Exhibitions

At the end of the small hours

Phoebe Collings-James Mar 15 – Apr 12, 2025 Brussels Phoebe Collings-James presents At the end of the small hours , the artist’s first solo show in Brussels. The exhibition showcases diverse ceramic sculptures from distinct series yet connected through an evolving narrative of dreams. The reflection of a constellation of ideas, the works both incite and provoke the viewer... View Exhibition

Visions of Fading

Clémentine Bruno, Chiki, Maren Karlson & Ding Zhi Mar 15 – Apr 12, 2025 Brussels This morning, as I was scrolling through the news, one of the headlines in Libération grabbed my attention. A panel of US citizens had shared their views on the situation in their country. The headline was: “It Doesn’t Feel Real, It Feels Like a Simulation.” Indeed, in recent months, I... View Exhibition

Holes

Luiz Roque Mar 14 – Apr 19, 2025 New York Luiz Roque’s videos are transmissions from an alien planet. Or, if you prefer, they are televised signals from alternate timelines, other possible worlds , or the reveries of the undercommons . With the right technology, we can catch a glimpse of these visions. The sculptural edifices that sometimes tend to... View Exhibition

A Man, a Calf, and Another Man

Nika Kutateladze Mar 14 – Apr 19, 2025 New York Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Nika Ku t ateladze’s A Man, a Calf, and Another Man – the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York and his first with Mendes Wood DM. The exhibition, which intersects visions of human and animal instincts and rituals, features a suite of... View Exhibition

Inner World

Vojtěch Kovařík Feb 14 – Mar 15, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda Vojtěch Kovařík ’s worlds . On Eyes and Eyes of the Storm A single eye s parks from a black visage . The climate of that half- sight profile changes the acrylic br ush es f rom wet to dry an d dry to moist , according to one’s mental... View Exhibition

Festim da alma

Antonio Obá Feb 6 – Mar 27, 2025 Paris Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in Paris by artist Antonio Obá. Festim da alma [Feast of the soul] presents a reading of the cyclical nature of life, punctuated by celebrations and rites. The paintings and drawings on view demarcate the apexes of a journey... View Exhibition

A AMAZONIA

Soundwalk Collective & Patti Smith Feb 1 – 8, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click to book your visit. Click to view the exhibition map. Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present A AMAZONIA , an exhibition that results from a collaboration spanning more than a decade between Soundwalk Collective and Patti Smith . Exhibited for the first time in Brazil, the show features... View Exhibition

Visions and Materialities

Mira Schor Jan 22 – Mar 8, 2025 Brussels “ To them, history was only an intimation. Things were like palimpsests, heaven the tangent at the circle of all experience. They were sure that everything hinted at something transcendent, that what was apparent to the mind is but a thin surface of the undisclosed, and they often preferred to... View Exhibition

I-Ching / Machine

Leah Ke Yi Zheng Jan 17 – Mar 1, 2025 New York Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Leah Ke Yi Zheng’s second solo exhib i tion with the gallery , following our representation announcement for the Chinese - born, Chicago - based artist. The exhibition occupies both the grou nd floor and lower level of our Tri b e c... View Exhibition

La rose de Paris

Heidi Bucher Nov 28, 2024 – Jan 25, 2025 Paris The House’s Skin Swiss artist Heidi Bucher (born Adelheid Hildegard Müller, in Winterthur, Switzerland) was part of a wave of active avant-garde women artists of the 1970s, who then somewhat fell into obscurity until their relatively late rediscovery.1 Bucher’s recognition truly came with the major retrospective Metamorphoses, organized by the... View Exhibition

Ao redor da distância

Paulo Monteiro Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda “His creations deal with the abysmal substance of what is ultra-common, which we all can feel in our sinews. However, he does not go for representations; his subject is not the things , but the potential of life itself , that force which precedes everything that exists. Each move he... View Exhibition

kortinas

ektor garcia Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda e ktor g arcia is always work ing . D rawn to handmade, labor-intensive processes , the artist took on the practice of crocheting over two decades ago as a self- taught skill. The ability to work alone with a single hook anywhere and anytime was particularly captivating for garcia... View Exhibition

quase mapa, quase mancha

Anna Bella Geiger Nov 23, 2024 – Feb 1, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda Click here to open the exhibition map quase mapa, quase mancha [almost map, almost stain] Anna Bella Geiger’s oeuvre is vast. It is a body of work permeated by pioneering processes and experiences in the field of art that have led the way, building and consolidating powerful artistic poetics over... View Exhibition

Jewel

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Nov 20 – Dec 21, 2024 New York I love you, crazy city. New York is filthy, crusty, run-down, covered in layers of thick paint and rat urine, painted over roaches in tenement housing. There is a city inside of your city. Search that city. There is a jewel in the mountain of your body. Look for the... View Exhibition

Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva

Nov 9, 2024 – Jan 17, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alvaro Barrington & Chico da Silva , an exhibition that places renowned Venezuelan -born contemporary artist Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983) in dialogue with the works of Chico da Silva (1910 – 1985), a Brazilian artist of Ashaninka... View Exhibition

After Color

Eunnam Hong Nov 7 – Dec 21, 2024 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present After Color , Eunnam Hong's first solo show in Europe at its Brussels gallery space. Born in 1979 in Ganwang-do, South Korea, but living and working in New York, Hong came to the art world through an unconventional pathway, following an education in... View Exhibition

Lucas Arruda at Daitoku-ji

Lucas Arruda Oct 31 – Nov 7, 2024 Daitoku-ji Ōbai-in Temple, 大徳寺黃梅院 80 Daitoku-ji Murasakino Kita-ku, Kyoto, Japan Located in the Kita ward of Kyoto, Daitoku-ji (大徳寺) is a Zen Buddhist temple, significant for its reverence and projection by warlords in the Sengoku-period. Consisting of nearly two dozen smaller temples, it is the seat for the Rinzai sect... View Exhibition

Diffusion

Marina Perez Simão Oct 14 – Nov 23, 2024 Paris The Brazilian painter Marina Perez Simão tries to create a sense of ineffable wonder in her works as she brushes up against the limits of abstraction. In a world where we are supposed to know everything through the touch of a screen, the artist tries to conjure the awe that... View Exhibition

As primeiras coisas

Paula Siebra Oct 10 – Nov 9, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Mendes Wood DM presents As primeiras coisas [The earliest things] , a painting exhibition by Paula Siebra. Siebra carves out primordial imagery from ubiquitous objects, signs, and emotions that invite the observer to immerse themselves in memorial contexts and lyrical reverberations. From an initial laconicism... View Exhibition

Galáxias

Patricia Leite & Leticia Ramos Sep 12 – Oct 31, 2024 Brussels A never-ending night falls, now giving rise to Galáxias [Galaxies], an exhibition by Patricia Leite and Leticia Ramos. The two artists present images and situations that represent or evoke skies and astronomical phenomena. The works include paintings, photographs, videos, and an installation that features clouds, constellations, the moon, eclipses, twilights,... View Exhibition

grains of water, drops of earth

Josi Sep 6 – Oct 3, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Josi’s process unfolds in the movement of gestures, with handmade creations that make their presence felt as extensions of hands. Grains of earth come together and disperse, sticking to wherever they land. These grains pass through sieves and mortars. They decant, patiently passing through time.... View Exhibition

What happens at the seaside at dawn?

Laís Amaral Sep 6 – Oct 3, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York What happens at the seaside at dawn? Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by artist Laís Amaral. Thinking through the elements of the natural world most mysterious to our eyes in contemporary urban environments triggers a feeling Laís... View Exhibition

Avec Lucas Arruda, Sanam Khatibi, Patricia Leite, Paula Siebra, Marcos Siqueira, Erika Verzutti et Castiel Vitorino

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato En Conversation Aug 31 – Oct 5, 2024 Paris Mendes Wood DM is proud to announce Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato En Conversation, a group exhibition in Paris that draws together works by Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato alongside contemporary artists Lucas Arruda, Sanam Khatibi, Patricia Leite, Paula Siebra, Marcos Siqueira, Erika Verzutti, and Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro. Lorenzato, paints as he pleases Amadeo... View Exhibition

Sefirot

Mimi Lauter Aug 28 – Oct 26, 2024 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Mimi Lauter Sefirot In Sefirot , Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter, known for her work in oil and soft pastels, produces a body of work deeply attuned to concepts of the Tree of Life observed by Kabbalistic mysticism. The Kabbalists believed there are ten... View Exhibition

They Early Doors

Michael Dean Aug 28 – Oct 26, 2024 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Michael Dean presents They Early Doors, a solo show in São Paulo exhibited across Mendes Wood DM and Casa Iramaia. Can the experience of a scene be described as an account of syntax? For artist Michael Dean, the possibilities within such a question drive... View Exhibition

Sefirot

Mimi Lauter Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mimi Lauter Sefirot In Sefirot , Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter, known for her work in oil and soft pastels, produces a body of work deeply attuned to concepts of the Tree of Life observed by Kabbalistic mysticism. The Kabbalists believed there are ten creative forces that bridge the infinite... View Exhibition

ARDOR AND WRATH

Fernando Marques Penteado Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present ARDOR AND WRATH, a solo exhibition by artist Fernando Marques Penteado . Returning to the image of a home, Marques Penteado surveys a wide array of symbols that have been kept and cherished in domestic surroundings to cast protection on their inhabitants. Spanning... View Exhibition

They Early Doors

Michael Dean Aug 24 – Nov 9, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Click here to book your visit. Michael Dean presents They Early Doors , a solo show in São Paulo exhibited across Mendes Wood DM and Casa Iramaia . Can the experience of a scene be described as an account of syntax? For artist Michael Dean, the possibilit ies within such... View Exhibition

Archipelago: Paula Siebra, Artist in Residence

Aug 16 – Oct 7, 2024 Germantown View Exhibition

Matutar

Marcos Siqueira Jul 31 – Aug 29, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 31 Jul - 31 Aug 2024 Matutar: to ponder, to reflect, to consider, to express care The inspiration for this text dates back to a year ago when I had the opportunity to spend a few days with Marcos Siqueira in Serra do Cipó, a... View Exhibition

Dreaming of Spilliaert

Group exhibition Jul 27 – Aug 11, 2024 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement Open everyday | 11am to 6pm d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Léon Spilliaert, Lucas Arruda, Kasper Bosmans, Varda Caivano, Guglielmo Castelli, Adriano Costa, Lewis Hammond, Vojtěch Kovařík, Mimi Lauter, Patricia Leite, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Antonio Obá, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Maaike Schoorel, Paula Siebra and Pol Taburet. In... View Exhibition

