Debora Pill

Debora Pill is the Curator of the Public Programming at MASP’s free span in São Paulo, Brazil. She has 20 years’ experience in art curation and cultural programming involving contemporary art, right of the city, international cooperation and intersectionality.

She is also the creater of Risca Faca podcast about contemporary art from global south perspectives.

Debora Pill will be speaking at the Museums & Public Programs Summit 2026 :

Public Programming at MASP’s Free Span

Can you imagine a museum that was originally designed to be floating on the top of a hill so that the view of the city would be preserved from up there?

That was the idea behind the creation of MASP, the Art Museum of São Paulo, in Brazil, built in 1968 by Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) and considered an icon of modern architecture. The area left empty under the floating museum is called the free span, has 74 meters and was conceived by Lina as a public square to connect people, art, culture.