Created in 1962, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo is responsible for one of the three biggest events in the international contemporary art calendar, the Bienal de São Paulo. Receiving around 900,000 visitors each edition, from all over the world, the bienal generates 300 million Brazilian reals in business and creates 1,600 jobs for the city of São Paulo. The bienal takes place in the Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, a landmark of Brazilian modernism designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The pavilion has 30,000 square meters of exhibition space and is part of a larger cultural complex in the heart of Parque Ibirapuera, the city’s most important park. The 36th Bienal de São Paulo will be curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, the director and chief curator of Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) Berlin, with the assistance of assistant curators, Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza, Keyna Eleison and Henriette Gallus.