Vilanismo in conversation with Akinbode Akinbiyi
ARTIST TALK 12.09.2026 15:00
WITH Vilanismo and Akinbode Akinbiyi, moderated by Billy Fowo
LANGUAGE The event takes place in English
FREE ENTRY
AT HKW Berlin, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Continuing a conversation begun at the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, the collective Vilanismo and and artist Akinbode Akinbiyi come together again to consider photography through the prism of Black light. Moving between image, memory, territory, and lived experience, they reflect on photography as a space of encounter, resistance, and collective affirmation. The conversation unfolds in the Sylvia Wynter Foyer, within Akinbiyi’s photographic installation originally commissioned for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo in 2025.
COLLABORATION This project is part of Fundação Bienal de São Paulo’s travelling exhibitions programme, held since 2011. The travelling exhibitions have become a fundamental extension of the Bienal de São Paulo, enabling the works and debates presented at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion to be reconfigured in dialogue with diverse local contexts, activating new readings and relationships with audiences beyond the main exhibition axis. In its 36th edition, this movement reaches fifteen new territories across Brazil and internationally.
The Berlin Edition of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo will be on view at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) from 12 September to 6 December 2026. The exhibition Not All Travellers Walk Roads—Of Humanity as Practice opens there on 11 September 2026 [more details here].
SUPPORT The project is supported by the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, the Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt, SAVVY friends e.V., Zielinsky Gallery, and private donors.
The opening of Architectural Echotones. A Poetics Of The Surrounds takes place as part of Berlin Art Week.
