Exhibitions

The sun and the moon

Federico Herrero Nov 27, 2021 – Jan 15, 2022 Brussels Mendes W​​​​ood 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