With a new simultaneous format covering the expansive stage of 5 continents, 21 countries, and 43 cities around the world, the second edition of the International Biennial of South America (Bienalsur) will be held between the months of June and October or 2019. The event will consist of four months of continuous contemporary art exhibitions aimed at generating a global network of international joint collaborations that erase distances and borders and vindicate the role of singularity in diversity in order to give rise to a "cultural citizenship." The exhibitions will be organized in museums, cultural centers, emblematic buildings and areas in public spaces. The MUNTREF Contemporary Art Center and the Museo de la Inmigración, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will be "ground zero" for the event. The simultaneity between the 112 participating venues is achieved through direct connection via screens, allowing virtual visits and promoting the establishment of spontaneous interactions between otherwise distant publics. The second edition of Bienalsur is organized by the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) and is under the general direction of Aníbal Jozami and the artistic and academic direction of Diana Wechsler. This art platform was conceived through a self-styled "atypical and unique" format in the way that the curatorial guidelines are determined. In other words, instead of establishing themes for the call that would "condition the artists," the open international call—closed in July of 2018—is not restricted to any particular subject. From the 5,025 works submitted by artists from 76 countries, the selection process operated under the criteria of quality, both in a conceptual and aesthetic sense. The selection of the proposals was entrusted to an international curatorship board formed by renowned professionals with different backgrounds. Based on the proposals that emerged, several agendas from different latitudes were discovered to establish convergences and then nine thematic cores. This with the idea of starting dialogs between the various autonomous chapters from the different participating cities. The nine thematic cores were: "Actions and Interferences in the Public Space," "Ways of Seeing," "Matters of Gender," "Art and Social Action," "Art Without Borders," "Memories and Omissions," "Possible Futures," and "Art and Science/Art and Nature." The event seeks to become a means for regional integration through culture—understood as a vehicle for equality and tolerance—as well as to use contemporary art as a powerful instrument for approaching, knowing, and trying ways of dealing with certain aspects of reality.