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Plums, Under Cover
Kasper Bosmans 1/02 - 23/03/2024 Paris Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Kasper Bosmans’s first solo exhibition in Paris, Plums, Under Cover . To mark the occasion, the Brussels-based artist embarked on a fantasy-filled foray, taking as the starting point the discovery of a 16th-century belvedere, located in the Royal Garden of Prague Castle, and... View Exhibition -
Noite longa
Paloma Bosquê 23/02 - 23/03/2024 Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Since the sand never stops moving or reflecting the warmth of the sparkles, the child stayed there all afternoon playing. Feeling the sand penetrate her, first between her fingers, then in her eyes, mouth, nose, ear: ... View Exhibition -
Leah Ke Yi Zheng 24/02 - 13/04/2024 Brussels Mendes Wood DM, Brussels is pleased to present Leah Ke Yi Zheng , the artist’s first European solo exhibition. Leah Ke Yi Zheng (b.1988) grew up in Wuyishan (China), where she was apprenticed in traditional Chinese painting techniques from an early age. With a dialectical relationship to tradition, she developed... View Exhibition
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The Mail Man
Osama Al Rayyan 24/02 - 13/04/2024 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Osama Al Rayyan’s first solo exhibition in Brussels, The Mail Man. Loosely inspired by a short story by the late Egyptian writer Ibrahim Aslan, the exhibition combines paintings with the artist’s first publicly displayed drawings and sculptures. Often referred to as situationist, the... View Exhibition -
Bestiary & Idols
José Bedia 15/03 - 13/04/2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Bestiary & Idols, a solo exhibition of recent works by the Cuban-born artist José Bedia. The exhibition centers on two themes: fauna and mythology. Mythological animals are hallmarks of the artist’s spiritual and transcultural research into a universal... View Exhibition -
Against the Grain
Veronika Hapchenko 15/03 - 13/04/2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first exhibition of Poland-based Ukrainian artist Veronika Hapchenko in the United States. Hapchenko’s airbrushed canvases engage with themes of collective consciousness, as well as instances and manifestations of the occult. The works on view in Against the... View Exhibition
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La Pensée Férale
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané 2/04 - 26/05/2024 Paris View Exhibition -
Funduras
Solange Pessoa 2/04 - 11/05/2024 São Paulo View Exhibition -
Peter Hujar 6/04 - 4/05/2024 Casa Iramaia Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present American photographer Peter Hujar’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Through his unfiltered approach, Hujar documented the avant-garde group of New York-based artists, writers, and musicians who defined the downtown scene in the 1970s and 80s. Peter Hujar’s early life began in rural New... View Exhibition
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Paulo Monteiro 24/04 - 18/05/2024 Brussels View Exhibition
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Ode to Twisted Gods
Pol Taburet 8/02 - 16/03/2024 São Paulo Ô paysage de diamant violenté de mains d’acide […] » 1 Anthony Phelps, Motifs pour le temps saisonnier , 1976 Culture is not monolithic; it is a muddy silt that carries with it the stories of great ecstasy of our ancestors as well as their most tragic ones, one... View Exhibition -
It's the way home that moves us away
Carla Zaccagnini & Runo Lagomarsino 8/02 - 16/03/2024 São Paulo Crossings, c omings and goings, departures, returns, and what happens in between, are intertwined into Carla Zaccagnini’s and Runo Lagomarsino’s personal lives and respective works. This exhibition itself is a sort of path , where their trajectories cross and then bifurcate if only to meet again … It is the... View Exhibition -
Na Boca do Sol
Paulo Nimer Pjota 27/01 - 2/03/2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 27 Jan - 2 Mar 2024 Mendes Wood DM presents Na Boca do Sol, Paulo Nimer Pjota’s first solo show in New York. The exhibition’s title refers to an eponymous 1972 Arthur Verocai song, fragments from which have frequently been used as samples both internationally... View Exhibition -
Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake)
Michael Dean 2/12/2023 - 20/01/2024 Paris Michael Dean's sculptures are capable of transforming an exhibition space into a theater, into an action. They remind us of characters performing a scene. A group of works, which almost seem as if they are about to climb a set of stairs, shows how characters and language are central to... View Exhibition -
With Others in Mind
Coco Fusco 25/11/2023 - 24/01/2024 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is please to present Coco Fusco’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo, “With Others in Mind”. The exhibition aims to highlight Coco Fusco's rigorous exploration into the erasure and metamorphosis of cultural identities, particularly in societies shaped by the aftereffects of colonialism. By different mediums such as... View Exhibition -
