CAROS AMIGOS / Ato I: Mi casa es mi casa

3 July - 9 August 2025 CAROS AMIGOS Act I: Mi casa es mi casa This exhibition marks the beginning of CAROS AMIGOS (Dear Friends), a collaborative project between Athena and Galeria Verve (São Paulo), conceived as a gesture of rapprochement among artists, curators, and exhibition spaces. The proposal unfolds in two stages and two distinct... Read more

Angelo de Aquino: Não é verdade que eu não exista

3 July - 9 August 2025 It’s not True that I don’t Exist For a young artist emerging in Brazil during the 1960s, there are many ways of dealing with this time period - be it from art or history's point of view. An aesthetic effervescence had already been happening since the previous decade through the... Read more

Desali & Renata Leoa: Começar pelas pedras

1 April - 1 June 2025 To start with stones This stone slab stretches wide in tiny pebbles [1] Various cultures tend to celebrate the beginning of construction work by “opening the earth” through a ceremony that consists of digging a small hole in the ground and placing down the cornerstone, or the block upon which... Read more

Tempo Composto

22 March - 24 May 2025 The perfect tense there are rare and brief states of dreaming in which we seem to relive something we have already been through in the past Ivan Goncharov seeing things that I know can't be, am I dreaming? Baby I swear it’s déjà-vu Beyoncé & JAY Z When two verbs... Read more

Gustavo Prado: Intermédio

23 January - 16 March 2025 Eu não sou eu nem sou o outro, Sou qualquer coisa de intermédio: Pilar da ponte de tédio Que vai de mim para o Outro. — Mário de Sá-Carneiro Lisboa, fevereiro de 1914 Ao caminhar pela Rua Doutor Melo Alves, somos imersos na dinâmica cotidiana da cidade: passos apressados, veículos... Read more

Eduardo Baltazar: noitinha

7 November 2024 - 15 February 2025 Fiz que vim, mas ainda virei, na grota do mato, para saber. Nosso pai entrou na canoa e desamarrou, pelo remar. E a canoa saiu se indo — a sombra dela por igual, feito um jacaré, comprida longa. Guimarães Rosa A palavra “noitinha” carrega um sentido, de certa forma, intervalar.... Read more

Rafael Alonso: Marionete de restos

7 November 2024 - 15 February 2025 Once upon a time… — A king! — my little readers will soon say. No, children, you are wrong. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. Carlo Collodi — The Adventures of Pinocchio 1. From when supposedly inanimate objects revealed their sentimentality In fact, he immediately grabbed... Read more