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Pivô invites the public to the Open Studio of resident artists Mulambö and Thaïs Zakï Tembo next Monday (April 27), starting at 4 PM.
The program includes a conversation between Mulambö and Thaïs, mediated by curator Uriel Bezerra, who has been accompanying the artists’ residency and creative process, connecting their practices and biographies while tracing parallels between the works developed.
During the event, the artists will discuss their references, questions, and trajectories, alongside a presentation of what each has developed during this period in Salvador. Conversations, visits to collections and spaces in the city, connections with artists and exhibitions, as well as studio work itself, are all part of this process.
“Anticipating this moment a bit, it is interesting how the residency context activated an unexpected encounter between both artists—two translators of sculptural gesture—and, at the same time, how it brought each of them into contact with new questions regarding their own work, whether in formal, technical terms, or in relation to its circulation,” says Uriel.
The residency is part of the Pivô Imersão 2026 program, in which the artists were selected through an open call.
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📍Open Studio with Mulambö and Thaïs Zakï Tembo
April 27 (Monday), 4 PM to 9 PM
Pivô Boulevard | Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A, Nazaré
Kitchen activation by Pablo Cordier
Free admission. Subject to capacity.
Mulambö was born João in Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, where he lives and works. Raised in Praia da Vila, his practice spans painting, objects, flags, installations, football teams, and samba schools, articulating narratives rooted in the histories and lived experiences of his territory. His work affirms the power of everyday life, evoking the idea that there is no museum in the world like our grandmother’s home.
He has participated in exhibitions such as Complexo Brasil (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 2025); Direito à Forma (2023); Quilombo: vida, problema e aspirações do negro (2022); Dos Brasis (Sesc Belenzinho, 2023); Brazilian Histories (MASP, 2022); Um defeito de cor (2022) and Casa Carioca (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2020); Enciclopédia Negra (Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2021); Brasil Futuro (Museu Nacional da República, 2023); and SWEAT (Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2021).
Selected solo exhibitions include O Canto da Vila (Museu da República and Portas Vilaseca Galeria, 2025); Punta de Lanza (Homesession, Barcelona, 2023); O penhor dessa igualdade (Centro Cultural São Paulo, 2022); Out of Many, Muchos Más (Das Schaufenster, Seattle, 2021); Tudo Nosso (Museu de Arte do Rio, 2019); and Prato de Pedreiro (Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, 2019).
His works are part of collections such as Inhotim, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Museu de Arte do Rio, MAC Niterói, and Museu de Arte de Britânia.
Thaïs Zakï Tembo is a visual artist, writer, and Pindorafrican researcher, born in Bahia, Brazil. She lives and works between Brazil and France, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Her practice spans sculpture, performance, painting, video, and writing, investigating the body, territory, water, mining, and historical memory through a critical and situated perspective.
Her work emerges from experiences in territories shaped by mineral extraction and the erasure of Afro-Indigenous communities — such as the Payayá people, to which she belongs — proposing symbolic forms of denunciation, repair, and the reinvention of relationships between humans, nature, and history. Her work has been presented in Brazil and across Europe.
Recent presentations include Planetary Health (USP / Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies, 2025); Bourse Révélation (Institut Français, Madrid, 2024); Emerige Prize (Paris, 2023); an exhibition at Hôtel des Arts – Mediterranean Center for Art (Toulon, 2023); Espumas Siderais (Marli Matsumoto Gallery, São Paulo, 2022); and Nuit Blanche (immersive installation, Paris, 2021).
Uriel Bezerra holds a Master’s degree in Visual Arts (History and Theory of Visual Arts) from the Federal University of Bahia (PPGAV/UFBA), where he researched the Bahia Biennials of 1966 and 1968, receiving the award for best Master’s dissertation in the arts at UFBA for the 2021–2022 biennium. He is currently a PhD candidate at the same institution. Between 2024 and 2025, he served on the Award Committee of the Bahia Visual Arts Salons, organized by Funceb.
Among his main experiences and projects, he participated in the 2014–2015 curatorial training program promoted by the Museu/Escola Lina Bo Bardi project, organized by the Museum of Modern Art of Bahia (MAM-BA) during the 3rd Bahia Biennial. From 2017 to 2023, he coordinated Intervalo – Fórum de Arte, a platform that organizes public programs of debates, courses, and publications in partnership with cultural institutions in Salvador. He co-curated the itinerant exhibition Ecos do Atlântico Sul (Echoes of the South Atlantic) in 2018–2019 at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut, and has recently been dedicated to cultural management as Visual Arts Coordinator at the Cultural Foundation of the State of Bahia.