Nascituras
Rosana Paulino 25/11/2023 - 24/01/2024 São Paulo Nascituras: someone or something yet to be born. The decision to name the exhibition of an artist as prominent as Rosana Paulino Nascituras (nascencies) may seem strange. After all, what could this concept refer to in light of one of the most substantial, striking careers in so-called Brazilian art? A... View Exhibition -
Evocações, Ismael Nery and Lewis Hammond
Curated by Germano Dushá 24/11/2023 - 3/02/2024 Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. A phantasmagorical apparition comes into view, appearing as a primal form, as pure potency. A blotch heralding the figure exposes the indescribable substance from which the world's embodiments stem. Whatever is briefly seen scorches the retina, embedding itself in memory. When it first appears,... View Exhibition -
Gardens of Human Nature
Mimi Lauter 10/11 - 21/12/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 10 - Dec 21, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Gardens of Human Nature by Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter. Comprising sixteen soft pastel and oil pastel framed works on paper of varying scale, this is Lauter's third solo exhibition with the... View Exhibition -
Cada cosa es Babel
Mariana Castillo Deball 4/11/2023 - 16/02/2024 Brussels “And what happens if we look the other way around, if we read contemporary art as future archaeology?” — Mariana Castillo Deball An object, eroded by time, crumbles in the palm of a hand. A tower collapses. A stonemason is hammering, chiseling stones. In her second solo exhibition at Mendes... View Exhibition -
I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem
Curated by Fernanda Brenner 14/10 - 25/11/2023 Paris Artists include: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Armando Andrade Tudela, Lucas Arruda, Karim Aïnouz, Adrián Balseca, Tosh Basco, Katinka Bock, Paloma Bosquê, Nina Canell, Guglielmo Castelli, Mariana Castillo Deball, Alejandro Cesarco, Henri Chopin, Marguerite Duras, Philipp Fleischmann, Sonia Gomes, Barbara Hammer, Runo Lagomarsino, Patricia Leite, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paul Maheke, Hana Miletić, Charlotte... View Exhibition -
Paulo Monteiro at Archipelago
Paulo Monteiro 30/09 - 19/11/2023 Archipelago Archipelago Sept 30 - Nov 19, 2023 Archipelago is proud to present an exhibition of work by Brazilian artist Paulo Monteiro (b. 1961, S ã o Paulo, Brazil) in its residency and gallery space in Germantown, New York, USA. Archipelago is an arts-and-research institute devoted to spirituality, thinking, and... View Exhibition -
La Pensée Ferale
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané 15/09 - 27/10/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 15 - Oct 27, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present La Pensée Férale, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s inaugural exhibition in New York City. Mangrané’s work traces the boundary where nature meets artifice, encompassing a range of media including installations, films, sound-based works, photographs,... View Exhibition -
Estude fundo
Laís Amaral 7/09 - 28/10/2023 Brussels Estude fundo, the first solo exhibition project of Laís Amaral in Europe, takes over Mendes Wood DM Brussels’ space with newly produced works. “I have been thinking mainly about developing a subjective language through non-figurative painting. My main way of doing this is to bring references from nature, within my... View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell 2/09 - 4/11/2023 São Paulo Linhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian aphorism “deus escreve certo por linhas tortas”, which literally translates to “god writes straight with crooked lines” and metaphorically to... View Exhibition -
Linhas Tortas
Curated by Diana Campbell 2/09 - 11/11/2023 Casa Iramaia Linhas Tortas is a multi-venue international group exhibition that celebrates the entanglements of journeys and the power of storytelling, marking a decade of Mendes Wood DM. Inspired by the Brazilian aphorism “deus escreve certo por linhas tortas”, which literally translates to “god writes straight with crooked lines” and metaphorically to... View Exhibition -
Paper Trails
Group Show 29/07 - 8/08/2023 Retranchement / D'Ouwe Kerke Open every day | 11am to 6pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Osama Alrayyan, Laís Amaral, Lucas Arruda, Patricia Ayres, Alvaro Barrington, Paloma Bosquê, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Heidi Bucher, Varda Caivano, Guglielmo Castelli, Adriano Costa, Michael Dean, Mariana Castillo Deball, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Anna Bella Geiger, Sonia... View Exhibition -
Marina Perez Simão at Villa Era
