Notes related to Brasil

The EFG Latin America Art Award, in association with ArtNexus, announced Eduardo Berliner of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as the nominated artist for its annual acquisition award. The award will be presented at Pinta Miami 2024.

Until this April 2024, one of the recent galleries of the Pinacoteca Contemporânea - the new annex of the traditional and active Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, which opened in 2023 - has become a special locus, where past and future, tradition and modernity, nostalgia and dazzle, fortress and ruin, among other poetic axes, present themselves to a visitor who is between perplexity and fascination. The author of this suspension of time is the Chinese artist Cao Fei (Guanghzou, 1978), one of the key artists of the contemporary world, who has her first solo show in South America, after (more discreet) appearances at the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010) and the 9th Mercosul Biennial (2013), in Porto Alegre, in the south of the country.

The exhibition at Pivô not only celebrates Carolee Schneemann’s legacy but also expands on her ideas and proposes a dialogue between her works and two contemporary artists: Diego Bianchi and Márcia Falcão.

Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) presents, from March 22 to July 28, 2024, the exhibition Francis Bacon: The Beauty of Meat. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Laura Cosendey, and Isabela Ferreira Loures, the exhibition aims to highlight how the artist, with his innovative and impactful painting, paved the way for a queer presence in visual culture.

With more than 100 works, the exhibition "Sounds of Bispo do Rosário" at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum introduces the legacy of the renowned artist in dialogue with other figures who were strongly influenced by his work.

Ka’a Pûera: we are walking birds, Brazil’s participation at the 60th International Venice Biennale, features the resistance and artistic production of Brazil’s native peoples, updating the problematic issues of colonization.

Batalha Centro de Cinema, in Porto, presents the exhibition Sobrevoo by Jonathas de Andrade.

North-American artist Melissa Cody featured at MASP the exhibition Webbed Skies, with curatorship of Isabella Rjeille and Ruba Katrib.

KADIST San Francisco and Delfina Foundation presented iterations of de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas (from the underwater mountains fire makes islands).

The VILLA in Fulda, Germany presents Action as Sculpture, an encounter between Lygia Clark and Franz Erhard Walther.

The Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo) and the Museu Afro Brasil Emanoel Araujo (Emanuel Araujo Afro Brazil Museum) presented the exhibition Mãos: 35 anos da Mão Afro-Brasileira (Hands: 35 years of the Afro-Brazilian Hand).

Extravagances is Portuguese artist Joava Vasconcelos’ largest solo show at Brazil in the Oscar Niemeyer Museum (MON). Curated by Marc Pottier, the exhibition invites the audience to an immersion into the magical world of the artist.

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In her practice, Brazilian artist Manoela Medeiros questions artistic media by going beyond their conventional formats, producing paintings and in situ installations that explore the relationships between space, time, and the corporeality of art and of the viewer. Together with Felipe Cohen, they are part of Kubik Gallery’s proposal for Pinta Miami 2023.

Drawing upon biology and new anthropological discourses as conceptual frameworks, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s exhibition at Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) A leaf Shapes the Eye, proposes a holistic worldview in which there is no distinction between humans and their environment, and where relationships between all elements are in constant flux.

Brazilian gallery Casa Triângulo announced the representation or Argentine artist Matías Duville.

The 35th São Paulo Biennale, Choreographies of the Impossible, gathered more than 1100 works by 121 participants focused on exploring new perspectives of the world.

The exhibition Marta Minujín: Vive at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo is the first panoramic exhibition in Brazil of one of the most important Latin American artists of her generation.

Rolf Art presented within the framework of the 35th São Paulo Biennale Choreographies of the Impossible, an anthological exhibition by Marcelo Brodsky, curated by Márcio Seligmann-Silva at the Museu Judaico de São Paulo.

The São Paulo Biennale opened its doors for its 35th edition. Choreographies of the Impossible focuses on exploring new perspectives of the world from the urgency of the present times.

The exhibition All this is us by Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe at MASP presented 48 works with the mission to preserve his community’s cultural value.

The museum inaugurated the second of two exhibitions devoted to MASP Landmann long-term loan, with 906 pieces brought to the Museum in 2016, remaining until 2026.

For the first time ever in Brazil, the installation Eu, Você e a Lua (2015) (Me, You and the Moon) –one of the last major works completed by the artist– will be presented at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo).

The exhibition How many worlds are we? Presented in The Jim Thompson Art Center explores the notion of East and West in traditional and contemporary cultural practices between Amazonas and Southeast Asia.

With the third act dedicated to the memory of Abdias Nascimento (1914-2011), an exhibition focused on the work of Mestre Didi (1917-2013) and a large installation by the emerging Mônica Ventura, Inhotim is consolidating an important change in the profile of its collection and in the commissioning of new works.

Instituto Inhotim inaugurates a new permanent gallery dedicated to Yayoi Kusama. Galeria Yayoi Kusama features two of her works: I’m here, but nothing (2000) and Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity (2009), both belonging to the Instituto Inhotim Collection.

The memories of a community narrated by the individuals who live in it. This is what visitors will discover at the exhibition Retratistas do Morro (Portraitists of the Hill), running at Sesc Pinheiros.

Four years after de donation of Paulo Mendes da Rocha’s entire archive to Casa da Architectura, the Portuguese Center for Architecture presented two simultaneous exhibtions, a book and a ten-month parallel program of activities around the artist’s principles, aesthetics and ethics.

Curated by Valquíria Prates, Mirela Estelles and Cauê Alves, the exhibit at MAM São Paulo brings more than 70 collection pieces by artists ranging from painting to intervention.