Stirring structures

Questioner, André Komatsu positions his work in a powerful way on questions of the system
“Chuck Coma sofreu uma lesão cerebral por hipóxia depois que seu colega de cela o estrangulou na penitenciária federal em Lewisburg, Pensilvânia, privando seu cérebro de oxigênio. Desde então, ele tem sofrido de perda de memória, alterações extremas de humor e tremores ocasionais. No momento de sua prisão, Coma estava lutando contra um grave PTSD devido ao serviço militar no Panamá e na Guerra do Golfo. Antes das guerras, ele era um pouco encrenqueiro, mas não tinha problemas sérios com a lei. Quando ele deixou o serviço, não conseguiu segurar um emprego e começou a assaltar bancos”. Shelton, Washington. EUA. 2019. | Crédito: Peter van Agtmael/Magnum Photos. Cortesia do fotógrafo.

What happens when we unmake the world?

Works by Peter van Agtmael, Steve McQueen and Emily Jacir reflect on conflict and preclude our oblivion of war’s cruel consequences

Transarte Institute: for a LGBTQ+ future

Transarte is transformed from a gallery into an institute, with a definitive space to ensure the artistic production of the community LGBTQ+

The place of art

Read the ARTE!Brasileiros editorial

Inglourious bastards

Anonymous meme profiles on Instagram - such as @freeze_magazine, @jerrygogosian and @newmemeseum - risk cunning criticism at the art world, its peculiarities and its flirtation with unsustainable business models

Galleries Curate: a new way of creating a market

In the troubled context caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, a collaborative platform brings together more than 20 galleries and proposes exhibitions that take place simultaneously in various corners of the world

Into the Hurricane

ARTE Director Brasileiros writes in the editorial of the 49th edition that “in art, the answer is an active denunciation” about the scars of centuries that the actions of the state deepen

Under the lens of Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca

With a multidisciplinary audiovisual work produced in universes at once pop and marginalized from different cities in the world, the duo wins prominent position and will represent Brazil at the Venice Biennale

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

Other voices

Learn what Lucimara Letelier, founder and director of the Vivo Museum; Renata Bittencourt, executive director of the Inhotim Institute, and Claudinei Roberto da Silva, professor and curator, say on issues surrounding cultural management