Marina Perez Simão 1 - 30/07/2023 Vigliano Biellese / Villa Era Mendes Wood DM is proud to announce its third cycle of exhibitions at Villa Era, a historic 19th-century house and estate in the Italian countryside, between Milan and Turin, with a solo presentation by Marina Perez Simão. A new body of oil works, painted on linen, will be presented across... View Exhibition -
Critical Mass
Patricia Ayres 23/06 - 5/08/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 23 - Aug 5, 2023 In Critical Mass, Patricia Ayres articulates Sigmund Freud’s notion of the Unheimlich.(1) Incongruity is echoed through nine pustulating sculptures, whose faceless forms distinguish themselves by their sutured topography, an amalgamation of stained United States military elastic, parachute hardware, and... View Exhibition -
Everything All At Once
Kent O'Connor 23/06 - 5/08/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 23 - Aug 5, 2023 'When I paint, I sit with the objects and experience without touching, feeling but not feeling.' Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Everything All At Once by the Los Angeles-based painter Kent O’Connor (b. 1987 in Virginia, USA).... View Exhibition -
Cristalino Segredo
Paula Siebra 2/06 - 5/08/2023 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Cristalino Segredo, a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Paula Siebra in the gallery’s Brussels space. This is the first opportunity for European audiences to experience the artist’s work following her residency and exhibition in Bruges, Belgium, in 2021. Taking over the entirety of... View Exhibition -
Do cômico e do trágico
Paulo Nimer Pjota 27/05 - 12/08/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present “Do cômico e do trágico” a new solo exhibition by Paulo Nimer Pjota at our Barra Funda space in São Paulo. What are the possible connections between representations of a couple of Buddhist deities, domestic scenes, and the images that decorate both Chinese... View Exhibition -
Some Eyes
Alma Allen 27/05 - 12/08/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Some Eyes , the first solo exhibition of the celebrated US artist and sculptor Alma Allen to take at the gallery’s Barra Funda space in Sao Paulo. Additionally to this being his first exhibition with the gallery in Sao Paulo, it is also... View Exhibition -
Earthworks
Solange Pessoa 12/05 - 17/06/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 12 - Jun 17, 2023 Earthworks features a selection of earth and fresco paintings, ceramic sculptures, and one video relating to Solange Pessoa's enduring relationship to land and spirited use of organic materials. Multifarious and experimental in its approach to material, Pessoa's oeuvre is... View Exhibition -
The Labours of Hercules
Vojtěch Kovařík 19/04 - 27/05/2023 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present The Labours of Hercules, Vojtěch Kovařík 's first solo exhibition in the gallery’s Brussels space. Following his previous shows with the gallery in New York, São Paulo and Villa Era, Italy, Kovařík will be taking over the entirety of the gallery’s two floors... View Exhibition -
Human Nature
Alvaro Barrington 30/03 - 13/05/2023 São Paulo 'I've been in Brazil for nearing two weeks now and I'm two weeks away from my first show in South America. It would be an understatement to say that the region has given me so much. I think less of nation-states more like the notion of regional cousins. My first... View Exhibition -
Signo
Antonio Obá 30/03 - 13/05/2023 São Paulo Antonio Obá considers the drawing as a living thought. The artist returns to the São Paulo venue with an exhibition devoted exclusively to his works on paper - 'an exercise in letting language emerge,' according to Obá. The use of drawing, recurrent in his work and also in his relationship... View Exhibition -
MILK OF SLUMS - RUA DOS CACIQUES
Adriano Costa 23/03 - 29/04/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mar 23 - Apr 29, 2023 Written by Colin Ledoux, with words from Adriano Costa in italics. I am Arnaut who gathers up the wind, And chases the hare with the ox, And swims against the torrent. —Arnaut Daniel “...crista do desejo, o destino deslinda-se... View Exhibition -
Demonios Familiares
Guglielmo Castelli 20/03 - 29/04/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 20 - Apr 29, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Demonios Familiares by Guglielmo Castelli (b.1987, Turin, Italy). Building on his previous exhibition in the gallery’s Brussels space in 2021, and an acclaimed solo at Paris+ par Art Basel 2022, this exhibition... View Exhibition -
X
Luiz Roque 11/03 - 8/04/2023 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present X, Luiz Roque’s second solo show in Brussels. Comprised of new works in ceramics and a screening of the 2020 short film República, this exhibition expands on Roque’s exploration into the fragmented universe of sexuality and the power dynamics of representation. Shedding new... View Exhibition -
The Gardener’s Son
