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Pivô is a non-profit art space providing a platform for exchange, critical thinking and artistic experimentation inside one of São Paulo’s most iconic modernist buildings, the Copan, projected by Oscar Niemeyer in the city’s central area. Since its inception, in 2012, the institution has enabled and facilitated projects by over two hundred artists and curators both local and international and in all career stages.

Its program is comprised by temporary exhibitions, new commissions, residencies, publications as well as discursive educational public programming, fostering a critical understanding of local and international most pressing issues in art and society. Our core mission is to create growing networks of exchange between artistic and cultural practitioners from different contexts and to provide an active meeting point for an emerging art scene in São Paulo.

Pivô’s activities are made possible through the generous support of a network of corporate and private sponsors and the remaining essential funding comes from grants, special editions developed by the artist in the program and its annual fundraising auction and benefit.

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

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Esteban Igartua + Genietta Varsi
Esteban Igartua (Lima, Peru, 1974) makes paintings and drawings depicting landscapes and scenes that highlight the organic aspect of human life. The boundary between the human being and the surrounding environment is blurred and, in some cases, indistinguishable. He studied painting at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru, then at the Slade School of Arts and Byam Shaw, London. In 2003 his work was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which took place in Manchester and London that year. His latest solo exhibitions include: 'Coliflor', Proyecto Amil, Lima (2018), 'Excursión', Garúa, Lima (2015) and 'Campo Ocupado', Revolver Galeria, Lima (2012). His work has been part of group exhibitions in Peru, the UK, Brazil, Spain, Albania, and Colombia. It has been referenced in publications such as "77 Contemporary Peruvian Artists" (2017), edited by Mario Testino Museum - MATE and New Contemporaries (2003). In 2019, Proyecto Amil published "Coliflor", bringing together the works that were part of the exhibition of the same name and texts by contemporary Peruvian writers. He currently lives and works in Bristol, UK.   Genietta Varsi (Lima, Peru, 1991) investigates from a sculptural point of view how matter (bodies) shape and transform the environment with their behavior and vice versa. Varsi works with multidisciplinary methodologies and tools combining art, medicine, biochemistry, ecology, mechanics, and anthropology to think and unthink the body in the everyday. The media she works with include sculpture, drawing, video, sound, actions, workshops, and printed publications. She is pursuing a Master's degree in Visual Culture, Contemporary Art and Curatorship at Aalto University, Finland. She studied sculpture at the PUCP in Peru. He has participated in the artistic residencies Uberbau_House and Residencia Artística FAAP in São Paulo, Brazil, in Molten Capital at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo-Quinta Normal in Santiago de Chile. She had received the Artus grant for Delfina Foundation in London, England. His latest solo exhibitions include: "Pumping Roots", Galeria 35m2, Prague "Pneumatic Driving" Ginsberg, Lima, 2021, “El dedo pulgar es el que ejecuta”, Ginsberg, Lima, 2018. Varsi has presented his projects in group exhibitions and film festivals in Europe and South America. Participating artists of Pivô Satellite #5