Art in SP: discover the coolest art galleries in the city

When it comes to art galleries in the capital of São Paulo , the list of places to visit is extensive. In fact, a recent survey conducted by the English magazine Time Out classified São Paulo as one of the 15 largest cultural and artistic hubs in the world .

If you want to discover this immense art collection in the largest city in Latin America , but don't know where to start, check out the itinerary below of the 7 galleries that we consider essential to start this tour!

1. Verve Gallery

In a historic building in the heart of São Paulo, you'll find Verve Galeria! The Louvre Building , in the city center, is home to this artistic space that seeks to connect art, the public and the city . With works that range from painting, performance, drawing, photography, sculpture and engraving, Verve is the right place to access different ways of experimenting with contemporary art.

Directed by artist Allann Seabra and architect Ian Duarte, Verve was founded in 2013 and, since then, has been using art to create a dialogue with the built heritage of the city of São Paulo. Currently on display is the exhibition Natureza de Reposição , by Daniel Acosta, a collection of three works that reflect the relationship between the artist's poetics and the ways in which nature is represented. The exhibition will be on display until May 18.

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Address : 192 SL 06; Republic, Sao Paulo- SP

Opening hours: 11am to 6pm Tuesday to Friday, 12pm to 5pm Saturday

2. Luis Maluf Gallery and Plant

In its two spaces, the Galeria , located in Jardins, and the Usina, in Barra Funda, the Luis Maluf Art Gallery exudes creativity and is based on the appreciation of the plurality of world views and the promotion of Brazilian culture . The space features national and international artists, who move between different languages and present works with different techniques, situated between the abstract and the figurative.

The space has already presented projects such as Artistic Residency, DriveThru Art and workshops in partnership with Fundação Casa. So, if you want to get to know an engaged gallery that encourages debates and reflections on current cultural and artistic production, Luis Maluf is exactly that place . The Gallery will host a group exhibition until April 27th , bringing together the distinct artistic approaches of Isis Gasparini, Luciana Rique and Shizue Sakamoto. At the Usina, Janet Vollebregt will be on display until May 18th, with the exhibition "Na Simples e Suave Coisa / Suave, Coisa Nenhum" , which highlights the fusion between art and architecture , inspired by ancestral practices such as Jin Shin Jyutsu.

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Address : Peixoto Gomide Street, 1887, Jardins (Gallery) and Brigadeiro Galvão Street, 996, Barra Funda (Power Plant)

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm Saturday

3. Luciana Brito Gallery

Since 1997, Luciana Brito Galeria has been a reference in the dissemination of Brazilian art and in the exchange of ideas with international artists . Rochelle Costi, Geraldo de Barros, Waldemar Cordeiro, Lygia Clark and Marina Abramovic are some of the names that have crossed the gallery's path. Combining modernist architectural heritage, urbanism and contemporary visual production, the space has established itself as one of the protagonists of the Brazilian art market.

Recently, the space began to represent the estates of Gaspar Gasparian, Thomaz Farkas and Fernando Zarif and seeks to promote the newest generations of contemporary artists, such as Héctor Zamora, Tobias Putrih, Paula Garcia, Rafael Carneiro and Pablo Lobato. The current exhibition is "Where is the opening act?" , on display until May 4th, with works by Gabriela Machado and curated by Oswaldo Corrêa da Costa, a provocative show that presents unexpected combinations of paintings and sculptures.

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Address: 5162 - Jardim Europa, Sao Paulo - SP

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm Saturday

4. Martins&Montero

If you want to delve into art from a historical perspective, visit Martins&Montero ! Since its opening in 2011, the space has been investigating artistic productions made during the dictatorship period in Brazil, promoting a historical review of processes developed with strong intellectual resistance, neglected over the last decades. Thus, the gallery has established itself as a true center of research, history and documentation that stimulates dialogue between different generations and distinct cultural perspectives.

Martins&Montero also has a headquarters in Brussels, where it exhibited three shows in 2024, and is currently showing in São Paulo with the exhibition " Jota Mombaça: SABERÁ/ AS FILHAS DO MENOR CHUVISCO", until May 11. The gallery is confirmed at CASACOR SP 2024 , with the signature of architect Juliana Cascaes.

Address : Jamaica Street, 50 - Jardim America, Sao Paulo-SP

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm Saturday

5. Millan

A rich meeting point for artists who reflect Brazilian roots and elements of national culture : this is how we could describe Millan, but it would still not be enough to define the gallery's extraordinary collection , which has been growing since its founding in 1986. The works include themes of regionality, territory, gender, ancestry and other social aspects at a refined and contemporary artistic level.

Until 04/05 you can check out the exhibition Mão Invisível , by Vivian Caccuri, a set of works on paper, at the gallery that explores sound waves , delves into colonial history and reflects on the destruction of cultures.

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Address : 1430, Pinheiros, Sao Paulo, SP

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 3pm Saturday

6. Triangle House

A free and experimental space for contemporary art that is very popular in SP: Casa Triângulo, founded in 1988 by architect Ricardo Trevisan, has to be on your gallery route in the city. The gallery's program is renowned for presenting anthological exhibitions of its renowned artists and also reveals several young artists. The environment, composed of contemporary designs and materials, is entirely designed to reaffirm the artistic personality of the place and establish harmony between structure and content, architecture and art. Until May 11, you can see "Until 2029" at Casa Triângulo , Dan Lie's third solo exhibition at the gallery. The show features works by the artist with deadlines in 2024, 2028 and 2029. Those with deadlines in 2029 are being shown here for the first time and were created from the remains of the installation Outres , which was presented at the 35th edition of the São Paulo Biennial in 2023. After the completion of that installation, only records that witnessed it remained — photographs, videos and the pieces of fabric that were suspended around the work, which served as raw material for the creation of these new sculptures.

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Address : United States Street, 1324 - Jardins, São Paulo- SP

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 5pm Saturday

7. Simões de Assis Gallery

Dedicated to modern and contemporary art, the Simões de Assis Gallery is another space full of relevance for Latin American artistic production. Starting with its purpose in the context of its foundation: in 1984, Waldir Simões de Assis Filho founded the gallery in Curitiba with the aim of decentralizing the production and circulation of art. The gallery later expanded to SP and Balneário Camboriú. The three spaces are filled with works that bring great beauty to the eyes and reveal artists who exude creativity and inventiveness . The Gallery has two exhibitions open for visitors in SP until 04/05: Jean-Michel Othoniel: Under another sun, the French artist's first solo exhibition in Brazil, and Juan Parada: Between loose gestures and telesselections , with the Curitiba native's iconic art paintings.

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Address : Alameda Lorena, 2050A, Jardins, Sao Paulo- SP

Opening hours: 10am to 7pm Tuesday to Friday, 10am to 3pm Saturday