M.A.L.A 2025
In this edition, our luggage has grown, M.A.L.A. now features 30 artists, and we've launched a new hybrid residency model, combining in-person immersion with online mentorship. We strongly believe in this format because the intensive week provides a concrete experience of the book-making process, a deep dive into structures, materials, and graphic experimentation. This direct contact with the processes broadens participants' understanding and refines their practices, creating a solid foundation for the virtual meetings that follow. In these virtual sessions, continuous dialogue and mentorship support the development of the projects over time.
Paulo Silveira Paulo Silveira (full name: Paulo Antonio de Menezes Pereira da Silveira) holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts, with specializations in Drawing (1986) and Painting (1988), and in Social Communication (1980) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). At the same institution, he earned his master's (1999) and doctorate (2008) in Visual Arts, with an emphasis on the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art.Currently, he works as an adjunct professor of art history in the Department of Visual Arts at UFRGS's Institute of Arts, teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. From 1982 to 2010, he was a visual programmer at Editora da UFRGS, where he also coordinated the editing section.As a researcher, he focuses on Visual Arts, with an emphasis on the history and theory of contemporary art, perception, and intermedia. He is a member of the National Association of Researchers in Plastic Arts (ANPAP), the Brazilian Committee of Art History, and a co-founder of the Veículos da Arte research group (UFRGS/CNPq).
Immersion Week 2025
Guest professors in the 2025 edition
André Hellmeister is a visual artist, art director, graphic designer and advertiser. He has worked in several agencies in the country working for various brands. He develops visual identity projects, cultural projects, editorial design, visual and artistic solutions.
Typography and collage enthusiast, knowledgeable about handling paper and ink, and a lover of graphics and graphic processes. As a speaker, he conducts workshops and training sessions using collage techniques and typography as forms of artistic expression.
Andrea Thomazella is a visual artist, graduated from the University of São Paulo (1982), with a master's and doctorate in Visual Poetics from the Institute of Arts of the University of Campinas, SP, (2015, 2022). She develops research with artist's books, painting, drawing and engraving.
Claudio Rocha (AKA Active Principle) is a visual artist from Earth, involved in the archaeology of images and seduced by colors, computer graphics and, of course, chance… Apparently, his curiosity has no formal limits, depicting the world in a subtly abstract way, but only when he manages to abstract the concreteness of the figures. From an inevitable contact with the collective unconscious, he exposes his sensations through deliberately evocative creations.
A little about the 2025 immersion
Artists 2025
Book Fair 2025
