Marking 10 years of design at South America’s leading art fair
Founded in 2005 by Fernanda Feitosa, SP–Arte has established itself as the leading platform for the art market in Brazil, playing a structuring role in the professionalization and internationalization of the sector. Held annually the fair has progressively expanded its scope in parallel with the growing sophistication of the local collector base and Brazil’s increasing integration into global circuits. In 2026, SP–Arte also marks the tenth anniversary of the introduction of its design section, a strategic decision that significantly redefined the fair’s positioning by consistently integrating historical and contemporary design into its program.
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MASP
Minerva Cuevas: ecologia social
05 December, 2025 — 12 April, 2026
The exhibition brings together 42 works exploring the intersections between ecology, economy, and power. Inspired by Murray Bookchin’s concept of “social ecology,” Cuevas develops a critique of neoliberalism and the structures shaping relationships between humans and nature, using appropriations of corporate language and materials such as petroleum to reveal the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
André Taniki Yanomami: Being Image
05 December, 2025 — 12 April, 2026
The first exhibition entirely dedicated to the Yanomami artist and shaman, presenting 121 drawings that translate spiritual visions and Indigenous cosmologies. The exhibition reveals the concept of image as a vital essence (utupë), making the spiritual universe visible through symbolic and vibrant compositions.
Abel Rodríguez — Mogaje Guihu: The Tree of Life and Abundance
10 October, 2025 — 12 April, 2026
A posthumous exhibition featuring 65 drawings that document the Amazon rainforest with botanical precision and ancestral memory. Rodríguez’s work articulates Indigenous knowledge and mythology, highlighting the interdependence between humans and nature and the idea of the tree as the origin of all life.
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki: Replica
06 March — 07 June, 2026
The first major retrospective of the Peruvian artist, presenting 72 works that explore copying, appropriation, and reinterpretation of art history. The exhibition questions museological narratives and colonial legacies, structured as a critical “replica” of both the art system and the artist’s own trajectory.
La Chola Poblete: Andean Pop
06 March — 02 August, 2026
The artist’s first solo exhibition in Brazil, featuring 31 works combining painting, sculpture, photography, and performance. The exhibition addresses identity, colonialism, and representations of racialized and LGBTQIA+ bodies, merging popular and mythological references into a hybrid and political visual language.
Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Living Through Weaving
06 March — 02 August, 2026
The exhibition presents the collective work of Wichí weavers, exploring weaving as both an ancestral and contemporary practice. Using chaguar fibers, the works articulate memory, territory, and mythology, emphasizing collaborative processes and the transmission of knowledge across generations.
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
Macunaíma and Duwid
28 March — 13 September, 2026
The exhibition establishes a dialogue between Macunaíma, a central figure of Brazilian modernism, and Duwid, an entity linked to Indigenous cosmologies. The exhibition proposes a critical reinterpretation of Brazilian identity, confronting colonial narratives with Indigenous and contemporary perspectives, and expanding the understanding of myth, territory, and belonging.
Pascale Marthine Tayou: Knockout
07 March — 02 August, 2026
The Cameroonian artist presents an immersive installation that articulates themes such as globalization, migration, and cultural identity. Through a vibrant and poetic visual language, Tayou uses diverse materials to question social and economic structures, creating a sensory environment that invites reflection on displacement and belonging in the contemporary world.
Cristina Salgado: The Mother Contemplates the Sea
07 March — 02 August, 2026
The exhibition brings together sculptures that explore the female body, motherhood, and the relationship between interiority and space. Through organic and silent forms, Cristina Salgado constructs a poetics of contemplation, where the body becomes landscape and the sculptural gesture evokes states of introspection and transformation.
Museu do Ipiranga
Debret in Question: Contemporary Perspectives
25 November, 2025 — 17 May, 2026
The exhibition proposes a dialogue between the 19th and 21st centuries through the work of Jean-Baptiste Debret, revisiting his legacy from the perspective of contemporary Brazilian artists. Through a confrontation between historical painting and new media, the exhibition reinterprets colonial narratives and investigates the relationships between France and Brazil, as part of the France–Brazil Season 2025.
