FAAP in the MAM collection: the formation of the artist explores how both institutions radiate knowledge, foster ruptures, and accompany the movements of Brazilian art. At the same time, it reaffirms artistic education as a continuous journey, whether through formal teaching, such as undergraduate and postgraduate programs at FAAP, or through the cultural mediation processes developed by museum educational programs such as Educativo MAB and MAM Educativo, further expanded by artist residency initiatives in Brazil and abroad carried out by both institutions. More than understanding artistic formation as theoretical, technical, or language-based learning, the exhibition proposes it as a way of encouraging dialogue with the contemporary world and direct engagement with art.

The exhibition invites visitors to perceive the resonances and potentialities of the relationship between museum and school. In the Cultural Hall of MAB FAAP, inhabited by works from the MAM collection, it becomes possible to recognize, in each group of artworks, the dialogue between different generations that have passed through the Foundation’s courses and are present both in the history of contemporary art and in the Museum’s collection. Artistic education emerges here as a field of continuous invention in which thought and teaching constantly renew one another in an ongoing process of transformation.

The curatorial selection highlights artists who studied or taught at FAAP and whose presence in the MAM collection reveals the intertwining of trajectories. Each work testifies to how the Museum welcomed, recognized, and projected practices that, in many cases, first took shape in classrooms and studios. Organized into three sections—students, professors, and resident artists—the exhibition traces three decades of visual arts education through academic and institutional experiences, while also emphasizing the sensitive exchanges generated through residencies at Studio 1422, maintained by the Foundation since 1997 at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. By bringing together works and trajectories connected to both institutions, the exhibition underscores artistic formation as a continuous and relational process shaped by the circulation of knowledge, experiences, and histories between school and museum: education, production, and dissemination.