Kutenten - kutenten - kutenten

Edgar Calel Jun 22 – Sep 8, 2024 Germantown Archipelago 22 Jun - 8 Sept 2024 10 Church Avenue, Germantown, New York Open Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 7pm Mendes Wood DM Archipelago presents Kutenten - kutenten - kutenten , an exhibition of new works by Edgar Calel created in Comalapa, Guatemala and in residency in Germantown, NY. As... View Exhibition

Reverie

Jun 21 – Jul 20, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 21 Jun - 20 Jul 2024 Reverie , as in a state of being pleasantly lost in one’s thoughts, offers an evocative exploration of abstraction spanning from the 1950s to the present day, tracing the transformative journey of influential artists who have redefined the boundaries... View Exhibition

...vivem no compasso do sol

Sonia Gomes Jun 5 – Aug 3, 2024 Paris Mendes Wood DM is pleased to unveil the first solo exhibition by Sonia Gomes in Paris. Titled ...vivem no compasso do sol *¹ , the show features new works from Gomes’s vast production, including floor, hanging, and wall textile-based sculptures, as well as bronzes, collages, and drawings. An essay by... View Exhibition

A linguagem dos anjos

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro May 30 – Aug 3, 2024 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present A linguagem dos anjos [The Language of Angels] , the first solo exhibition by multidisciplinary artist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro in Brussels. This exhibition is a culmination of recent explorations and revelations the artist experienced during a long excursion in the Moroccan desert. Bringing... View Exhibition

Miguel Bakun May 30 – Jul 6, 2024 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Miguel Bakun , a solo exhibition in Brussels showcasing a curated selection of landscape paintings the Brazilian artist produced in the first half of the 20 th century. Often referred to as an outsider painter, Miguel Bakun was a self-taught artist who dedicated... View Exhibition

arrastar chãos, juntar imbigos

Josi May 25 – Aug 10, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is a process that unfolds in the movement of gestures, in the creations operated by hand, and thus, make themselves felt as hands. They collect the grains of earth, which come together and disperse, sticking to where they pass or dissipate. They pass through the sieve, remain in the... View Exhibition

Rumors

Ebecho Muslimova May 25 – Aug 10, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda Rumors and Whispers is a two-part presentation of Ebecho Muslimova’s recent series of paintings across Mendes Wood DM’s São Paulo gallery and Bernheim Gallery in Zürich. A transatlantic game of telephone, the exhibition first opens in Brazil with Muslimova’s Rumors suite, followed two weeks later by Whispers in Switzerland, each... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga May 17 – Aug 16, 2024 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the seminal Japanese artist Kishio Suga at Casa Iramaia . As one of the pivotal figures in post-war Japan, Suga has spent more than five decades creating works that feature... View Exhibition

Flooded Playground

Maaike Schoorel Apr 30 – Jun 8, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 30 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce the debut solo exhibition of Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel in New York. Titled Flooded Playground , the exhibition features a collection of new oil paintings. Painterly, bold, and symphonic yet delicate and... View Exhibition

Mineral Rising

Luana Vitra Apr 30 – Jun 8, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 30 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 Mendes Woods DM presents Mineral Rising , the first solo exhibition by artist Luana Vitra in New York. Born in Contagem, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, Vitra has become one of the most prominent artists of her... View Exhibition

Erase the Silence

Antonio Obá Apr 27 – Jun 2, 2024 Germantown Archipelago Apr 27 – June 2, 2024 10 Church Avenue, Germantown, New York Open Saturday and Sunday, 12 – 4pm Archipelago is pleased to present Erase the Silence , an exhibition comprised of new drawings by the Brazilian artist Antonio Obá. Within Obá’s artistic practice, the act of drawing is... View Exhibition

The Color of Distance

Paulo Monteiro Apr 24 – May 18, 2024 Brussels In pursuit of a formal language reduced to the minimum of elements, Paulo Monteiro has conceived The Color of Distance , his first individual exhibition at Mendes Wood DM in Brussels. Serving as a spatial meditation, the exhibition presents a subtle arrangement of recent works in which color and its... View Exhibition

Peter Hujar Apr 6 – May 4, 2024 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Click here to book your visit. 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... View Exhibition

La Pensée Férale

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Apr 2 – May 26, 2024 Paris Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce La Pensée Férale , by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. Conceived as a two-part presentation, two solo exhibitions by the artist will take place in Paris concurrently, at Mendes Wood DM and Esther Schipper. A cornerstone of both exhibitions are works transposing the eye of... View Exhibition

Funduras

Solange Pessoa Apr 2 – May 11, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda O mundo – este arrepio concêtrico : olho fixo por onde toda a matéria contempla o espaço descentrado. The world – this concentric shiver: A fixed eye through which all matter contemplates decentered space. — Herberto Helder In Funduras , Solange Pessoa presents an unexpected quality of minerals: Weightlessness. The... View Exhibition

Bestiary & Idols

José Bedia Mar 15 – Apr 13, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 15 Mar - 13 Apr, 2024 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... View Exhibition

Against the Grain

Veronika Hapchenko Mar 15 – Apr 13, 2024 New York Mendes Wood DM New York 15 Mar - 13 Apr 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... View Exhibition

Leah Ke Yi Zheng Feb 24 – Apr 13, 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

The Mail Man

Osama Al Rayyan Feb 24 – Apr 13, 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,... View Exhibition

Noite longa

Paloma Bosquê Feb 23 – Mar 23, 2024 São Paulo, 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: Becoming a child of sand without realizing that... View Exhibition

Ode to Twisted Gods

Pol Taburet Feb 8 – Mar 16, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 which... View Exhibition

It's the way home that moves us away

Carla Zaccagnini & Runo Lagomarsino Feb 8 – Mar 16, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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

Plums, Under Cover

Kasper Bosmans Feb 1 – Mar 23, 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

Na Boca do Sol

Paulo Nimer Pjota Jan 27 – Mar 2, 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... View Exhibition

Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake)

Michael Dean Dec 2, 2023 – Jan 20, 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 Nov 25, 2023 – Jan 24, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Nov 25, 2023 – Jan 24, 2024 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Nov 24, 2023 – Feb 3, 2024 São Paulo, 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 Nov 10 – Dec 21, 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 Nov 4, 2023 – Feb 16, 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 Oct 14 – Nov 25, 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 ,... View Exhibition

Paulo Monteiro at Archipelago

Paulo Monteiro Sep 30 – Nov 19, 2023 Germantown 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 healing.... View Exhibition

La Pensée Ferale

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Sep 15 – Oct 27, 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,... View Exhibition

Estude fundo

Laís Amaral Sep 7 – Oct 28, 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... View Exhibition

Linhas Tortas

Curated by Diana Campbell Sep 2 – Nov 4, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Sep 2 – Nov 11, 2023 São Paulo, 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 Jul 29 – Aug 8, 2023 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement 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 Jul 1 – 30, 2023 Villa Era, Vigliano Biellese 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

Cheese Moon Nights

Santiago de Paoli at Archipelago Jun 24 – Aug 27, 2023 Germantown Archipelago Jun 24 — Aug 27, 2023 Santiago de Paoli was the second artist-in-residence at Archipelago Hudson Valley. 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... View Exhibition

Critical Mass

Patricia Ayres Jun 23 – Aug 5, 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... View Exhibition

Everything All At Once

Kent O'Connor Jun 23 – Aug 5, 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 Jun 2 – Aug 5, 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... View Exhibition

Do cômico e do trágico

Paulo Nimer Pjota May 27 – Aug 12, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 May 27 – Aug 12, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 May 12 – Jun 17, 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 Apr 19 – May 27, 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... View Exhibition

Human Nature

Alvaro Barrington Mar 30 – May 13, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda '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 Mar 30 – May 13, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Mar 23 – Apr 29, 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 Mar 20 – Apr 29, 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 Mar 11 – Apr 8, 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.... View Exhibition

The Gardener’s Son

Victor Bengtsson Mar 11 – Apr 8, 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 Feb 11 – Mar 11, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Feb 11 – Mar 11, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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... View Exhibition

Six Artists

Group Exhibition Feb 3 – Mar 5, 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 Feb 3 – Mar 5, 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... View Exhibition

Cinza das horas

Group Show Jan 21 – Feb 25, 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... View Exhibition

To Dream Oneself into Existence

Paloma Bosquê Nov 26, 2022 – Jan 14, 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 Nov 26, 2022 – Jan 14, 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 Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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... View Exhibition

Big paintings

Giangiacomo Rossetti Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Nov 16, 2022 – Jan 21, 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... View Exhibition

Paulo Nazareth at Archipelago

Paulo Nazareth Nov 12, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023 Germantown 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 Oct 15 – Nov 19, 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 Oct 15 – Nov 19, 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 Oct 14 – Nov 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 Oct 14 – Nov 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... View Exhibition

Dusk of the Gods

Vojtěch Kovařík Sep 9 – Oct 8, 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.... View Exhibition

Thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake

Miranda Fengyuan Zhang Sep 8 – Oct 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 Sep 8 – Oct 8, 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 Aug 28 – Nov 11, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Aug 27 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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... View Exhibition

Futurismo

Group Show Aug 20 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Jul 30 – Aug 7, 2022 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement 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 Jul 14 – Aug 12, 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

Jun 9 – Jul 27, 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 Jun 9 – Jul 27, 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 Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 May 6 – Jun 11, 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... View Exhibition

Heidi Bucher

Apr 26 – May 28, 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 Apr 22 – Nov 27, 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 Apr 2 – May 29, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 forms... View Exhibition

Frozen Gestures

Lynda Benglis Apr 2 – May 21, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Mar 19 – Apr 16, 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 still... View Exhibition

Philosophy of the World

Adriano Costa Mar 19 – Apr 16, 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 Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda -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 Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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... View Exhibition

Manikin

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Jan 22 – Mar 5, 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... View Exhibition

The sun and the moon

Federico Herrero Nov 27, 2021 – Jan 15, 2022 Brussels Mendes W​​​​ood 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 Nov 27, 2021 – Jan 15, 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 Nov 18, 2021 – Jan 29, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Nov 18, 2021 – Feb 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Nov 18, 2021 – Jan 21, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Oct 21 – Nov 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda 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 Oct 16 – Nov 20, 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 Oct 16 – Nov 20, 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 Oct 16 – Nov 20, 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 Sep 12 – Oct 9, 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

