There’s no shortage of culture in São Paulo! The city always has something interesting on, so we’ve put together the exhibitions in SP that you can’t miss this month. Check out our guide!
Exhibitions in SP to see this month
Sesá Ixé: Looking at Me
This is the first solo exhibition by indigenous artist Auá Mendes. Comprising 9 works, the show explores Auá’s ancestral self-discovery. For her creations, the artist uses a range of materials such as posca pens, colored pencils, crayons, watercolor, acrylic and spray.
Until 04/12
🎟 Free of charge
📍Educational Action: Rua General Jardim, 660 – Vila Buarque
Belas Artes Creative Collectibles
40 projects of paintings, installations, performances and ceramics by students of the Visual Arts course at the Centro Universitário Belas Artes will be exhibited to the public in this show, which debates themes such as the feminine, social issues, politics, form and spirituality.
🗓 Until 05/12
🎟 Free of charge
📍Marta Traba Gallery – Memorial da América Latina
13th 3M Art Exhibition
With reflections on the climate emergency and our connection with nature and ancestry, this exhibition presents both sensory and contemplative works by various authors. In addition, artistic interventions will take place around the site where it is installed.
🗓 Until 08/12
🎟 Free of charge
📍Augusta Park
Other Symmetries
With recent works by artist Juliana Cerqueira Leite, this exhibition explores the human body with molds of the body of the Brazilian sculptor based in New York.
Until 21/12
🎟 Free of charge
📍Casa Triângulo
Anne Frank: let us be
The exhibition explores the life and legacy of Anne Frank, using her famous diary as a starting point to discuss the fight against racism and intolerance, from the Holocaust to the present day. In addition, the exhibition gains additional depth by including a faithful reproduction of the Secret Annex, with exclusive materials from the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, unseen in Brazil.
🗓️ Until 22/12
📌 Unibes Cultural
🎫 From R$ 7,50
Expo Arte SP
Held since 2018, Expo Arte SP is an exhibition that seeks to democratize art and expand artistic expression beyond traditional galleries and museums. Its next edition will be in December, where the public will be able to see works by 25 artists in a wide variety of artistic expressions, such as paintings, sculptures, photographs and books. The event is pet-friendly.
🗓️ 21 e 22/12
🎫 Free of charge
📌 Art Lab Gallery
Traveling with Counting Carpets
More than an exhibition, this interactive experience features a collection of rugs, puppets and panels that tell stories. Among them, visitors will find narratives by Brazilian authors such as Ana Maria Machado and Graciliano Ramos.
Until 22/12
🎟 Free of charge
📍Caixa Cultural
Bruce LaBruce uncensored
This exhibition is a tribute to the prestigious filmmaker Bruce LaBruce. His works are marked by the recording of sexuality, gender identity and queer culture. It is also divided into three parts that explore aspects of the artist.
Until 26/01
Free on Tuesdays
📍Museum of Image and Sound
Artists of Dress: A Sewing of Affections
With over 80 pieces by more than 70 artists, the exhibition explores the plural language of fashion. Divided into three thematic axes: Ancestry, Contemporaneity and Continuous Making, themes such as art, politics and identity are debated through the pieces.
Until 23/02/25
🎟 Free
📍Itaú Cultural
Marvel – The Power is Ours
Young black, indigenous and LGBTQIAP+ artists present their reinterpretations of black Marvel characters. Thus strengthening the power of representation in the arts. In addition, the exhibition also features an unreleased trap song with a music video recorded in Heliópolis called “Poder É Nosso“.
🗓 Until 28/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Largo Páteo do Colégio, 148 – Historic Center of São Paulo
We – Art and Science by Women
Highlighting the legacy of women in art and science, this exhibition honors the scientific, intellectual and artistic production of women throughout history. Marie Curie, Bertha Lutz and Sueli Carneiro are some of the many names honored in the show, which debates the oppression and visibility experienced by these figures over the centuries.
Until 30/03/25
🎟 Free
📍Sesc Interlagos
Slim Aarons: The First Exhibition in South America
Known for recording the lifestyle of high society, Slim Aarons presents his first solo exhibition in South America. This is a unique opportunity to see the artist’s collection.
Until 30/03/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Mario Cohen Gallery
Life Revealed
Exploring everyday life through intergenerational lenses, Japanese photographers Rinko Kawauchi and Tokuko Ushioda are showing an exhibition that has already been featured at the KYOTOGRAPHIE international photography festival and can now be visited in São Paulo.
