With a practice encompassing sculpture, installation, painting, and drawing, Adriano Costa (1975) realized early on that the remnants of nightlife and contemporary culture — broken bottles, discarded flyers, and the many other detritus of collective euphoria — are complete contents with stories worth absorbing.

The artist took part in Pivô’s inaugural exhibition—Da próxima vez eu fazia tudo diferente—in 2012, and in 2025 returned to the space with the solo show Não vamos nos desapontar / We Won’t Be Disappointed, curated by Fernanda Brenner. Over the years, his work has been shown at institutions such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo; Fundação Serralves, Porto; and Boros Collection, Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include ax-d.us.t, Emalin, London (2024), and MILK OF SLUMS – RUA DOS CACIQUES, Mendes Wood DM, New York (2023).

ArteBurroS (2025) is a white dress shirt with donkey prints. The work engages with Costa’s interest in discarded objects and obsolete materials, whose reuse seeks to reveal the layers of meaning that emerge when things are removed from their habitual contexts—exposing our ambiguous relationship with what we produce and later abandon. Over the years, the artist has developed a unique language that operates through what he defines as “gentle vandalism,” questioning the boundaries between high culture and everyday debris. The work was exhibited at Não vamos nos decepcionar, his solo show at Pivô (2025).