Museu Vale presents the exhibition “Quebra-mapa: Dimensões do Recomeço” (Map Breaker: Dimensions of a New Beginning)

Exhibition brings together seven artists from Espírito Santo, starting on July 15th, at Galeria OÁ

Museu Vale, in its off-site exhibition, opens the exhibition “Quebra-mapa: Dimensões do Recomeço” on July 15th at 7 pm, at Galeria OÁ, in Vitória, Espírito Santo. With free admission and no restrictions, the exhibition brings together seven artists from Espírito Santo in a reflection on territory, cartography, and belonging.

Curated by Isabella Baltazar, the exhibition features four artists selected through the Museu Vale 2025 Call for Programming, and three other invited artists, comprising a collection of works that challenge fixed boundaries and propose new ways of perceiving the world.

The public will find works that move between sculpture, photography, painting, and installation, addressing themes such as ancestry, memory, nature, rituals, and mythologies.

Each artist, in their own way, charts paths to imagine the world in a more open, less rigid way, closer to life as it is: full of detours, overlaps, and new beginnings. “With this exhibition, the Museu Vale and the Vale Cultural Institute reaffirm their commitment to valuing Espírito Santo’s artistic production, promoting the visibility of artists from Espírito Santo. The works propose symbolic and physical displacements, breaking with the idea of ​​territory as something static. Instead, they reveal space as a living construction, permeated by affections, stories, and transformations,” says Claudia Afonso, director of Museu Vale.

The Museu Vale’s Call for Proposals has already included over 60 artistic projects

Launched in 2021, the Museu Vale Programming Call seeks to foster the Espírito Santo art and cultural scene through a public call. More than 60 artists have already been selected through the call, spanning fields such as theater, dance, performance, visual arts, literature, popular culture, music, digital art, and art education projects.

The exhibition “Quebra-mapa: Dimensões do Recomeço” (Map Breaker: Dimensions of a New Beginning) was conceived based on the proposals selected by the specialized jury for the 2025 edition, comprised of Dani Nogueira, Natália Dornelas, and Thiago Arruda, cultural directors and producers. Of the 20 projects selected, four are from the visual arts field and are included in this exhibition, curated by Isabella Baltazar. The call has established itself as an important tool for strengthening diversity and the multiplicity of voices in Museu Vale’s programming.

The exhibition “Quebra-mapa: Dimensões do Recomeço” is an initiative of Museu Vale and Instituto Cultural Vale, sponsored by Vale, and produced by the Ministry of Culture, under the Cultural Incentive Law.

Museu Vale Extramuros: Exhibition at the Governor’s House Park

The Museu Vale, during its time outside the walls, expands its activities and brings diverse artistic expressions and educational programs to squares, parks, schools, and other cultural institutions, reaching new audiences and expanding into other municipalities in Greater Vitória. Currently on display is the exhibition “Who’s Afraid of Stick Insects?”, presented in partnership with the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center (CCVM), until August 17th at the Governor’s House Cultural Park. Visitors can see up close over one hundred sculptures by Hiorlando, a popular artist from Água Doce do Maranhão, who transforms wood into animals and animals into enchantments.

Through exchanges and knowledge sharing, the Museum’s work continues its legacy of preserving cultural memory, enabling and fostering research, education, communication, and training initiatives, always closely aligned with the productions of the state of Espírito Santo.

Highlights include the latest exhibitions developed by the Museu Vale, which attracted over 170,000 visitors: “Transiting Time,” “Browsing Through,” “The Extraordinary Universe of Leonardo Da Vinci,” “Memories of the Future – A Look at the IHGB Collection,” and the exhibition “Where Dreams Come From – The Andre and José Olympio Pereira Collection.”

Meet the participating artists:

Amanda Chabudé

Amanda Chabudé is a multidisciplinary artist and actress-performer from Espírito Santo, Brazil. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from UFES. Her research encompasses ceramics, the body, and performance, using clay as a language and artifact that investigates memory and presence, territory, and the symbols of the earth, activating experiments and manual processes in clay as an artistic laboratory. She has also worked as an educator in communities, using art as a social and reconnective tool. In theater, she has participated in award-winning works such as Corpus em Vidas, bringing her poetry to stages in Espírito Santo and other locations in Brazil. Her practice combines elements of spirituality, decoloniality, and material research, always anchored in the gesture and power of clay as a material for creation and transformation.

