The Brazilian pavilion houses Brazil's national representation during the

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Background

Organization and building

The pavilion was designed by Amerigo Marchesin and built in 1964.

Representation by year

Art

* 1950 —

Roberto Burle Marx Roberto Burle Marx (August 4, 1909 – June 4, 1994) was a Brazilian landscape architect (as well as a painter, print maker, ecologist, naturalist, artist and musician) whose designs of parks and gardens made him world-famous. He is credited w ...

, Milton Dacosta, Cicero Dias, Emiliano Di Cavalcanti, Flavio de Carvalho,

Candido Portinari Candido Portinari (December 29, 1903 – February 6, 1962) was a Brazilian painter. He is considered one of the most important Brazilian painters as well as a prominent and influential practitioner of the neo-realism style in painting. Portinari ...

José Pancetti Giuseppe "José" Pancetti (June 18, 1902 – February 10, 1958) was a Brazilian modernist painter. Biography Born in Campinas into a family of immigrants from Tuscany, Italy, he lived in Campinas until he was 10 years old, when his father, a m ...

, Bruno Giorgi, Victor Brecheret,

Livio Abramo Livio Abramo (June 23, 1903 – April 26, 1992) was a Brazilian-born Paraguayan sketcher, engraver, and aquarellist. Abramo was born on June 23, 1903, in Araraquara, Brazil to History of the Jews in Italy, Italian-Jewish parents of Sephardi ...

Oswaldo Goeldi Oswaldo Goeldi (31 October 1895 – 16 February 1961) was a Brazilian artist and engraver. He was the son of Swiss naturalist Émil Goeldi. Biography Goeldi was born in Rio de Janeiro, but lived in Belém in the state Pará, until he was 6 year ...

* 1958 —

Lasar Segall Lasar Segall (July 21, 1891 – August 2, 1957) was a Lithuanian and Brazilian painter, engraver and sculptor. Segall's work is derived from impressionism, expressionism and modernism. His most significant themes were depictions of human suff ...

* 1956 — Aldemir Martins * 1960 — Antonio Bandeira, Danilo Di Prete,

Manabu Mabe (September 14, 1924 – September 22, 1997) was a Japanese Brazilian painter. Mabe worked as a vendor of hand-painted ties in São Paulo before becoming an artist. In the late 1950s, Mabe won the top award in São Paulo's Contemporary Art Salon, ...

, Aloisio Magalhães,

Teresa Nicolao Teresa Nicolao (born February 8, 1928) is a Brazilian artist, designer and film maker. She was born Maria Tereza Joaquim Nicolao in Rio de Janeiro. Nicalao studied graphic arts and design with Axel Leskoscheck at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. I ...

, Loio-Pérsio,

Mário Cravo Júnior Mário Cravo Júnior (13 April 1923 – 1 August 2018) was a Brazilian sculptor, designer, and painter. He was part of the first generation of plastic artists in the city of Salvador, Bahia, Salvador, along with artists such as Carybé and . He wo ...

* 1962 —

Alfredo Volpi Alfredo Volpi (April 14, 1896 – May 28, 1988), was a prominent painter of the artistic and cultural Brazilian modernist movement. He was born in Lucca, Italy but, less than two years later, he was brought by his parents to São Paulo, Brazi ...

, Anna Letycia Quadros, Fernando Jackson Ribeiro, Gilvan Samico, Iberê Camargo, Isabel Pons,

Ivan Serpa Ivan Ferreira Serpa (April 6, 1923–April 6, 1973) was a Brazilian painter, draftsman, printmaker, designer, and educator active in the concrete art movement. Much of his work was in geometric abstractionism. He founded Grupo Frente, which inclu ...

Lygia Clark Lygia Pimentel Lins (23 October 1920 – 25 April 1988), better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and Installation art, installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist moveme ...

, Marcelo Grassmann, Rossini Quintas Perez, Rubem Valentim * 1964 — Abraham Palatnik,

, Almir Mavignier,

Franz Weissmann Franz Josef Weissmann (September 15, 1911 – July 18, 2005) was a Brazilian sculptor born in Austria, emigrating to Brazil while he was eleven years old. Geometric shapes, like cubes and squares, are strongly featured in his works. He was on ...

, Frans Krajcberg, Glauco Rodrigues,

Tarsila do Amaral Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (; 1 September 1886 – 17 January 1973) was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator. She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Bra ...

