Notes related to Brazil

Over 120 groundbreaking works arrive in Argentina in the most extensive exhibition to date on this defining artistic era.

By Marina Baltazar, cultural critic, writer, and researcher

The institution invites artists and cultural agents to take part in its new cycle. Application deadline: November 27.

Kunsthaus Zürich brings together more than 120 historical works and 50 participatory pieces that reveal the Brazilian artist’s profound transformation of modern art.

Mazzoleni presents in Turin a survey of more than two decades of the Brazilian artist’s work.

The exhibition by photographer Edgar Kanaykô Xakriabá reaffirms the strength of Indigenous art as a living, insurgent, and ancestral language.

Curated by Diane Lima, the project Comigo ninguém pode will bring together two of the most powerful voices in contemporary Brazilian art around themes of colonial memory, resilience, and poetic imagination in Brazil’s Pavilion.

By Mario Gioia, art critic and independent curator

By Álvaro de Benito

Es Baluard in Palma de Mallorca presents Preludio para el sol y las estrellas (Prelude for the Sun and the Stars), a project by Sandra Cinto (Santo André, Brazil, 1968) that transforms the museum space into a realm suspended between perception, time, and matter. The result envelops visitors in an expanded landscape that invites reflection through stillness and contemplation, where the sensory and the act of pausing become central to the experience.

By María Galarza

In Casa do Povo's basement, Marcelo Evelin’s performance unleashes a ritual of bodies, rhythms, and nudity that allows no anticipation. An experience that demands looking, breathing, and moving through the present without guide or return.

By María Galarza

The São Paulo Biennial opened its 36th edition with a mix of proposals that invite a return to the senses: textures are highlighted, sounds resonate, and at times even scents appear. With a large number of commissioned works, the curatorial approach—led by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung—was guided by several threads, all centered on the idea of “humanity as practice”.

The exhibition connects local and global issues by facilitating dialogue between Brazilian and international artists. Many of these artists are exhibiting their work in Latin America for the first time.

The fair brings together galleries from 12 Brazilian states and expands its reach to include exhibitors from Argentina and the Peruvian Amazon.

By Patricia Avena Navarro

With public activations across multiple cities, Invocations anticipates the Bienal with programs that explore breath, movement, improvisation, and relationships between the human and non-human.

Neue Nationalgalerie presents the first major retrospective in Germany of Brazilian pioneer Lygia Clark, with over 120 works and an interactive approach that expands the boundaries of the museum experience.

This edition unfolds in Belém as a poetic and political reflection on Amazonian and Caribbean territories. More than 80 artists explore the notions of dream, memory, and accent as forces that reconfigure geography, time, and resistance.

The Pinacoteca de São Paulo, a museum under the Bureau of Culture, Economy, and Creative Industry of the State of São Paulo, presents the exhibition Pop Brazil: Avant-garde and New Figuration, 1960-70, in the Grande Galeria of the Pina Contemporânea building.

Histories of MASP, Renoir, Geometries, Arts from Africa, and Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement are part of Five Essays on MASP, a series of exhibitions based on the museum’s collection that inaugurate the new Pietro Maria Bardi Building.

The Brazilian artist presents his first institutional exhibition in the Netherlands with a collection of works that blend personal reminiscences, mythology, and urban culture.

The final chapter of the Groundwork series follows Carla Juaçaba as she develops a museum in collaboration with the collective Flor de Café—a gesture of territorial solidarity in the face of extractivism, urbanization, and climate change.

By Álvaro de Benito

The Gulbenkian Modern Art Center in Lisbon presents Entre os vossos dentes (Between Your Teeth), an exhibition showcasing 80 works by Adriana Varejão (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964) and Paula Rego (Lisbon, Portugal, 1935 – London, United Kingdom, 2022), reflecting the production, themes, and interpretations of these two artists from different generations.

As part of the Brazil-France 2025 cultural season, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto presents the exhibition Nosso Barco Tambor Terra (Our Boat Drum Earth) at the Nef of the Grand Palais until July 25, 2025.

From different disciplines and territories, the invited artists propose the Biennial as a space of crossing, listening, and shared transformation.

The presence of Brazilian art galleries at major U.S. art fairs — such as Art Basel Miami Beach and Frieze New York — is both frequent and well-established. Galleries like Nara Roesler, Simões de Assis, Mendes Wood DM, and Luisa Strina have become familiar names on the circuit, maintaining a consistent presence year after year.

Until November 23, 2025, the Brazil Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale will present (RE)INVENTION, a project curated by Luciana Saboia, Matheus Seco, and Eder Alencar, members of the Plano Coletivo collective.

Inspired by the visionary spirit of Walter and Nicole Leblanc, the Foundation launches a new programme of exhibitions, residencies, and events, reaffirming its commitment to artistic inquiry, international dialogue, and critical engagement with the urgencies of our time.

The videographic universe of Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió, Brazil, 1982) is only one part of his broader artistic practice. It is, of course, significant—complementing other worlds that shape the ideology and imaginary embedded in both the work and the persona of the Brazilian artist. For this reason, the selection of exclusively audiovisual works under the title Tiempo, sueño, olor (Time, Dream, Scent), on view at Madrid’s Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, offers a concise, representative, and necessary approach that ultimately bears witness to a part for the whole.

With major exhibitions such as the 59th edition of the Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams (2022), Surrealism Beyond Borders at Tate Modern and the Metropolitan Museum in the same period, Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou (which closed in 2025), and various revivals of lesser-known figures and centenary celebrations of the movement, surrealism has gained renewed momentum and has (somewhat) emerged from technical archives and private collections around the world.

Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Salgado has died at the age of 81, leaving behind not only an unparalleled body of photographic work, but also a humanistic, sensitive, and committed gaze on the world.