– 15.06.2025
The Municipal Galleries, in partnership with The PIPA Foundation, present the exhibition O Brasil são muitos: um recorte da coleção do Instituto PIPA (Brazil is many: a selection from the PIPA Institute collection), the institution’s first international exhibition, to be held in this space from 26 February to 15 June 2025.
The exhibition brings together part of the PIPA Institute’s collection, built up over the last 15 years since the creation of the PIPA Award for Brazilian contemporary art. Works from various media will be presented which, in addition to reflecting the plurality and strength of the art being produced in the country, are also intertwined with the cultural and political changes witnessed in Brazil over the last decade and a half.
Brazil is many features works by Aleta Valente, Alice Miceli, Arjan Martins, Bárbara Wagner, Berna Reale, Daniel Beerstecher, Denilson Baniwa, Gê Viana, Guerreiro do Divino Amor, Hal Wildson, Letícia Ramos, Paulo Nazareth, Romy Pocztaruk, Sofia Borges, Tatiana Blass, Virginia de Medeiros, Vitória Cribb, UÝRA, and Xadalu Tupã Jekupé. As Luiz Camillo Osorio, curator of the PIPA Institute, points out, the exhibition shows a Brazil marked by political polarisation and cultural conflicts – including, in the artistic field, visual languages not formed by the canon, which compete for visibility by broadening critical parameters and historical narratives.
Lucrécia and Roberto Vinhaes, founders of the PIPA Prize and The PIPA Foundation, celebrate this exhibition as a significant milestone in the promotion of Brazilian contemporary art on European soil.
About the PIPA Institute
“The PIPA Institute was created in 2009 to support, celebrate and promote Brazilian contemporary art. With its first and best-known initiative, the PIPA Award – which held its 15th edition in 2024 – it has been recognising and giving visibility to different trajectories and perspectives through awards, exhibitions, physical and digital publications, reinforcing the plurality of art produced in Brazil.
PIPA is a window into Brazilian contemporary art. In addition to the awards, over the years we have built an online research platform where you can learn about more than 700 artists, with access to images of their work and exclusive video interviews. We also make acquisitions and commissions, resulting in a collection that currently comprises more than 200 works by more than 60 artists.
In 2019, we created a sister institution to the PIPA Institute, The PIPA Foundation, with the aim of increasing the international presence and dissemination of art currently produced in Brazil. Some partnerships are already in place, and today we are proud and grateful for the opportunity to present part of our collection at the Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional in Lisbon: a snapshot of recent Brazilian artistic production.”
Lucrécia and Roberto Vinhaes – Founders of Instituto PIPA and The PIPA Foundation.
– 15.06.2025