Sep 9 – Oct 9, 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

Alma Allen

Sep 9, 2021 – Jan 31, 2022 Van Buuren Museum & Gardens 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

Lágrima

Sonia Gomes Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present a solo show by artist Sonia Gomes, our latest exhibition at the Rua Consolação space in São Paulo. The current exhibition brings together five works produced during the 2020 pandemic. During her career, spanning 40 years, Gomes has twisted steel structures with the... View Exhibition

Assum Preto

Lucas Arruda Aug 21 – Oct 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition

flowers and holes (glory)

Adriano Costa Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda ‘Homem Burro’ [Dumb Man], a bronze sculpture by Adriano Costa, is pure synthesis. In this ‘small item of adoration, there is imbalance, light and a somber being’. The differences between these states also reflect the impermeable conditions that reign over the artist’s sculptures, drawings and paintings. Costa acts through discrepancy... View Exhibition

AKEWANI, Prece da Terra

Hariel Revignet Aug 21 – Sep 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda AKEWANI, Earth’s Prayer The poetics of Hariel Revignet draw on the construction of time-spaces able to activate cures for bodies that official narratives have configured as minorities, making use of affect as its process and/or practical action. As such, it is paramount to highlight that the artist’s research focuses on... View Exhibition

Days of Inertia

Group Show Jul 24 – Aug 12, 2021 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Alma Allen, Nina Canell, Michael Dean, Patricia Leite, Marina Perez Simão and Kishio Suga . Mendes Wood DM is returning to the Dutch seaside for its second summer exhibition in the 17th-century church of the idyllic village of Retranchement, on the... View Exhibition

O soar das horas

Paula Siebra Jul 17 – Aug 14, 2021 Nieuwe Gentweg 21, Bruges Nieuwe Gentweg 21 8000 Bruges Belgium In the hustle of everyday life, one will have to pay attention, yet when it is quiet, their sounds become unmistakable. For centuries, even longer, the bells of Bruges have clocked time, relentlessly partitioning subjective eternities into objectively measurable sections. During medieval times, and... View Exhibition

What Am I Doing Here

Zhenya Machneva Jun 26 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda What am I doing at the place I don’t belong to? What am I speaking about with the site that never will be mine? What am I trying to find measuring step by step the imaginary of the real world? – These could be the questions everyone faces when meeting... View Exhibition

Varda Caivano

Varda Caivano Jun 19 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Varda Caivano's first exhibition at the gallery’s Sao Paulo space. The exhibition brings together recent paintings andexplores the artist's evolving practice of abstraction. Caivano investigates moments of light and image, almost like an archeologist exploring fossilized rocks. Her work is at... View Exhibition

In the Thickets of Unexplored Places

Vojtěch Kovařík Jun 19 – Jul 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda For Czech artist, Vojtěch Kovařík, iconography and mythology are fundamental to his work. His large-format, forceful and vividly colored compositions result in impactful paintings that evoke the strength of sculpture. His herculean figures are contorted, seemingly defeated by the frame of the canvas, flaunting their blue, green, and yellow flesh... View Exhibition

Under the stairs and by the fire

Michael Dean Jun 12 – Aug 13, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to announce the first solo exhibition in Brussels by British artist Michael Dean, presenting eight new large-scale sculptures. The title of the show, Under the stairs and by the fire. , which intentionally sounds like the title of a novel or a period drama, refers... View Exhibition

Consequential Landscapes

Mimi Lauter Jun 12 – Aug 13, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is proud to announce Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter’s first solo exhibition in Europe, titled Consequential Landscapes . Bringing together over twenty new works, predominantly oil pastels and soft pastels on paper, but also oil on canvas and linen, the show plunges visitors headlong into Lauter’s... View Exhibition

Grand Entrance

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy May 31 – Jul 17, 2021 Villa Era, Vigliano Biellese The American-born, Paris-based artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy is occupying the ground floor of Villa Era with a site-specific project titled Grand Entrance . The starting point for the artist’s project is the concept of the Theatrum Mundi and his research into the lavish festivities that the Medici rulers were famous for... View Exhibition

Rebel Archives, curated by Sofia Gotti

Group Show May 31 – Jul 17, 2021 Villa Era, Vigliano Biellese Rosana Paulino, Anna Bella Geiger, Mirella Bentivoglio, Clemen Parrocchetti and Nedda Guidi. The archive can be a site of discovery, a space to trace origins and corroborate histories. Often perceived as neutral, the archive is also a place where history and collective memory are canonized. The artists featured in the... View Exhibition

The sun has not yet burned off the dew

Cassi Namoda May 3 – Jun 12, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Cassi Namoda, ‘The sun has not yet burned off the dew’ in Brazil. The Mozambican native artist narrates haunting tableaus of transience, transformation, and silent psychic rumination. Interweaving global spiritualism, religious aphorism, and patchwork tales of... View Exhibition

Outros Ofícios

Antonio Obá Apr 22 – Jun 6, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Outros Ofícios , the much anticipated first exhibition of work by Antonio Obá in the Brussels gallery space. This will be the first opportunity for European audiences to experience Obá’s practice in all its colorful complexity, not including a solo presentation at FIAC... View Exhibition

At The Luss House

Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing: Group Exhibition Apr 7 – Jul 24, 2021 New York At the Luss House Apr 7 — Jul 24, 2021 At The Luss House Takes Place in the Ossining, NY Midcentury Home of Gerald Luss, Designer Best Known for the Interiors of the Time-Life building. The Second Iteration of a Collaborative Exhibition within an Architect’s Own Home — Blum &... View Exhibition

Male Nudes

a salon from 1800 to 2021 Mar 13 – Apr 30, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the group exhibition Male Nudity: a salon from 1800 to 2021 . Intersecting representations of the male nude, the show proposes to reflect on the concepts of copy, imitation, image, time and decline. According to conventional historiography, the first representation of nudity in... View Exhibition

All About the Animal

Maaike Schoorel Mar 13 – Jun 19, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Maaike Schoorel’s second exhibition in Brazil. A ll about the animal brings together recent paintings which reflect on nature and illusion through light. Schoorel begins her paintings through photographing landscapes, diluting the shapes found in her images into layers of light.... View Exhibition

Tools for the Wonder Land

Rebecca Sharp Mar 11 – Apr 17, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to show its first presentation of work by Rebecca Sharp titled Tools for the Wonder Land , in collaboration with Sé Galeria, São Paulo. This group of paintings is part of a new artistic direction that Sharp has been following. Formerly used to expressive and... View Exhibition

THE THE SUN, BUT THE UNCOUNSCIOUS OF THE SUN

Sofia Borges Mar 11 – Apr 17, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present The Sun, The Sun, But The Unconscious Of The Sun , the first exhibition by Brazilian artist Sofia Borges in the Brussels gallery space. The show brings together works belonging to some of Borges’ most celebrated series made over the past three years,... View Exhibition

Arrebol

Paula Siebra Feb 2 – 20, 2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Feb 2 - Feb 20, 2021 Paula Siebra’s debut exhibition at Mendes Wood DM in New York is marked by a quiet and studious consideration for the often-discarded events of everyday. Her simple and still compositions enshrine or crystalize small moments of being; coffee and... View Exhibition

YES ! AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ ... AM

Soufiane Ababri Jan 23 – Feb 27, 2021 Brussels Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, is proud to present YES! AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ AÏ ... AM , an exhibition of drawings on paper by the Moroccan artist Soufiane Ababri. For this solo show, Ababri has taken as a point of departure a collection of critical essays by the... View Exhibition

Arrebalde

Paula Siebra Nov 30, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Paula Siebra has only recently begun exhibiting her work and this is her first exhibition in São Paulo. As a young artist based in Fortaleza (Ceará), she is still defining her areas of interest. Even though she paints contemporary subjects, her practice evokes the best of 20th-century Latin American painting.... View Exhibition

Vamos chamar o vento

Patricia Leite Nov 28, 2020 – Feb 1, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is delighted to present Patricia Leite’s fourth solo show at the gallery. Under the title Vamos chamar o vento [Let’s Call the Wind], the exhibition features oil pastel drawings, collages and recent paintings. In Leite’s early painting process, drawing is used as a departure point,... View Exhibition

Eleonore Koch: The Essential Painter

Eleonore Koch Nov 24, 2020 – Jan 16, 2021 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 24, 2020 - Jan 16, 2021 Mendes Wood DM, New York and Modern Art, London are proud to present two concurrent exhibitions devoted to German- Brazilian painter Eleonore Koch (1926-2018). The exhibitions bring together a group of works produced from the start of Koch’s... View Exhibition

noite não noite sim

Paloma Bosquê Nov 11, 2020 – Jan 31, 2021 São Paulo, Barra Funda noite não noite sim [one other night] , Paloma Bosquê’s third solo show at Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, presents a series of sculptural objects that, by placing in tension the distinction between the animate and the inanimate, reveal the strengthening of the artist’s relationship with the signs and matter... View Exhibition

Éveils Maritimes

Marina Perez Simão Oct 10, 2020 – Jan 20, 2021 Brussels Marina Perez Simão’s paintings are characterized above all by their intrinsic ambiguity. Operating between abstraction and figuration, her works are populated by mostly undefined forms, which are executed with fluid and sinuous brushstrokes. Despite this – or perhaps because of this – it is possible to broadly recognize them as... View Exhibition

Mendes Wood DM at Villa Era

Group Show Sep 26 – Nov 15, 2020 Villa Era, Vigliano Biellese Cristina Canale, Vojtěch Kovařík, Brice Guilbert and Paulo Nazareth. Mendes Wood DM is proud to announce three exhibitions of work by Cristina Canale, Vojtěch Kovařík, Brice Guilbert and an immersive sound installation by Paulo Nazareth, at Villa Era, a historic 19th-century house and estate in the Italian countryside, located between... View Exhibition

Memory as Architecture, Memory as Skin

Heidi Bucher Sep 15 – Nov 13, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents its first exhibition of Heidi Bucher’s work. Due to these singular times that we are living in, the show will, for the first time in our programme, articulate itself in two iterations, an online presentation that will be continued with... View Exhibition

At The Noyes House

Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM, and Object & Thing Sep 15 – Nov 28, 2020 New York At The Noyes House Sept - Nov 28, 2020 Once upon a time , a black beast lived in a little house in the woods. It kept its back arched against the sky, all the better for children to crawl on it – for the beast was friendly, and stood... View Exhibition

