Talk – Keyna Eleison and Chirley Pankará – Must you take everything that belongs to Indigenous people?

On December 4, the talk Must you take everything that belongs to Indigenous people? will take place with Keyna Eleison, Chirley Pankará, and the Fundação Bienal team, based on the homonymous work by Olu Oguibe. The event runs from 4 pm to 6 pm in the Bloomberg education space, on the pavilion’s third floor, and is part of Conjugations – Education, the public program of the 36th Bienal. Conjugations – Education offers activities inspired by playing, dancing, singing, gaming, and storytelling, inviting the public to engage in an active and playful immersion in the exhibition, deepening practices of humanity and valuing diverse ways of being and living together.

Organized around Olu Oguibe’s work Must you take everything that belongs to Indigenous people?, presented in three Brazilian cities (Belém, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo) in the contexts of COP30 and the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, the Fundação Bienal team, activist Chirley Pankará, and co-curator-at-large Keyna Eleison invite the public to reflect on the current state of Indigenous rights in Brazil and the importance of educational processes that engage in dialogue with Indigenous communities. At the end of the activity, attendees will be invited to watch the projection of the artist’s work on the façade of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC-USP).

The activity will include interpretation in Libras (Brazilian Sign Language).

Keyna Eleison is a curator, researcher, and educator in art and culture. She headed all public cultural facilities of the City of Rio de Janeiro, and taught at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, where she also served as teaching coordinator. She was curator of the 10th SIART International Art Biennial in Bolivia (2018), curator of the 1st Bienal das Amazônias (2023), artistic director of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (2020–2023), and director of research and content at the Bienal das Amazônias.

Chirley Pankará (1974, Serra do Arapuá Indigenous Land) is an activist in the Indigenous movement, educator, and holds a master’s degree in Education from PUC-SP and a PhD in Social Anthropology from USP. In the late 1990s, she settled in Mauá, in the São Paulo metropolitan region, where she attended university and earned a degree in Education. For eight years, she served as General Coordinator of the Indigenous Education and Culture Center (CECI), working alongside the Guarani Mbyá community in the city of São Paulo. In 2019, she served as co-state deputy as part of the collective mandate Bancada Ativista in the São Paulo State Legislature (ALESP).

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Talk – Keyna Eleison and Chirley Pankará – Must you take everything that belongs to Indigenous people?
36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
Dec 4, 2025
Thurs, 4 pm
Bloomberg education space, 3rd floor
Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion
Ibirapuera Park, gate 3
São Paulo, Brazil
free admission