Exhibitions

To Dream Oneself into Existence

Paloma Bosquê Nov 26, 2022 – Jan 14, 2023 Brussels Now I will tell you a story. I hope it will be good company for what you are about to see, but before that, I want you to take a moment to consider something. Before moving forward, consider what you actually understand as “a body”. Most of us take for... View Exhibition

Moonlight Paintings

Varda Caivano Nov 26, 2022 – Jan 14, 2023 Brussels Back to front and beyond New paintings by Varda Caivano In her second show at Mendes Wood DM, Argentinian-Italian artist Varda Caivano brings together new paintings that were all produced in 2022. Some of them saw the light of day in Mexico during the summer. Others, slightly larger in scale,... View Exhibition

Mimosa tenuiflora

Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of the artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (Guatemala, 1978) in São Paulo. The exhibit, entitled Mimosa Tenuiflora, brings together video works, paintings, and sculptures – scenarios pervaded by an atmosphere of dream and fantasy, yet communicating an awaken world. Mimosa tenuiflora,... View Exhibition

Big paintings

Giangiacomo Rossetti Nov 19, 2022 – Jan 28, 2023 São Paulo, Barra Funda My friend Scott introduced me to Irakli and Dea. He met them at a party in Tbilisi and they told him they were moving to NYC. I needed someone helping me to move some of my paintings from my house to a new studio I just rented and Scott gave... View Exhibition

Outras águas / Other waters

Antonio Obá Nov 16, 2022 – Jan 21, 2023 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Nov 16 - Jan 21, 2023 You go, you stay, you never come back! —João Guimarães Rosa, “The Third Bank of the River” (1962) Mendes Wood DM New York is pleased to announce Outras águas / Other waters, Antonio Obá’s second solo exhibition in New... View Exhibition

Paulo Nazareth at Archipelago

Paulo Nazareth Nov 12, 2022 – Feb 26, 2023 Germantown 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

Il faudrait que je me calme

Group Show Oct 15 – Nov 19, 2022 Brussels Jean Claracq, Clément Courgeon, Joséphine Ducat-May, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Johan Larnouhet, Maëlle Ledauphin, Pierre Seiter, Raphael Sitbon, Thomas Cap de Ville and Miranda Webster. Mendes Wood DM Brussels is proud to present Il faudrait que je me calme, a group show curated by artists Nathanaëlle Herbelin and Jean Claracq. With... View Exhibition

Scree

Nina Canell Oct 15 – Nov 19, 2022 Brussels Take a room. It’s made of walls, a floor and ceiling. Conceived as stable environments, interior spaces preserve a linear atmosphere: reduced wind speed, absence of dirt and controllable temperatures all make for maintainable enclosures that stand still. We don’t like when things move around without us having moved them... View Exhibition

Maria Auxiliadora

Maria Auxiliadora Oct 14 – Nov 11, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York presents an exhibition with works by the painter Maria Auxiliadora. Born in 1935 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, Auxiliadora lived and worked in São Paulo until her death in 1974. Her mixed media paintings depict... View Exhibition

Remember when we talked about meeting again

Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro Oct 14 – Nov 11, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Oct 14 - Nov 11, 2022 Mendes Wood DM presents Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro’s solo exhibition Remember when we talked about meeting again—a title which refers to both the start of a conversation and a reminiscence of an essential prophecy. The exhibition gathers photographs, a video... View Exhibition

Dusk of the Gods

Vojtěch Kovařík Sep 9 – Oct 8, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Sept 9 - Oct 8, 2022 Mendes Wood DM New York is proud to present Dusk of the Gods, Czech artist Vojtěch Kovařík’s first solo exhibition in New York, following his previous shows with the gallery in São Paulo, Brazil, and Villa Era, Italy. Kovařík’s... View Exhibition

Thus to sleep is sweeter than to wake

Miranda Fengyuan Zhang Sep 8 – Oct 10, 2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Miranda Fengyuan Zhang's first solo show in Belgium. The exhibition features a new group of Zhang's hand-woven paintings as well as an installation made with a reappropriated 19th century French divider. Zhang often utilizes the formal practice of weaving to create a spatial... View Exhibition

SLOW WATER

Seulgi Lee Sep 8 – Oct 8, 2022 Brussels Upon entering, the sound of metal balls clanging against each other resonates throughout the gallery. For a moment, you imagine yourself at the controls of a pinball machine like those painted by Wayne Thiebaud in 1962. However, there are no flashing arcade machines; instead occupying the space are three wooden... View Exhibition

Noites de cetim

Paula Siebra Aug 28 – Nov 11, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda It is dusk on the beach. For a few minutes, the sky looks like ember before cooling down into a blueish black. The landscape eases down, keeping the memory of the day’s past, like an enchantment. Paula Siebra’s Satin Nights are memories of the heat coming from the sun that... View Exhibition

Creatures

Kasper Bosmans Aug 27 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present Creatures, Kasper Bosmans’ first solo exhibition in South America, in its new gallery space in Sao Paulo. Known for his multifaceted and divergent approach to art making, with works that range from sculpture and installation to painting and drawing, Bosmans’ practice is a... View Exhibition

Futurismo

Group Show Aug 20 – Nov 5, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM in collaboration with Peres Projects is proud to present FUTURISMO, a group show with new works by Dalton Gata, Paolo Salvador, Manuel Solano, and Richard Kennedy. This exhibition balances multiple temporalities as the artists explore and weave together themes such as transformation and emergence with memory and... View Exhibition

