Wolfgang Tillmans is included in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, in Brazil, on view from September 6, 2025—January 11, 2026. Entitled Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice; the exhibition takes its cue from Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo’s enigmatic poem Da calma e do silêncio (Of calm and silence).

The central proposal of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo is to rethink humanity as a verb, a living practice, in a world that requires reimagining relationships, asymmetries and listening as the basis for coexistence, based on three curatorial fragments/axes. The metaphor of the estuary—a place where different water currents meet and create a space for coexistence—guides the curatorial project, inspired by Brazilian philosophies, landscapes and mythologies. This concept reflects the multiplicity of encounters that have marked Brazil’s history and proposes that humanity comes together and transforms itself through an attentive ear and negotiation between different beings and worlds.

Elements of the 36th São Paulo Bienal including work by Wolfgang Tillmans will travel on to the Museu Nacional da República in Brasilia, Pinacoteca do Ceará in Fortaleza, and the Museu Nacional da Cultura Afro-Brasileira in Salvador.