A brand new Biennial is due to open on October 15th 2012 in Montevideo, Uruguay, and will run along side the São Paulo Biennial which will take place in Brazil from 8th September to the 9th December.
The Biennial is to be titled Big Sur, and it will investigate the relationship between South America, and the rest of the world. The show will include 50 artists from 5 continents, although a finalised list has not been released.
The show is sponsored by the Laetita d'Arenberg Foundation, and has a budget of around $2 million in order to put Uruguay on the international art map. Alfons Hug, who is the director of the Goethe Institute in Rio de Janerio, is due to curate the Biennial, along with Chilean-born Paz Guevara and Uruguyan curator and artist Patricai Bentancur.
The Biennial de Montevideo will be housed in three pavilions in the Rural del Prado's exhibition centre but will also be extended into other areas of the city to get as many people involved as possible.