Arte Bra Yhuri Cruz 2026Automatica Edições
Arte Bra Yhuri Cruz is the first book published about his work. Featuring an unpublished essay by Hélio Menezes and texts by Pollyana Quintella, Marcelo Campos, and Vinícius da Silva, the publication includes an interview, a chronology, and images of the artist's scenes and works. Born in Olaria, Rio de Janeiro, in 1991, Yhuri Cruz has built an artistic and dramaturgical practice that discusses historical archives, fictions, and fabulations of the Black diaspora in Brazil and the world, expanding across sculpture, stage performances, and film.
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Opavivará! IMAGINALIVRE! 2/08/2026 — 01/11/2026Parque Cultural Casa do Governador
Vila Velha, ES
IMAGINALIVRE! by the OPAVIVARÁ! collective brings together installations, videos, and relational devices spanning more than two decades of the collective's production. A stove sings, beach chairs cease to be individual, hammocks bring stories closer, and colors can even take on flavor. Each installation invites the public to participate, showing that when art breaks with the obvious, the visitor also ceases to be merely a spectator.
Archers in the spiral of time 3/07/2026 — 25/10/2026Casa Firjan
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Between the documentary moment and the ritual gesture, the exhibition brings together 39 photographs that reject Western chronology in favor of spiraling time. Curated by Marcia Mello, eleven photographers selected by the Firjan SESI Mosaico Rio call for proposals were challenged to photograph time in its diverse poetics. Each photographer constructs their own maps of the many ways of inhabiting the present.
Rima Colada [Stuck Rhyme], a book celebrating four decades of artist Barrão's career, showcases an artistic practice marked by intuition and the interplay between languages such as sculpture, drawing, watercolor, installation, sound, and performance. Guided by procedures akin to bricolage, his work is constructed through the transformation of everyday elements, grouping and recombining recognizable objects extracted from our domestic and urban universe. The book's title, a recurring expression in his work, summarizes this logic: rhyme as approximation, the encounter of things that, when glued together, begin to coexist. Credits
Beatriz Milhazes 100 Suns 30/01/2026 — 26/04/2026Museu de Arte da Bahia
Salvador, BA
100 Sóis was Beatriz Milhazes’s first solo exhibition in Salvador. The show brought together a selection of historical paintings, new works, recent collages, and a stained-glass installation conceived by the artist for the museum’s windows. Curated by Tiago Mesquita, the exhibition is produced by Arte3, with executive production collaboration by Automatica and support from Galeria Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel.
Brazil: Popular Art
22/08/2025 — 23/11/2025
Farol Santander São Paulo, SP
The exhibition occupies two floors of the Farol Santander building in São Paulo, with over 400 works—including sculptures, ceramics, masks, and garments—that attest to the inventiveness and symbolic power of the creativity of the people. With 21 States represented, the show features masters such as Nino, Zé do Chalé, and Mestre Cunha, alongside such key figures as Mestre Vitalino, Ana das Carrancas, and Conceição dos Bugres. The curators, Leonel Kaz and Jair de Souza, invite visitors to move through works, sounds and rhythms that put us in touch with our origins.
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Who’s afraid of a stick insect?
09/05/2025 — 19/08/2025
Cultural Park, Governor’s Residence, Vila Velha, Espírito Santo
A world of wooden sculptures by Hiorlando was featured in Who’s afraid of a stick insect? The artistic legacy of this artist, born in Água Doce do Maranhão, is further enhanced by this exhibition at Gabinete Gallery in the Cultural Park of the Governor’s Residence in Vila Velha. The show was presented in partnership with Vale Cultural Center Maranhão.
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Milton Santos Occupation
Bela Maré
10/05/2025 — 08/08/2025
Galpão Bela Maré, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Following its first edition in São Paulo, the Milton Santos Occupation is brought to Galpão Bela Maré in partnership with Itaú Cultural. The show proposes dialogue between the ideas of the geographer and the work produced by artists and social and cultural organizations, touching on his trajectory as a Black intellectual, his philosophy of space, and his belief in grassroots futures. Curated by Ana V. Lopes, Gleyce Heitor, and Osmar Paulino, the exhibition has deep roots in the Maré and weaves together archives, contemporary art, and community activism.
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Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art 11/16/2024 — 02/17/2025
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Encruzilhadas da Arte Afro-Brasileira [Crossroads of Afro-Brazilian Art] brings together works by 62 artists from different regions of the country. With general coordination and production by Tatu Cultural and local production by Automatica, the exhibition is an offshoot of the Afro Project, in development since 2016 and launched in 2020, which currently brings together around 330 artists catalogued on the platform. These names span a vast period of artistic production in Brazil, from the 19th century to the contemporaries born in the 2000s.
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Path
12/07/2024 — 01/26/2025
MUHCAB - Museu da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Caminho [Path] is the result of the artistic-pedagogical residency of ELÃ – Escola Livre de Artes [Free School of Arts], a project by Observatório de Favelas in partnership with Automatica. In its fifth edition, ELÃ proposed a collective investigation into the concept of "path". The works, which range from installations to paintings, photographs, videos and soundscapes, reflect the encounter between individual and collective trajectories, interspersed with favela, Afro-diasporic and original references.
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In this retrospective, curated by Clarissa Diniz, visitors will have the opportunity to dive into the artist's peculiar and thought-provoking universe and immerse themselves in Zerbini's creative process, who describes his art as a journey of rumination, in which landscapes, dreams and memories are crushed and reconfigured in an involuntary way. With 140 works, some of which have never been exhibited, divided into five thematic sections, visitors will be taken on a visual journey through the artist's constant reworking of landscapes throughout his career.
The show, co-produced with Ateliê Luiz Zerbini, Mourart and Automatica, highlights the centrality of landscape in Zerbini's artistic practice, which transcends the limits of painting to manifest itself in multiple languages and experiments. His artistic production reveals itself as a veritable mosaic of shapes, colors, patterns and narratives, reflecting not only the artist's vision, but also his restlessness and sensitivity towards the world.
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