Meet me at the finger buffet

Fernando Marques Penteado Sep 3 – Oct 3, 2020 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Belgium of Brazilian-born, Brussels-based artist Fernando Marques Penteado. Meet me at the finger buffet draws its name from a narrative device, imagined by the artist, that underpins the entire exhibition and weaves a rich web of interconnections and... View Exhibition

Yellow Opening

Group Show Aug 1 – 22, 2020 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Solange Pessoa, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Monteiro, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Michael Dean, Lucas Arruda, Antonio Obá and Paulo Nimer Pjota. A wide array of works by Mendes Wood DM’s roster of international artists will be on display in a 17th-century church... View Exhibition

Binnenshuis

Group Show Jul 28 – Oct 3, 2020 Brussels Maaike Schoorel, Mamma Andersson and Louis Thevenet. Mendes Wood DM has been invited to collaborate with Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens for the 7th edition of the Biennial of Painting, by presenting an exhibition in its townhouse gallery in the Sablon. The Biennial’s theme is Binnenskamers, or Inner Spaces, which has been loosely... View Exhibition

Workspaces: redesigned through time

Group Show Jun 26 – Sep 1, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda Bossa Furniture and Mendes Wood DM present Workspaces: redesigned through time, an exhibition that explores the history of office spaces from 1950 until today. By gathering Brazilian designers and artists such as Geraldo de Barros, Anna Bella Geiger, Joaquim Tenreiro, Lorenzato, Jorge Zalzuspin, Rosana Paulino, Carlo Hauner and many others,... View Exhibition

EnormousBalls

Group Show Jun 13 – Jul 18, 2020 Brussels Adriano Costa, Fernando Marques Penteado, Sonia Gomes, Paulo Nazareth, Michael Dean, Celso Renato, Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, Kishio Suga, Solange Pessoa, Paloma Bosquê, Marina Perez Simão, Lucas Arruda, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Letícia Ramos, Iulia Nistor, Nina Canell, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Luiz Roque and Patricia Leite. The art world and the world at... View Exhibition

CONSTRUÇÃO

Group Show Feb 6 – Apr 30, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda Organized by Renato Silva Adriana Varejão, Adriano Costa, Ana Mendieta, Anna Bella Geiger, Antonio Dias, Antonio Obá, Carla Zaccagnini, Carlos Vergara, Claudia Andujar, Coco Fusco, Dalton Paula, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Deyson Gilbert, Doris Salcedo, Éder Oliveira, Fernanda Andrade, Flávio Cerqueira, Gustavo Speridião, Hariel Revignet, Jac Leirner, Lawrence Weiner, Lucas Arruda,... View Exhibition

Landscapes of the South

Group Exhibition Jan 30 – Apr 30, 2020 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jan 30 - Apr 30, 2020 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Landscapes of the South , a group exhibition themed around the representation of landscapes in South America. Comprised of works made between 1659 and 2019, the works on view were made by... View Exhibition

In the Sun and the Shade

Solange Pessoa Jan 22 – May 23, 2020 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present In the Sun and the Shade , the first European solo show of works by the Brazilian artist Solange Pessoa, coinciding with her acclaimed first solo institutional exhibition in the United States, currently on view at Ballroom Marfa. Utilizing the entirety of... View Exhibition

Bebê Rasteja

Santiago de Paoli Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Argentine artist Santiago de Paoli in Brazil. Bebê Rasteja brings together recent oil paintings on felt, copper, cardboard, plaster and wood. De Paoli develops his painting in a particular sphere of discussion about the image, bringing... View Exhibition

BÚFALA

Rosana Paulino Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM São Paulo presents BÚFALA (in Portuguese, female buffalo), Rosana Paulino’s first solo show at the gallery. The exhibition brings together recent and earlier works in which the São Paulo-born artist uses multiple media, such as drawing, textile and sculpture. Since the... View Exhibition

Veredas

Group Show Nov 23, 2019 – Jan 24, 2020 São Paulo, Barra Funda The Under and Over-Mapped: Nonada Nonada: with this word João Guimarães Rosa opens his seminal novel The Devil to Pay in the Backlands (1956). Contrary to speculation, nonada is an invented word. Portuguese dictionaries describe its as ‘next to nothing’ or ‘pittance’. However, the word can be considered an aiming... View Exhibition

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato

Nov 8, 2019 – Jan 15, 2020 Brussels Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, selected by Giangiacomo Rossetti Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, autodidact painter and straight shooter. He does not have schooling. He does not follow tendencies. He does not belong to churches. He paints as it comes. Amen – Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato, 1946 Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present... View Exhibition

Bones of the Men

Giangiacomo Rossetti Nov 8 – Jan 15, 2019 Brussels If we wish to grasp the things reflected, we touch nothing in the end but the mirror. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1881 In Bones of the Men Giangiacomo Rossetti exhibits, amongst other things, paintings of himself. He embeds his own image—and those of some of the people in his life—in a medley... View Exhibition

Paulo Monteiro

Paulo Monteiro Oct 29 – Dec 20, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 29 - Dec 20, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s first exhibition in New York, bringing together a new body of paintings and sculptures. Monteiro continues his ongoing reconciliation of the dual forms of painting and sculpture by constructing a... View Exhibition

In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day

Paloma Bosquê Sep 11 – Oct 19, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 11 - Oct 19, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day, an exhibition of new work by Paloma Bosquê. Paloma Bosquê is a sculptor who tends to put that talent in service of a wider,... View Exhibition

Two Hands on Earth

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Sep 5 – Oct 26, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM presents Two Hands on Earth , an exhibition of new works by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. Utilizing the gallery’s interior and period features, the show proposes a stage where the interconnectedness of the works and the gallery come into focus. Within this mise-en-scène, Lutz-Kinoy elaborates on his investigation into... View Exhibition

Conversations on limits and unlimits

Anna Boghiguian Aug 28 – Nov 14, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Women can’t write, women can’t paint but what have I done with my life? The truth should be spoken courageously I want to put into words but without description the existence of the cave that some time ago I painted-and I don't know how. To remake myself and remake you... View Exhibition

Après nous le déluge

Mimi Lauter Aug 24 – Nov 14, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Los Angeles-based artist Mimi Lauter's first solo exhibition in Brazil. Entitled Apres nous, le deluge, the exhibition brings together recent oil and soft pastel paintings on paper. The works are comprised of expansive fields of layered colors and swirling textures assembling... View Exhibition

Resilience and Reverberation

Leticia Ramos Jun 27 – Aug 24, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 27 - Aug 24, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Resiliency and Reverberation , the first solo exhibition in the United States by Brazilian artist Leticia Ramos. Her complex images synthesize technique and illusion by exploring the limits of analog photography. For... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim

Jun 8 – Aug 3, 2019 Brussels Following the exhibitions in our São Paulo and New York spaces, Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present a solo show of iconographic paintings and totems by Brazilian artist Rubem Valentim (Salvador, 1922 – São Paulo, 1991). Comprised of works made between the 1960s and the late 1980s, Valentim’s... View Exhibition

The Silence of Color

Sonia Gomes Jun 8 – Aug 3, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to announce The Silence of Color , Sonia Gomes’ first solo exhibition outside of Brazil. Gomes’ work binds together cultural movements and traditions that are intrinsically linked to the affirmation of memory, identity and the transformative power of creation in situations of vulnerability and... View Exhibition

THE ASHES, THE MIRROR, THE REVERSE OF BRIGHTNESS AND THE BECOMING OF FIRE

Sofia Borges Jun 4 – May 18, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Sofia Borges at the gallery. Working primarily with photography, the artist creates her images by combining and overlying the incognito in a constant process of excavation - often creating subtracted images from other images, thus proposing... View Exhibition

Parques e outros pretextos, curated by Camila Bechelany

Patricia Leite and Cristiano Rennó May 25 – Aug 14, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition

Hudson Bathers

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Apr 30 – Jun 15, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Apr 30 - Jun 15, 2019 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Hudson Bathers , an exhibition of new work by Matthew Lutz-Kinoy. For his first show at Mendes Wood DM in New York, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy fills the gallery with canvases that line the... View Exhibition

[A] LA FLEUR DE LA PEAU

Paulo Nazareth Apr 24 – Jun 1, 2019 Brussels On my mother’s saints: colonial cartographies and urgent epistemologies Throughout the journey of Paulo Nazareth’s [A] LA FLEUR DE LA PEAU it is impossible not to evoke the abyss metaphor suggested by Martiniquais writer Édouard Glissant in Poetics of Relations. The image of the ship operates as a place of... View Exhibition

Sentinela

Antonio Obá Apr 4 – May 18, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Antonio Obá develops his body of work through a road linking colonial Brazil and contemporary Brazil. Also, he walks on this road from the moment he begins to understand the black body and the black individual in the construction of history. This understanding came at the beginning of his relationship... View Exhibition

Francesco João

Mar 15 – Apr 15, 2019 Brussels TENSIONAL ABSTRACTION In 1983, American public television network PBS aired the first episode of The Joy of Painting , a half-hour instructional television show hosted by painter and television personality Bob Ross. In this show, which counted 403 episodes streamed every week from 1983 to 1994, Ross delivered short and... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim

Rubem Valentim Feb 27 – Apr 20, 2019 Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to present an exhibition of iconographic paintings, totems, reliefs, and tapestries by Rubem Valentim. Comprised of works made between 1969 and 1990, this exhibition brings together Valentim’s geometric abstractions which intertwine the modernist rationality of Constructivism with Brazilian popular culture. Valentim’s works are... View Exhibition

Questão de Ordem

Deyson Gilbert Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda The work of Deyson Gilbert is marked by the physical and formal tension to which his pieces are exposed; the way they interact with the spectator; and the presence of two or more elements (objects, graphic signs etc.) joined together by provisional fittings, oscillating points of support or openly impudent... View Exhibition

Fevereiro

Group Show Feb 9 – Mar 20, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the group show February, with the artist Camile Sproesser, Gokula Stoffel and Thomaz Rosa. Through painting in their different formalizations and researches, the artists express their deepening about the perennial issues of their time. Away from the ambition to rationalize or... View Exhibition

He Was, First of All, Water

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Jan 26 – Apr 13, 2019 Brussels Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (1978, Guatemala City) creates dream-like images that draw on literature, folklore, magic and childhood memories. His work is playful yet also alludes to tragic or traumatic events connected with contemporary Guatemala, especially the impact of the civil war (1960–1996). Ramírez-Figueroa’s performances and sculptures reference the human body and... View Exhibition

