Exhibitions

IMPASSE

Paulo Nazareth Jun 10 – Aug 1, 2026 Paris There is a body that traverses territories, carrying the traces of worlds cut short. A body that moves through colonial ruins, borders, family memories, and ancestral spiritualities. As it walks, it reveals stories buried by slavery, the genocide of Indigenous peoples, forced migration, and the systematic erasure of Black and... View Exhibition

DIANA

Maaike Schoorel Jun 6 – Aug 1, 2026 Brussels 1. [On Approaching Paintings in the Studio Context] There are many different ways into painting. When I visited Maaike Schoorel’s new studio in Amsterdam to look at the new series of paintings discussed in this text, a remark by the French art historian Daniel Arasse felt particularly apt: “one sees... View Exhibition

Room Temperature

Allan Gandhi Jun 6 – Aug 1, 2026 Brussels Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Room Temperature , the first solo exhibition in Brussels by São Paulo-based painter Allan Gandhi. Noted for the shifting expressions and quiet strangeness of his subjects, Gandhi begins to paint with the intention of surprising himself with the ideas presented at the final... View Exhibition

Paracosms

Jun 5 – Jul 31, 2026 New York Carlotta Amanzi , Carly Burnell , Ted Gahl , Kristy Luck , Mimi Lauter , Shane Rossi , and Peter Shear What does it mean to build a world within the world, or folded inside it, to treat imagination as a precise instrument attending to what can only be experienced,... View Exhibition

The Completionists

Maureen Dougherty Apr 25 – Jun 14, 2026 Germantown Who are the enigmatic people gazing back from Maureen Dougherty’s canvases? They have already sized you up and found you wanting. Unabashed, occasionally depraved, these characters who live by appetite and sensuality are shot through with a joyous, at times defiant, air of freedom. Dedicated to the figure of the... View Exhibition

A Serene Look upon the World

Curated by Renato Silva Apr 22 – May 30, 2026 Brussels Lucas Arruda , Chiara Camoni , Kelton Campos Fausto , Bendt Eyckermans, Coco Fusco , Josi , Patricia Leite, Scott Lyall , Anna Livia Monahan , Shota Nakamura , Paulo Nazareth , Pedro Neves , Antonio Obá , Vera Pagava , Rosana Paulino , Solange Pessoa , Marcos Siqueira ,... View Exhibition

Sendo

Lygia Pape Apr 7 – Aug 1, 2026 São Paulo, Barra Funda Exhibition Map. Curatorial Text. Mendes Wood DM is pleased to present Sendo , the gallery’s first solo exhibition to celebrate the work of Lygia Pape (b. 1927, Nova Friburgo , Brazil; d. 2004, Rio de Janeiro). The exhibition marks one of the most important figures in Brazilian contemporary art in... View Exhibition

Uma folha translúcida no lugar dos olhos

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané Apr 7 – Aug 1, 2026 São Paulo, Barra Funda E xhibition Map. Like a mesh of interconnected ideas, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané’s first exhibition in São Paulo since 2018 invites observation and engagement with the cosmos through works that simultaneously reveal and shift perceptions . Titled Uma folha translúcida no lugar dos olhos [A Translucent leaf instead of the Eyes]... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Mar 26 – Jun 4, 2026 Paris Kishio Suga is one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at the Tama Art University, from 1968 he began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. Through their manipulation, he sought to express the fundamental nature of the world around... View Exhibition

Kishio Suga

Mar 13 – May 23, 2026 New York Kishio Suga is one of the most important figures of the Japanese contemporary art scene. After studying painting at the Tama Art University, from 1968 he began working with elements drawn from reality, organic or artificial. Through their manipulation, he sought to express the fundamental nature of the world around... View Exhibition

Slipway

Peter Shear Feb 11 – Apr 11, 2026 Brussels If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility. – Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities , 1930 – 1942  Mendes Wood DM is pleased to announce Slipway , Indiana-based painter Peter Shear’s first European solo exhibition. Shear is best known for small-format canvases... View Exhibition

In Dialogue

Kent O’Connor Feb 11 – Apr 11, 2026 Brussels Working from real life has kept Kent O’Connor prone to the unpredictable yet mesmerized by its freedom. For the artist’s first gallery show in Europe, titled In Dialogue , O’Connor presents a body of work that investigates the concept of narrative paintings or “what it means to paint narration.” In... View Exhibition

membrana

Anna Livia Taborda Monahan Feb 5 – Mar 14, 2026 São Paulo, Casa Iramaia Primeval energy . Flaming twilights, liminal spaces and indiscernible zones; lamps, rays and solar bursts; fish scales and exoskeletons. All that is born, sprouts, hatches, then bites, devours. Explosion, rupture , ecstasy . What was once inside turns inside out, becomes the outside. What once embraced and separated soon tears... View Exhibition

Résurrectine

Giangiacomo Rossetti Jan 24 – Mar 18, 2026 Paris In Résurrectine , Giangiacomo Rossetti creates an atmosphere of self-enclosed, mausoleum-like entombment. Sleepwalking characterizes the intermediary state enacted onto the painter’s subjects, who gaze through windows and passageways (The Party , all works 2025), into or out of mirrors (Counting the Teeth , Here Comes the Child ), and other... View Exhibition