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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORIES: MASP PRESENTS ITS 2026 PROGRAM
The museum explores the construction of the region’s identity through a major group exhibition and solo presentations by Jesús Soto, Damián Ortega, Sandra Gamarra, La Chola Poblete, among other artists.
A XAVANTE HEALING RITUAL CLOSES THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
Chief Cipassé Xavante leads this unprecedented performance, which combines ritual, music, and public dialogue to reflect on climate, territory, and indigenous knowledge.
ANA MAZZEI: ACQUISITION OF THE EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD ON ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY
The award recognizes a sculptural practice in which the geometric and the organic are articulated in suspended scenes, shaped by fable, theater, and memory.
MASP INAUGURATES AN EXHIBITION BY MINERVA CUEVAS ON SOCIAL ECOLOGY
The multidisciplinary exhibition by the Mexican artist, featuring installation, sculpture, painting, posters, and video, closes the Histories of Ecology cycle and highlights the environmental crisis as a social issue.
FOUR WORKS BY FOUR ARTISTS AT THE SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
By María Galarza
It is not easy to compose a path through monumental works inside a monumental space. At the 36th São Paulo Biennial, the artists invited by Bonaventure de Soh Bejen Ndikung and his team, present large-scale works whose textures and forms sometimes speak to each other linearly, and other times through oblique movements.
MALBA PRESENTS POP BRAZIL, THE RADICAL PULSE OF THE 60s–70s
Over 120 groundbreaking works arrive in Argentina in the most extensive exhibition to date on this defining artistic era.
TATIANA BLASS: HALF UNDERGROUND TORNADO
By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher
OPEN CALL: PIVÔ SALVADOR LAUNCHES ITS 2026 RESIDENCY PROGRAM
The institution invites artists and cultural agents to take part in its new cycle. Application deadline: November 27.
A HISTORIC LYGIA CLARK RETROSPECTIVE ARRIVES IN ZURICH
Kunsthaus Zürich brings together more than 120 historical works and 50 participatory pieces that reveal the Brazilian artist’s profound transformation of modern art.
IRAN DO ESPÍRITO SANTO IN ITALY: ARCHITECTURE, LIGHT AND SCALE
Mazzoleni presents in Turin a survey of more than two decades of the Brazilian artist’s work.
“HÊMBA” IN SÃO PAULO: LAYERS OF DISTANT MEMORIES
The exhibition by photographer Edgar Kanaykô Xakriabá reaffirms the strength of Indigenous art as a living, insurgent, and ancestral language.
BRAZIL ANNOUNCES ROSANA PAULINO AND ADRIANA VAREJÃO FOR ITS PAVILION AT THE 2026 VENICE BIENNALE
Curated by Diane Lima, the project Comigo ninguém pode will bring together two of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian art around themes of colonial memory, resilience, and poetic imagination in Brazil’s Pavilion.
NOTES ON A PICTORICAL SURFACE — MARINA PEREZ SIMÃO: TUNING FORK
By Mario Gioia, art critic and independent curator
THE SUBTLETY OF SANDRA CINTO, AT ES BALUARD
By Álvaro de Benito
Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca presents Preludio para el sol y las estrellas (Prelude for the Sun and the Stars), a project by Sandra Cinto (Santo André, Brazil, 1968) that transforms the museum space into a realm suspended between perception, time, and matter. The result envelops visitors in an expanded landscape that invites reflection through stillness and contemplation, where the sensory and the act of pausing become central to the experience.
“BATUCADA,” MARCELO EVELIN’S PERFORMANCE: A STORY
By María Galarza
In Casa do Povo's basement, Marcelo Evelin’s performance unleashes a ritual of bodies, rhythms, and nudity that allows no anticipation. An experience that demands looking, breathing, and moving through the present without guide or return.