Two Forward, Three Back

Iulia Nistor Jan 26 – Mar 9, 2019 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present Two Forward, Three Back, an exhibition of new paintings by Iulia Nistor. In her first solo show in Belgium, the Romanian-born artist features the body of work Pieces of Evidence – oil on wood paintings that share the same format. The exhibition... View Exhibition

Lorenzato

Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato Jan 23 – Feb 16, 2019 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jan 23 - Feb 16, 2019 Mendes Wood DM, New York is pleased to present an exhibition of works by the seminal Brazilian painter Amadeo Luciano Lorenzato (1900–1995). Comprised of paintings made between 1973 and 1993, this exhibition marks his first solo presentation in the... View Exhibition

Sonia Gomes & Marga Ledora

Sonia Gomes Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present Sonia Gomes and Marga Ledora's duo exhibition at the gallery. Sonia Gomes works with sculpture and installations made with different materials from varied backgrounds – such as clothes and furniture – playing with potential combinations between them. Her compositions stem from... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the japanese artist Kishio Suga’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Kishio Suga is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, whose diverse and influential practice spans site-specific installation, assemblage, and performance. Suga, just as the whole generation of artists his period came... View Exhibition

Rubem Valentim Nov 24, 2018 – Jan 31, 2019 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Rubem Valentim in the gallery. Rubem Valentim began to produce work in the late 1940s. A self-taught painter. Valentim’s works unite various sources of Brazilian cultural heritage; referencing popular traditions from Northeastern ceramic production in Bahia... View Exhibition

Solange Pessoa

Solange Pessoa Nov 16 – Dec 16, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Dec 16, 2018 For her first solo exhibition in New York, Solange Pessoa (b. 1961) is exhibiting two bodies of work. New ceramic and bronze sculptures from the series Metaflor-Metaflora, from which vegetation and feathers spring forth, as well as the final... View Exhibition

Nightfall, curated by Erika Verzutti, Fernanda Brenner, and Milovan Farronato

Group Show Nov 7, 2018 – Jan 19, 2019 Brussels Lucas Arruda, Pedro Caetano, Adriano Costa, Paulo Nimer Pjota, Patricia Leite, Giangiacomo Rossetti, Erika Verzutti, Semiha Berksoy, Miriam Cahn, Tony Camargo, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Monster Chetwynd, Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, René Daniëls, Enrico David, Vincent Desiderio, Eliza Douglas, Nicole Eisenman, Bracha L. Ettinger, Celia Hempton, Rodrigo Hernández, Jacqueline de... View Exhibition

lusco – fusco

Patricia Leite Sep 19 – Oct 12, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 19 - Oct 12, 2018 Patricia Leite’s exhibition lusco-fusco [last light of the day] presents a new body of painting inspired by momentary meetings of darkness and light. Inviting us to grasp the sensation of an object alight, Leite portrays light alive with vibration,... View Exhibition

Inventory

Paloma Bosquê Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018 Brussels The thorough selection and handling of materials inform, on a large scale, Paloma Bosquê’s practice. Her delicate three-dimensional compositions are the outcome of empirical processes through which the artist aims to combine, mold and arrange elements from miscellaneous origins, revealing the poetic potential of matter in transformation. In her first... View Exhibition

Transition

Otobong Nkanga Sep 6 – Oct 20, 2018 Brussels The late Carl Sagan put our existence into perspective when he uttered the famous line “we are made of star-stuff.” Reflecting on her place in the universe, Otobong Nkanga remarks that “I was born into this planet, it was here before I arrived and hopefully it will still be here... View Exhibition

Daniel Steegmann Mnagrané Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition

Lucas Arruda

Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda I don’t know if you can hear it. We are all holding our breath. The gloves has been taken off him. There are four men in the corner Facing him Paret may draw a warning in the moment. Stretched out in the corner, just above us, in the neutral corner.... View Exhibition

TRECHERO

Paulo Nazareth Aug 18 – Nov 4, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda L'Arbre D'Oublier (Tree of Forgetfulness) 2013, video, 27'31 'During the slave trade from the African continent to America the men and women who were taken from their lands and arrived at the port of departure into an unknowing future - before crossing the Atlantic - had as their last alternative... View Exhibition

Natura Naturans

Group Exhibition Jun 26 – Aug 30, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jun 26 - Aug 30, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Natura Naturans, an exhibition which explores the dynamic interplay between nature and creative agency. The diverse group of artists whose work is gathered here, investigate nature beyond a fixed subject or finite... View Exhibition

Neutral Corner

Lucas Arruda Jun 8 – Jul 20, 2018 Brussels The work of few contemporary artists is able to evoke the sublime and have a tranquilizing effect the way Lucas Arruda paintings do. Where so many seem intent upon obstreperously embodying and conveying the infinite noise of the contemporary, his work has a way of all but shutting it out,... View Exhibition

Alface

Marcelo Cipis May 26 – Jul 28, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Alface, Marcelo Cipis’ first solo exhibition at the gallery. This show unites paintings from the 90s and recent works, and introduces the artist’s ruleless gaze, humorously questioning the duty of painting at times of mass production. The first room introduces some works from... View Exhibition

We Chose Life . What Now, Georg? Tshirts ?

Adriano Costa May 26 – Jul 28, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda You want to know about the show. What it will be ... good question. It's my second show in the main gallery room. I'll use two spaces, the back room as well. Which is really cool. The show has a lot of lack of control not only mine, but of... View Exhibition

Pele de Dentro

Antonio Obá May 1 – Jun 22, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 1 - Jun 22, 2018 The works that Antonio Obá has been developing over the years, a selection of which are in this exhibition, pass through various languages of the visual arts, such as his exquisite drawings that point out the exquisite mastery of... View Exhibition

Circa MMXVIII Human Landscape

Anna Bella Geiger Apr 18 – May 26, 2018 Brussels Letter: to Anna Bella Geiger The art world today is developing like a territory, a domain with unspoken rules and codes. The artist is hereby imperceptibly deployed as the seeming protagonist of an artistic caravan. The direction is unclear, but the caravan is moving, like a turbulent horde. The artist’s... View Exhibition

Resistance of a Body

Letícia Ramos Apr 18 – May 26, 2018 Brussels Letícia Ramos is a photographer-scientist, a traveler through the centuries, revisiting the inventions which changed the way we represent the world. Her work is frequently the result of a long process involving the development of devices and techniques to reach a certain goal, and her photographic images are the material... View Exhibition

Medley

Paulo Nimer Pjota Apr 7 – May 5, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of Paulo Nimer Pjota in the gallery. Continuing his research into the iconographic structures that comprise the collective imagination of art history and inhabit the universe of mass culture, the artist uses metal plates and raw canvas... View Exhibition

No element, however has the final word in the construction of the future

Runo Lagomarsino Apr 7 – May 17, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the third solo exhibition of the Swedish-Argentine artist Runo Lagomarsino. Lagomarsino unites new and previous works that elaborate on the legacy of colonialism, geopolitics, cultural boundaries andpower relations from an almost untraceable melancholic perspective. In the first room, the wall is... View Exhibition

Dadamaino

Dadamaino Feb 28 – Apr 24, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York February 28 – April 24, 2018 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Dadamaino’s frst solo exhibition in New York City. Dadamaino (b. Emilia Maino, 1930 – 2004) was a protagonist of the post-war Milanese avant-garde. Though often perceived as a solitary character, she was... View Exhibition

Ken Kagami & Trevor Shimizu Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Trevor Shimizu: Hi Ken, I am writing about our upcoming show together. It is our first show since 2012, HOT. Five years ago. What have you been up to since then? Ken Kagami: It's been five years since the HOT exhibition! I feel as though time has passed so quickly.... View Exhibition

rivieras___bags___scarves___alps

Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 23 – Mar 25, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present rivieras___bags___scarves___alps, the third individual exhibition of the Brazilian artist f.marquespenteado at the gallery. The artist invites the visitors on a journey to a distant place, of an old-fashion glamour, Rivieras and Alps, casinos, fiscal and touristic paradises. In his new series made from... View Exhibition

Our dog-eyes

Marina Perez Simão Feb 22 – Mar 23, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda I was born mathematician, wizard I was born poet. The cross on the forehead The dry laugh The scream I discover myself king Sequined by shadow The knives punching Time and sensibility – Hilda Hilst Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the fourth individual exhibition of the artist Marina... View Exhibition

Olha pro céu, meu amor

Patricia Leite Jan 19 – Apr 7, 2018 Brussels Les idées sont aux choses ce que les constellations sont aux planètes. Walter Benjamin To throw worlds at the world Caetano Veloso To write a text entails a search for words and expressions that are able to elaborate an idea that only exists as an image in one’s mind. From... View Exhibition

Muebles Manuel

Manuel Raeder Jan 19 – Apr 7, 2018 Brussels Mimolette is a process of the fermentation of ideas. The process consists of holding one’s breath, especially in those moments when one has so many thoughts and ideas that one’s head is about to explode. It is in that moment of almost explosion when the Mimolette effect has its best... View Exhibition

Polyethylene-Insulated Smear

Nina Canell Nov 25, 2017 – Jan 30, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda 'Ready to join the migration my mail might have gotten lost from server to floral chorus in a spam filter taking the infinitesimal conduction of trees into account in the process so that you don't think I'm entirely some sort of medieval hermit with vegetable metabolism marked unread on an... View Exhibition

Paulo Monteiro

Paulo Monteiro Nov 25, 2017 – Feb 2, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Paulo Monteiro’s third solo exhibition in the gallery. In a selection of sculptures and wall reliefs in cold porcelain, the artist revisits works in bronze from 1987 that record the form of the hands, wrist and fingers or, at other times, a body... View Exhibition

Eary Poise

Iulia Nistor Nov 25, 2017 – Jan 2, 2018 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Eary Poise , Iulia Nistor’s first solo exhibition in São Paulo. The artist introduces her new paintings on wood. These works are the result ofa method that consists in overlapping various layers of paint and repeatedly removing them with paper pressings and sandpaper.... View Exhibition

Celso Renato

Celso Renato Nov 14, 2017 – Jan 16, 2018 New York Mendes Wood DM New York November 14, 2017 - January 16, 2018 Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo exhibition by Minas Gerais artist Celso Renato (1919 – 1992) in the last 20 years. His career as an artist began when he was middle-aged, starting in... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Oct 13 – Dec 16, 2017 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present Kishio Suga’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. Kishio Suga is one of Japan’s most celebrated artists, whose diverse and influential practice spans site-specific installation, assemblage, and performance. His career began in 1968, when he started making ephemeral installations out of natural and... View Exhibition