* 1966 — Chico da Silva, Sergio de Camargo * 1968 —

* 1970 — Mary Vieira,

* 1972 — Humberto Espíndola, Paulo Roberto Leal,

* 1976 — Claudio Tozzi, Evandro Carlos Jardim, Regina Vater, Sergio Augusto Porto, Vera Chaves Barcellos * 1978 — Carlos Fajardo, G. T. O. (Geraldo Telles de Oliveira), Julio Martins da Silva, Luiz Aquila da Rocha Miranda, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Maria Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Paulo Gomes Garcez, Wilma Martins * 1980 — Anna Bella Geiger, Antonio Dias, Carlos Vergara, Paulo Roberto Leal * 1982 — Tunga,

Sérgio de Camargo Sérgio de Camargo (April 8, 1930 – 1990) was a sculptor and relief maker, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Sergio De Camargo studied at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires under Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana. Camargo also studied philo ...

* 1984 — Eduardo Sued, Luiz Paulo Baravelli * 1986 — Gastão Manoel Henrique, Geraldo de Barros, Renina Katz, Washington Novaes * 1988 — José Resende, Juraci Dórea * 1990 —

Frida Baranek Frida Baranek (born 1961) is a Brazilian sculptor known for creating large sculptural works that incorporate fibers and industrial materials such as plates, rods, and iron or steel wires as commentary on industrialization and the environment in ...

, Daniel Senise,

Francisco Brennand Francisco Brennand, or ''Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand'', (June 11, 1927 – December 19, 2019), was a Brazilian painter and sculptor, best known for his work in ceramics. Life Francisco de Paula de Almeida Brennand was born in Recif ...

, Gilvan Samico,

Wesley Duke Lee Wesley Duke Lee (December 21, 1931 in São Paulo – September 12, 2010 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian painter. Career Lee was a grandson of Americans and Portuguese and started his learning of art in the drawing course of São Paulo Muse ...

* 1993 — Angelo Venosa, Carlos Fajardo, Emmanuel Nassar * 1995 — Arthur Bispo do Rosário, Nuno Ramos * 1997 — Jac Leirner, Waltercio Caldas (Curator: Paulo Herkenhoff) * 1999 — Iran do Espírito Santo, Nelson Leirner (Curator: Ivo Mesquita) * 2001 —

Vik Muniz Vik Muniz (; born 1961) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. In 1998, he participated in the 24th International Biennale in São Paulo, ...

Ernesto Neto Ernesto Saboia de Albuquerque Neto ( in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a contemporary visual artist. Early career Ernesto Neto began exhibiting in Scotland in 1988 and has had solo exhibitions abroad since 1995. He represented with Vik Muniz thei ...

, Miguel Rio Branco, Tunga, (Curator:

Germano Celant Germano Celant (11 September 1940 – 29 April 2020) was an Italian art historian, critic, and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in the 1967 ''Flash Art'' piece "Appunti Per Una Guerriglia" ("Notes on a guerrilla war"), which w ...

) * 2003 — Beatriz Milhazes,

Rosângela Rennó Rosângela Rennó Gomes (Belo Horizonte, MG, 1962) is a Brazilian artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Her work consists of photographic images from public and private archives that question the nature of an image and its symbolic value. ...

(Curator:

Alfons Hug Alfons Hug (born 16 March 1950 in Hochdorf, West Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany ...

) * 2005 — Chelpa Ferro, Caio Reisewitz (Curator:

) * 2007 — José Damasceno, Detanico & Lain (Curator: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti) * 2009 — Luiz Braga, Delson Uchôa (Curator: Ivo Mesquita) * 2011 — Artur Barrio (Curators: Moacir dos Anjos, Agnaldo Farias) * 2013 — Hélio Fervenza, Odires Mlászho,

Max Bill Max Bill (22 December 1908 – 9 December 1994) was a Swiss architect, artist, painter, typeface designer, industrial designer and graphic designer. Early life and education Bill was born in Winterthur. After an apprenticeship as a silversmit ...

Bruno Munari Bruno Munari (24 October 1907 – 29 September 1998) was "one of the greatest actors of 20th-century art, design and graphics". He was an Italian artist, designer, and inventor who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts (painti ...

(Curator: Luis Pérez-Oramas) * 2015 — André Komatsu, Antonio Manuel, Berna Reale (Curator: Luiz Camillo Osorio) * 2017 — Cinthia Marcelle (Curator: Jochen Volz) * 2019 — Benjamin de Burca and Bárbara Wagner (Curator: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro) * 2022 — Jonathas de Andrade (Curators: Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, José Olympio da Veiga Pereira) * 2024 – Glicéria Tupinambá (Curators: Arissana Pataxó, Denilson Baniwa, Gustavo Caboco Wapichana)Alex Greenberger (1 November 2023)
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Background

Organization and building

Representation by year

Art

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