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LOCALBarranco’s work is an integral part of Anápolis’s cultural landscape, which has historically been linked to the region comprising Brasília and Goiânia; over the past 15 years, the city has established itself as an important hub for sustaining the visual arts scene in west-central Brazil, where a series of initiatives has promoted the professionalization, production, circulation, and exchange of artists from the region with the rest of the country.

In this context, it is worth noting the revival of the Salon of Art of Anápolis since 2010 by the Antônio Sibasolly Gallery—an event created in 1979 and suspended in the early 1990s—which has facilitated the creation of a public collection of contemporary art focused on artists from west-central Brazil, while simultaneously fostering dialogue between the local/regional context and artists, curators, and critics from other regions of the country. At the same time, it has turned the city into a hub for exchange between artists from Goiânia and Brasília through the vernissages, talks, and workshops featured in its program.
Antônio Sibasolly Gallery. Anápolis.

Furthermore, the collaboration between the city’s public institutions—such as the Antônio Sibasolly Gallery and the Anápolis Museum of Fine Arts (MAPA)—combined with curator Paulo Henrique Silva’s efforts in the region, has led to the promotion of local artists across the country through exhibitions focused on art from the Central-West region. Among these were the two editions of the Dialetos exhibition (2012 and 2018), presented at venues such as the Mato Grosso do Sul Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO) in Campo Grande - MS, the Frei Confaloni Gallery in Goiânia, and the São Paulo Cultural Center (CCSP). Also the exhibition “Conversas: Resistência e Convergência” (2021–2022), shown at Casa das Onze Janelas (Belém, PA) and Goiás Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition “Entre Acervos” at the Palácio das Artes (Belo Horizonte, MG), among other projects.

Dialetos. Mato Grosso do Sul Museum of Contemporary Art. 2012.
Dialetos II. São Paulo Cultural Center. 2018.
Regarding institutions in Anápolis, finally, the editions of the TEIA Project (2015 and 2018) held at the Antônio Sibasolly Gallery and MAPA; the project promoted a series of practical and theoretical workshops on contemporary art, facilitating dialogue between local artists and artists and curators such as Divino Sobral, Luiz Mauro, Edney Antunes, João Angelini, and Zé César.

The local exchange fostered during the TEIA editions also led, in part, to the organization of exhibitions and projects managed by the artists themselves in the following years, including the exhibition “Percursos” (2018) at the Goiânia Art Museum, the “Experimental Research Group on Contemporary Artistic Methods” (2018), and the “Contemporary Photography” course (2018–2019) at the Oswaldo Verano School of Arts, attended by former project participants and taught by artist Joardo Filho, also a TEIA participant.

Thus, it is within this sphere of cultural exchange between the west-central and the rest of Brazil—as well as local exchanges among Anápolis, Brasília, Goiânia, and the surrounding region—that Barranco Ateliê emerges as a platform for collaboration and artistic production in Goiás.

Workshop with artist João Angelini. TEIA Project. Anápolis Museum of Fine Arts. 2018.



Experimental Research Group on Contemporary Artistic Methods. Oswaldo Verano School of Arts. 2018.