Beto Shwafaty

Artist, curator, writer and researcher based in Brazil. He has been involved with collective, curatorial, and spatial practices since the early 2000s, developing a research-based practice on spaces, histories and visualities in which he connects - formally and conceptually - political, social and cultural issues that are converging to the art field. 

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Education

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2001 BFA Unicamp, Campinas
2010 MA Curatorial Studies and Visual Arts NABA, Milano
2011 Staedelschule visiting student (Simon Starling class), Frankfurt am Main
2012 PIESP, São Paulo

Solo Shows

2024 Uncertain Heritage, Capela do Morumbi, São Paulo
2020 Silent Catastrophe, Dresden Kunstverein, Germany (duo show)
2019 Beyond Archive, Care Of/Casa Blue Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy (duo show)
2019 Tomorrow I will Remember Nothing, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Functional Park, Contemporary Art Museum of Niteroi, Brasil
2017 Functional Park, Funarte, Brasília, Brasil
2016 Positions, Art Basel Miami, USA
2016 The Phantom Matrix (Old Structures, New Glories), Situ 4 / Leme Gallery, Brasil
2016 Hablemos de Reparaciones, Prometeogallery, Milan, Italy
2015 Contract of Risk, Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Foundations of the Design Substance: Cultural Metaphors to design a new future,
City Museum of São Paulo – Oca Ibirapuera, Brasil
2014 Remediations, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 El Museo Imposible de las Cosas Vivas, PArC Lima, Peru
2008 CCSP anual program of exhibitions, São Paulo, Brasil
2006 Crossed References, Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto, Brasil
2003 What occupies the Body, Atelie Aberto, Campinas, Brasil

Group Shows 

2025 Post-Colonia Festival at Ex-Torre Fiat, Marina di Massa, Italy

2024 Newspapers Etc., Superfície gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2023 Twopointzero, CasaNova Arte / C.A.M.A., São Paulo, Brasil
2023 From Ruins to Rebound, PINO/Casa Amelia, São Paulo, Brasil
2023 Here I am – Body, Landscape & Politics, National Museum of Republic, Brasília
2022 Parade 7 – Art in Resistance, Helio Oiticia Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2022 50th Luis Sacilloto art show, Santo André, Brasil
2021 Another Wolrd Now, Chan / Palazzo Ducalle, Genova
2018 Territorio Común: Nuevas incorporaciones en la Colección MAMM, Colômbia
2018 Live Works festival, Centrale Fies, Ro, Italy
2018 38th EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
2018 Action Reaction – Arte Contemporáneo Brasileño, Brazilian House, Madri, Spain
2017 We live in the best city in South America, Iberê Camargo Foundation, Brasil
2017 Memory and Moment, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Curitiba, Brasil
2017 35th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Condemned to Be Modern, LA/LA PST/Getty, LAMAG, Los Angeles, USA
2017 So different so attractive, Carbono gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 Intermitent Topographies, Casa Nova Arte, São Paulo, Brasil
2017 66th Annual Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Curitiba, Brasil
2017 Permission to speak, Athena Contemporânea gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2017 Intermitent Topographies, Hilo Galeria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 MAC International prize, Belfast, North Ireland
2016 By the love of the public, MAR, Rio de Janeiro
2016 Homo Ludens, Luisa Strina Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2016 Soft Power – Art Brasil, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2015 Mundo tal como es y el Mundo como podría ser, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 Colonial Enterpreise, Caixa Cultural, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 I was once lonelyness, Blain|Southern Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2015 International Photo Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brasil
2015 19th Sesc_Videobrasil, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 CFB: 25 years, Casa França-Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2015 Collection in Movement III, National Museum of Brasília, Brasil
2015 5th Sesi Marcantônio Vilaça Prize, MAC USP/Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brasil
2015 Crossings, Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014 Our Voice, Casa do Povo, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Situações Brasília, Museu Nacional de Brasília, Brasil
2014 Permanent Playfulness, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Taipa Tapume, Leme Gallery, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Art and Heritage, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2014 The Artist as…, Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, São Paulo, Brasil
2014 Authorship, Curatorship, Reform and Counter-Reform, Studio Razuk, São Paulo
2014 Advertisers, Latitude digital platform, revista Select / ABACT, Brasil
2013 Conversation Pieces, NBK, Berlim, Germany
2013 Love and Hate to Lygia Clark, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2013 33th Panorama of Brazilian Art, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
2013 9th Mercosul Biennial, Wheather Permiting, Porto Alegre, Brasil
2013 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennial, CCSP – Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brasil
2013 Mythologies by Proxy, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brasil
2012 Eternal Tour, Sesc Consolação, São Paulo, Brasil
2012 Counter Bartering, Belo Horizonte and Recife, Brasil
2011 Mythologies, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2011 Strategies for Public Occupation, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Nova York
2011 Open 3, Sale Docks, Venice
2011 Instant: Experience/Event, SESC Campinas, Brasil
2011 When in Rome, Malta Contemporary, Valleta, Malta
2010 Shadowed by The Future, Cervantes Institute, São Paulo, Brasil
2009 3rd Utrecht Manifest, Social Design Biennial, Netherlands
2009 Public Turbulence, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy
2009 Auf Wiesersehen Berlin! E-flux Building, Berlim, Germany
2009 Beauty, Bispo do Rosário Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2006 9th Havana Biennial, São Paulo territory: coletives of art, Havana, Cuba
2006 Rumos Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Florianópolis, Brasil
2006 Art Movement, Funarte, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
2004 9th Santos Bienal, Santos, Brasil

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