Bienal das Amazônias Returns with a Poetic Exploration of Artistic Practices in Belém

This August, the Bienal das Amazônias returns to Belém with its much-anticipated second edition titled Verde-Distância. Running from August 27th to November 30th, 2025, the biennial is set to transform the Amazonian capital into a dynamic arena for immersive installations, performative gestures, and conversations around artistic practices rooted in memory, land, sound, and collective dreams.

Positioned at the intersection of the forest, port, and river, Belém offers a fitting terrain for this edition’s thematic compass—one that embraces the temporalities of the region while challenging conventional boundaries between bodies, languages, and geographies.

Reframing artistic practices through presence and relation

Verde-Distância, inspired by the writings of Pará-born author Benedicto Monteiro, explores the notion of “distance” not as disconnection but as fertile ground for artistic practices that imagine, reconfigure, and resist. Rather than adopting a linear curatorial narrative, the biennial is structured as a lived convergence—a space where art, public programming, and interpersonal exchange overlap and evolve throughout the week.

Each morning of the opening week program, the exhibition awakens through embodied performances by artists who carry ancestral, sonic, and political knowledge. These daily activations turn the exhibition space into a terrain of memory, resistance, and relational movement. In the afternoons, the public gathers for Assemblies Verde-Vagomundo—open discussions shaped by themes such as memory, distance, accent, and dreams. These assemblies emphasize listening over resolution and proximity over prescription.

A collective breath in Pan-Amazonian territories

With more than 80 artists from across the Amazon, the Caribbean, and beyond, the 2025 Bienal das Amazônias positions itself as one of the most vital sustainable and politically engaged art events in Latin America. The curatorial team—led by Manuela Moscoso with Sara Garzón, Jean da Silva, and Mónica Amieva—frames the exhibition as a poetic infrastructure that holds tension, difference, and care in equal measure.

The Bienal das Amazônias invites visitors not only to observe but to participate—to listen, speak, and dream across distances that connect rather than divide.