Exhibitions

Paulo Nazareth at Archipelago

Paulo Nazareth Nov 12, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023 Archipelago Archipelago Nov 12 – Feb 26, 2023 Archipelago is an arts-and-research institute devoted to spirituality, thinking, and healing. At a constellation of sites across the globe, we host exhibitions, artists’ residencies, and a growing research library. Our inaugural site is in Germantown, NY, overlooking the Hudson River. The first exhibition... View Exhibition

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

[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

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

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

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

Permanent Playfulness, curated by Camilla Barella

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

Che Cherera

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