André Magnago

Born in Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 1985. He lives and works in downtown Vitória in his own studio. André Magnago is a visual artist, researcher, and professor. She holds a Master’s degree in Arts from UFES (2025), a specialist degree in Visual Arts from Instituto Fênix (2022), a bachelor’s degree in Pedagogical Training in Visual Arts from UNIASSELVI (2024), and a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from UFES (2013). She has experience in the arts, with an emphasis on printmaking. Her work focuses on the following topics: Drawing; Printmaking; Object; Landscape Intervention; Creative Process in the Arts; and Art History. Currently, her efforts focus on the technical, conceptual, and imaginative expansion of the medium of printmaking, creating visual configurations that sometimes blend printmaking with other languages: a transition between drawing, printmaking, object, sculpture, landscape intervention, performance, audiovisual, and photography.

Carla Osório

She is the daughter of Iemanjá. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication Sciences, specializing in media and culture, from Universidade Paulista (SP). She has extensive experience in ethno-racial studies, with numerous publications and a distinguished career in civil society organizations. As a photographer, she has worked for 35 years documenting the African diaspora in the Americas, as well as in countries such as Portugal, Angola, and South Africa. Through an Afrocentric perspective, she has created a vast archive of photographs, as well as audiovisual works. She is co-author of the book Negros do Espírito Santo.

Marta Monteiro

Marta Monteiro lives and works in Vitória, Espírito Santo. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering and studied painting at the School of Fine Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Her work explores the redefinition of disposable materials in the contemporary context, denouncing what remains in the world in excess. Her work reflects on the cycle of consumption and disposal that characterizes today’s society and proposes a break from this linear flow. In 2022, she completed an artistic residency at Kaaysá, São Paulo, and participated in the 18th UBATUBA Art Salon, São Paulo. In 2023, she held the solo exhibition “Rota do Chá” at the Cultural Center of the Federal University of São João del Rei (UFSJ) in São João del Rei, Minas Gerais. In 2024, she completed an artistic residency at Uncool Artist, in New York, United States. In 2025, she held the solo exhibition “Rotas Impermanentes” at Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, RJ. His works are in public and private collections in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Espírito Santo, and Brasília.

Romário Batista

Romário Batista is a multi-artist born in Itamaraju, Bahia, and residing in Vila Velha, Espírito Santo. His research focuses on contemporary folk art, focusing on legendary characters from Brazilian mythology, recovering affective memories and oral narratives that connect with the present. He uses reclaimed materials, such as pieces of eucalyptus, to create works that combine sustainability, fantasy, and social critique. With an aesthetic marked by improvisation and the influence of his childhood in the Bahian countryside, Romário has participated in exhibitions at venues such as the Cultural Center of the Chamber of Deputies (DF), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Mato Grosso do Sul, the Latin American Autumn Salon, and the Sertão Biennial. His work traverses the symbolic, the ancestral, and the contemporary, proposing visual and narrative new beginnings.

Rafael Segatto Barboza da Silva

Rafael Segatto Barboza da Silva (1992, Vitória, Brazil) is a visual artist who works with aquatic ecosystems. His practice engages with the sea and the lives shaped by the tides. His methods include swimming in open water, interacting with fishermen, and traveling through shipyards and coastal regions. In these places, he establishes relationships of interaction, collection, and enchantment of materials. He proposes mechanisms of mediation between different worlds and investigates systems of communication between past, present, and future. In his works, he addresses coastal cultural practices, interspecies coexistence, and archaeology as a speculative practice. He participated in the “Ocupação Milton Santos” (Milton Santos Occupation) (2025) at Galpão Bela Maré/RJ. He has held the solo exhibitions “Linha-Mar” (Sea Line) (2024) at Museu do Pescador; “Paciência de Pescador” (Fisherman’s Patience) (2021) at Mucane; and “Caminhos Possíveis” (Possible Paths) (2018) at Galeria Homero Massena. He participated in the group exhibitions “Sete Caminhos” (2022), MAES and “Gira” (2019), and Mucane, all in Vitória, Espírito Santo.

Thiago Balbino

Thiago Balbino is a visual artist and educator born in Conceição da Barra, Espírito Santo. He has worked in the visual arts for over 15 years, developing works in painting, installation, public art, and community practices. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) and a postgraduate degree from the Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft in Germany. His artistic research engages with collective memories, Afro-Brazilian cultures, quilombola territories, and everyday elements, valuing ancestral knowledge and repurposed materials.

Service – Exhibition “Quebra-mapa: Dimensões do Recomeço”

Date: July 16 to August 16

Hours: Monday to Friday from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM and Saturday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Group bookings: (27) 9 9252-7525 | educativo.mv@institutoculturalvale.org

Location: OÁ Galeria, Av. Cezar Hilal, 1180 – store 9 – Praia do Suá, Vitória, ES

More information: museuvale.org and @museuvale