“Prêmio PIPA 2024: Aislan Pankararu, Aline Motta, enorê e Nara Guichon” and
“Instituto PIPA collection: 15 years…”
Opening: August 3rd, from 2 to 6 pm
From August 4 to October 20, 2024Paço Imperial
Praça Quinze de Novembro, 48 – Centro, Rio de Janeiro – RJ
From Tuesday to Sunday, from 12 to 6 pm
Free entrance
The PIPA Prize, which celebrates its 15th edition this year, is pleased to announce the Awarded Artists of 2024: Aislan Pankararu, Aline Motta, enorê, and Nara Guichon. Among the 62 participants this year, artists with up to 15 years of career, the four were chosen by the PIPA Board for their impactful works that represent the plurality of poetics and languages developed in Brazil. As part of the prize, each artist receives a grant of R$25,000 and showcases their works at the Terreiro room of Paço Imperial, in Rio de Janeiro, from August 4th to October 20th, 2024.
According to Luiz Camillo Osorio, curator of the PIPA Institute, “the four artists show an uncommon vitality in their works, incorporating heterogeneous temporalities into bold formalization processes. Whether through the revival of traditional craftsmanship or the use of cutting-edge technologies, these four poetics explore unconventional ways of perceiving the present. Above all, they experiment with new agencements between history and fabulation, craftsmanship and delirium, ancestry and science, art and ecology. It is by pushing the limits of languages that art explores the unknown, unleashing imagination to go beyond what we already know. Only in this way, in the midst of a civilizational crisis like the one we are living today, can we reconfigure aborted pasts and open up unexpected horizons of expectation for what is to come. This is the commitment of PIPA, as a window into what has been happening in the Brazilian scene over the past 15 years: to highlight the various “Brazils” that coexist, not necessarily in a pacified manner, within the same country.”
In addition to the works of the four Awarded Artists of 2024, the PIPA Institute presents the exhibition “Instituto PIPA collection: 15 years…” at the Terreirinho, a room located in front of the Terreiro, where the Institute’s collection is showcased. Osorio selected works donated and acquired by the Institute over the 15 years of its collection’s formation. The exhibition features around 10 works by Arjan Martins, Bárbara Wagner, Berna Reale, Cadu, Denilson Baniwa, Éder Oliveira, Paulo Nazareth, Renata Lucas, and Virginia de Medeiros, which help to tell the story of Brazilian contemporary art in recent years, with languages and themes that symbolize and represent the recent trajectory of art in the country. A documentation of Henrique Oliveira‘s site-specific commission at Villa Aymoré in 2018 will also be presented. The complete collection can be viewed on the website www.institutopipa.com.
Another initiative of the Institute included in the exhibition, in addition to the collection works, is the participation of Hanayrá Negreiros, a curator selected for the residency grant from The PIPA Foundation in London, in partnership with Chelsea College of Arts and the TrAIN research center at the University of the Arts London. The Institute will showcase a video in which the curator talks about the preparation process for the residency and her research themes. Throughout the exhibitions, panel discussions will be held with special guests. The dates and topics of the conversations will be announced during the exhibition period on the Prize’s website and social media platforms.