Victor Bengtsson 11/03 - 8/04/2023 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present a first solo exhibition of work by the Danish artist Victor Bengtsson to take place in its Brussels gallery space. Taking over the entirety of the top floor of the gallery’s Sablon townhouse, Bengtsson’s mostly large-scale paintings simultaneously straddle a three-part chronological divide.... View Exhibition -
Esfíngico Frontal
Group Show 11/02 - 11/03/2023 São Paulo There is a mystery behind everything. There is a mystery that comes and goes, circulating through our veins, through our viscera, between our fingertips and through every thread of our hair. The same mystery exists in everything that surrounds us: from the earth’s surface to the spheres dancing in the... View Exhibition -
Butterfly Joint
Kentaro Kawabata 11/02 - 11/03/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present – at its gallery space in São Paulo – Kentaro Kawabata’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Titled Butterfly Joint, the show brings together a poignant body of works produced by the Japanese artist, spanning four series of porcelain sculptures that are a testament... View Exhibition -
Six Artists
Group Exhibition 3/02 - 5/03/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 3 - Mar 5, 2023 Transgressing the Frontiers of Refusal Written by Lorraine Mendes Those who set out to consider and historicize the peripheries of the world—the dispossessed, the subaltern, the enslaved—must address the power of narratives and archives, whose limitations define what can... View Exhibition -
properties without object
Iulia Nistor 3/02 - 5/03/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 3 - Mar 5, 2023 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present properties without object, Iulia Nistor’s third solo exhibition with the gallery and her first in New York. The exhibition consists of new works from Nistor’s Evidence Paintings series, all 50 x 40... View Exhibition -
Cinza das horas
Group Show 21/01 - 25/02/2023 Brussels Lucas Arruda, Eleonore Koch, Fabio Miguez and Paulo Pasta. Mendes Wood DM is proud to inaugurate Cinza das horas, a group exhibition organized by Lucas Arruda (b. 1983) that presents his work alongside paintings by fellow Brazilian artists Eleonore Koch (b.1926 - d. 2018), Fabio Miguez (b. 1962), and Paulo... View Exhibition -
To Dream Oneself into Existence
Paloma Bosquê 26/11/2022 - 14/01/2023 Brussels Now I will tell you a story. I hope it will be good company for what you are about to see, but before that, I want you to take a moment to consider something. Before moving forward, consider what you actually understand as “a body”. Most of us take for... View Exhibition -
Moonlight Paintings
Varda Caivano 26/11/2022 - 14/01/2023 Brussels Back to front and beyond New paintings by Varda Caivano In her second show at Mendes Wood DM, Argentinian-Italian artist Varda Caivano brings together new paintings that were all produced in 2022. Some of them saw the light of day in Mexico during the summer. Others, slightly larger in scale,... View Exhibition -
Mimosa tenuiflora
Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa 19/11/2022 - 28/01/2023 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) in São Paulo. The exhibit, entitled Mimosa Tenuiflora, brings together video works, paintings, and sculptures – scenarios pervaded by an atmosphere of dream and fantasy, yet communicating an awaken world. Mimosa tenuiflora,... View Exhibition -
Big paintings
Giangiacomo Rossetti 19/11/2022 - 28/01/2023 São Paulo My friend Scott introduced me to Irakli and Dea. He met them at a party in Tbilisi and they told him they were moving to NYC. I needed someone helping me to move some of my paintings from my house to a new studio I just rented and Scott gave... View Exhibition -
Outras águas / Other waters
Antonio Obá 16/11/2022 - 21/01/2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Jan 21, 2023 You go, you stay, you never come back! —João Guimarães Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” (1962) Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to announce Outras águas / Other waters, Antonio Obá’s second solo exhibition in New... View Exhibition -
Paulo Nazareth at Archipelago
Paulo Nazareth 12/11/2022 - 26/02/2023 Archipelago Archipelago Nov 12 – Feb 26, 2023 Archipelago is an arts-and-research institute devoted to spirituality, thinking, and healing. At a constellation of sites across the globe, we host exhibitions, artists’ residencies, and a growing research library. Our inaugural site is in Germantown, NY, overlooking the Hudson River. The first exhibition... View Exhibition -
Il faudrait que je me calme
Group Show 15/10 - 19/11/2022 Brussels Jean Claracq, Clément Courgeon, Joséphine Ducat-May, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Johan Larnouhet, Maëlle Ledauphin, Pierre Seiter, Raphael Sitbon, Thomas Cap de Ville and Miranda Webster. Mendes Wood DM Brussels is proud to present Il faudrait que je me calme, a group show curated by artists Nathanaëlle Herbelin and Jean Claracq. With... View Exhibition -