🗓 Until 13/04/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Japan House São Paulo
Japanese Principles: Design and Resources
With 16 projects by 14 creators, this exhibition explores the sustainable use of resources using traditional Japanese techniques. The collection covers diverse areas such as architecture, design, crafts, textiles, sports items and musical instruments to showcase creative solutions.
Until 05/04/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Japan House São Paulo
Myself, Carnival
As a good reveler, Mário de Andrade was passionate about Carnival, but he also took advantage of the holiday to research the popular festival. This exhibition brings together original parade costumes, photos of the poet and much more.
🗓 Until 02/05/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Mário de Andrade House
Rino Levi, history and utopia – destruction, permanence, renewal
Rino Levi is the Brazilian architect honored in this exhibition. There, visitors will find photos, drawings and models of Levi’s modern projects. In addition, important moments in the architect’s life and career are highlighted in the “Acts and Facts” module.
Until 29/06/25
Free of charge
📍Chácara Lane: Rua da Consolação, 1024 – Consolação
North winds don’t move windmills
Inspired by the song “Sangue Latino” by the band Secos e Molhados, artist Georgia Kyriakakis explores the social and cultural heritage and aspects of Latin America.
Until 17/01/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Raquel Arnaud Gallery
Mira Schendel – Waiting for the letter to form
Featuring more than 25 works by one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century, this exhibition showcases the works of Mira Schendel and her relationship with the letter, the sign and the word in her paintings.
Until 02/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Tomie Ohtake Institute
Carlito Carvalhosa – Half of the double
With around 150 pieces spanning 40 years of artist Carlito Carvalhosa’s career, ‘A metade do dobro’ is a retrospective communicated through paintings, sculptures and installations. What’s more, it takes place in parallel with Sesc Pompeia, so it’s a double tour option.
Until 02/02/25
🎟 Free
📍Tomie Ohtake Institute
Water (green)
Spanish artist Antonio Ballester Moreno celebrates his first solo exhibition in Brazil with his paintings that portray resistance to contemporary individualism. Água (verde) also seeks a reconnection with nature and the origin of life.
Until 01/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Gomide&Co: Avenida Paulista, 2644 – Jardim Paulista
São Paulo 3024 – Immersive Digital Art
Have you ever thought about traveling to the future? This exhibition recreates the São Paulo of 1000 years ahead through a sensory journey where you can access different versions of humanity’s next steps. Thus, visitors are invited to reflect on how the impact of now acts on the next millennium.
🗓 Until 02/02/25
🎟 From R$20
📍Santander Lighthouse
A Defect of Color
Ancestry, slavery, resistance and the African diaspora are the themes addressed in this exhibition inspired by the renowned work of Ana Maria Gonçalves. With projects by more than 130 artists, ‘Um Defeito de Cor’ talks directly to the important themes of the proposed book.
Until 26/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Sesc Pinheiros
Broadening Horizons
The exhibition brings together more than 60 works by the winners of the 4th Art and Literature 60+ Award. With a generational cross-section of senior artists, the exhibition aims to break down stereotypes. There, you’ll find painting, engraving, photography, drawing, sculpture, poetry, philosophical essays and much more.
🗓 Until 02/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍USP’s MariAntonia Center
Pre-Columbian America: body and territory
The new exhibition at Casa Ema Klabin displays more than 90 archaeological pieces. The items were found in territories where ancient civilizations lived, such as Peru, Ecuador, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil and Venezuela. In addition, they date from between 1800 BC and 1750 AD.
🗓 Until 23/02/25
🎟 Free of charge
📍Ema Klabin House Museum
The Cinema of Billy Wilder
Occupying three floors of the MIS, this exhibition is an ode to the iconic Billy Wilder, one of the most important filmmakers of the 20th century. His filmography is recorded in various media, such as original costumes, recreated sets, exclusive scenes and even objects from the scene!
🗓️ Until 26/01/25
📌 MIS Jardim Europa
🎫 From R$ 10
38th Panorama of Brazilian Art
With 34 artists from 16 Brazilian states, this exhibition showcases national productions. There are more than 130 works, 79 of them new, to appreciate and understand the Brazilian art scene. The event takes place every two years and is a unique opportunity to celebrate our artists.
🗓️ Until 26/01/25
📌 MAC USP
🎫 Free of charge
Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum – 30 years
This classic of São Paulo exhibitions returns to the stage in October. Once again, television’s most beloved castle is the subject of a super immersive experience, where you enter the set of the children’s program that marked generations.
