With the exhibition Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice HKW presents an edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, conceived especially for Berlin.

Featuring newly conceived, readapted, and site-specific works, over thirty participating international artists critically engage the political and colonial inheritances embedded within modernity. In doing so, they articulate forms of resistance to dehumanization, extractivism, and monocultural thinking. At the same time, the works cultivate gestures of care, nurturing, and interdependence that extend beyond the human, engaging with animal and plant life, memory, and spirit.

Beauty emerges here as a political force, rooted in the ordinary, the fractured, and the unfinished. The exhibition calls for joy, imagination, and dreaming not as escape, but as vital ways of conjugating humanity.

With works by
Amina Agueznay, Malika Agueznay, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Leo Asemota, Maria Auxiliadora, Aline Baiana, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Rebeca Carapiá, Manauara Clandestina, Christopher Cozier, Gervane de Paula, Théodore Diouf, Juliana dos Santos, Cevdet Erek, Theo Eshetu, Tanka Fonta, Forensic Architecture, Laila Hida, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Leiko Ikemura, Mao Ishikawa, Julianknxx, Lidia Lisbôa, Mohamed Melehi, Emeka Ogboh, Olu Oguibe, Alberto Pitta, Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos, Ming Smith, Sérgio Soarez, Chaïbia Talal, Wolfgang Tillmans