Contemporary art publications about Brasil

Marcela Cantuária, Mariana Rocha, Vinicius Gerheim, and Vivian Caccuri take part in Devorações do Amanhã, curated by Aldones Nino and Bruna Levi.

The museum returned to its headquarters after renovating the building, with 33 artists from 11 states and updates to its education, collecting, and dining offerings.

Brazilian curator Thyago Nogueira, who heads Contemporary Art and Photography at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), reflects on the role of institutions, photography’s multiple dimensions, and the need to build new connections between the art scenes of Brazil and Argentina, ahead of his upcoming visit to Pinta BAphoto.

The Brazilian artist’s exhibition at the Centro Botín explores the links between matter, nature, spirituality, and architecture through a multidisciplinary body of work that evokes origin and transformation as the fundamental axes of her production.

The Brazilian artist’s exhibition at the newly inaugurated MEZEKƎRƎ explores Afro-Pindoramic forms of knowledge and traditions through documentation, sound, and radiolas, creating spaces for encounter and the preservation of collective identity.

The Brazilian artist arrives at the Museo Patio Herreriano with a proposal that brings together the political, the spiritual, and humor to reclaim memory and pay tribute to mothers.

Pietrolina borrows the rhythm of a Carnival parade, brought to life in 33 acrylic shades.

The show occupies seven rooms on the first floor of Pina Luz and revisits the work of one of the most distinctive figures of Brazilian modernism, averse to nationalism and in pursuit of eternity.

In his exhibition in Pollença, the Brazilian artist proposes an immersive experience that moves beyond contemplation, inviting viewers to reflect on nature as an ongoing process of which human beings form an integral part.

Spanning five floors of the Pietro Maria Bardi Building, the exhibition brings together works by 148 artists, including previously unseen works, to examine how the idea of Latin America was constructed and continues to be contested today.

The Brazilian artist links climate crisis, history, and extractivism in her solo exhibition in Bern, reflecting on the social, political, and environmental consequences of a model whose patterns continue to reproduce colonial logics.

The Colombian-British artist participates in the current Venice Biennale and opens Confluences at MASP on July 3.

Led by Amanda Carneiro and Raphael Fonseca, nine professionals from across the globe think of the Bienal as a platform for research, imagination, encounter, and meaningful engagement.

Fundación, by Marlon de Azambuja, transforms one of La Casa Encendida’s towers into a walk-through sculptural installation. Aiming to reflect on the act of founding and the search for what underpins knowledge, the work questions the divisions between reason and sensation and proposes the exhibition space as an experiential environment.

Supported by Collegium, the acclaimed installation by the Brazilian artist arrives in Spain with a sensorial and contemplative proposal in dialogue with the Church of San Miguel in Arévalo.

Open call to participate in a new installation by internationally renowned artist Chiharu Shiota at the Museu Oscar Niemeyer.

For the second time in its history, two Brazilian curators take on the artistic direction of Latin America's largest visual arts event.

Cristiano Lenhardt was selected for his series of works born from his encounter with the environmental tragedy of the 2024 floods in southern Brazil.

Curated by Diane Lima, the exhibition brings together Adriana Varejão and Rosana Paulino for the first time to rewrite the wounds of colonialism.

The Brazilian museum presents works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Oscar Muñoz, exploring ancestral knowledge and the fragility of images in Latin America.

Throughout the year, the British gallery will host exhibitions featuring the works of Chico da Silva, Juli Isídrez, and Francisco Tún.

beginning, middle, beginning presents an installation by Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, conceived specifically for the Central Gallery of the Serralves Museum. The work questions the linear conception of time and its relationship to colonial structures.

Two parallel exhibitions revisit dominant narratives through practices that interrogate archive, materiality, and community in Latin America.

Lugar de estar: o legado Burle Marx (A Place to Be: The Legacy of Burle Marx) is the exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Center, showcasing an extensive selection of landscape projects for public spaces developed by Roberto Burle Marx (São Paulo, Brazil, 1909 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994) and his collaborators over nearly seventy years.

With references to Baroque, Pop Art, Andean cosmology, music, fashion, and political protest, the exhibition at MASP encourages reflection on gender, colonialism, and the Chola identity.

The museum explores the construction of the region’s identity through a major group exhibition and solo presentations by Jesús Soto, Damián Ortega, Sandra Gamarra, La Chola Poblete, among other artists.

Chief Cipassé Xavante leads this unprecedented performance, which combines ritual, music, and public dialogue to reflect on climate, territory, and indigenous knowledge.

The award recognizes a sculptural practice in which the geometric and the organic are articulated in suspended scenes, shaped by fable, theater, and memory.

The multidisciplinary exhibition by the Mexican artist, featuring installation, sculpture, painting, posters, and video, closes the Histories of Ecology cycle and highlights the environmental crisis as a social issue.

It is not easy to compose a path through monumental works inside a monumental space. At the 36th São Paulo Biennial, the artists invited by Bonaventure de Soh Bejen Ndikung and his team, present large-scale works whose textures and forms sometimes speak to each other linearly, and other times through oblique movements.