Scree
Nina Canell 15/10 - 19/11/2022 Brussels Take a room. It’s made of walls, a floor and ceiling. Conceived as stable environments, interior spaces preserve a linear atmosphere: reduced wind speed, absence of dirt and controllable temperatures all make for maintainable enclosures that stand still. We don’t like when things move around without us having moved them... View Exhibition -
Maria Auxiliadora
Maria Auxiliadora 14/10 - 11/11/2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York presents an exhibition with works by the painter Maria Auxiliadora. Born in 1935 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Auxiliadora lived and worked in São Paulo until her death in 1974. Her mixed media paintings depict... View Exhibition -
Remember when we talked about meeting again
Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro 14/10 - 11/11/2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM presents Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro’s solo exhibition Remember when we talked about meeting again—a title which refers to both the start of a conversation and a reminiscence of an essential prophecy. The exhibition gathers photographs, a video... View Exhibition -
Dusk of the Gods
Vojtěch Kovařík 9/09 - 8/10/2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 9 - Oct 8, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York is proud to present Dusk of the Gods, Czech artist Vojtěch Kovařík’s first solo exhibition in New York, following his previous shows with the gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, and Villa Era, Italy. Kovařík’s... View Exhibition -
Thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake
Miranda Fengyuan Zhang 8/09 - 10/10/2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Miranda Fengyuan Zhang's first solo show in Belgium. The exhibition features a new group of Zhang's hand-woven paintings as well as an installation made with a reappropriated 19th century French divider. Zhang often utilizes the formal practice of weaving to create a spatial... View Exhibition -
SLOW WATER
Seulgi Lee 8/09 - 8/10/2022 Brussels Upon entering, the sound of metal balls clanging against each other resonates throughout the gallery. For a moment, you imagine yourself at the controls of a pinball machine like those painted by Wayne Thiebaud in 1962. However, there are no flashing arcade machines; instead occupying the space are three wooden... View Exhibition -
Noites de cetim
Paula Siebra 28/08 - 11/11/2022 São Paulo It is dusk on the beach. For a few minutes, the sky looks like ember before cooling down into a blueish black. The landscape eases down, keeping the memory of the day’s past, like an enchantment. Paula Siebra’s Satin Nights are memories of the heat coming from the sun that... View Exhibition -
Creatures
Kasper Bosmans 27/08 - 5/11/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Creatures, Kasper Bosmans’ first solo exhibition in South America, in its new gallery space in Sao Paulo. Known for his multifaceted and divergent approach to art making, with works that range from sculpture and installation to painting and drawing, Bosmans’ practice is a... View Exhibition -
Futurismo
Group Show 20/08 - 5/11/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM in collaboration with Peres Projects is proud to present FUTURISMO, a group show with new works by Dalton Gata, Paolo Salvador, Manuel Solano, and Richard Kennedy. This exhibition balances multiple temporalities as the artists explore and weave together themes such as transformation and emergence with memory and... View Exhibition -
All season sanctuary
Group Show 30/07 - 7/08/2022 Retranchement / D'Ouwe Kerke d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Alma Allen, Neïl Beloufa, Paloma Bosquê, Varda Caivano, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paulo Nazareth, Hamish Pearch, Hariel Revignet and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang. In its third edition, Mendes Wood DM returns to the 17th-century deconsecrated church in the village of Retranchement, on the Dutch... View Exhibition -
Mantiqueira
Patricia Leite 14/07 - 12/08/2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jul 14 - Aug 12, 2022 Mantiqueira is a mountain range in Southern Brazil that forms a natural border separating Minas Gerais from the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Its name derives from the indigenous Tupi language and translates to “mountains that... View Exhibition -
Kishio Suga
9/06 - 27/07/2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the Japanese artist Kishio Suga’s second solo exhibition in Belgium. Kishio Suga is a pioneer of site-specific installation, assemblage and performance. Suga was the focus of critical acclaim in the late 1960s and 1970s as a key figure in the movement known... View Exhibition -
The time of things
