Glicéria Tupinambá will represent Brazil at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Glicéria Tupinambá, also known as Célia Tupinambá, will represent Brazil at the 2024 Venice Biennale. The exhibition, titled “Ka’a Pûera: nós somos pássaros que andam” (“Ka’a Pûera: We are Walking Birds”), will be curated by Arissana Pataxó, Denilson Baniwa, and Gustavo Caboco Wapichana.

Born in 1982, Tupinambá hails from the Serra do Padeiro village in southern Bahia. The Brazilian Indigenous artist is known for her activism and art focusing on the Tupinambá people and their heritage; her work delves into the revival of ancient rituals and knowledge. By tracing her culture’s resistance and resurgence, she celebrates indigenous resilience, addressing issues of deterritorialization and marginalization across Brazil.

This year, Tupinambá won the prestigious 2023 PIPA Prize in Brazil. In addition to her exhibition, the artist is known for her poignant, critically acclaimed films such as Voz Das Mulheres Indígenas (Voice of Indigenous Women) (2015) and Quando o Manto Fala e o Que o Manto Diz (When the Cloak Speaks and What the Cloak Says) (2023).

Since the Venice Architecture Biennale, Brazil has updated the selection process for its pavilion. Jose Olympio da Veiga Pereira, president of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, noted that this year’s project is aligned with the Venice Biennale’s global theme of “Foreigners Everywhere,” and stated: “This time, the pavilion will be imbued with the vision of curators and artists from indigenous communities, who bring an urgent perspective to the world, linked to the global theme of the [Biennale].”