2025 was a very special year.
A year of deep construction, meaningful encounters,
and important steps in Debora Muszkat’s artistic journey.
Glass remained the language —
but above all, it became a point of connection.
A bridge between people, ideas, and purposes.
A material that crosses symbolic boundaries and affirms itself as a medium for dialogue, reflection, and transformation.
Throughout the year, art occupied new spaces and gained new layers of meaning.
None of this would have been possible without the partners who walked alongside us, believing in art as a tool for social, environmental, and cultural impact.
Our sincere thanks to the World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF), SESI, the Bienal do Lixo, the SP+Verde, and the Expo Catadores, for trusting glass art as a language of transformation and awareness.
2025 also reinforced the strength of the Debora Muszkat Studio.
More than a place of creation, it became a meeting point — a space for dialogue, exchange, and presence, where art happens in direct conversation with the world.
Between exhibitions, workshops, encounters, and symbolic gestures, the year comes to a close with gratitude.
And opens pathways toward a future that continues to be imagined, crossed, and built through glass.
✦ December: ExpoCatadores 2025
Encantos da Catação
From December 17 to 19, at Distrito Anhembi in São Paulo, ExpoCatadores 2025 marked the closing of the year with one of the most symbolic moments of the artist’s journey.
On the third day of the event, the sculptural trophy “Encantos da Catação” was presented — created in collaboration with the Paraisópolis Through Glass project, developed at the G10 Pavilion in the Paraisópolis community.
The work honors waste pickers, recognizing their fundamental role in building the circular economy in Brazil. The trophy was awarded to companies and partners recognized as Friends of the Waste Picker, and, in a historic gesture, also to the President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, reinforcing institutional recognition of a profession historically rendered invisible.
“I am deeply grateful to the waste pickers, cooperatives, partners, and everyone who believes that what has been discarded carries potential, dignity, and future. This work is a tribute to those who transform the world with their own hands.”
— Debora Muszkat
✦ November: Agenda SP+Verde, a pre-COP event
Art as a symbol of circularity
During the second day of the Summit Agenda SP+Verde, a pre-COP event held at Villa-Lobos Park, the Government of the State of São Paulo announced the winners of the SP Carbon Zero Award 2025, recognizing initiatives focused on ecological restoration, energy efficiency, environmental education, and technological innovation.
Among the 154 projects submitted, representatives from companies, civil society organizations, and public institutions attended the ceremony, which featured the presence of Natália Resende, Fernando Padula, and José Renato Nalini. The ceremony was hosted by journalist Glória Vanique.
The trophies awarded to the winners were designed by Debora Muszkat and produced in the Paraisópolis community through a glass reuse process, transforming waste into unique pieces and symbolically reinforcing the concept of circularity that guided the entire award.
Circular Awareness Workshop – Glass as Art and Transformation
On November 4, 2025, during the pre-COP events in São Paulo, the SP+Verde Agenda hosted the workshop “Circular Awareness – Glass as Art and Transformation.”
Participants were invited to create their own artworks using glass waste, re-signifying the material into original, authorial pieces. Facilitated by Sueli Oliveira, the workshop offered a playful yet profound experience, connecting cognitive processes, human development, and the principles of the circular economy.
The workshop was made possible with the support of partners such as Divinal Vidros, Movimento Circular, Zeros, and SEMIL.
✦ March to November: Exhibition tour at SESI
Reflections of the Unimaginable: Through Glass, Everything Happens
The exhibition “Reflections of the Unimaginable: Through Glass, Everything Happens” opened at SESI Itapetininga on March 28, 2025, inaugurating a touring cycle across the state of São Paulo.
Created from reused glass, the works address urgent themes such as environmental preservation, recycling, sustainability, circular economy, and the strengthening of popular culture and folklore. The exhibition was produced and coordinated by Doppio Cultural, with curatorship by Diego Mauro.
Tour schedule:
SESI Itapetininga — March 28 to June 1, 2025
SESI Cultural Center Campinas — June 7 to August 31, 2025
SESI Cultural Center São José do Rio Preto — September 6 to November 30, 2025
A question echoed throughout the journey:
Is it unimaginable to embrace the forest through glass?
✦ May: World Circular Economy Forum (WCEF) 2025
Through Glass, Life Circulates
From May 13 to 16, 2025, São Paulo hosted — for the first time in Latin America — the World Circular Economy Forum, held at the OCA, in Ibirapuera Park.
On this occasion, Debora Muszkat presented the exhibition “Through Glass, Life Circulates”, bringing together works made from recycled glass that propose new perspectives on consumption, disposal, and regeneration. The participation reinforced the dialogue between contemporary art and circular economy within one of the world’s most relevant forums on the subject.
✦ May: Bienal do Lixo 2025
Reflections of the Unspeakable
In May 2025, Debora Muszkat took part in the Bienal do Lixo, held at Villa-Lobos Park in São Paulo — an event that brings together art, education, and sustainability, expanding discussions on waste, consumption, and collective responsibility.
During the opening of the 2nd Bienal do Lixo, the artist presented the installation “Reflections of the Unspeakable”, composed of reflective glass surfaces that invite the audience to confront the theme of waste and excess through their own image. The work proposes a sensitive pause: to look at what we discard — and, above all, at the relationship we build with what we choose not to see.
The event also marked the launch of the book “Mission Zero Waste”, by Cadu Pacheco, reinforcing the convergence between art, environmental education, and practical action. In addition to the exhibition, Debora participated in dialogue panels and led workshops, sharing her long-standing work with recycling — begun in the 1980s — and reaffirming art as a tool for awareness, transformation, and future-building.
2025 was shaped by glass, encounters, and transformation. We move forward — because through glass, the future is already under construction.
2026 begins as a natural unfolding of this journey: the development of a new 3D animation project, the launch of Debora Muszkat’s book, and a major exhibition at the Museum of Image and Sound (MIS). Alongside these milestones, the glassy character CatiMi also comes to life in animation, expanding the artist’s universe into new dimensions!