The Vale Cultural Institute, through the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center, is pleased to celebrate the great singer Alcione, bringing to you, as a visitor, the exhibition With Love, Alcione, about the artist's life and work. You can immerse yourself in the universe of Alcione, who has been dedicated to Brazilian popular song for five decades.

The Ministry of Culture and Vale present Occupy CCVM – Amazônia em Foco 2024 . The exhibition brings together the visual arts works approved in the eponymous public notice, dedicated to artists from the Legal Amazon.

The Origins of the World exhibition program presents, at each edition, aspects of culture of the original Brazilian peoples and communities, based on the understanding that culture, in its broad aspect of the meaning of humanity, is generated from established relationships between subjects, their territory, and the balance between everyday life and what run away from him.

Ministry of Culture, Vale and Vale Maranhão Cultural Center present Occupy CCVM - Sintétika.
The exhibition is the result of the public notice Occupy CCVM — Amazônia em Foco, and brings together the works of Maranhão artists Tairo Lisboa, Letícia Martins, Lucas Ferreira and Márcio Vasconcelos; Evna Moura and Alberto Bitar from Pará; Gabriel Bicho from Rondonia; and Alessandro Fracta and Coletivo Picolé de Massa from Pará. With installations and images that connect to create a portrait of the Amazonian individual in relation to their environment, Sintétika is the meeting of different perspectives on life in the midst of the largest tropical forest on the planet.

The Ministry of Culture, Vale and Vale Maranhão Cultural Center present the exhibition Maranhão : Indigenous Land. The exhibition provides an overview of the indigenous peoples of Maranhão through their traditional material cultures, worldviews, territories, and languages. Rituals, myths and oral heritages related to the production on display are discussed, as well as aspects of the daily life of the indigenous peoples Awa Guajá, Canela Rankokamekra, Canela Apanyekra, Gaviao Kykatejê, Gavião Pykopjê, Ka’apor, Guajajara Tenentehar, Krikati, Tembé, Krepun Katejê, Akroá ...

The Ministry of Culture and Vale present Urban Cartographies of Maranhão, a timeline shown on maps of Maranhão in different periods, from the 15th to the 20th century.

Ministry of Culture, Vale and Vale Maranhão Cultural Center present “Beyond the Shores”.
First shown at ExpoDubai 2020, the exhibition brings together works by photographers Pierre Verger, Walter Firmo, Marcel Gautherot, Elza Lima, Maureen Bisilliat, Ronney Alano and Christian Knepper, from personal collections from the Moreira Sales Institute and the Pierre Verger Foundation, and three videos by artist Cao Guimarães from Minas Gerais.
The photographs portray the popular daily life of Brazilian communities in relation to the landscape in which they live, and highlight popular work as the source of the origin of culture. It is curated by Gabriel Gutierrez.

The Ministry of Culture, Vale and Vale Maranhão Cultural Center invite the opening of the exhibition Renounce/Mobi on February 14th at 19:00.

The unprecedented exhibition presents an overview of the work of the photographer Mobi from Maranhão. There are 300 photographs that document the city of São Luís from the 60s to the 2000s, based on three narrative lines: the official city, the marginal city, and the popular agents that inhabit and transform urban spaces. The exhibition also includes an unpublished documentary directed by filmmaker Beto Matuck. It is curated by Gabriel Gutierrez.
Resign/Mobi will run until June 3, 2023.

From August 16, 2022 to February 18, 2023, the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center exhibited Zimar.

The exhibition presented to the public the works of the artisan from the city of Matinha, who uses everyday objects to make cazumba faces, enchanting by his creativity and imagination. There were 65 grimaces made of helmets, PVC pipes, motorcycle fenders, aluminum pans and other various materials.

The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center presents ELKE. The exhibition tells the story of the artist who enchanted and impacted Brazil for her intelligence, irreverence, and attitude. They are photos, clothing, wigs, rings and pieces from Elke Maravilha's private collection, which allow the public to know the thinking and ethics built by her.

From December 7, 2021 to March 31, 2022, the exhibition Quilombola Portraits was on display at the CCVM, with works by photographers Val Barros and Valdira Barros, who portrayed the daily lives of four quilombola communities in Maranhão.

