Art
A tribute to Koyo
In an edition marked by political disputes and new boundaries, the magazine explores the Venice Biennale, the Curitiba Biennale, the new Pinakotheke in São Paulo, and the Latin American exhibitions at MASP.
Thresholds: the Curitiba Biennial transforms borders into territories of encounter.
The 16th Curitiba International Biennial investigates territories where borders are zones of openness.
Surrealism: art beyond reason
Curator Tadeu Chiarelli discusses the inaugural exhibition at the new Pinakotheke location.
The Human Anthill of Pau da Bandeira
By Bibiana Belisário There is a curious fact about leafcutter ants: despite their small size, they are able to transport leaves, bark, branches, and plant fragments that...
Nice Avanza returns to the Espírito Santo Art Museum in an exhibition that revisits...
By Giuliano de Miranda Twenty-six years after the retrospective dedicated to his work by the Espírito Santo Art Museum Dionísio Del Santo...
Curators interpret the "THRESHOLDS" of the 16th Curitiba Biennial.
The 16th Curitiba International Biennial returns to an in-person format at a time marked by profound technological, social, and environmental transformations. Under the concept...
The Ethnomedia Exhibition proposes new perspectives on indigenous art, which is established among...
At a time when Indigenous art is increasingly present in Brazilian cultural institutions, the third edition of the Indigenous Ethnomedia Exhibition...
Ana Botafogo: "the classical ballerina in the land of football"
Itaú Cultural's exhibition pays homage to the artist who helped popularize classical ballet in Brazil.
La Chola Poblete challenges the system.
In the exhibition La Chola Poblete – Pop Andino, currently on display at MASP, the viewer's gaze is immediately challenged. More than just exhibiting works,...
Pinacoteca revisits the work of Paulo Pedro Leal, an artist who denounced the contradictions of...
Rio de Janeiro, 1950s and 1960s. The "marvelous city" was undergoing changes: it was becoming increasingly gentrified, excluding the people who built it...
Nobody can mess with me: Brazil at the Venice Biennale
The 61st Venice Biennale opens to the public on May 9th. The Brazilian Pavilion will feature works by Rosana...
Lázaro Roberto: "Photography gave me racial awareness"
One afternoon in Salvador, curator Hélio Menezes was at the headquarters of the Zumví Afro-Photographic Archive in Pelourinho when someone knocked on the door...
Paulista Avenue hosts the largest and most ambitious exhibition of Mestre Didi.
The Bahian artist-priest, who died in 2013, re-established an artistic dialogue with the legacy of Nagô culture and undertook a dizzying study of forms based on Candomblé.
The private is political: a militant art in the Verbund collection.
Exhibition at MAC showcases feminist and experimental art gathered in the Verbund collection from Austria.
Casa Brasil opens with decolonial and feminist works.
Shared curation selects works by artists from across the country, in tune with current debates, including productions by users of mental health institutions.
Vassouras Museum opens in dialogue with the territory.
An institution created by collector Ronaldo Cesar Coelho in the interior of Rio de Janeiro focuses on the region's context beyond the coffee cycle.
Grada Kilomba works with horrors for which we have no language.
Every night, Grada Kilomba plays the piano with her youngest daughter. While Grada plays the rhythm section, her daughter improvises over it. The...
Casa Brasil opens with decolonial and feminist works.
Shared curation selects works by artists from across the country, in tune with current debates, including productions by users of mental health institutions.
Urban challenge for downtown São Paulo
The city of São Paulo will gain a new Sesc next June. This is already a cause for celebration, given its well-known impact...
Is there anything better than this? Only two of these.
Roxinha Lisboa was 59 years old when she started drawing. Until then, she had worked in the fields, breaking gravel and sweeping the streets of the village where...
Spiritual and political paths extend beyond Sorocaba.
FRESTAS is a relevant contemporary art event in the interior of São Paulo that has been taking place since 2014. It has previously featured curators such as Josué...
Sky-eclipse: an open poetic summons
“Eclipse-Sky” is an enigmatic name for an exhibition that deals with the fundamental question of the relationship between man and his environment. The...
Between art and sandstone, a museum without limits.
A new partnership is shaking up the visual arts scene in Paraná. Vila Velha State Park is now part of the art circuit...
Editorial
Brazil begins the year with two important new developments in national exhibition spaces. In Rio de Janeiro, in Vassouras, in the Vale do Café region, an exhibition was inaugurated...
Contributors #74
See who are some of the contributors to issue #74 of arte!brasileiros
Far beyond lambada
At 80 years old, Ruy Antônio Barata makes his literary debut with "Esse Rio é Minha Rua" (This River is My Street), a fascinating account that reenacts almost a century of Amazonian culture and politics.
When Afro-Brazilian art returns home in full force.
Assembled by two American researchers over a decade, the collection of 666 works donated to Muncab was formed with suggestions from Pierre Verger and Emanuel Araújo, and almost all the artists included were contacted at their workplaces.
Vila Velha welcomes the bold "MON without Walls" in a unique exhibition.
A state government initiative integrates art and nature outdoors, bringing together works by artists such as Gustavo Utrabo and Denise Milan.
The lesson of indigenous banks
In the large dome of the National Museum of the Republic in Brasília, hundreds of wooden stools suggest a challenge like those of variations on a...
Exhibition celebrates 150 years of Joaquín Torres García, pioneer of decolonial art
"Our North is the South" – this phrase summarizes the thinking of Joaquín Torres García, a Uruguayan artist, theorist, and educator who dedicated his life...
Climate change is already threatening photography collections.
European institutions are identifying the need to change protocols for the maintenance, display, storage, and preservation of historical or artistic photographs as cases of deterioration due to global warming increase.
Every moment is crucial.
The France-Brazil Season brings to the Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), in São Paulo, an exhibition with previously unseen photographs by Agnès Varda and investigates the profound relationship between her photography and cinema.