🗓️ Until 31/01/25
📌 Solar Fábio Prado
🎫 From R$20
African languages that make Brazil
Did you know that the words “moleque”, “cachimbo” and “quitanda” come from the Quimbundo language? Check out these and other influences of the African presence in Brazilian daily life in this new exhibition, which has just opened in São Paulo.
🗓️ Until 30/01/25
📌 Museum of the Portuguese Language
🎫 From R$ 12
Extasia
Through playful photographs, artist Flávia Junqueira reveals a universe full of ecstasy and fantasy. The dreamlike productions are inspired by themes such as childhood and memory.
🗓️ Until 26/01/25
📌 Fiesp Cultural Center
🎫 Free of charge
Singular Plural: Rubem Valentim
Part of the “Singular Plural” program , which seeks to make the museum more accessible, the exhibition includes photographs, serigraphs and sculptures adapted for people with visual disabilities, as well as tactile maps, a tactile portrait of the artist and interactive games, providing a rich and sensory experience for all visitors.
🗓️ Until January
📌 Emanoel Araujo Afro Brasil Museum
🎫 From R$7.50
Permanent exhibition of the Bardi couple
Also among the exhibitions on show in São Paulo, the Bardi Institute’s new permanent exhibition is now available, focusing on popular art and textiles by Lina Bo and P.M. Bardi.
The exhibition brings together household objects such as tools, dolls and ceramics that reflect the couple’s taste for human making, especially that of the Brazilian people.
🗓️ Various dates
📌 Glass House
🎫 From R$ 29
Get moving! Climate and displacement
With the tragedy in Rio Grande do Sul, the whole country is mobilizing to help the victims. But it’s also important to reflect on what the reorganization of spaces and social displacement will look like from now on.
The exhibition ‘Move! Climate and displacement’ invites the public to reflect on these movements, raising awareness of how environmental disasters and other climate changes affect migration processes.
🗓️ Until 25/01/25
📌 Immigration Museum
🎫 From R$8 (free on Saturdays)
Energy and Transformation
From the days of the gas lamp to today’s technological resources, there have been more than 150 years of energy in the capital and state of São Paulo. This is the panorama of this exhibition at the São Paulo Energy Museum.
The exhibition connects past, present and future, telling the history and evolution of energy, as well as displaying objects from the collection, interactive resources and Instagrammable spaces.
🗓️ Various dates
📌 São Paulo Energy Museum
🎫 Free
BO(u)SQUE IPT: Digital Technologies – 50 years
Created by artist Rejane Cantoni, the exhibition includes interactive installations that invite the public to explore and reflect on the relationship between humanity and nature. In addition to the installations, the Fiesp Cultural Center’s LED panel will also transform the Avenida Paulista façade into a beautiful forest, which adapts to the weather conditions in real time to create images. The initiative uses digital technologies to promote an accessible and engaging dialog between visitors and the environment, offering a rich sensory experience.
🗓️ From 05/12 to 02/02/25
📌 Fiesp Cultural Center
🎫 Free
Gurum Gudum – Between Fairies and Naughty Pillows
The exhibition “Gurum Gudum – Entre Fadas e Travesseiros” is part of the celebration of Arnaldo Baptista’s 76th birthday, featuring 76 of his works. They include acrylic and mixed media paintings on cardboard, begun during the pandemic, which reflect Arnaldo’s relationship with the universe of play. The exhibition will also include five canvases and explores Arnaldo’s “Exorealism”, which transforms ordinary realities into fantastic experiences.
🗓️ From 12/12 to 14/03/25
📌 CaSa SLAMB
Two Wheels and One Nation
The unprecedented exhibition “Duas Rodas e Uma Nação” explores Brazil’s passion for motorcycles and bicycles. The show covers more than 120 years of history, from the emergence of the motorcycle to the present day. With a selection of the most important motorcycle collections in the country, the exhibition brings together family collections and historical relics.
🗓️ From 05/12 to 02/02/25
📌 Farol Santander SP
🎫 From R$ 22,50
Flávio Cerqueira – a sculptor of meanings
The exhibition “Flávio Cerqueira – a sculptor of meanings” celebrates the 15-year career of the renowned sculptor from São Paulo. Curated by Lilia Schwarcz, the show brings together around 40 works that explore issues of class, identity, race and gender, using figurative bronze sculptures to tell immersive and meaningful stories.
🗓️ From 07/12 to 17/02/25
📌 CCBB-SP
🎫 Free of charge
