Upcoming
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Silver
Leticia Ramos May 27 – Aug 16, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Leticia Ramos presents Silver , a body of work occupying one room at Casa Iramaia that investigates light’s trajectory in relation to material surfaces, landscapes, and cosmic panoramas. In these works, Ramos draws on darkroom and cameraless resources to stage an encounter between technical apparatuses and contingency, producing images that... View Exhibition -
Remanso
Eleonore Koch, Linda Kohen, Anna Livia Taborda Monahan, Rayana Rayo, and Paula Siebra May 27 – Aug 16, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the group exhibition Remanso with works by Eleonore Koch , Linda Kohen , Anna Livia Monahan , Rayana Rayo and Paula Siebra . Their paintings expose what is intrinsic to them , leading the eye into silent, dense , and symbolic territories. Their... View Exhibition -
Above the focus, behind the ear
Akiko Kinugawa May 31 – Aug 9, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda COLORS FEEL LIKE SOUNDS I CANNOT GRASP WITH MY EARS: A CONVERSATION WITH AKIKO KINUGAWA Yudi Rafael: Let’s begin with the title of your show. Above the focus, behind the ears can sound enigmatic or even nonsensical, but it alludes to embodied, sensorial perception. You have mentioned that it stems... View Exhibition -
though poppies grow
Patricia Ayres Jun 12 – Aug 9, 2025 Brussels View Exhibition -
Blinded by the light
Group exhibition Jul 11 – Aug 30, 2025 Casa da Cultura da Comporta View Exhibition
Past
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Paulo Nimer Pjota
Dec 1 – 22, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curator Gunnar Kvaran writes about Pjota’s practice: Plants, crystals, skulls, flowers, human bodies, fishes, mechanical objects, crabs, body parts, isolated words and phrases float around in a variety of scales and sizes on the surface of Paulo Nimer Pjota’s canvases, seemingly in a haphazard and serendipitous way. His iconography comes... View Exhibition -
Deserto-Modelo
Lucas Arruda Oct 10 – Nov 24, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is excited to present Brazilian artist Lucas Arruda's second solo exhibition at the gallery. The artist's recent work insists on the genre of landscape painting – a genre that interests him for its openness and the possibility it provides of exploring abstraction within figuration. Many of the paintings... View Exhibition -
Notícias de América
Paulo Nazareth May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda After a journey of several thousand miles through more than 15 countries in the Americas, Paulo Nazareth returns to Brazil to present Noticias de America [News from the Americas]. Nazareth left Minas Gerais, Brazil in March of 2011 and made his way northward on foot and by bus, arriving inthe... View Exhibition -
Plantation
Adriano Costa May 12 – Jun 16, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is delighted to announce Plantation , Sao Paulo based artist Adriano Costas’s first solo show at the gallery. With Plantation , Costa brings together an array of sculptures in fabric, concrete, metal and plastic, alternately embellishing and denuding his found materials with poetic dexterity. Hisrecent production encompasses diverse... View Exhibition -
Stitch In Time
Sonia Gomes Apr 14 – May 5, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present the first solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes' new sculptures in cloth and wire. Gathered along the walls and hung from ceiling to floor, the eclectic fabric contortions evoke simultaneously the idea of viscera and the sacred object, mixing expressions of love, domesticity... View Exhibition -
Holzweg
Marina Perez Simão Mar 3 – 23, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood is proud to present Holzweg , the second solo show of Marina Simão at the gallery. For the exhibition, the space will be occupied by large and small paintings in iridescent, reflective pigments on superimposed, transparent textiles. The works’ supports range from oriental paper of apparent fragility –... View Exhibition -
Fresta
Patricia Leite Feb 2 – 25, 2012 São Paulo, Barra Funda At first, there seems to be few less inspiring places to write about Patricia Leite’s paintings then a village in the outskirts of Cologne, Germany. The temperature hovers around zero degrees celsius, the landscape littered with dead trees, houses and buildings arranged in a repetitive sequence, in shades of white,... View Exhibition