MAM São Paulo Announces Artists for the 39th Panorama of Brazilian Art

Opening on September 12, 2026, the exhibition brings together 33 artists from 13 Brazilian states and will remain on view through January 24, 2027.

The participants are Allan Weber, Amorí, Ana Claudia Almeida, André Felipe Cardoso, Anti Ribeiro, Arorá, Bárbara Banida, biarritzzz, Carolina Cordeiro, Caroline Ricca Lee, Chacha Barja, Darks Miranda, Emer Freire, Fykyá Pankararu, Gilson Plano, Helô Sanvoy, Iagor Peres, Josi, Jota Mombaça, Kuenan Mayu, Lia D Castro, Lita Cerqueira, Marcelo Conceição, Moacir Soares de Faria, Nazas, Osvaldo Gaia, Oto Ferreira, Rafael Chavez, Rayana Rayo, Rodrigo Cass, Rose Afefé, Thaís Muniz, and Ygor Landarin.

Diane Lima describes the Panorama as the foremost historical research platform dedicated to contemporary Brazilian art. For this edition, her research focuses on the present-day impacts of what she calls an "epistemological turning point", a process that, according to the curator, has profoundly transformed artistic production in Brazil over the past two decades, in a context marked by the advancement of affirmative-action policies and significant social and racial changes across the country.

Rather than offering a straightforward survey of contemporary artistic production, the curatorial approach seeks to understand how artists have expanded the limits of aesthetic representation through imagination, experimentation, and new forms of meaning-making. From this perspective, the exhibition offers a reading of the transformations currently taking place in the languages, materials, and debates shaping art in Brazil today. As Lima summarizes, the project invites audiences to reflect on "where we are, where we have arrived, and where we want to go," projecting possibilities beyond what has already been said.

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