The exhibition Pinacoteca, collection is made up of the Pinacoteca's collection of Brazilian art, occupies 19 rooms in the Pinacoteca Luz building, with about a thousand works by more than 400 artists.

Opened to the public in 2020, it replaced the previous long-term exhibition, Art in Brazil: a story of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, which ran from 2011 to 2019.

The collection mixes historical times and artistic techniques, debates the representativeness of women, afro-descendant and indigenous artists in the collection, investigates the relationship between art and society, as well as the representation of landscape and urban space. Thus, the exhibition abandons the recurrent linear and chronological narratives, in favor of new perspectives on art.

The exhibition brings together items from all the collections that are currently under the Pinacoteca’s tutelage, including lending Nemirovsky e Roger Wright, plus some lending proposed especially for the exhibition, as is the case of the work of Adriana Varejao.

The expository narrative is organized into three cores, whose common thread is the figure of the artist. The first, Territories of art, addresses how artists represent themselves and others, then explores the differences between artistic techniques and between the definitions of art.

In the second, Body and territory, the approaches change and focus on the artists' relationship with the physical world around them, their visions of the landscape and the urban environment.

The last nucleus, Individual body / collective body, investigates the relationship between the artist and the community, such as issues of gender and identity.

Through a Donation from the Contemporary Art Patrons Program of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, the mutheir acquired, for the first time, in 2019, works by two contemporary indigenous artists: Feitiço para salvar a raposa serra do sol, by Jaider Esbell, from the Makuxi people of Roraima, and Voyeurs, menu, mourning, showcase; The modern anthropologist was already born ancient; and Enfim, civilização, by Denilson Baniwa, an artist from the Baniwa people of Amazonas, which are present in the exhibition.

On October 31, 2020, the Pinacoteca de São Paulo inaugurated the long-term exhibition of its collection at the same time that it opened the first exhibition dedicated to the art of indigenous peoples, Vexoá, nós sabe, which occupied three rooms for temporary exhibitions located on the second floor of the Pina Luz Building and was curated by Naine Terena.

The Research and Curation Center began the project for the new collection of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo in 2017. The reformulation of the long-term exhibition was prepared by the Research and Curation Center in conjunction with the other areas of the museum.

In addition to the opinion poll carried out with visitors to the mutheir, a seminar held in 2018, Ways of seeing, ways of displaying, provided many sources of reflection for the curatorial team, especially with regard to debates on post-colonialism and ethnic and gender representation.

The project also included dialogue with other professionals outside the Pinacoteca, such as Moacir dos Anjos, Julia Rebouças, Renata Bittencourt and Denilson Baniwa.