MEXA is an artistic collective active since 2015 in São Paulo. Born in the context of homeless shelters, the group researches the borderlands between reality and fiction, autobiography, documentary, and theatre of the real, moving fluidly across performance, theatre, video, and photography. MEXA has been part of several exhibitions, such as 36th São Paulo Biennal (2025), 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art (2024), MASP´s Dance Histories (2020) and group shows at Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Museu do Ipiranga, Biblioteca Mario de Andrade, among others. In 2019, MEXA received the Denilto Gomes Dance Award in the category “Perspectives on Black and Gender Aesthetics.”
In the scenic and performative realm, they premiered Pumpitopera Transatlântica in 2023 at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), later presenting it at HAU Theatre (Berlin), Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Transform Festival (Leeds), São Paulo (Casa do Povo, SESC Ipiranga), Santos (Festival Mirada), Curitiba (Museu Paranaense), and Belém (Pulsa Festival). In 2024, they debuted their new work, The Last Supper, at Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), and later toured to Kaserne Theatre (Basel), Theaterformen (Braunschweig), Sophiensaele (Berlin), Festival d’Automne (Paris), Actoral (Marseilles), Take Me Somewhere (Glasgow) and Transform Festival (Leeds). The collective has been an artist-in-residence at Casa do Povo since 2016.