Museu Afro Brasil
Resounding Silence
29 November, 2025 — 12 April, 2026
The exhibition explores tensions between invisibility and resistance in Afro-Brazilian narratives. Through works that evoke memory and absence, it proposes a reflection on historical silencing and the forms of expression that emerge from these contexts.
Blessings to Quilombo do Jaó Through the Eyes of Children
28 March — 12 July, 2026
The exhibition presents the vision of children on Quilombo do Jaó, highlighting memory, territory, and Afro-Brazilian identity. Through a sensitive and educational approach, it values collective narratives and the child’s perspective as a form of knowledge construction and belonging.
Padê: Sentinel at the Door of Memory
21 March — 26 July, 2026
Inspired by the symbolism of padê, a ritual of communication in Afro-Brazilian religions, the exhibition addresses spirituality, ancestry, and memory. It positions the sacred as a central element in the construction of identities and the preservation of knowledge.
MAC USP
Di Cavalcanti: Militant, Bohemian, Brazilian
08 November, 2025 — 01 November, 2026
The exhibition dedicated to Di Cavalcanti presents 115 drawings from its collection, complemented by works from major Brazilian institutions. The exhibition highlights the multiple dimensions of his production, between political engagement, bohemian life, and the construction of a national identity, reaffirming his central role in Brazilian modernism.
Insurgencies – Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s: Works from the VERBUND Collection, Vienna
28 March — 28 June, 2026
The exhibition brings together around 60 feminist artworks from the 1970s from the Verbund Collection (Vienna), in dialogue with works from the museum’s collection. The exhibition critically examines the construction of femininity and the social and political transformations of the period, highlighting artistic practices that challenged gender norms and expanded the field of contemporary art.
Boca do Sertão: Irineu Nje’a Terena
28 March — 28 June, 2026
The exhibition of Irineu Nje’a Terena articulates memory, territory, and Indigenous resistance. Through a poetic and political approach, the exhibition confronts imposed historical narratives and gives visibility to silenced ancestral voices, proposing a reflection on violence, erasure, and cultural permanence.
Art Galleries
Sidival Fila: The Dignity of Matter
15 March — 10 May, 2026
Luisa Strina
Born in Brazil and based in Rome, Sidival Fila has developed a deeply singular practice rooted in spirituality, materiality, and time. A Franciscan friar, his work is shaped by a contemplative relationship to matter, informed by notions of devotion, silence, and transcendence. Working with antique textiles, liturgical fabrics, and historical remnants, Fila disassembles and reconstructs materials through stitching, layering, and tension, transforming them into compositions that carry both physical and symbolic weight. These gestures operate as acts of care and reactivation, restoring dignity to materials marked by use and erosion. Positioned within a broader discourse on memory and the sacred in contemporary art, his work resonates with practices that seek to re-enchant materiality in an increasingly dematerialized world.
Bernardo Ortiz: A Tumult of Hesitations
15 March — 10 May, 2026
Luisa Strina
Colombian artist and writer Bernardo Ortiz develops a practice situated at the intersection of drawing, writing, and thought. His work resists fixed meaning, instead foregrounding hesitation, interruption, and instability as core elements of artistic production. Through minimal gestures, fragmented lines, and textual insertions, Ortiz constructs a visual language that unfolds as a process rather than a resolution. His work engages with traditions of conceptual art and Latin American experimental practices, proposing a poetics of uncertainty where meaning remains in flux. In this exhibition, drawing becomes a space of thinking in motion, where the act of making is inseparable from the act of questioning.
Tomie Ohtake: Blind Paintings
15 March — 10 May, 2026
Nara Roesler
A central figure in Brazilian post-war abstraction, Tomie Ohtake developed a practice defined by the interplay between gesture, color, and spatial tension. In her “blind paintings,” produced with her eyes covered, she radicalizes this investigation by removing visual control, allowing the body and intuition to guide the act of painting. These works, far from being purely spontaneous, reveal a refined sensitivity to rhythm and composition, where gesture becomes both structure and expression. Situated between Eastern calligraphic traditions and Western gestural abstraction, Ohtake’s practice occupies a unique position in the history of modern art in Brazil, articulating a language that is at once disciplined and deeply intuitive.
