Jochen Volz

Jochen Volz is the Director of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo. In 2017, he was the curator of the Brazilian Pavilion for the 57th Biennale di Venezia, presenting Cinthia Marcelle – Hunting Ground. Volz was the curator of Incerteza Viva (Live Uncertainty), the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo in 2016. Prior he served as Head of Programmes at the Serpentine Galleries in London between 2012 and 2015. He was a curator of the Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, between 2004 and 2013, where he was General Director between 2005 and 2007 and Artistic Director between 2007 and 2012.

Volz was alongside Daniel Birnbaum the co-curator of Fare Mondi, the international exhibition of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009 and guest curator of the 27th Bienal de São Paulo in 2006. Furthermore, he has contributed to many exhibitions throughout the world, including Terra Comunal – Marina Abramovic, SESC Pompeia in São Paulo (2015) Planos de fuga, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil in São Paulo (2012), Olafur Eliasson – Your body of work as part of the 17th International Festival of Contemporary Art – SESC_Videobrasil in São Paulo (2011), The Spiral and the Square at Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2011), the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya (2010) and Cinthia Marcelle at the Biennale de Lyon (2007).

Between 2001 and 2004, he was curator of Portikus Frankfurt am Main. Volz has been awarded with the Agnes Gund Curatorial Award 2017 by Independent Curators International, New York.