Jochen Volz

As it celebrates its 120th anniversary, Pinacoteca focuses on diversity and silenced narratives

In 1905, after the transfer of 20 works from the Museu Paulista at USP and the acquisition of six paintings by artists from São Paulo –...
Claudia Andujar

Claudia Andujar Gallery Maxita Yano receives indigenous relatives

For indigenous peoples, relatives are the expression they use to designate other members of their original communities, regardless of their territorial and ethnic location. For...
COUNTRY'S SECRETARIES OF CULTURE DEFEND TAXATION ON STREAMING AT 12%

The country's Culture Secretaries defend a 12% tax on streaming

The National Forum of State Secretaries and Directors of Culture, which met last week in João Pessoa, Paraíba, released a motion on Friday, the 25th...
Livia Conduru

Lívia Condurú: a Brazilian Amazon

The first Amazon Biennial transformed the cultural scene of Belém, in Pará, between August and November 2023, on the banks of the Guamá River....
Ana Mae Barbosa

Art as a space of freedom

A fundamental figure in the history of artistic education in Brazil, a field to which she has dedicated herself for almost 70 years, Ana Mae Barbosa is now the subject...
Hélio Campos Mello

Discreet windows: photography that reveals and provokes

Photographer Hélio Campos Mello became a reference not only for his photojournalism, nor for having been a war correspondent, or for having directed several...

Snap: The Master Key to the 14th Mercosul Biennial

Porto Alegre's iconic art event showcases works by 77 artists from 35 countries

CONGRESS CUTS 85% OF THE ALDIR BLANC LAW IN THE 2025 BUDGET

The National Congress approved this Thursday, the 20th, the budget bill (LOA) for 2025 (PLN 26/2024). The text, approved three months after the deadline,...

Nuno Ramos: 'My career is one of enormous stylistic diversity'

On the occasion of the opening of his exhibition Pasos Perdidos, in Belo Horizonte, at the Albuquerque Contemporânea gallery, the artist Nuno Ramos speaks, in an interview with Arte!Brasileiros, about his new projects and delves into the work that has accompanied him since the 1980s

Issue #70 contributors

Fabio Cypriano is an art critic, professor and director of the School of Philosophy, Communication, Literature and Arts at PUC-SP. In this edition, Cypriano signs the...
Claudia Afonso

Museu Vale broadens the view of the territory and its complexities

Director of the institution since 2023, Claudia Afonso focuses on the construction of the museum's new headquarters and the Extramuros program, which takes educational activities and exhibitions to cultural spaces throughout Espírito Santo, which allows for the development of partnerships and expanding reach.

Brazil's best kept ancient secret

The cultural strategies of Espírito Santo that project the state as a novelty in the management and innovation of the sector: interview with Fabrício Noronha, Secretary of Culture of Espírito Santo and president of the National Forum of State Secretaries and Directors of Culture

Against Reverse Gear

Read the editorial of issue #70 of arte!brasileiros, by Patricia Rousseaux

Counter-hegemonic practices in hegemonic contexts

Educator Gleyce Heitor advocates initiatives such as acting on the public dimension of cultural institutions, with policies of free access, mobility and belonging, among others
Make love

Dialogues between territory and time

Curated by Nicolas Soares, artist and director of the Espírito Santo Art Museum (MAES) and architect and researcher Clara Pignaton, the Vale Museum opens, under the general coordination of Claudia Afonso, the exhibition Transitar o Tempo, as part of its “Extramuros Program”
Marcus Vinicius Sant'Ana

Hidden Stories

Participant of the 8th International Seminar Arte!Brasileiros, Marcus Vinicius Sant'Ana helps to build a black history of Espírito Santo through guided tours in Vitória (ES) and videos that he shares on a social network

Unavoidable, a book of resistance

Recognized as one of the leading names in experimentalism and political art in Brazil, Antonio Manuel maintains a production marked by dialogue with issues...

Environmental crisis cannot be dissociated from colonialism and racism

This is what Martinique-born philosopher Malcolm Ferdinand argues, as he participates in the VIII International Seminar Arte!Brasileiros, in Vitoria (ES)

Prostitution as a decolonial experience

There were more than 700 men who passed through Lia D Castro's bed in recent years, and with at least 50 of them, she...

Theater demolished by the City of São Paulo holds hearing at the Legislative Assembly

Destroyed on February 13th by São Paulo City Hall tractors, the Ventoforte Theater is fighting tirelessly to rebuild itself. Next...
Kilomba Grada

Back at Inhotim for The Boat – Act II, Grada Kilomba delves deeper into...

Grada Kilomba is the happiest artist in the world. At least that's how she felt after the first performance of O Barco...
Nuno Ramos

Nuno Ramos: 'My career is one of enormous stylistic diversity'

Nuno Ramos, the curious, the intrepid, with a latent energy that translates into matter, returns to Belo Horizonte (MG) in March, in an exhibition at...

Practices to make room for other stories

A critical overview of the thinking of Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, curator of the 36th São Paulo Biennial, based on his work at the Casa das Culturas do Mundo, a German institution he has directed since 2023

Benítez writes poetry on the Beaubourg extension

Benítez stands out for placing clay at the heart of his architectural design

Kentridge exposes creative process in masterpiece

On MUBI, the South African artist's series Self-Portrait as a Coffee Pot is a 'hymn to artistic freedom'
Cildo Meireles

'Style is the joy of the market, but the death of the artist'

The recent million-dollar auction of Maurizio Cattelan's Comedian at Sotheby's is a starting point for Cildo Meireles to remember and reflect on his career

The surreal as a counterpoint to the neoliberal

Renata Lucas' exhibition at Estação Pinacoteca reviews 20 years of the artist's work and highlights hallmarks of her poetics such as the subversion of spaces and the need for negotiation
Bonaventure Ndikung

Cross pollinations

“The role of the artist is to ask questions,” says Bonaventure Ndikung, in an interview in which he talks about the project for the 36th São Paulo Biennial

Issue #69 contributors

See who are some of the contributors to issue #69 of arte!brasileiros
GES-2 House of Culture. Photo: Anya Todich

In Russia, Videobrasil explores intersections between video and performance

Despite the thousands of kilometers separating Brazil and Russia and the cultural traits that are so distinct between the countries, there is no need for any type of...
Clariô, Severina Show

Clariô and the fight for a theater in the periphery, by the periphery and for the...

“We built ourselves within the periphery, within the peripheral movement. We are a black theater group.” The phrase said by Naloana Lima to arte!brasileiros...
Luciana Casagrande Pereira

Paraná culture creates events with international impact

The architect Luciana Casagrande Pereira from Paraná represents a generation of women who have achieved prominent positions in the public sphere. Her delicate appearance and...