SP-ARTE ROTAS 2026

This year, galleries from Uruguay (Sur), Argentina (Isla Flotante, Barro, and W), Colombia (Casa Zirio), and Italy (Orma) will participate.

Among the Brazilian participants are São Paulo galleries such as Almeida & Dale, Mitre, Luciana Brito, Gomide&Co, Vermelho, Marilia Razuk, Superfície, Luis Maluf, Galatea, and Martins&Montero, among others. Galleries from other regions of Brazil will also take part, including Flexa (Rio de Janeiro), Paulo Darzé (Salvador), Marco Zero (Recife), Cerrado (Goiás and Brasília), Leonardo Leal and Cave (Fortaleza), Lima (São Luís), and Bolsa de Arte (Porto Alegre). Notably, many Brazilian galleries will present works by Latin American artists from their programs.

The fair will continue to make room for special projects, including Sertão Negro, the artist studio and school founded by Dalton Paula in Goiânia, which also celebrates its fifth anniversary in 2026; Galeria Ocupá, an initiative dedicated to creating bridges between Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone and artists from the city’s peripheral territories; and Galeria Jaider Esbell de Arte Indígena Contemporânea, an independent collective space in Boa Vista, Roraima, focused on the work of Indigenous artists.

Another highlight of this edition is the participation of two studios working at the intersection of art and design: Lucas Recchia and Apartamento 61, alongside Passado Composto Século XX, which has participated since the fair’s inaugural edition.

Rotas is a vibrant marketplace where galleries are encouraged to conceive projects specifically for the occasion, creating dialogues between artists, introducing emerging names to wider audiences, and revisiting established masters through new perspectives. It is fundamentally a fair of discoveries: of young artists, lesser-known works by renowned figures, and new exhibition formats.

These encounters generate the dynamism that defines the event — a fair designed for those looking to think beyond established categories and expand their references and perspectives. It is within this environment that audiences renew themselves year after year: national and international collectors, curators, artists, gallerists, researchers, and art enthusiasts come together.

The 2026 artistic direction is led by Brazilian curator, writer, and researcher Bernardo Mosqueira. Based in New York, Mosqueira has been the founder and artistic director of Solar (formerly Solar dos Abacaxis) in Rio de Janeiro since 2015. He served as Chief Curator of the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) in New York from 2023 to 2025 and was previously part of the curatorial team at the New Museum between 2021 and 2023.

Internationally recognized, Mosqueira received the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Curatorial Work in 2025 and the Lorenzo Bonaldi per l’Arte Prize from GAMeC in Bergamo, Italy, in 2017. In 2023, Cultured magazine named him one of six “visionary curators” in its annual Young Curators list. He holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College (CCS Bard).

Mosqueira also curates the Mirante sector, located at the center of the fair, which brings together works distinguished by their scale, historical relevance, formal singularity, or conceptual strength. The curatorial framework begins with the idea of an expanded landscape — not merely as a genre of artistic representation, but as a field through which to think about the multiple relationships between human beings and their environments.

“The selection brings together both historical and contemporary experiments with landscape and works that reveal the enormous diversity of ways of thinking, knowing, feeling, imagining, living together, and conceiving the cosmos that is so characteristic of Latin America. In these works, landscape exceeds the limits of representation to become an expanded field of relationships, where memory, ecology, spirituality, politics, history, and imagination intertwine as complementary ways of understanding the world to which we belong,” says Mosqueira.

The fair will also host the SP-Arte Stage, featuring conversations between artists, curators, and specialists, prioritizing direct exchange with audiences.

SP-Arte’s master sponsors are Itaú, Vivo, and Iguatemi.