Upcoming
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Um galo sozinho não tece uma manhã
Guglielmo Castelli Apr 1 – Aug 16, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda Guglielmo Castelli : Painting as Revolution A well-known fact is that Guglielmo Castelli is a painter from Turin whose craft was perfected during his academic training in scenography. This discipline has shaped his painterly practice in many ways, especially his rendition of space and architectural interiors . W hile his... View Exhibition -
1 metro de cabelo
Adriano Costa Apr 1 – May 24, 2025 São Paulo, Barra Funda A bout 1 metro de cabelo He kissed me on the mouth and told me Life is as hollow as the hat of a head less baby And I laughed like hell And he was like a drunken foxhole And I said, enough of your talk Of this bottomless pit... View Exhibition -
The Hunger
Sanam Khatibi Apr 3 – May 17, 2025 Paris Water shakes the rain from rooftops That of ivy castles – It was green – water churned. There were draperies, Ancient stem garrison, Hidden hearts of Mélusines Beneath muffled blooms. Never had the evening star Revealed such enchantment. There was no longer night nor day. A long beat, a long... View Exhibition -
Laurie Simmons & Jimmy DeSana
Laurie Simmons & Jimmy DeSana Apr 3 – May 17, 2025 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia From 1973 to 1978, Laurie Simmons and Jimmy DeSana shared a loft in SoHo, New York, divided by a door with windows on both sides, each space with its own darkroom. Despite their different conceptual approaches, the constant contact and daily exchanges influenced their work and ideas. “Jimmy taught me how... View Exhibition -
Bendt Eyckermans Apr 23 – May 31, 2025 Brussels View Exhibition
Past
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Solange Pessoa
Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Solange Pessoa: memória e desencanto Minas não há mais – Carlos Drummond de Andrade Minas Gerais tem fraudes, tem quimeras – Paulo Mendes Campos Há no trabalho de Solange Pessoa um acentuado sentimento ruinoso em relação ao tempo e sua ação. A memória que perpassa sua produção está ligada sobretudo... View Exhibition -
Resonating Surfaces
Group Show Nov 22, 2016 – Feb 4, 2017 São Paulo, Barra Funda Aleta Valente, Björn Braun, Bruce Nauman, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, David Bestué, Deyson Gilbert, Dominique González-Foerster, Dora Garcia, Franz Erhard Walther, Ignasi Aballí, Jac Leirner, Jason Dodge, Josh Tonsfeldt, Lawrence Weiner, Lenora de Barros, Lucas Arruda, Luis Bisbe, Lygia Clark, Manon de Boer, Pablo Alonso, Pablo Pijnappel, Pamela Rosenkranz, Paulo Monteiro,... View Exhibition -
Circa MMXVI New and previews works
Anna Bella Geiger Oct 15 – Dec 12, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Ana Bella Geiger’s second solo show at the gallery. Geiger is a painter, an engraver, illustrator, multidisciplinary artist, lecturer and an almost sculptor. Beginning her career in the 1950s, the artist took part in the 1st National Exhibition of Abstract... View Exhibition -
Track Changes
by Plan B Sep 9 – Oct 30, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by Plan B Ioana Batranu, Rudolf Bone, Sorin Campan, Victor Ciato, Horia Damian, Belu-Simion Fainaru, Adrian Ghenie, Octav Grigorescu, Victor Man, Ciprian Muresan, Iulia Nistor, Miklos Onucsan, Serban Savu The exhibition Track Changes takes the model of a boîte-en-valise show, following the program of Galeria Plan B through a... View Exhibition -
Field
Paloma Bosquê Aug 13 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Her research draws largely on her daily practice in the studio. In this environment, Bosquê handles and freely associates different materials , creating original compositions and developing specific methods to combine, juxtapose and join elements that are unlikely to occupy the same space in a different context. Brass, felt, bronze,... View Exhibition -
Deserto-Modelo as above, so below
Lucas Arruda Aug 8 – Sep 21, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is with great pleasure that Mendes Wood DM presents Lucas Arruda’s third solo exhibition Deserto-Modelo as above so below. The first room introduces an installation that combines light and paint, where the light’s temperature and intensity are orchestrated over a period of nine minutes. The artist investigates the relationship... View Exhibition -
James Lee Byars
May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the first solo show by American artist James Lee Byars in South America. The exhibition features a series of marble sculptures shown in display case/installations, as well as works created on paper. A search for the ephemerality of beauty and the minimalism... View Exhibition -
A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster
Cibelle Cavalli Bastos May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery. In her new series, the artist works with video installations, latex sculptures, ceramics, paintings and other media, bringing to the center of... View Exhibition -
Prediction
Group show May 28 – Aug 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Curated by Milovan Farronato Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Adriano Costa, Raúl De Nieves, Patrizio di Massimo, f.marquespenteado, Chiara Fumai, Celia Hampton, George Henry Longly, Christian Holstad, Runa Islam, Zhana Ivanova, Goshka Macuga, Solange Pessoa, Liliana Moro, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Mathilde Rosier, Prem Sahib, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Santo Tolone, Erika Verzutti,... View Exhibition -
Lines in Wefts
Sonia Gomes Apr 9 – Aug 8, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of announcing Lines in wefts , the third exhibition of Sonia Gomes's work at the São Paulo gallery. Gomes made a name for herself in recent years for work in which the interplay of found or donated objects transforms them into sculptures. After several... View Exhibition -
On The Line
Haroon Gunn-Salie Apr 9 – Jun 6, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting On The Line , the solo exhibition of the South African artist Haroon Gunn-Salie. The show groups a series of artworks drawing parallels between the Global South. The artworks re-appropriate everyday memorials and silent monuments, shoes hanging off street poles and telephone... View Exhibition -
Synthesis between contradictory ideas and the plurality of the object as image I
Paulo Nimer Pjota Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda A common atmosphere of collectively composed panels – including street murals, vernacular constructions and public bathrooms -- permeate Paulo Nimer Pjota's entire body of work. By leading a study of popular iconography that deliberately seems conducted by multiple hands, the artist produces in the tension between randomness and a meticulous... View Exhibition -
bárbara balaclava
Thiago Martins de Melo Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda When observing Thiago Martins de Melo's body of work over time , one notices a decantation of various aspects, which now culminates in the series “ bárbara balaclava.” Martins de Melo's paintings were never actually just two-dimensional. Much like a reading of his work could not be described as strictly... View Exhibition -
Eight Artists
Group show Feb 20 – Mar 26, 2016 São Paulo, Barra Funda Alexandre Wagner Anderson Godinho Elvis Almeida Luís Teixeira Marcelo Jarosz Samuel Rodrigues Thomaz Rosa Yasmin Guimarães View Exhibition
