Five essays on MASP – Histories of MASP Exposition collective

MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand revisits more than seven decades of its history with the exhibition Five essays on MASP – Histories of MASP, on view from March 28 to August 3. At a time of expansion marked by the inauguration of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, the exhibition, located on the sixth floor, reflects on the history of the museum and its importance in establishing a modern museum project in São Paulo in the second half of the 20th century.   

In a timeline format, the exhibition brings together 74 works from the MASP collection with rarely exhibited documentation from the Museum’s Research Center, including photographs, documents, posters, books, catalogues, newspapers and magazines. This selection presents the memory of the institution in a didactic and panoramic way, covering topics such as the creation of the museum, the formation of its collection, its first headquarters on 7 de abril street, the move to Avenida Paulista, as well as exhibitions and events that have made history in recent decades. The exhibition is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Artistic Director, MASP; Regina Teixeira de Barros, Curator and Collection Coordinator, MASP; Guilherme Giufrida, Assistant Curator, MASP; and Laura Cosendey, Assistant Curator, MASP.