36th Biennial de São Paulo: Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, Goiâna: Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás

Marcía Falcão's participation in the 36th Biennial de São Paulo: Not All Travelers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice, at Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás, Goiâna, Brazil.

The institution's press release follows:

The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo launches the traveling exhibitions program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás (MAC), in Goiânia. The program will travel to more than ten cities in Brazil and abroad throughout 2026. In partnership with the Government of Goiás, through the State Secretariats of Culture and of Retomada (Economic Recovery), the city hosts a traveling show for the first time, featuring a selection from the exhibition Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice. Consolidated for over a decade, the program will be open to the public from March 3 to April 19.

Held programmatically since 2011, the traveling exhibitions program has become a fundamental extension of the Bienal de São Paulo, allowing the works and debates presented at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion to be reconfigured in dialogue with diverse local contexts, activating new readings and relationships with audiences. In its 36th edition, this movement reaches new territories.

In Goiânia, the traveling selection is curated by Thiago de Paula Souza and brings together works by fourteen participants: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Alberto Pitta, Ernest Cole, Gervane de Paula, Hajra Waheed, Julianknxx, Juliana dos Santos, Márcia Falcão, Ming Smith, Oscar Murillo, Song Dong, and Goiás-based artists Sallisa Rosa and the collective Sertão Negro, highlighting dialogue with the territory hosting the exhibition.

For Andrea Pinheiro, President of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, arriving in Goiânia for the first time is an important step for the Foundation. “With each edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, we have sought to expand our reach and ensure that what was presented at the Pavilion continues to resonate in other cities across the country. Expanding the traveling exhibitions program is part of our commitment to decentralizing the Brazilian art circuit, creating more opportunities to connect with diverse audiences and strengthening access, in different regions, to the works, debates, and experiences that define the Bienal,” she states.

According to the State Secretary of Culture, Yara Nunes, the arrival of the Bienal de São Paulo in Goiás is the direct result of a consistent public policy, built transversally by the State Government. “Hosting, for the first time, a stage of the Bienal’s traveling program in Goiânia demonstrates that Goiás today has the infrastructure, technical capacity, and, above all, the audience to host major cultural events of national and international relevance. This is a collective effort involving different government departments and reflects the State’s commitment to strengthening culture as a strategic axis of development. In addition, this event energizes the cultural production chain, fosters tourism, stimulates the creative economy, and positions Goiás within the national circuit of major exhibitions,” she emphasizes.

Beyond the circulation of artworks, the itinerant exhibition program is structured around a transversal educational axis, including training for local teams, online and in-person meetings, pedagogical follow-up, and activities for different audiences, such as guided tours, lectures, teacher workshops, and educational activities for students.

“Launching the traveling exhibitions program in Goiânia underscores the importance of new displacements, when works leave the Pavilion and begin to coexist with other temporalities, landscapes, and ways of seeing. At MAC GO, the program does not arrive as a replica of what was presented in São Paulo; it is reconfigured through the space, through dialogue among the selected participants, and through local practices that intersect with the museum. It is precisely in this encounter that the meaning of humanity as practice gains new layers,” reflects Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.