SÃO PAULO: A JOURNEY THROUGH GALLERIES, STUDIOS, AND RESIDENCIES
By: María Galarza
Like any big city, in São Paulo everything happens at once: galleries, residencies, studios, and exhibitions weave together in an electric network that nurtures local artists and connects them with global circuits. The city works like a node: intense, vibrant, inexhaustible.
ANGLES, CROSSINGS, MOVEMENT, JUXTAPOSITION: THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
The São Paulo Biennial opened its 36th edition with a mix of proposals that invite a return to the senses: textures are highlighted, sounds resonate, and at times even scents appear. With a large number of commissioned works, the curatorial approach—led by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung—was guided by several threads, all centered on the idea of “humanity as practice”.
HISTORIES OF ECOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION AT MASP
The exhibition connects local and global issues by facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and international artists. Many of these artists are exhibiting their work in Latin America for the first time.
SP-ARTE ROTAS 2025 IN SÃO PAULO: A FAIR OF MULTIPLE IDENTITIES
The fair brings together galleries from 12 Brazilian states and expands its reach to include exhibitors from Argentina and the Peruvian Amazon.
INVOCATIONS: LISTENING AS A CURATORIAL PRACTICE IN THE 36th BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO
With public activations across multiple cities, Invocations anticipates the Bienal with programs that explore breath, movement, improvisation, and relationships between the human and non-human.
A SENSORIAL ENCOUNTER IN BERLIN: LYGIA CLARK AND HER LIVING UNIVERSE
Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first major retrospective in Germany of Brazilian pioneer Lygia Clark, with over 120 works and an interactive approach that expands the boundaries of the museum experience.
VERDE-DISTÂNCIA: THE 2ND BIENAL DAS AMAZÔNIAS TRACES CONSTELLATIONS THROUGH PAN-AMAZONIAN ART
This edition unfolds in Belém as a poetic and political reflection on Amazonian and Caribbean territories. More than 80 artists explore the notions of dream, memory, and accent as forces that reconfigure geography, time, and resistance.
POP BRAZIL: COLOR AND DISSENT AT THE PINACOTECA
The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum under the Bureau of Culture, Economy, and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, presents the exhibition Pop Brazil: Avant-garde and New Figuration, 1960-70, in the Grande Galeria of the Pina Contemporânea building.
FIVE READINGS OF MASP: BETWEEN HISTORY AND THE PRESENT
Histories of MASP, Renoir, Geometries, Arts from Africa, and Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement are part of Five Essays on MASP, a series of exhibitions based on the museum’s collection that inaugurate the new Pietro Maria Bardi Building.
MOON, MYTHS, AND MEMORY: PAULO NIMER PJOTA AT KUNSTINSTITUUT MELLY
The Brazilian artist presents his first institutional exhibition in the Netherlands with a collection of works that blend personal reminiscences, mythology, and urban culture.
WITH AN ACRE: ALTERNATIVE ARCHITECTURES IN THE HEART OF BRAZIL’S COFFEE REGION
The final chapter of the Groundwork series follows Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in collaboration with the collective Flor de Café—a gesture of territorial solidarity in the face of extractivism, urbanization, and climate change.
VAREJÃO AND REGO, DIALOGUES AT GULBENKIAN
By Álvaro de Benito
The Gulbenkian Modern Art Center in Lisbon presents Entre os vossos dentes (Between Your Teeth), an exhibition showcasing 80 works by Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Paula Rego (Lisbon, Portugal, 1935 – London, United Kingdom, 2022), reflecting the production, themes, and interpretations of these two artists from different generations.
ERNESTO NETO IN PARIS: ARCHITECTURE IN CROCHET
As part of the Brazil-France 2025 cultural season, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto presents the exhibition Nosso Barco Tambor Terra (Our Boat Drum Earth) at the Nef of the Grand Palais until July 25, 2025.
LIKE MIGRATORY BIRDS: THE 120 ARTISTS OF THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL
From different disciplines and territories, the invited artists propose the Biennial as a space of crossing, listening, and shared transformation.
