) Engraving Club since 2006. His past curatorial projects includeMAM na OCA: arte brasileira do acervo do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2006), Quase líquido(Itaú Cultural, 2008) and Mira Schendel: avesso do avesso (Instituto de Arte Contemporânea, 2010). He was Adjunct Curator at the 8th Bienal do Mercosul (2011) and one of the Curators of the 32nd Panorama da Arte Brasileira – MAM-SP (2011).

Image: Luiz Camillo Osorio. Photo via CIMAM.