Brazil and South America: a platform for research, production, circulation and listening in South American contemporary art.
BraSA.Art is an independent platform founded and directed by Analize Nicolini since 2019. Its name brings together Brazil and South America, affirming South America as a specific critical field of artistic production, circulation, thought and listening within contemporary art.
The platform operates across curatorial research, artistic production, exhibitions, public programming, residencies, education, cultural mediation, international circulation and the development of structures for the dissemination of South American artists and practices. Its field of interest includes practices that move across image, word, body, territory, residue, ecology, technology, lenses, integrated digital media, systems of visibility and contemporary forms of public presence.
BraSA.Art positions itself in critical but non-exclusive dialogue with the traditional notion of “Latin American art.” Rather than rejecting this category, it questions its limits and proposes South America as a territory of situated formulation, shaped by specific histories, asymmetries of circulation, disputes of representation, environmental urgencies, regimes of value and singular ways of producing image, thought and world.
Since its foundation, BraSA.Art has operated as a working structure for curatorial projects, exhibitions, residencies, publications and public actions developed by Analize Nicolini between Brazil and Europe. Its projects and developments include Luzes do Leblon, the residency and exhibition at Galleria A plus A in Venice, the projects approved under Brazil’s Federal Cultural Incentive Law braZil: um Retrato de uma Nação and #CONTEÚDO+ / #CONTENT+ / #CONTENIDO+, the exhibition Daqui de Onde Estou in Venice, the exhibition AQUI ONDE ESTOU — resto, risco, ruína e rastro in Curitiba, and the ongoing artistic-curatorial occupation at SOMA – People & Culture.
At SOMA, BraSA.Art drives a continuous occupation activated by Analize Nicolini since June 2025, structured around three interlinked fronts: live studio, continuous exhibition programme and critical-affective agenda. In this context, creation, production, exhibition, dissemination and circulation cease to be separate stages and operate instead as a single field of work, encounter and institutional strengthening.
BraSA.Art exists as a platform of insistence, circulation and construction: a space for bringing together artists, works, publics, institutions and debates, opening routes for South American contemporary practices to be seen, discussed, sustained and placed in relation with other contexts.