10th Mercosul Biennial – Messages from a New America

Mercosul Biennial Foundation is a Brazilian non-profit organisation that develops educational projects in the field of visual arts, encouraging dialogues between contemporary artists and communities. Brazilian photographer, Ricardo Braescher has shared his photographic take on the 10^th Mercosul Biennial.  



The 10th Mercosul Biennial - the largest set of events dedicated solely to Latin American art - opened in Porto Alegre, Brazil on 23 October and runs until 6 December. This tenth, ground-breaking edition, called “Messages from a New America” gives a truly complete overview by setting up an innovative curatorial platform for artworks, starting from the early 18th century.





The 10^th Mercosul Biennial consists of seven key exhibitions, all related and highly innovative, not just with reference to the art in the region but also because of some unexpected materials like smell and dust. The exhibitions are: The Biography of Urban Life; Modernism in Parallax; Neobaroque Anthropophagy; Olfactory: Smell in Art; Body Apparatuses; Dust and the World of Objects and Marginália of Form. The venues are spread across the city of Porto Alegre, and include the Rio Grande do Sul Museum of Art, Santander Cultural, Mercosul Museum of Human Rights, Usina do Gasômetro, CEEE Cultural Center, Acervo Independente and InstitutoLing.





The thing that we really like about this are the best practices of social responsibility that forms the backbone of all the work of the Mercosul Biennial Foundation, a non-profit organisation whose mission is to spread art as a driver of social change through educational programmes, and for democratic access to the visual arts “as concrete tools for the exercise of citizenship and the construction of a more just and solidarity-based society”.





Photographer Ricardo Braescher visited the exhibitions of the 10^th Mercosul Biennial for us, and has shared his impressions of this large-scale artistic event.

Christiane Bürklein

10a Mercosul Biennial, http://www.fundacaobienal.art.br/site/en/fundacao-bienal/quem-somos
Porto Alegre, Brazil
from 23 October to 6 December 2015
Curator Dr. Gaudêncio Fidelis (BR), chief-curator Márcio Tavares (BR), adjunct curator, assistant curator Ana Zavadil (BR), as well as Cristian G. Gallegos (CH) as Educational Curator.
Images: © Ricardo Braescher - http://ricardobraescher.daportfolio.com/, https://www.behance.net/ricardobraescher