Autumn Fresco is a work of encounter of artistic languages: poetry, painting, music and dance, involved in a narrative of transitions of nature and a man’s life. An aesthetic experience of the changing seasons of the year, which makes the viewer reflect on the cycle of life, nature and himself. Just like in nature, in each season of life we find pain and joy, beauty and fears until we finally reach acceptance. It is the life work of the poet ...

Maranhão by Pierre Verger was on display at the CCVM from March 16, 2021 to March 19, 2022. Initially exhibited virtually, its doors were opened to the public with the reopening of the CCVM in October 2021. Curated by historian Paula Porta, the exhibition brought the eyes of the French photographer, ethnologist, anthropologist and researcher Pierre Edouard Léopold Verger (1902 – 1996) on 80 photographs taken during the trip to Maranhão. In line with her numerous works, the images displayed ...

In its first national edition, Ocupa CCVM brought Desmanche to the public, a collective exhibition that brought together 33 works by 11 Brazilian artists. Curated by Gabriel Gutierrez, the exhibition located the place of breach and artistic work as horizons for the reinvention of the realities established in times of crisis. Based on the concept of dismantling, the exhibition invited reflection on the current context of life, proposing questions that consider the state of movement as a determinant for the ...

The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center presented the exhibition Enchanted Toys: Maranhão Celebrations, an ode to the celebrations of Maranhão through the lens of photographer Albani Ramos over two decades of records, which reveal the diversity and taste for celebrating.

Choque, Landruá, Sucubé, Munzuá… Fishing design in Maranhão was the exhibition that brought together 120 pieces created by 80 artisans from 41 municipalities in Maranhão. They are nets, traps, nurseries, storage and transportation items, as well as oars and net weaving needles, with names that vary from region to region and functionalities appropriate to the type and depth of the waters for which they were created. The exhibition pointed to the abundance of fresh and salty waters of Maranhão as ...

Infinitos brought together 5 works – Wall, Water, Suspended Garden, Auto-Iris and Tube – by the duo of creators Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti ( in memorian ), with the participation of Raquel Kogan, who dialogued with the CCVM spaces providing visitors with new possibilities of interpretation and interaction with each new visit.

The exhibition originated from the second edition of the OCUPA CCVM notice, held in 2018, brought to the CCVM the work of the artists Walter Sá, with the work #Caz (1) bunch ; Romana Maria with Fossil Gestures ; and Sunshine Santos, with Nega yes, yours no .

The exhibition African: The Dialogue of Forms brought to the CCVM the Eduardo Couto Collection, which brought together 199 works of African art – including masks, figurines and sculptures – from 60 peoples of the continent.

The exhibition brought together a rare set of pieces created by black artists and artisans in the 18th and 19th centuries, most from Minas Gerais and some from the Northeast region.

Brazil that deserves Brazil was on display at the CCVM inaugurating the year Pure Beauty, dedicated to celebrating the greatness of blacks in Brazilian culture. The 170 photographs presented bear the refined and delicate gaze of Walter Firmo, one of the greatest photographers in Brazil, recognized nationally and internationally. His work was taken to many countries, showing an extraordinary Brazil. His photographic career began in photojournalism, when he joined the newspaper Última Hora as a boy. Then came Jornal do ...

Afetos brought to the CCVM the eyes of photographer Edgar Rocha regarding the culture of Maranhão. Boats, religious demonstrations, and popular games composed Edgar’s Maranhão in the show that ran from December 2017 to March 2018.

The Vale Maranhão Cultural Center presented Hiorlando, an exhibition by the Maranhão freshwater artist from Maranhão discovered by Mapearte – Mapping and Documentation of Maranhão Handicrafts. With his unique features, Hiorlando presented friends with his pieces and was successful in the region. In all, 80 works composed the exhibition, including animals from the land, the sea and the artist’s imagination.

The first exhibition originated from the Ocupa CCVM notice brought to our space works by the artists Wilka Sales - Corpocriação; João Ewerton - Vazante; Ribaxé - Neopalafitas; Vicente Martins - In passing; and A Dive into the Dream Universe of Coteatro, from Cia. Theater Workshop.

The exhibition Ancer exhibited at the Vale Maranhão Cultural Center works by the Maranhão artist Claudio Costa divided into three nuclei - Bestiário, Arcabouço and Nódoa.
Using predominantly the dyeing technique, Claudio gathered materials and prints in the cities where he visited, on a long journey through the north of Maranhão.