Rosana Paulino 9/06 - 27/07/2022 Brussels On the Permanence of Time In Racismo e Sexismo na Cultura Brasileira [Racism and Sexism in Brazilian Culture], Lélia Gonzalez understands the Brazilian cultural neurosis as the rejection of the pluri-racial and pluri-cultural make up of Brazil, which is materialized in denial. Gonzalez explains how this idea promotes the erasure,... View Exhibition -
In my dreams, I kill him every night
Sanam Khatibi 4/06 - 6/08/2022 São Paulo Sanam Khatibi’s work explores notions of animality and the primal impulses that we all share. At the core of her practice is a questioning of our relationship with power structures, and the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that feature in her work are chaos, destruction, excess, loss... View Exhibition -
Inevitable Behavior
Kristy Luck 4/06 - 6/08/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition by artist Kristy Luck at our São Paulo gallery space. Contemplative spaces are not defined on their own – they are, first and foremost, generated by an act of creation. What guides the creation of this space, in the... View Exhibition -
Nosotros los otros
Paulo Nazareth 6/05 - 11/06/2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 6 - Jun 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce Nosotros los otros, a solo presentation of Brazilian artist Paulo Nazareth at the inaugural presentation of Mendes Wood DM in New York City. Nosotros los otros, brings together bodies of work from... View Exhibition -
Heidi Bucher
26/04 - 28/05/2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first exhibition of Heidi Bucher’s work across the whole of its expanded Brussels gallery space, in collaboration with the Estate of Heidi Bucher. With the recent landmark retrospective at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, along with the current exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern... View Exhibition -
The Milk of Dreams, 59th Biennale di Venezia
Rosana Paulino 22/04 - 27/11/2022 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce the participation of artists Rosana Paulino, Solange Pessoa and Luiz Roque at The 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022 and Mariana Castillo Deball in the collective exhibition Until the Songs Spring at the Mexican Pavilion in Venice. Under the curatorial... View Exhibition -
5 Paintings
Marina Perez Simao 2/04 - 29/05/2022 São Paulo Almost-Landscapes There is, it would seem, a paradox between the name of the current exhibition and what is revealed in the works. On the one hand, we have the laconic title 5 Paintings and, on the other hand, we have a series of works in which the generosity of... View Exhibition -
Frozen Gestures
Lynda Benglis 2/04 - 21/05/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition of the seminal American artist Lynda Benglis at its São Paulo gallery. Benglis has played an important role in contemporary art through her innovative use of materials and continued refusal to submit to aesthetic orthodoxies. Benglis’s exhibition in São... View Exhibition -
Possible Agreements, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza
Group Show 19/03 - 16/04/2022 Brussels Laís Amaral, Igi Lola Ayedun , Bertô , Kelton Campos Fausto, Gabriel Massan, Iagor Peres, Mariana Rocha and Juliana dos Santos. In the introduction to Unpayable Debt, Denise Ferreira da Silva relates two recent events in contemporary politics to critically reflect on how the notion of human difference... View Exhibition -
Philosophy of the World
Adriano Costa 19/03 - 16/04/2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first solo show in Brussels by the Brazilian artist Adriano Costa. Comprised of drawing, sculpture and mixed media installations, the exhibition proposes to initiate visitors into the strange and wonderful universe of sign and signification that Costa inhabits – simultaneously outrageous, irreverent... View Exhibition -
Ruído
Letícia Ramos 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo -If you see a big sphere you are probably in danger. In 2013, a mysterious explosion was heard in the far north of Siberia. People living 100km from the site reported seeing the sky glaring. Months later scientists found a new 40 x 30m deep crater in an isolated region... View Exhibition -
In Passing
Miranda Fengyuan Zhang 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the Shanghai-born and New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features a group of Zhang’s recently completed hand woven paintings. Zhang’s textile works explore the idea of abstract landscape in relation to the memories.... View Exhibition -
Interspecific Bodies
Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Interspecific Bodies, the first exhibition of British-French duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel in Brazil, bringing together a series of new works, including nine pieces in carved wood, and one sculpture in marble. For over twenty years Dewar and Gicquel have explored and... View Exhibition -
Manikin
