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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
Mendes Wood DM: Germantown Art and Design Week
Oct 12 – Dec 1, 2024 Germantown For the occasion of Germantown Art and Design Week , Mendes Wood DM Archipelago presents to the public a selection of works, bringing together icons of Brazilian modernist design and architecture in dialogue with contemporary designers and artists. Design classics are set against a curated selection of artworks from the... 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 creative... 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 and... 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 a... 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 of... 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 art... 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 30... 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 wistful,... 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 generation.... 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 grounded... 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 atmospheric... 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 a... 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 spiritual... 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, the... 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: ... 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... 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 internationally... 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, Sonia Gomes, Barbara Hammer, Runo Lagomarsino, Patricia Leite, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paul Maheke, Hana Miletić, Charlotte... 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... 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, photographs,... 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 my... 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 hardware, and... 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 of... 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 floors... 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. Shedding new... 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 testament... 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 40... 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 Paulo... 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 tenuiflora,... 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 New... 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 video... 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. Kovařík’s... 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 a... 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 work from... 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... 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... 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 and... 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 to... View Exhibition
The sun and the moon
Federico Herrero Nov 27, 2021 – Jan 15, 2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first exhibition of work by the Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero in its Brussels gallery. Herrero is known for his vividly colorful visual language and his immersive installation practice that blurs the divide between canvas and environment, articulated in the vibrant tonalities... View Exhibition
The Inner Circles
Runo Lagomarsino 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 border... 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 emotionally... 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 art... 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 the... 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. All 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. Pandas,... 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, providing... 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 20th-century... 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... 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... 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... 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 early... 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 the... 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 the... 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 invisibility.... 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... 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 incisive... 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... 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. The... 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 and... 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 the... 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 brings... 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 the... 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
Lotus Lobo
Apr 12 – May 5, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present for the first time the exhibition of the artist Lotus Lobo in the gallery. Engraver and designer, Lotus is one of the important names of lithography in Brazil. In the year 1962, the artist began the Fine Arts course at Guignard School, going... 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... 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

Exhibitions

Diffusion

Mendes Wood DM: Germantown Art and Design Week

As primeiras coisas

Galáxias

grains of water, drops of earth

What happens at the seaside at dawn?

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

Sefirot

They Early Doors

Sefirot

ARDOR AND WRATH

They Early Doors

Archipelago: Paula Siebra, Artist in Residence

Matutar

Dreaming of Spilliaert

Kutenten - kutenten - kutenten

Reverie

...vivem no compasso do sol

A linguagem dos anjos

arrastar chãos, juntar imbigos

Rumors

Flooded Playground

Mineral Rising

Erase the Silence

The Color of Distance

La Pensée Férale

Funduras

Bestiary & Idols

Against the Grain

The Mail Man

Noite longa

Ode to Twisted Gods

It's the way home that moves us away

Plums, Under Cover

Na Boca do Sol

Lamp black on sack cloth (love for fucksake)

With Others in Mind

Nascituras

Evocações, Ismael Nery and Lewis Hammond

Gardens of Human Nature

Cada cosa es Babel

I See No Difference Between a Handshake and a Poem

Paulo Monteiro at Archipelago

La Pensée Ferale

Estude fundo

Linhas Tortas

Linhas Tortas

Paper Trails

Marina Perez Simão at Villa Era

Cheese Moon Nights

Critical Mass

Everything All At Once

Cristalino Segredo

Do cômico e do trágico

Some Eyes

Earthworks

The Labours of Hercules

Human Nature

Signo

MILK OF SLUMS - RUA DOS CACIQUES

Demonios Familiares

X

The Gardener’s Son

Esfíngico Frontal

Butterfly Joint

Six Artists

properties without object

Cinza das horas

To Dream Oneself into Existence

Moonlight Paintings

Mimosa tenuiflora

Big paintings

Outras águas / Other waters

Paulo Nazareth at Archipelago

Il faudrait que je me calme

Scree

Maria Auxiliadora

Remember when we talked about meeting again

Dusk of the Gods