From Landscape to Intimacy
11/29/2024 — 01/26/2025
Galpão Bela Maré,
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Da paisagem à intimidade [From Landscape to Intimacy] brings together images by artists and photographers who, over the past 20 years, have participated in the Escola de Fotografia Popular [School of Popular Photography]— a project that has been fundamental in shaping new perspectives on popular spaces, through the lenses of the communities themselves.
With a rich diversity of visual narratives, the exhibition reveals the streets, alleys, popular festivals and traditional knowledge, captured from the unique perspective of favela residents, and is a reflection of their stories, struggles and affections. The images on display are living testimonies of transformations, achievements and memories that permeate the daily life of these territories, building a collective trajectory of resistance and affirmation of identity.
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Transitar o Tempo
12/04/2025 — 03/30/2025
Casa Porto das Artes, Vitória, ES
The exhibition, presented by Museu Vale, curated by Nicolas Soares and Clara Pignaton and locally produced by Automatica, brings together 30 artists from Espírito Santo (BRA) in a reflection on changes, artistic practice and path. With previously unseen works and collections from institutions such as GAEU and Galeria Homero Massena, the exhibition proposes a dialogue between generations of artists, exploring art as a moving transformation.
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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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Fruitures: Amazonian times [traveling exhibition]
03/26/2024 — 12/09/2024
Centro Cultural Vale do Maranhão, MA /
Casa de Cultura de Canaã dos Carajás, PA /
Centro Cultural de Paraupebas, PA /
Museu do Estado do Pará, PA
Fruitures: Amazonian Times shows Amazonia at various points in time and from the point of view of its original peoples. Staged in 2021 at the Museum of Tomorrow (RJ), the exhibition will travel to four cities in the North and Northeast of Brazil, opening first at the Centro Cultural Vale Maranhão, on 26 March. The show looks at the challenges currently facing Amazonia and the plans already underway to ensure that it will survive into the future. The new social, environmental and economic model for the region is based on three main principles: scientific knowledge, traditional know-how, and a commitment to conservation of the forest. This exhibition is organized around these principles. It shows the beauties, the mysteries, and the urgent needs of the largest tropical forest on the planet.
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Leaf through
06/05/2024 — 09/08/2024
Parque Botânico Vale /
Reserva Natural Vale,
Vitória, ES
With giant sculptures up to 10m wide designed by the artists Felipe Barbosa and Rosana Ricalde, the Folhear [leaf through] exhibition presents a fusion between contemporary art and the exuberance of ecosystems. The artistic experience occupies two important preservation areas of the Atlantic Forest with sculptures produced with natural foliage from the very places where they were assembled.
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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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Luiz Zerbini – Ruminated Landscapes
06/19/2024 — 11/10/2024
CCBB
Rio de Janeiro, RJ
/ CCBB Brasília, DF
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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Ways of Breathing
04/03/2024 — 04/28/2024
Espaço Cultural Sérgio Porto, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Ways of Breathing is an exhibition of installations, films, drawings, photography, and texts, resulting from a collaboration between visual artists Anna Costa e Silva and Rafa Éis and civil servants from Rio de Janeiro City Hall’s Department of Culture (SMC). The artists participated in the Public Sector Artists in Residence Program [RASP], which involves a twelve-month immersion in public sector institutions in Brazil to create works of art in collaboration with the employees of these institutions.
Anna presented the dreamlike film Ventário and Rafa Éis a series of photographs and sculptures titled Ways of Breathing, which was also the title of the exhibition. Both projects seek to present a personal and subjective view of civil servants with the active participation of the civil servants themselves, to contrast with the reality of working days that are often highly routinized and stifling.
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Check out more about the cases of Anna Costa e Silva and Rafa Éis here.
Hiromi Nagakura to Amazônia with Ailton Krenak
02/28/2024 — 05/27/2024
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
The exhibition, organized by the Tomie Ohtake Institute with local production by Automatica, features 160 photographs by award-winning Japanese photographer Hiromi Nagakura. The photographer made five trips with environmental leader Ailton Krenak through the Amazon between 1993 and 1998, where you can see records of the Yanomami, Xavante, Krikati, Gavião, Yawanawá, Huni Kuin and Ashaninka indigenous nations. Curated by Krenak and assistant curated by Angela Pappiani, Eliza Otsuka and Priscyla Gomes, the show came from São Paulo and was expanded in Rio de Janeiro, with photos that were not present in the São Paulo edition of the exhibition and objects from the peoples visited.
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absolutely fanciful lived transmutations
05/12/2023 — 07/30/2023
Sesc Av. Paulista,
São Paulo, SP
The retrospective of over 20 years of avaf, a collective of artists founded in 2001, presents their work across a wide range of media, including installations, painting, sculpture, tapestry, neon, wallpaper, among others. Immersive and interactive, avaf compositions highlight the presence of color as an instrument of communication and transmission of energy.
The pieces that make the show up are, for the most part, landscape representations displayed in the form of a large labyrinth, exploring connections between the outside world and introspection, between past and present dialogues. In this labyrinth, the viewer finds a narrative that goes back to the history of the collective. The exhibition received around 30 wallpapers, since the 1st creation of the collective in this support.
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