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To kick off the public program and mark the launch of the new Pivô Research 2025 cycle—also the year in which the institution begins celebrating its 15th anniversary—Pivô Copan hosts the talk Inhabiting the Cracks: Artistic Platforms at the Copan on Saturday, August 23, at 4 pm. The conversation brings togehter Fernanda Brenner, Pivô’s Artistic Director, in conversation with architect and curator Ligia Nobre and artist and gallerist Bruno Baptistelli..
The discussion will explore artistic programs that have occupied—and continue to occupy—the iconic Copan building. Drawing on Pivô’s decade-long presence in the building, the trajectory of the experimental platform exo.org between 2002 and 2007, and the work of GDA – Galeria de Artistas, founded by Bruno Baptistelli and focused on the formation, production, and circulation of contemporary artistic practices, the event will reflect on the role of these and other independent initiatives in the cultural and urban transformation of downtown São Paulo.
This year, Pivô Research welcomes eleven artists through partnerships with international institutions: Florencia Martinez Aysa (Uruguay), in collaboration with Fundación Ama Amoedo (Uruguay); Eunjin Yoo (South Korea), via Salta Art (Germany); Eva Ruof (Germany), through Pro Helvetia (Switzerland); Sina (Venezuela), by way of Hangar (Spain); and Milko Delgado (Panama), through MAC Panamá (Panama). They are joined by Florencia Sadir (Argentina) and Anna Moreno (Spain).
The program also continues its international residency grant in partnership with Villa Arson (France), supported by the French General Consulate in São Paulo. This initiative promotes a bilateral exchange: Bruno Moreno, a 2024 Pivô resident artist, will participate in Villa Arson’s program, while multidisciplinary artist Nikita Leroy will undertake a residency at Pivô, both in Salvador and São Paulo.
In addition, the recipients of the Pivô Research Residency Grant— Heloísa Franco, Amorí and Nãovenhasemrosto —join the group. They were nominated respectively by former program participants Ana Mazzei (2014), Luana Vitra (2021), and Davi Pontes (2020), reinforcing the intergenerational exchanges that shape Pivô’s history.
curator, architect, and researcher. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art History (PGEHA-USP), a master’s degree in Histories and Theories of Architecture from the AA School of Architecture (London), and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU Mackenzie (São Paulo). She has taught at FAAP, FAU-Mackenzie, Escola da Cidade, and ETH Zurich Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute (Basel), where she worked as an assistant professor & researcher with architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
Her trajectory and current research, Chão em Movimento (“Ground in Motion”), articulates diagrammatic practices and cosmograms across heterogeneous ways of life.
She works in curating and coordinating experimental platforms that converge visual arts, design, architecture, and cultural-environmental agency, such as: Campos de Invisibilidade (Sesc Belenzinho, 2018–19), Contracondutas – Political-Pedagogical Action (Escola da Cidade, 2016–18), 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale (IABsp, 2013), Spore Initiative (Berlin/Yucatán, 2021–22), among others.
She co-founded exo experimental org., a research platform on aesthetic-political practices, and the first artist residency program at the iconic Copan Building in São Paulo (2002–07). She is a member of O grupo inteiro (2014–) and serves on the Curatorial Council of the Instituto Sergio Rodrigues (2025–). She is currently on the international jury of the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2025).
Ligia is co-editor of several publications (including Contracondutas, 2017, Escola da Cidade; Campos de Invisibilidade, Sesc SP, 2018), and author of essays published in both academic and artistic journals and collections, nationally and internationally. Her essays appear in Critical Care (The MIT Press, 2019), Slow Spatial Reader – Radical Affections (Valiz, Amsterdam, 2021), Echoes of a Place (Buró-Buró, Mexico, 2020), Atlas do Chão: Constelação Independente (Rio Books, 2023), Lina Por Aldo (Cobogó, 2024), among others.
has developed his artistic practice since the late 2000s through a range of media, with a focus on site-specific and installation-based work, as well as objects, paintings, photographs, videos, and conceptual projects.
His main solo exhibitions include: 4.000 DC, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo (2023); Memento, 55SP, São Paulo (2022); Outro, GDA, São Paulo (2021); Blues – umtrabalhoumtexto, São Paulo (2019); For A While, Artkartell Projectspace, Budapest, Hungary (2017); and Narrativas Cotidianas, Galeria Fayga Ostrower, Funarte Brasília Cultural Complex, Brasília, DF (2015).
He has also taken part in group exhibitions internationally in cities such as Chicago (USA), Barcelona (Spain), London (UK), New York (USA), and Frankfurt (Germany), as well as in Brazilian cities including Brasília and São Paulo.
His work is included in important public and private collections of public interest, such as: Moraes-Barbosa Collection (cmb), São Paulo; Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz (IFF), Ribeirão Preto, SP; Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo; Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP); and the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo.
Lucas Girard is an architect and urban planner. He holds a master’s degree from FAUUSP, where he researched digital infrastructure, spatial organization, and social behavior, and was part of the Center for Studies in Society and Technology at Poli-USP, investigating the urban and environmental impacts of 5G antennas.
Founder of the architecture collective 23SUL — winner of the New Practices Award in 2010 — he has worked on projects across public and private sectors and coordinated the research group Future Urban Scenarios (RITE-FAUUSP). In 2012, he was an architect-in-residence at Pivô.
He is currently Head of Urban Innovation and Data Intelligence at Lellolab – Laboratory for Life in Common, where he studies the environmental impacts and life cycles of vertical housing developed by the real estate market. He also works as a lecturer, speaker, and consultant in urban innovation with a focus on environmental regeneration, having collaborated with institutions such as USP, Escola da Cidade, Sesc, Senac, and GIZ.