Associação Cultural Videobrasil is an international reference center for contemporary art production from the world’s geopolitical South. Since 1991, it promotes actions designed to foster, disseminate, and map out art from the region, to provide training to audiences, and to promote exchange among artists, curators, and researchers.

In partnership with SESC São Paulo, Associação promotes exhibitions such as the recently held the recently held Joseph Beuys – We Are the Revolution (São Paulo & Salvador, 2010/11) and Sophie Calle – Take Care of Yourself (São Paulo and Salvador, 2009), and the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, which will have its 17th edition in 2011.

Other actions promoted on a regular basis by the ACV-SESC São Paulo partnership include the Videobrasil Residency Programme, which appoints artists for exchange programs offered by partner organizations in Brazil and abroad; Videobrasil Authors Collection, a series of documentaries on artists; Caderno SESC_Videobrasil, an annual contemporary art publication; the Videobrasil Online database; the Videobrasil Video Library, the Videobrasil Collection at SESC, which makes part of the Associação’s collection available to the public at SESC Pinheiros; FF>>Dossier, a series of online artist profiles; SESC_Videobrasil Meetings and Workshops, monthly programs held at held at SESC units.



Solange Oliveira Farkas is an international curator and the president of Associação Cultural Videobrasil. She created the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, which has become a reference for artistic production from the geopolitical South of the world. In a career that spans twenty-five years, she has been at the helm of exhibitions such as the Pan-African Contemporary Art Exhibition (Salvador, 2005); La Mirada Discreta: Marcel Odenbach & Robert Cahen (Buenos Aires, 2006); Roteiro Amarrado (Tied-up script, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, 2010), and Suspensão e Fluidez (Suspension and fluidity, ARCO, Madrid, 2007), focusing on the work of Brazilian artist Eder Santos; Sophie Calle – Take Care of Yourself (São Paulo & Salvador, 2009); and Joseph Beuys – We Are The Revolution (São Paulo & Salvador, 2010). As the director and curator-in-chief of the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia from 2007 to 2010, she promoted exhibitions by artists such as Chelpa Ferro, Daniel Senise, Thomaz Farkas, and Mario Cravo Neto. Throughout 2011, she acts as curator of the tenth edition of the Sharjah Biennial (United Arab Emirates), the 16th Cerveira Biennial (Portugal), and the 6th Videozone: International Video Art Biennial (Israel), and as curator-general of the 17th International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, which will feature the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson’s first solo exhibition in Brazil.