Born in São Paulo, Brazil, editor at the Portuguese Dept. and responsible for swissinfo.ch Culture beat. Degrees in Film and Business & Economics, worked at Folha de S. Paulo, one of Brazil’s leading dailies, before moving to Switzerland in 2000 as international correspondent for various Brazilian media. Based in Zurich, Simantob worked with print and digital media, international co-productions of documentary films, visual arts (3.a Bienal da Bahia; Johann Jacobs Museum/Zurique), and was guest lecturer on Transmedia Storytelling at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU – Camera Arts, 2013-17).
An Alpine carnival: Switzerland stars as a superfiction at the Venice Biennale
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The Swiss-Brazilian artist Guerreiro do Divino Amor will represent Switzerland for the 60th edition of the Venice Art Biennale.
Le Corbusier’s Punjab album sheds light on India’s modernist drive
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The publication of the Swiss architect’s sketchbooks for the creation of the city of Chandigarh in the 1950s is a snapshot of the moment when India finally felt free to shape its own future.
She yodelled her way into jazz, now she wants to reclaim Switzerland
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Gabriela Martina learned to yodel at home before setting off to expand her singing skills abroad. But her native Switzerland still eludes the singer.
The 76th Locarno Film Festival was a big success but its future is a big unknown
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The festival exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. The shape of its next edition, however, depends on where its new president steers it.
Radu Jude and the joys of making a cinema masterpiece
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Interview with Romanian director Radu Jude, whose film Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World won a Special Jury Prize in Locarno.
The Cinémathèque Suisse turns 75, and film lovers can rejoice
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Founded in 1948, Switzerland's national film archives now sit in state-of-the-arts facilities that can keep its gems safe even in case of nuclear war.
Art Basel is changing guard, but old inequalities persist
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Art Basel may have changed hands but it still privileges established gallerists of the wealthy West over the developing world.
Uriel Orlow, the globetrotting artist who whispers to ghosts
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One of the winners of this year’s Prix Meret Oppenheim, Uriel Orlow’s "Swissness" is only one element in an enthrallingly complex life.
Belarus is not like Ukraine – and why that matters
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Opposition leader Andrei Sannikov asks Western countries for more sanctions and laments the behaviour of the Red Cross in Belarus.
Jack Kerouac, the painter, lives on in southern Switzerland
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It was little known that the American literary icon was also a painter. Even less, that his paintings are kept by two Swiss collectors.
