"Cantos de Esquinas", Maxwell Alexandre, 2019. Photo: Gabi Carrera.

“Pardo é Papel” or the epic grandeur of a people in...

Presented at Tomie Ohtake Institute after passing through Lyon, Porto Alegre and Rio, Maxwell Alexandre’s show portrays black people in everyday situations with a grandiose, consecrating and historic character

FAMA takes art brut to Itu

With the opening of Bispo do Rosário exhibition, art as worldbuilding seminar takes to itu discussions around art brut, or outsider art, and presents international artists and experts integrating the movement

Artistic practice as historian practice

Curated by Ana Pato, Meta–Arquivo exhibition brings together unseen works by nine artists and collectives from archival research on the Brazilian military dictatorship

Viewing and inter-viewing Cildo Meireles

Carioca artist’s extensive “poetic and historical anthology” occupies Sesc Pompeia, in São Paulo, with about 150 works that defy the senses, invite interaction and point to the permanence of violence experienced in Brazil since the colonial and the military dictatorship period to this day

For an allowed list

Organized by Paulo Miyada, book ai-5 50 anos: ainda não terminou de acabar seizes the homonymous exhibition that took place in 2018

A “Sertão Art” of experimentation and resistance

Intitled SertÃo, 36º Panorama of Brazilian Art, at MAM, raises current political issues through the work of 29 artists, mostly young people who work outside the institutional and marketing artistic circuit

The affective rigor of Farnese, in its entirety

Exhibition revisits the graphic and three-dimensional work of the Minas Gerais artist, trying to understand its genesis and repositioning its importance in the history of Brazilian art
Sobre o Desenho no Brasil

At the tip of the pencil

Book organized by Claudio Mubarac gives an overview of design history in Brazil

Cultural management in times of economic and political crisis

Seminar held by ARTE!Brasileiros and Itaú Cultural brought together managers, artists and experts to discuss the challenges and ways for cultural management in the contemporary context; learn what Eduardo Saron, Fabio Szwarcwald, Jochen Volz, Gabriela Noujaim, Jonathas de Andrade, Ana Carla Fonseca and Katia de Marco

Photography of the memory

With works on the resistance to the Salazarist dictatorship in Portugal, Operation Condor in South America and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Portuguese photographer João Pina deals with, from records, the past history and trauma