Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) congratulates Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung on his appointment as the Chief Curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo

Today, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announced the appointment of  Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung as the Chief Curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo. The Bienal de São Paulo is one of the oldest and most important biennials worldwide. Its 36th edition is scheduled to take place in the second half of 2025. The HKW team congratulates Director and Chief Curator Bonaventure Ndikung on taking on this important task in addition to his HKW directorship and looks forward to the HKW's ever growing international exchange, and the role it‘s going to play in the edition of the Bienal.

About Fundação Bienal de São Paulo:
Founded in 1962, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is a private, nonprofit institution with no party political or religious ties, whose actions aim to democratize access to culture and foster interest in artistic creation. Every two years, the Fundação holds the Bienal de São Paulo, the largest exhibition of the Southern Hemisphere, and its traveling exhibitions program in several cities in Brazil and abroad.
More information: bienal.org.br/en

Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung:
“To say that I am happy to be appointed chief curator of Bienal de São Paulo would be an understatement. I am thrilled, honored and humbled to embark on this journey. The Bienal de São Paulo seems to me to be a seismograph that not only records the different tremblements the world is experiencing socioeconomically, geopolitically and environmentally, but these records also give us the possibilities of shaping a more just, humanitarian future for all animate and inanimate beings on this planet. I am especially looking forward to connecting my current position as Director and Chief Curator at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), my current practices as pedagogue and curator across geographies, and especially HKW’s long term research on Quilombismo. Being an institution that is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together, HKW proposes concepts of the world that embrace pluralities of cultures, epistemologies, sociopolitics, spiritualities, and ways of being in the world. I see my new role at the Biennale as a mandate to understand this mission even more globally.”

The 36th Bienal de São Paulo is scheduled to take place in the second half of 2025, and Ndikung’s curatorial project will be presented in the second half of this year, along with the members of his curatorial team.

Please find the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo press release, further information about the Biennial and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung as well as press photos here: https://bienal.org.br/en/curator-36-bienal/

Press contacts:

Felipe Lago Gomes | felipe.gomes@bienal.org.br
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo

Jan Trautmann | jan.trautmann@hkw.de
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW)

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