MAM(na)OCA

The first major retrospective, the exhibition displays about 700 works from the Museum's 4500 piece collection of contemporary art in Brazil. The collection represents the efforts to collect current and emerging art/artists that began a big push in 1995 when the museum had 2000 pieces. against more than the 4,500 congregated today. Great talents had been discovered and promoted for the museum, such as the photographers Caio Reisewitz, Mauro Restiffe e Márcia Xavier. The artists selected were at the time the vanguard, those who did not fall into the established art scene. among those are: Nelson Leirner, Pablo Buennos, Vik Muniz, Oswald Goeldi, Waltrécio Caldas, Miguel Rio Branco and Gustavo Rezende. It occupies four floors of the Oca building each divided into chronological order.