Artur Lescher: River-Machine
15 March — 10 May, 2026
Nara Roesler
Brazilian sculptor Artur Lescher has built a rigorous body of work grounded in balance, tension, and precision. Associated with the legacy of Brazilian constructive art, his practice extends this tradition into a contemporary exploration of space and perception. In River-Machine, Lescher juxtaposes two conceptual forces—the fluidity of the river and the rigidity of the machine, creating works that oscillate between movement and stillness. Through polished surfaces, suspended elements, and carefully calibrated structures, the sculptures activate space as a dynamic field, inviting the viewer to experience form as a continuous negotiation between equilibrium and instability.
The Decorator’s House: The Future Is No Longer
07 April — 28 April, 2026
Nara Roesler
This exhibition expands the gallery’s program into a more discursive and speculative territory, reflecting on domestic space as a site where aesthetics, ideology, and temporality converge. Bringing together artists engaged with architecture, design, and material culture, the project questions modernist narratives of progress and the notion of the future as a linear horizon. Instead, it proposes a fragmented temporality, where past, present, and future coexist within the domestic sphere, revealing how interior spaces become repositories of cultural memory and political tension.
The Cordial, the Sympathetic and the Vandal — Marcelo Cidade
From 03 March — 11 April, 2026
Vermelho
A leading voice in Brazilian contemporary art, Marcelo Cidade has consistently interrogated the structures of power embedded in urban environments. His practice, spanning sculpture, installation, and intervention, reveals the latent violence and control mechanisms embedded in everyday materials and architectural systems. In this new body of work, Cidade intensifies his investigation into social behavior and its contradictions, exposing the fragile balance between civility and disruption. By appropriating urban elements and reconfiguring them within the exhibition space, he creates situations that destabilize perception and reveal the invisible frameworks that govern collective life.
Acervo Vivo
02 March — 02 May, 2026
Almeida & Dale
Rather than presenting the collection as a fixed archive, Acervo Vivo activates it as a dynamic and evolving organism. Bringing together works from different periods, movements, and artistic languages, the exhibition constructs a network of dialogues that traverse Brazilian art history. By placing modern and contemporary works in conversation, the show highlights both continuities and tensions, revealing how narratives are constantly reconfigured over time. This approach reflects a broader shift in curatorial practice, where collections are understood not as static repositories, but as living systems open to reinterpretation.
Pedra de Rumo
21 March — 02 May, 2026
Almeida & Dale
Pedra de Rumo explores the idea of orientation and displacement through the metaphor of the stone, an element that embodies both permanence and transformation. The works presented engage with questions of territory, memory, and materiality, constructing a sensory and conceptual journey between past and present. Positioned within contemporary debates on landscape and identity, the exhibition reflects on how matter itself can serve as a guide, a marker, and a witness to processes of change.
Thalita Hamaoui: Body of Wind
19 March — 09 May, 2026
Simões de Assis
Brazilian artist Thalita Hamaoui develops a painting practice that dissolves hierarchies between figure and environment, proposing nature as a fluid and relational field. Her canvases, marked by vibrant chromatic intensity and expansive gestures, evoke an imagined botanical universe where forms emerge and dissolve in continuous transformation. Rather than representing nature, Hamaoui constructs it as an experiential space, where the visible becomes a threshold to the invisible. Her work resonates with contemporary ecological discourses, while maintaining a deeply sensorial and intuitive dimension.
Helô Sanvoy: Cycles, Strata and Das Passagen-Werk
10 April — 30 May, 2026
Aura
Brazilian artist Helô Sanvoy develops a research-based practice centered on matter, time, and historical processes. Structured around three conceptual axes, Cycles, Strata, and Das Passagen-Werk, the exhibition brings together materials such as charcoal, pau-brasil, beeswax, glass, leather, and lead. These elements, loaded with historical and symbolic significance, are mobilized to reflect on extraction, labor, and the formation of Brazilian identity. Sanvoy’s work operates at the intersection of sculpture, installation, and critical historiography, proposing a material archaeology of power and memory.