Them inside the skin

Mariana Castillo Deball Oct 13 – Dec 16, 2017 Brussels They arrived and the man appeared. He was a deer. He came closer and they cut up his flesh. They gathered wasps, hornets and bees and stuffed them inside the skin, [they left the skin there] and went home. When they gave the meat to their mother she said: Have... View Exhibition

20xx

Neïl Beloufa Sep 27 – Nov 12, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present 20xx, Neïl Beloufa’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Revolving around the multiple paradoxes inherent to our consumer culture, the artist presents a series of new works that appropriate commercial images in order to look at contemporary systems of representation. He shows a... View Exhibition

Batatas-Pedras

Wilfredo Prieto Sep 27 – Nov 12, 2017 We can gather that the set of works presented by Wilfredo Prieto in his first exhibition at the Mendes Wood DM gallery establishes itself at the cornerstones of duality. The distinct objects that echo in chain, at times intermittent and often peremptory, transfer to the spectator a silence that instigates... View Exhibition

INNOMINATE

Paulo Nazareth Sep 18 – Nov 11, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York September 18 – November 11, 2017 Paulo Nazareth (b. 1977, Brazil) often draws on his Afro-Brazilian and Native American heritage to investigate social constructions of race and identity. Celebrated for his complex, multi-year walk performances – his three year walk from Brazil to New York... View Exhibition

Heron

Prem Sahib Sep 7 – Oct 7, 2017 Brussels It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM Brussels presents Heron , Prem Sahib’s first solo exhibition in Brussels. The artist has occupied the gallery’s two floors with installations and sculptures that utilize different materials, including glass, metal and ceramic tiles, many of which are found in the interiors... View Exhibition

The Modern Years

Luiz Roque Sep 7 – Oct 7, 2017 Brussels Mendes Wood DM Brussels is pleased to present The Modern Years , Luiz Roque’s first solo exhibition in Belgium. The artist presents three films throughout the house – Modern, S, and Rio de Janeiro – all of which draw from his research on modern sculpture and various ways to express... View Exhibition

Hall

Luiz Roque Aug 12 – Sep 16, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda A hall is a hall: An architectural element that works as a division between the centre of a building and its exterior. The immediate space after the entrance, designed to welcome, to provide shelter to strangers and first contact with familiar faces before entering the comfort of home. Here, the... View Exhibition

Wrong Happy Hour

Aki Sasamoto Aug 12 – Sep 16, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents the first solo exhibition by Japanese artist Aki Sasamoto in Brazil. The show springs from a performance titled Wrong Happy Hour . For this project, the artist has gathered drawings, installations, videos and performances. Sasamoto’s practice draws on the common... View Exhibition

Condominium

Giulio Delvè Jun 29 – Aug 5, 2017 Brussels In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside – there were the same ruthlessness and aggression concealed within a set of polite conventions. – J.G. Ballard Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Condominium , Giulio Delvè’s first solo exhibition in Brussels. The presentation... View Exhibition

The history in repeat mode — image

Paulo Nimer Pjota Jun 29 – Aug 5, 2017 Brussels Paulo Nimer Pjota’s work is developed based on the nature of collectively originated phenomena. His research and practice concentrate on a profound study of a kind of popular iconography which can only be developed through complex processes conducted by countless sets of hands. We can thus think of his body... View Exhibition

Planisphere

Letícia Ramos May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Before you got here In the book The Lost World, we have an unnamed character who is present in all its 587 pages. It is a voice in first person binding the narrative which becomes increasingly dense throughout the book’s only two chapters: Origins and Organisation . The book tells... View Exhibition

True Myths

Julie Beaufils May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to feature the project True Myths of French artist Julie Beaufils in Brazil. Based on an observation of the city as an organism in function of time, the artist displays a series of paintings that the spectator could observe as an exercise of temporal displacement.... View Exhibition

The Telomeric Cut

Felipe Meres May 25 – Jul 29, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present The Telomeric Cut, Felipe Meres’s first project in Sao Paulo. Working across media, Meres’s work weaves entanglements between scientific desire and the indeterminate matter that ceaselessly evades its grasp. The exhibition features all new work, including a series of microscopic images that unfurl... View Exhibition

Neither., curated by Fernanda Brenner

Group Show Apr 18 – Jun 17, 2017 Brussels Adriano Costa, Sonia Gomes, Lucas Arruda, Luiz Roque, Patricia Leite, Paloma Bosquê, Mariana Castillo Deball, Nina Canell, Kasper Bosmans, Fernando Marques Penteado, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Michael Dean, Erika Verzutti, Otobong Nkanga, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Francesco João, Hamza Halloubi, Dan Coopey, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Manuel Raeder, Christina Mackie, Rodrigo Hernández, Djordje Ozbolt, Meriç Algün... View Exhibition

Dadamaino

Apr 8 – Jun 14, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the Italian artist Dadamaino’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. As one of the few women active in the artistic scene of her time, Dadamaino became a powerful voice in the context of social and cultural transformations and established a direct dialogue with the... View Exhibition

Old Hope

Paulo Nazareth Apr 8 – May 20, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Paulo Nazareth’s third exhibition at the gallery. The artist lives and works in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The show brings together recent works that question aspects of Brazilian art history from the modernist period until today; the commercialisation resulting from the... View Exhibition

Days and Horizons 

Lucas Arruda & On Kawara Mar 3 – Apr 29, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York March 3 — April 29, 2017 What at might first seem to be an unusual pairing –  the date paintings of conceptualism ’ s late-great existentialist On Kawara, and a Brazilian painter born in 1980 who is predominantly given to depicting imaginary seascape horizon lines... View Exhibition

Antônio Obá

Feb 18 – Mar 26, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to present the first solo show in São Paulo by the artist Antônio Obá. The artworks exhibited encompass a diversity of supports and media, such as painting, monotype, installation and performance. The artist incorporates Brazilian religious icons to question a racial and political identity... View Exhibition

Fire Sale

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 18 – Mar 25, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda SOCIAL FANTASY (Mousse Magazine #56) Matthew Lutz-Kinoy interviewed by Tenzing Barshee TB: How’s the weather in São Paulo? MLK: It was really sunny. But now it’s raining every day. TB: This is the third time you’ve traveled to Brazil to make art. What kind of work did you make the... View Exhibition

Donkey Man

Alessandro Carano & Francesco João Scavarda Feb 18 – Mar 25, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents the exhibition of the Italian artist Alessandro Carano and the Italian-Brazilian artist Francesco João Scavarda at the gallery. The artists declare: Individually, our works don’t have much in common, but we both work with an idea of the sublime that... View Exhibition

HIC SVNT DRACONES

A.R. Penck & Sonia Gomes Feb 5 – Jun 30, 2017 New York Mendes Wood DM New York May 2 – June 30, 2017 HIC SVNT DRACONES is pleased to present Sonia Gomes and A.R. Penck , an exhibition of sculptures by two iconic artists exploring mixed media with an emphasis on fabric-based works, aluminum foil and wood. While Penck explores new systems... View Exhibition

Solange Pessoa

Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Solange Pessoa: memória e desencanto Minas não há mais – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Minas Gerais tem fraudes, tem quimeras – Paulo Mendes Campos Há no trabalho de Solange Pessoa um acentuado sentimento ruinoso em relação ao tempo e sua ação. A memória que perpassa sua produção está ligada sobretudo... View Exhibition

Resonating Surfaces

Group Show Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Aleta Valente, Björn Braun, Bruce Nauman, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, David Bestué, Deyson Gilbert, Dominique González-Foerster, Dora Garcia, Franz Erhard Walther, Ignasi Aballí, Jac Leirner, Jason Dodge, Josh Tonsfeldt, Lawrence Weiner, Lenora de Barros, Lucas Arruda, Luis Bisbe, Lygia Clark, Manon de Boer, Pablo Alonso, Pablo Pijnappel, Pamela Rosenkranz, Paulo Monteiro,... View Exhibition

Circa MMXVI New and previews works

Anna Bella Geiger Oct 15 – Dec 12, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Ana Bella Geiger’s second solo show at the gallery‭. ‬Geiger is a painter‭, ‬an engraver‭, ‬illustrator‭, ‬multidisciplinary artist‭, ‬lecturer and an almost sculptor‭. ‬Beginning her career in the 1950s‭, ‬the artist took part in the 1st National Exhibition of Abstract... View Exhibition

Track Changes

by Plan B Sep 9 – Oct 30, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by Plan B Ioana Batranu, Rudolf Bone, Sorin Campan, Victor Ciato, Horia Damian, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Adrian Ghenie, Octav Grigorescu, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Iulia Nistor, Miklos Onucsan, Serban Savu The exhibition Track Changes takes the model of a boîte-en-valise show‭, ‬following the program of Galeria Plan B through a... View Exhibition

Field

Paloma Bosquê Aug 13 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Her research draws largely on her daily practice in the studio. In this environment, Bosquê handles and freely associates different materials , creating original compositions and developing specific methods to combine, juxtapose and join elements that are unlikely to occupy the same space in a different context. Brass, felt, bronze,... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo as above, so below

Lucas Arruda Aug 8 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Lucas Arruda’s third solo exhibition Deserto-Modelo as above so below. The first room introduces an installation that combines light and paint, where the light’s temperature and intensity are orchestrated over a period of nine minutes. The artist investigates the relationship... View Exhibition

James Lee Byars

May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo show by American artist James Lee Byars in South America. The exhibition features a series of marble sculptures shown in display case/installations, as well as works created on paper. A search for the ephemerality of beauty and the minimalism... View Exhibition

A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster

Cibelle Cavalli Bastos May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery. In her new series, the artist works with video installations, latex sculptures, ceramics, paintings and other media, bringing to the center of... View Exhibition

Prediction

Group show May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by Milovan Farronato Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Adriano Costa, Raúl De Nieves, Patrizio di Massimo, f.marquespenteado, Chiara Fumai, Celia Hampton, George Henry Longly, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Zhana Ivanova, Goshka Macuga, Solange Pessoa, Liliana Moro, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Mathilde Rosier, Prem Sahib, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Santo Tolone, Erika Verzutti,... View Exhibition

Lines in Wefts

Sonia Gomes Apr 9 – Aug 8, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of announcing Lines in wefts , the third exhibition of Sonia Gomes's work at the São Paulo gallery. Gomes made a name for herself in recent years for work in which the interplay of found or donated objects transforms them into sculptures. After several... View Exhibition

