Charles Esche curator of 2014 Bienal de São Paulo

Charles Esche, director of the Van Abbemuseum for contemporary art, located in Eindhoven, Holland, will curate the 31st arts Bienal de São Paulo in 2014. The biennial features both Brazilian and international contemporary art and is considered one of the most important large-scale art exhibitions in Brazil.

Esche will also be responsible for the 31st Bienal de São Paulo traveling exhibitions in 2015 as well as maintaining the current partnership between Fundação Bienal and the Ministry of Foreign Relations for Brazil’s official participation in the Biennale di Venezia.

The coming months Esche is assembling his staff: “I will work with a few precious colleagues with whom I have an intuitive relationship built up over years. At this stage, I can announce two of them: Pablo Lafuente, with whom I work at Afterall Journal and Books, London and Galit Eilat, with whom I work at Van Abbemuseum. Others will be added for their knowledge of curating, architecture/exhibition design and public mediation. I want to bring Brazilbased collaborators into the team so that we can have our ears on the ground within the art scenes in Brazil, and I also want to offer an experience of curating a major biennale to emerging curators from Brazil through the curatorial workshop.”

Charles Esche (Scotland, 1962) is a curator and writer. He is director of Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and codirector of Afterall Journal & Books based at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design, London. He is a visiting lecturer at a number of European art academies and teaches regularly the Exhibition Studies course at the University of the Arts, London, and for the De Appel Curatorial Course, Amsterdam. In the last years, he has curated international exhibitions across Europe and Asia.

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