Anísio O. Couto
26 November, 2025 — 17 January, 2026
Galatea
In the work of Brazilian painter Anísio O. Couto, the pictorial space is conceived as a constructed field where everyday objects are carefully staged. Fruits, utensils, eyes, and eggs are arranged in compositions that oscillate between still life and symbolic narrative. His paintings engage with traditions of representation while subtly destabilizing them, creating a tension between familiarity and estrangement.
Paulo Roberto Leal: Constructive Malleabilities
28 March — 09 May, 2026
Galatea
A key figure in Brazilian constructive practices, Paulo Roberto Leal developed a body of work grounded in process and material experimentation. His practice unfolds through direct engagement with materials, often paper, where point and line become generative elements that extend into three-dimensional space. His work challenges conventional hierarchies between drawing, object, and environment, positioning process as the core of artistic meaning.
Sandra Cinto: Two Infinities
28 March — 16 May, 2026
Casa Triângulo
Internationally recognized Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto constructs immersive environments through drawing, where line becomes both structure and narrative. Her work often evokes seascapes, constellations, and infinite horizons, creating spaces that oscillate between the intimate and the cosmic. In Two Infinities, she deepens this exploration, proposing a poetic territory where perception unfolds as a journey between the visible and the imagined.
Antonio Pichillá: Intercultural Geometry
28 March — 02 May, 2026
Luciana Brito
Guatemalan artist Antonio Pichillá, from the Maya Tz’utujil community, reconfigures geometric abstraction through Indigenous epistemologies. His concept of “intercultural geometry” proposes a space where Western modernist language intersects with ancestral knowledge, ritual, and cosmology. Through textiles, painting, and installation, his work activates form as a vehicle for identity and collective memory.
Alexandre da Cunha — Dudi Maia Rosa
09 April — 23 May, 2026
Gomide & Co
The exhibition brings together Alexandre da Cunha and Dudi Maia Rosa, two artists who have consistently explored the boundaries between painting and sculpture. While Da Cunha engages with industrial and everyday materials to construct objects that oscillate between function and abstraction, Dudi Maia Rosa’s practice is rooted in material experimentation, particularly with resin, exploring surface, transparency, and density. Their dialogue highlights different approaches to materiality within Brazilian contemporary art.
Janaina Tschäpe: Piruetas de Olhos Abertos
09 April — 30 May, 2026
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
This exhibition unfolds as a reflection on perception, movement, and awareness, bringing together artists whose practices engage with the body as both subject and medium. Through installation, painting, and sculpture, the works propose a dynamic interaction between viewer and space, destabilizing fixed points of view and inviting a more embodied experience of art.
Yawara Akanga
07 April — 03 May, 2026
A Gentil Carioca
The exhibition presents the work of Yawara Akanga, whose practice engages with identity, spirituality, and ancestral narratives. Rooted in a contemporary visual language, his work draws from cultural memory and symbolic systems, articulating a dialogue between tradition and present-day experience.
Brazilian Modern Photography
28 March — 09 May, 2026
Mario Cohen
This group exhibition brings together key figures of modern photography in Brazil, including Ademar Manarini, Eduardo Salvatore, Gaspar Gasparian, Geraldo de Barros, German Lorca, Gertrudes Altschul, José Oiticica Filho, Paulo Pires, and Thomaz Farkas. It highlights the evolution of the medium as both document and artistic expression, tracing—through a selection of historical works—the construction of a visual language that reflects the social, cultural, and aesthetic transformations of the 20th century.
Cobra Norato
28 March — 30 May, 2026
Zielinsky
This group exhibition brings together Claudio Cretti, Denis Moreira, Gabriel Giucci, Lia Chaia, Lucas Cordeiro, Renata Padovan, Rodrigo Bivar, Trojany, and Vera Chaves Barcellos, exploring narrative, symbolism, and cultural identity through contemporary practices. Drawing from Brazilian modernist mythology, particularly Raul Bopp’s Cobra Norato, the project revisits foundational myths as living structures, reactivated and reinterpreted by each artist. Through diverse media and approaches, the exhibition reflects on transformation, belonging, and the porous boundaries between human, nature, and imagination, expanding the legacy of Anthropophagic thought into the present.