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy 12/02 - 19/03/2022 São Paulo In Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs (1948) - a short story dear to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - an institutionalized mental patient suffers from “Referential Mania”, a rare malady whereby the afflicted person believes that everything is conspiring against him through an intricate language of symbols and signs. In a sense, Manikin... View Exhibition -
Remotely Speaking
Neil Beloufa 22/01 - 5/03/2022 Brussels A few years ago, well before the NFT hit mainstream, the Speculative Fiction writer William Gibson, who coined the term cyberspace (Neuromancer, 1984), told me that in the future the ability to point to the original version of something will become a very valuable skill and trade. Not surprising to... View Exhibition -
The sun and the moon
Federico Herrero 27/11/2021 - 15/01/2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first exhibition of work by the Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero in its Brussels gallery. Herrero is known for his vividly colorful visual language and his immersive installation practice that blurs the divide between canvas and environment, articulated in the vibrant tonalities... View Exhibition -
The Inner Circles
Runo Lagomarsino 27/11/2021 - 15/01/2022 Brussels 1. Fiat – let it be done – is a command with which an authority exhorts a shared belief in the value of a currency. Fiat currencies are those that, dissociated from their equivalent in gold and silver, which can always be converted into the value of the material from... View Exhibition -
Noite
Luiz Roque 18/11/2021 - 29/01/2022 São Paulo The stuff that dreams are made of After two decades creating moving images, the new forms presented by Luiz Roque emerge from clay. The ceramics resemble accessories, items to be worn or attached to the body, power objects. Their zoomorphic outlines evoke past worlds or a future where plastic had... View Exhibition -
After the Stone
Paulo Pires 18/11/2021 - 5/02/2022 São Paulo The gravity of the carved matter calls us forth. The sculpted stone sets its magnetic field via a sensitive thread between its primordial condition and the artist’s action. Revealed before our eyes, the forms allow us to see bodies and movements in a singular ecology of minor gestures: an introspective... View Exhibition -
À bença meus padrinhos
Wallace Pato 18/11/2021 - 21/01/2022 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present its first solo show by artist Wallace Pato. The exhibition brings together recent paintings that unravel the core of the artist’s research as a chronicler of carioca samba and the Brazilian working-class suburbs. Pato is a self-taught artist who began his... View Exhibition -
Proscenium
Victor Bengtsson 21/10 - 30/11/2021 São Paulo Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Proscenium –- Danish artist Victor Bengtsson's first solo show in Brazil. The exhibition brings together five paintings made in São Paulo, mapping relationships between mythology, bodily fluids, and mental states. Bengtsson uses jute as material support for his canvases in an attempt to... View Exhibition -
j’étais air, space vide, temps
Daniel Steegmann Mangrané 16/10 - 20/11/2021 Brussels A story of ghosts living within forests and marble stones This is a story of ghosts, but also a history of animal creatures, organic formations and natural matter: a reverse pareidolia that deceives visual accuracy; a sci-fi infused, abstract trickster’s tale weaving the threads of art and nature. One may... View Exhibition -
Malachite King
Evgeny Antufiev 16/10 - 20/11/2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first exhibition of sculpture by the Russian artist Evgeny Antufiev. Recent works belonging to the artist’s idiosyncratic “archaeological” practice will be on display to viewers in the gallery’s Brussels space. A native of the Siberian Republic of Tuva, on the border with... View Exhibition -
Calm acts in closed room
Guglielmo Castelli 16/10 - 20/11/2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce the gallery’s first exhibition of work by the Italian painter Guglielmo Castelli. An intimate group of psychologically charged works – four oil paintings and three works on paper – will provide viewers with an insight into the artist’s complex universe. Dense with references... View Exhibition -
Tt X AB: "The Lot Show"
Alvaro Barrington and Teresa Farrell 12/09 - 9/10/2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 12 - Oct 9, 2021 Installed on a beachside lot in Far Rockaway, NY, The Lot Show picks up where Barrington and Farrell’s fall 2019 London project, Tall Boys and a Double Espresso, left off. Having met in undergrad at Hunter College in 2009,... View Exhibition -
Alma Allen
9/09 - 9/10/2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Europe by American artist Alma Allen. The show, with all new works, will take over the entirety of the gallery’s Brussels space, and also includes an outdoor presentation of ten sculptures in the city’s Van Buuren Museum &... View Exhibition