All season sanctuary

Group Show Jul 30 – Aug 7, 2022 D'Ouwe Kerke, Retranchement d'Ouwe Kerke Dorpsstraat 16 4525 AH Retranchement The Netherlands Alma Allen, Neïl Beloufa, Paloma Bosquê, Varda Caivano, Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Paulo Nazareth, Hamish Pearch, Hariel Revignet and Miranda Fengyuan Zhang. In its third edition, Mendes Wood DM returns to the 17th-century deconsecrated church in the village of Retranchement, on the Dutch... View Exhibition

Mantiqueira

Patricia Leite Jul 14 – Aug 12, 2022 New York Mendes Wood DM New York Jul 14 - Aug 12, 2022 Mantiqueira is a mountain range in Southern Brazil that forms a natural border separating Minas Gerais from the states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Its name derives from the indigenous Tupi language and translates to “mountains that... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Jun 9 – Jul 27, 2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present the Japanese artist Kishio Suga’s second solo exhibition in Belgium.     Kishio Suga is a pioneer of site-specific installation, assemblage and performance. Suga was the focus of critical acclaim in the late 1960s and 1970s as a key figure in the movement known... View Exhibition

The time of things

Rosana Paulino Jun 9 – Jul 27, 2022 Brussels On the Permanence of Time In Racismo e Sexismo na Cultura Brasileira [Racism and Sexism in Brazilian Culture], Lélia Gonzalez understands the Brazilian cultural neurosis as the rejection of the pluri-racial and pluri-cultural make up of Brazil, which is materialized in denial. Gonzalez explains how this idea promotes the erasure,... View Exhibition

In my dreams, I kill him every night

Sanam Khatibi Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Sanam Khatibi’s work explores notions of animality and the primal impulses that we all share. At the core of her practice is a questioning of our relationship with power structures, and the duality of triumph and failure. The recurrent themes that feature in her work are chaos, destruction, excess, loss... View Exhibition

Inevitable Behavior

Kristy Luck Jun 4 – Aug 6, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition by artist Kristy Luck at our São Paulo gallery space. Contemplative spaces are not defined on their own – they are, first and foremost, generated by an act of creation. What guides the creation of this space, in the... 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

Heidi Bucher

Apr 26 – May 28, 2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first exhibition of Heidi Bucher’s work across the whole of its expanded Brussels gallery space, in collaboration with the Estate of Heidi Bucher. With the recent landmark retrospective at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, along with the current exhibition at Kunstmuseum Bern... View Exhibition

The Milk of Dreams, 59th Biennale di Venezia

Rosana Paulino Apr 22 – Nov 27, 2022 Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce the participation of artists Rosana Paulino, Solange Pessoa and Luiz Roque at The 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia 2022 and Mariana Castillo Deball in the collective exhibition Until the Songs Spring at the Mexican Pavilion in Venice. Under the curatorial... View Exhibition

5 Paintings

Marina Perez Simao Apr 2 – May 29, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Almost-Landscapes There is, it would seem, a paradox between the name of the current exhibition and what is revealed in the works. On the one hand, we have the laconic title 5 Paintings and, on the other hand, we have a series of works in which the generosity of... View Exhibition

Frozen Gestures

Lynda Benglis Apr 2 – May 21, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is proud to present the first solo exhibition of the seminal American artist Lynda Benglis at its São Paulo gallery. Benglis has played an important role in contemporary art through her innovative use of materials and continued refusal to submit to aesthetic orthodoxies. Benglis’s exhibition in São... View Exhibition

Possible Agreements, curated by Thiago de Paula Souza

Group Show Mar 19 – Apr 16, 2022 Brussels Laís Amaral, Igi Lola Ayedun , Bertô , Kelton Campos Fausto, Gabriel Massan, Iagor Peres, Mariana Rocha and Juliana dos Santos. In the introduction to Unpayable Debt, Denise Ferreira da Silva relates two recent events in contemporary politics to critically reflect on how the notion of human difference... View Exhibition

Philosophy of the World

Adriano Costa Mar 19 – Apr 16, 2022 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is proud to present its first solo show in Brussels by the Brazilian artist Adriano Costa. Comprised of drawing, sculpture and mixed media installations, the exhibition proposes to initiate visitors into the strange and wonderful universe of sign and signification that Costa inhabits – simultaneously outrageous, irreverent... View Exhibition

Ruído

Letícia Ramos Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda -If you see a big sphere you are probably in danger.  In 2013, a mysterious explosion was heard in the far north of Siberia. People living 100km from the site reported seeing the sky glaring. Months later scientists found a new 40 x 30m deep crater in an isolated region... View Exhibition

In Passing

Miranda Fengyuan Zhang Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM São Paulo is pleased to present the Shanghai-born and New York-based artist Miranda Fengyuan Zhang’s first solo exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition features a group of Zhang’s recently completed hand woven paintings. Zhang’s textile works explore the idea of abstract landscape in relation to the memories.... View Exhibition

Interspecific Bodies

Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Interspecific Bodies, the first exhibition of British-French duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel in Brazil, bringing together a series of new works, including nine pieces in carved wood, and one sculpture in marble. For over twenty years Dewar and Gicquel have explored and... View Exhibition

Manikin

Matthew Lutz-Kinoy Feb 12 – Mar 19, 2022 São Paulo, Barra Funda In Vladimir Nabokov’s Symbols and Signs (1948) - a short story dear to Matthew Lutz-Kinoy - an institutionalized mental patient suffers from “Referential Mania”, a rare malady whereby the afflicted person believes that everything is conspiring against him through an intricate language of symbols and signs. In a sense, Manikin... View Exhibition