Exhibitions

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

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