Meet the artists selected for the Festival's 20th edition

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posted on 03/27/2017
Nearly 2,000 artists from 109 countries submitted works during the Open Call. The 50 selected artists will showcase their works at the 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

Associação Cultural Videobrasil and Sesc São Paulo announce the list of artists who will be participating in the 20th Sesc_Videobrasil Contemporary Art Festival, one of the leading plataforms for contemporary art in the Global South, to be held from October 2017 through January 2018 in São Paulo. Nearly 2,000 artists from 109 countries submitted works during the Open Call for the 20th Festival. The Brazilians Ana Pato, Beatriz Lemos and Diego Matos, and the Portuguese João Laia collaborated with the chief curator Solange Farkas, and were responsible for selecting the 50 artists from 25 countries who will showcase their works in this new edition.

ALIA FARID, Kuwait / Puerto Rico

ALYONA LARIONOVA, Russia / United Kingdom

ANA ELISA EGREJA, Brazil

ANA MAZZEI, Brazil

ANA VAZ, Brazil / France

ANDRÉS PADILLA DOMENE, Mexico

BÁRBARA WAGNER AND BENJAMIN DE BURCA, Brazil and Germany

CRISTIANO LENHARDT, Brazil

DANIEL MONROY CUEVAS, Mexico

DÉBORA MAZLOUM, Brazil

ELIZABETH VÁSQUEZ ARBULÚ, Peru

ELVIS ALMEIDA, Brazil

EMO DE MEDEIROS, France / Benin

ENGEL LEONARDO, Dominican Republic

FELIPE ESPARZA PÉREZ, Peru

FILIPA CÉSAR, Portugal / Germany

GRAZIELA KUNSCH, Brazil

HAIG AIVAZIAN, Lebanon

HELLEN ASCOLI, Guatemala

ÍCARO LIRA, Brazil

JAIME LAURIANO, Brazil

JIWON CHOI, South Korea / United States

KARO AKPOKIERE, Nigeria

KAVICH NEANG, Cambodia

KÖKEN ERGUN, Turkey

LA DECANATURA, Colombia

LOUISE BOTKAY, Brazil

MABE BETHÔNICO, Brazil

MANUELA DE LABORDE, Mexico

MARIANA PORTELA ECHEVERRI, Portugal / United Kingdom

MARIANA RODRIGUEZ, Argentina / Mexico

MIGUEL PENHA, Brazil

MONA VATAMANU & FLORIN TUDOR, Romania

MONIRA AL QADIRI, Senegal / Kuwait

NATASHA MENDONCA, India

PAKUI HARDWARE, Lithuania

PEDRO BARATEIRO, Portugal

QUY MINH TRUONG, Vietnam

RAFAEL PAGATINI, Brazil

RODRIGO HERNÁNDEZ, Mexico

ROY DIB, Lebanon

SAMMY BALOJI, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Belgium

SASHA LITVINTSEVA, Russia / United Kingdom

SEYDOU CISSÉ, Mali / France

THANDO MAMA, South Africa

TATEWAKI NIO, Japan / Brazil

THIAGO MARTINS DE MELO, Brazil

VIKTORIJA RYBAKOVA, Lithuania

VON CALHAU!, Portugal

XIMENA GARRIDO-LECCA, Peru