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Pivô is an autonomous contemporary art platform founded in 2012, dedicated to artistic exchange, research, and experimentation. At its core, the institution seeks to reflect on artistic practice and advance its understanding as a distinct form of thought and active participation in visual culture, society, and politics—operating as a space for proposing, investigating, exploring, and experimenting. This purpose unfolds through an ongoing program that includes commissioned projects, exhibitions, artist residencies, publications, and public programs, creating conditions for the creation and circulation of ideas in direct collaboration with artists, curators, and publics, both nationally and internationally.

Pivô Copan, the institution’s first venue, is housed within the iconic Copan building in downtown São Paulo, where it has consolidated this experimental and collaborative approach. In 2023, Pivô inaugurated its second venue in Salvador: Pivô Boulevard, situated in the historic Suíço Boulevard mansion, a former gathering place for movements such as Tropicália and Cinema Novo. This multidisciplinary platform reinforces the institution’s commitment to decentralization and the development of cultural networks in dialogue with diverse contexts.

The expansion in Salvador will continue with the opening of Pivô Coaty on Ladeira da Misericórdia, occupying buildings designed by Lina Bo Bardi and João Filgueiras Lima. Across all three venues, Pivô shares a desire to occupy and reclaim historically significant locations, transforming them into vibrant cultural centers that foster artistic dialogue and community engagement. This new chapter reaffirms the commitment to circulating situated knowledge and building diverse cultural ecosystems.

Today, Pivô operates as a network, privileging movement over stability through dynamics of exchange that value differences and specificities. More than physical spaces, it constitutes a dynamic field of artistic dialogue and ongoing investigation that has already welcomed hundreds of artists at different moments in their trajectories.

Pivô SP

Edifício Copan, loja 54
Avenida Ipiranga, 200
01046-925
São Paulo, Brasil

+55 (11) 3255-8703
contato@pivo.org.br

Pivô Salvador

Rua Boulevard Suíço, 11A
40301-110
Nazaré, Salvador
Bahia, Brasil

+55 (71) 4101-0540
+55 (71) 9402-0025
pivosalvador@pivo.org.br

arquivo mangue

2019, lives and works at Between Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo, SP

arquivo mangue is a duo of expanded visual arts formed by Camila Mota and Cafira Zoé. Nominated for the 2024 Pipa Prize, their practice engages with living archives, multispecies cartographies, cosmopolitical imagination, speculative f(r)iction, oavnis – unidentified audiovisual objects, makumbas graphykas, transformation objects, sculpture-beings, precarious supports, and ruins. Their research explores counter-colonial practices, ritual theatricalities, and human and non-human choral movements from a non-binary perspective, focusing on urban biomes, territories of reexistence, and gender and sexuality dissidences. They take the crossroads as a method, working with time and its enchanted materialities. The duo also investigates the sinister correspondences between the predatory practices of mining and urban real estate speculation. Site-specific creation, experimentation, and the work of connection between beings, peoples, cosmologies, ideas, and circuits are hallmarks of their practice. They have been actively engaged for nearly a decade in the public and collective struggle for the reopening and regeneration of the Bixiga River and the creation of a green area around the Teat(r)o Oficina in São Paulo.