On The Line

Haroon Gunn-Salie Apr 9 – Jun 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting On The Line , the solo exhibition of the South African artist Haroon Gunn-Salie. The show groups a series of artworks drawing parallels between the Global South. The artworks re-appropriate everyday memorials and silent monuments, shoes hanging off street poles and telephone... View Exhibition

Synthesis between contradictory ideas and the plurality of the object as image I

Paulo Nimer Pjota Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda A common atmosphere of collectively composed panels – including street murals, vernacular constructions and public bathrooms -- permeate Paulo Nimer Pjota's entire body of work. By leading a study of popular iconography that deliberately seems conducted by multiple hands, the artist produces in the tension between randomness and a meticulous... View Exhibition

bárbara balaclava

Thiago Martins de Melo Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda When observing Thiago Martins de Melo's body of work over time , one notices a decantation of various aspects, which now culminates in the series “ bárbara balaclava.” Martins de Melo's paintings were never actually just two-dimensional. Much like a reading of his work could not be described as strictly... View Exhibition

Eight Artists

Group show Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Alexandre Wagner Anderson Godinho Elvis Almeida Luís Teixeira Marcelo Jarosz Samuel Rodrigues Thomaz Rosa Yasmin Guimarães View Exhibition

Kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Nov 26, 2015 – Jan 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting Reino de todos os animais e de todos os bichos é meu nome [ Kingdom of all the animals and all the beasts is my name ], the third solo exhibition at the gallery by Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané. The set... View Exhibition

Every Camel Tells A Story

Adriano Costa Nov 11, 2015 – Jan 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Igniting a tension between humor and the political, Adriano Costa exposes the nuances of the cultural value systems placed on objects. His works are not governed by specific rules or ideas, instead, they inhabit a realm of neutrality, incorporating disparate materials such as concrete, paper, bronze, cloth, wire, wood, and... View Exhibition

The Inside of Distance

Paulo Monteiro Oct 3 – Nov 7, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the São Paulo artist Paulo Monteiro's second solo exhibition at the gallery. Monteiro began working as an artist in 1977, drawing comic strips in a style influenced by cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and George McManus and the renowned Brazilian caricaturist Luiz... View Exhibition

The Stamp of Anything or That part which never bears leaves or reproductive organs, ordinarily underneath and descending

Michael Dean Oct 3 – Nov 11, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Es war Erde in ihnen Paul Celan (1963) Es war Erde in ihnen, und sie gruben. Sie gruben und gruben, so ging ihr Tag dahin, ihre Nacht. Und sie lobten nicht Gott, der, so hörten sie, alles dies wollte, der, so hörten sie, alles dies wusste. Sie gruben und hörten... View Exhibition

Lacuna

Runo Lagomarsino Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present the second solo show of Swedish-Argentinian artist Runo Lagomarsino. Avi Alpert writes specially for the show: Ordinary Language Photography: Runo Lagomarsino's Lacuna Thinking about the works in this show, I began to ask myself: What does it mean to have an experience of... View Exhibition

Viva la Juicy

Stewart Uoo Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure to present Viva la Juicy the fisrt solo show by American artist Stewart Uoo in Brazil. Andrew Durbin writes specially for this exhibition, I used to go to a restaurant called Earth Matters to think. Located on the Lower East Side, it was a... View Exhibition

Work Over Time

Allyson Vieira Aug 15 – Sep 25, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo show of American artist Allyson Vieira in Brazil. 'Work Over Time ' is a new body of sculptural work produced during her two-month residence in the city of São Paulo.  In this exhibition Vieira once again confronts the relationship between... View Exhibition

Solange Pessoa

May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Minas Gerais born artist Solange Pessoa's first solo show at the gallery. Pessoa holds her degree from the Guinard School of Art at Minas Gerais State University, where she has taught sculpture since 1993. Pessoa has built an artistic career over more than... View Exhibition

Princess Pompom in The Villa of Falling Flowers

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda At the core of Matthew Lutz-Kinoy’s practice is the performance-based production of fantastic space. Deeply influenced by histories of collaborative and queer practice, his research-based performances have taken shape as multi-act dance productions, traveling dinner parties, and programmed events within his exhibitions. Princess PomPom in the Villa of Falling Flowers... View Exhibition

Part Time Nuns

Lucy Dodd May 28 – Aug 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the world Sweet the rain's new fall, sunlit from Heaven Like the first dewfall on the first grass Praise for the sweetness... View Exhibition

The Grass is Singing

Group Show Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by The Modern Institute Luke Fowler, Eva Rothschild, Hayley Tompkins, Sue Tompkins, Richard Wright, Martin Boyce The Grass is Singing makes reference to the T. S. Eliot poem Waste Land (1922), and subsequently the 1950s novel by Doris Lessing. Eliot’s poem blends antique myths and representations of contemporary society,... View Exhibition

Celso Renato

Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo exhibition by Minas Gerais artist Celso Renato (1919 – 1992) in the last 20 years. His career as an artist began when he was middle-aged, starting in the 1970s and '80s – the period in which his work took... View Exhibition

Saudade do Brasil

Patricia Leite Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Saudade do Brasil (1920) is the title of a suite of twelve dances for piano composed by Darius Milhaud after his stay in Brazil from 1917 to 1918. The dances are named for places in Brazil, referring to the landscapes of Rio which enchanted him while he served on a... View Exhibition

Betty Woodman

Apr 11 – May 23, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting American artist Betty Woodman's first solo exhibition in Latin America. The universe presented in this project is part of a more than 50-year process of refinement and expansion in her techniques, as well as a study of the limits between painting and... View Exhibition

Poem N° 00000000000000000,9

Group Show Mar 10 – Jul 7, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by Supportico Lopez for Mendes Wood DM Julian Beck, Henri Chopin, Adriano Costa, Lenora de Barros, Natalie Häusler, James Hoff, Karl Holmqvist, Gregorio Magnani, Zin Taylor It is impossible one cannot continue with the all powerful Word, the Word that reigns over all. One cannot continue to admit it... View Exhibition

travel journal of uncataloged landscapes. location/date: 3006AHK/200 years before 200 years later

Marina Perez Simão Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the third solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Marina Perez Simão to be held at the gallery. There is no question that every observed landscape resides on two distinct and complementary planes; it exists in itself as well as in its context, in... View Exhibition

Primeira Pedra

Matheus Rocha Pitta Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting Primeira Pedra [ First Stone ], the second solo show of Brazilian artist Matheus Rocha Pitta to be held at the gallery. The sculpture for which the exhibition is named consists of small concrete cubes produced in series. Sized perfectly to fit... View Exhibition

TraysForFlotation

Adriano Amaral Feb 28 – Mar 28, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda An observation of Adriano Amaral’s creations and his work process is equally pleasurable and dense. The artist’s creative environment embodies a universe of references which, in one way or another, seem to always point to things internal and prior to humanity itself, whether in time, in space or simply in... View Exhibition

non ducorocud non ou impugnação, plebiscito e legastenia

Deyson Gilbert Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda View Exhibition

3 novels

Fernando Marques Penteado Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 1, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Love creates plots which in turn define the destinies of its subjects, both courting and displeasing those who become involved in it. Life is the arena for these love stories, a play staged outdoors. 3 novels amplifies fictional stories that grew out of the narrator's love-life with three of his... View Exhibition

Being blonde with insufficient funds (transpirations of a virgin)

Florian Meisenberg Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 30, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Man is born with feet, but wings he must grow himself. The longer and stronger the wings become, the less the feet leave traces on the earth. The same applies to artists – the higher they fly with the help of the wings they grew, the less signifiers they leave... View Exhibition

The Plutonian House

Maria Loboda Nov 29, 2014 – Jan 30, 2015 São Paulo, Barra Funda Unlike what the title might suggest, Maria Loboda’s Witch's Ladder isn't something that can be climbed up and down. The feathers attached to the rope, which resemble steps, correspond to each of the spells proffered by a witch, who later hides the rope under the bed of the person she... View Exhibition

Doble Eclipse

Guillermo Kuitca Oct 30 – Nov 22, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda After 15 years without showing in Brazil, one of the greatest Argentine painters, Guillermo Kuitca, has returned to the country for a highly significant stint of exhibitions in 2014. After a group show at Casa Daros, in May, and the retrospective show now running at the Pinacoteca do Estado de... View Exhibition

Circa MMXIV: Imagination is an Act of Freedom

Anna Bella Geiger Oct 10 – Nov 11, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Anna Bella Geiger is one of the most important Brazilian artists of the 20th century. Her work features a rich diversity of media and procedures and, like her singular biography, it always surprises us the deeper we delve. Anna Bella is one of the most experimental artists in the history... View Exhibition

Somewhere São Paulo

Lawrence Weiner Sep 6 – Oct 4, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda In the São Paulo metropolis, there are no historical traditions that can fully guarantee a relation between the buildings, their contexts and meanings. Thus, what happened to the oldest – and most significant – monument in São Paulo’s history, the bicentenary Obelisco da Memória (Memory Obelisk), is symptomatic. Its task... View Exhibition

Nascer Uma Vez Após a Outra

Sonia Gomes Aug 31 – Oct 4, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda I made these pieces because I need protection. nests. but this thought, about why I made, or make, them came later. it's funny, first I make them, then I think about them. I believe that the things in our subconscious are much more important than the act of thinking. Each... View Exhibition

From La Voie Humide

Tunga Aug 31 – Oct 22, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Orpheus, a Thracian, was born to Calliope, mother of muses, and Dionysius, god of wine, merrymaking, epiphany and ritual madness. An uncommon man, he descended into the world of Death to retrieve his lost love Eurydice, suspending all challenges with his song – from the three-headed guard dog Cerberus, who... View Exhibition

Permanent Playfulness, curated by Camilla Barella

Aug 31 – Oct 14, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present English artist Michael Dean’s first exhibition in Brazil, Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying . The exhibition gathers nearly fifteen sculptures and marks the opening of the gallery’s new space in Vila Romana. Occupying the space with an almost megalithic solemnity, Dean’s sculptures... View Exhibition

Che Cherera

Paulo Nazareth Aug 31 – Oct 25, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda In the show Che Cherera , (from the Kaiowa for my name ) Paulo presents part of Notebooks of Africa [1], a number of impressions of Africa from there here, of Africa from here there, and of our own Africa with its other developments. Different from the literal sense we... View Exhibition

Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi

Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Ken Okiishi & Nick Mauss have been working together since they met in art school (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York) in 1998. Their collaborative works emerge from a continuous dialogue they have while working as individual artists as well. The artworks materialize –... View Exhibition

Jack Pierson

Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Like a monument made of crepon paper and silver Exploring the sidewalks of São Paulo’s Avenida Paulista, Jack Pierson brought to life his first solo show in Brazil entitled You Don’t Own Me , a nod to Lesley Gore’s 1963 song. He asked street vendors to purchase their stands, their... View Exhibition

VOSTOK – Screening #1

Letícia Ramos Aug 9 – 27, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda The I Ching, known as The Book of Changes , a cornerstone of the eastern cannon, became a source for consultation and an oracle, for various strategic actions adopted by different dictatorships and military governments – subverting its real intention. When it was translated to English in the early 20th... View Exhibition

The Two Scene

Jesse Ash May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present The Two Scene , the first solo exhibition of the British artist Jesse Ash in Brazil. In collaboration with curator Carly McGoldrick, the exhibition forms the next phase of Avoidance–Avoidance (A Project of Transparency) , so far held at venues Index – Swedish... View Exhibition

Superlatives and Resolutions

Neïl Beloufa May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Superlatives and Resolutions , the first solo exhibition of French-Algerian artist Neïl Beloufa in Brazil. The show is a singular combination of various pieces Neïl Beloufa has reorganized in relation to the exhibition space. The artist here has build an multi-layered piece that... View Exhibition

Warmilk

Blake Rayne May 31 – Jun 26, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Warmilk the first solo exhibition of the North-American artist Blake Rayne in Brazil. Born in 1969, in Delaware, USA, Blake Rayne is acknowledged to be one of the principal artists of his generation. Art historian David Joselit defined once Blake Rayne’s generation as... View Exhibition

A step under

Paloma Bosquê Apr 5 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda By taking back the urban hermits, Paloma Bosquê presents, in her first solo exhibition – A step under –, pieces she has been developing in the basement of her building throughout the years. Not so restrained in her iconography, like Lucas Arruda, she also seems to establish a dialogue with... View Exhibition

S Título C Amor From Me To U

Adriano Costa Apr 5 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Adriano Costa is multiple. There are many Adrianos Costas inside Adriano Costa. I mean how the work of Adriano appears in the world. I feel like saying it is anarchic, but that would be imprecise. The anarchy lies on appearance. This is the wrong impression I get from Adriano’s work.... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo

Lucas Arruda Apr 4 – May 3, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda The pieces by Lucas Arruda are about memory in the first place, before being landscape painting. They are memories built inside the atelier, not outdoors. They are more characterized as moments of the artist instead of nature: a second content deriving from the first one. There is the will to... View Exhibition

DCVXVI

Deyson Gilbert Feb 15 – Mar 22, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is really hot, right? Yes, really hot. Well, I propose we begin with the basic protocol: what is the title of the exhibition and what is the plan? The exhibition is named after the main set of presented pieces: a series of paintings and objects I developed from 2003... View Exhibition

Collage

David Salle Feb 15 – Mar 22, 2014 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Collage , the first solo exhibition of American artist David Salle in Brazil. The show in São Paulo will be an international debut of a new series of 15 collages along with a selection of paintings. It highlights a body of work which... View Exhibition

Teatro Nagô-cartesiano e o Corte Azimutal do Mundo

Thiago Martins de Melo Nov 23 – Dec 20, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present 'Teatro Nagô-cartesiano e o Corte Azimutal do Mundo' Brazilian artist based in Sao Luis Thiago Martins de Melo second solo show at the gallery. Among the Brazilian artists currently practicing in the field of painting, Thiago Martins de Melo applies himself most notably... View Exhibition

Seams & Interruptions

John Stezaker Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Seams and Interruptions, British artist John Stezaker’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. The show brings together over 20 new works from his Masks, Marriage, Tabula Rasa and Film Still Collage series. Stezaker bought his first film still in 1973 and has spent the... View Exhibition

Palavra e pedra solta não têm volta

Mariana Castillo Deball Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of the artist Mariana Castillo Deball at the gallery. In this exhibition, Castillo Deball touches a series of questions related to printing, drawing, and sculpture; attempts to make a perceptual experience last as a trace, a memory, an image... View Exhibition

Vendas de sorvete provocam ataques de tubarão

Roberto Winter Nov 21 – Dec 21, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda By the end of the 19th century, during the transition period known as the Industrial Revolution, the eight-hour day movement emerged in England. Its main demand was the reduction of the workday to eight hours (at a time when working ten to sixteen hours a day was the norm). According... View Exhibition

Do Avesso

Paulo Monteiro Sep 28 – Nov 19, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda The recent exhibition of Paulo Monteiro is one of his most inventive. The artist unfolds the questions of his work in different means and absorbs new meanings from the ungovernable paste with which he has been working for years. Many of the canvases are almost monochromatic, made of a thick... View Exhibition

Antena

Luis Gispert Aug 10 – Sep 14, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Antena , Cuban-American artist Luis Gispert’s first solo exhibition in Brazil. Through photographs that have a close technical connection to his sculptures and ready-mades, the exhibition portrays his obsession with the Caribbean modernism, the Black Power movement in America and the correlation of... View Exhibition

Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying

Michael Dean Aug 10 – Sep 5, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present English artist Michael Dean’s first exhibition in Brazil, Sounds of Fucking, Sounds of Dying . The exhibition gathers nearly fifteen sculptures and marks the opening of the gallery’s new space in Vila Romana. Occupying the space with an almost megalithic solemnity, Dean’s sculptures... View Exhibition

Gringo

Pedro Wirz Aug 10 – Sep 14, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Gringo marks the first solo presentation of Pedro Wirz in the country. Born and raised in Brazil, he left his native São Paulo eight years ago to pursue an art education in Europe. Curious to reconnect with the story and origins of his Swiss paternal grandfather, from whom he inherited... View Exhibition

Noite Azul Elétrico

Group show Jun 22 – Jul 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda The Night. The exhibition takes place from the 22nd of June to the 27th of July. Precisely during the southern hemisphere’s winter solstice. The period when the nights are longer and the days consequently shorter. The nights are perfect to tell a story, to wander rudderlessly, like a ship, to... View Exhibition

We have everything, but that’s all we have

Runo Lagomarsino May 4 – Jun 15, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present We have everything, but that’s all we have . Swedish artist based in São Paulo, Runo Lagomarsino’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. From the first moment I thought about this text or, more precisely, about a text, not this one, but one... View Exhibition

Conservatory

Maaike Schoorel May 4 – Jun 15, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Conservatorio (Conservatory) , the first solo exhibition of Maaike Schoorel in collaboration with curator Carolyn H Drake in São Paulo. Conservatory brings together an entire new body of work dedicated to female archetypes and mythical figures; Eve, Gaia, Circe and the Odalisque. Through... View Exhibition

Phasmides

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to present Phasmides , Catalan artist Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's second solo show at the gallery. His new body of work explores ideas of drawing, abstraction, geometry, corporality and immateriality. At the heart of the exhibition is Phasmides , a 16mm film that follows a family... View Exhibition

On Sociology (The Civilization of Speculation)

Stefan Bruggemann Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Mexican artist Stefan Brüggemann’s first exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition will take place in partnership with Pivô, an artist-run project space in Oscar Niemeyer’s landmark Copan building in downtown São Paulo. On Sociology (The Civilization of Speculation) expands on the artist’s longstanding interest... View Exhibition

Disorder | Composition of Voice

Falke Pisano Apr 6 – 27, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is delighted to announce Dutch artist Falke Pisano's first exhibition at the gallery. The artist has developed a new installation as part of her current cycle of works entitled The Body in Crisis (2011). The installation, which breaks up the space of the East Room, consists of... View Exhibition

David Adamo Mar 2 – 23, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present American artist David Adamo’s first exhibition in Brazil. The exhibition will take place in partnership with Pivô an artist-run project space in Oscar Niemeyer’s landmark Copan building in downtown São Paulo. Adamo is known for his humorous and personable approach to sculpture, which... View Exhibition

Denominador Comum

Fernando Marques Penteado Feb 2 – Mar 2, 2013 São Paulo, Barra Funda f.marquespenteado’s solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM is a testament to the passage of the artist’s time. The works on view evoke hand-made embroidery – the medium of choice in his series common denominator. The exteremely detailed nature of the stiches of the embroideries are the result of long, intensive... View Exhibition

Paulo Nimer Pjota

Dec 1 – 22, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curator Gunnar Kvaran writes about Pjota’s practice: Plants, crystals, skulls, flowers, human bodies, fishes, mechanical objects, crabs, body parts, isolated words and phrases float around in a variety of scales and sizes on the surface of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s canvases, seemingly in a haphazard and serendipitous way. His iconography comes... View Exhibition

Deserto-Modelo

Lucas Arruda Oct 10 – Nov 24, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is excited to present Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist's recent work insists on the genre of landscape painting – a genre that interests him for its openness and the possibility it provides of exploring abstraction within figuration. Many of the paintings... View Exhibition

Notícias de América

Paulo Nazareth May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda After a journey of several thousand miles through more than 15 countries in the Americas, Paulo Nazareth returns to Brazil to present Noticias de America [News from the Americas]. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil in March of 2011 and made his way northward on foot and by bus, arriving inthe... View Exhibition

Plantation

Adriano Costa May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is delighted to announce Plantation , Sao Paulo based artist Adriano Costas’s first solo show at the gallery. With Plantation , Costa brings together an array of sculptures in fabric, concrete, metal and plastic, alternately embellishing and denuding his found materials with poetic dexterity. Hisrecent production encompasses diverse... View Exhibition

Stitch In Time

Sonia Gomes Apr 14 – May 5, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes' new sculptures in cloth and wire. Gathered along the walls and hung from ceiling to floor, the eclectic fabric contortions evoke simultaneously the idea of viscera and the sacred object, mixing expressions of love, domesticity... View Exhibition

Holzweg

Marina Perez Simão Mar 3 – 23, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present Holzweg , the second solo show of Marina Simão at the gallery. For the exhibition, the space will be occupied by large and small paintings in iridescent, reflective pigments on superimposed, transparent textiles. The works’ supports range from oriental paper of apparent fragility –... View Exhibition

Fresta

Patricia Leite Feb 2 – 25, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda At first, there seems to be few less inspiring places to write about Patricia Leite’s paintings then a village in the outskirts of Cologne, Germany. The temperature hovers around zero degrees celsius, the landscape littered with dead trees, houses and buildings arranged in a repetitive sequence, in shades of white,... View Exhibition